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Episode 4: Found in Translation
What goes into translating a book from one language to another? How do you preserve something when your task is to change everything? What do translation and travel have in common? And why is translation, like travel, such an elusive concept? In this episode, we speak with Jennifer Croft, the
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Our Collaborative Travel and Memory Map
When Stephanie and I were planning the book club, one idea we landed on early on was that of a collaborative travel and memory map. There is nothing like hearing first hand about someone’s adventures and discoveries and memories, and where it all went down. Together, as a book
Episode 3: ‘Seeing Is Knowing’
In Flights, we encounter human anatomy in a number of ways—wax figures, live dissection, body parts in jars, and the search for a secret preservation formula. Why did this kind of bodily preservation begin? How did it transform medical science and our understanding of where we come from? And