Podcast appearances and mentions of alanna mitchell

Remember playing with magnets when you were a kid and wondered what brought the opposite poles together and especially what kept the like poles apart. It turns out the force experienced is one of the most fundamental in the universe – electromagnetism. Along with gravity and the strong and weak nuclear forces, it comprises the foundation for, well, everything. We spoke about this topic on the podcast, AMSEcast, with Alanna Mitchell, author of The Spinning Magnet: The Electromagnetic Force that Created the Modern World – and Could Destroy It.

It's a well-established scientific fact that humans have had a massive impact on the planet. But has it been big enough to warrant the definition of a new geological epoch? It's an idea that's been hotly debated in the scientific community for years — and now, a group of researchers are arguing that a small lake in rural Ontario provides the best evidence for defining that new epoch. Crawford Lake, about 60 km southwest of Toronto, captures the history of the world in its sediment deposits, calcified like tree rings. Scientists say those layers show dramatic changes starting in the 1950s and that they mark a new geological epoch called the Anthropocene. Canadian Geographic contributing editor Alanna Mitchell explains the latest research, what makes Crawford Lake so special, and why defining the Anthropocene has been causing scientific controversy for more than two decades. For transcripts of this series, please visit: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/frontburner/transcripts

Allen is a journalist, playwright and writer. She started her career as an award winning journalist in Canada at the Financial Times and the Globe and Mail. After 17 years in journalism, she turned to sign writing, where again, her efforts have been award winning. She has  contributed to articles in publications such as National Geographic and The New York Times. She has written the following books, Seasick The Global Ocean and Crisis, a book. She's also turned into a play Malignant Metaphor for Confronting Cancer Myths, a Memoir Franklin's Lost Ship, The Historic Discovery of HMS Erebus. Invisible Plastic. What happens when your garbage ends up in the ocean, dancing at the Red Sea, tracking the world's environmental hotspots and the truly fascinating book we will discuss today, the Spinning Magnet, the Force That Created The Modern World and Could Destroy It.

In an age of fake news and so called “truthiness,” the world sometimes feels untethered from reality.  Today's guest uses her reporting and storytelling to ground her audience in science, even while her words reconnect us to our shared humanity and our relationship to the natural world.  She's Alanna Mitchell, this week on “Story in the Public Square.” Mitchell is a Canadian journalist, author and playwright who works at intersection of science, art and society.  Her book, “Sea Sick: The Global Ocean in Crisis,” was an international best seller that won the U.S.-based Grantham Prize for excellence in environmental journalism in 2010.  She turned it into a one-woman play in 2014 and has been performing it internationally since then.  The theater adaptation was nominated for a Dora award in Toronto for outstanding Indie play.  Mitchell was a playwright-in-residence at The Theatre Centre while she adapted her book, “Malignant Metaphor: Confronting Cancer Myths: A Memoir” into a play.  The book also won the $10,000 Lane Anderson Award for best Canadian science book written for adults in 2015.  She is also the author of “The Spinning Magnet: The Force that Created the Modern World and Could Destroy It,” about the Earth's magnetic field.  Mitchell's journalism has appeared in the New York Times' science section, CBC's Quirks & Quarks, National Geographic, The Guardian, GQ India, The United Church Observer and Canadian Geographic Magazine.  She has also made radio documentaries for CBC and has given talks on climate change, ocean change, cancer, John Franklin's expedition, evolution, Charles Darwin, neonic pesticides and the earth's magnetic field.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

From baby pictures of some of the universe's earliest galaxies to AI bots that can write your college essay, 2022 was a monumental year in the fields of science and technology. We hear from Alanna Mitchell, a science journalist and author in Toronto, and Murad Hemmadi, a technology reporter with The Logic.

Journalist, author and theatre-maker Alanna Mitchell (https://alannamitchell.com) on how from the depths of the climate crisis there is profound hope.  Plus, will the affordability crisis make hobbyist artists of us all? PICKS:Severance - Apple TV+Michael Healey's new podcast - "Just One More" Thanks to our sponsors EFFIN' BIRDS and CROW'S THEATRE

In the Green Chair with Alanna Mitchell, an award-winning Canadian journalist, author and playwright who writes about intersections between science and society. We discuss Alanna's career as a science journalist and why she believes taking risks in life leads to a worthwhile story. (DISCLAIMER: Audio quality was affected in the recording of the beginning of this episode, but does improve after the first questions. Thank you for listening). --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/relay-education/message

A scallop dragger sinks near Harbour Brenton with the loss of one life; Fisheries and Oceans releases enforcement statistics on the recreational groundfish fishery; Alanna Mitchell tell us about her one-woman play called Sea Sick.

Support us at commonspodcast.com Long-term care workers are in the vanguard in the war against COVID-19. They’re not the kinds of workers who get movies or TV shows made about them. In fact, their stories are rarely told. But not only are they battling heroically against this pandemic. They’re fighting for recognition and respect within a system built to marginalize them.  COMMONS: Pandemic is currently focusing on how COVID-19 is affecting long-term care in Canada.   Featured in this episode: Joadel Concepcion, Joanna Bulatao, Lisa Burke, Naomi Lightman, Zaid Noorsumar To learn more: “‘We are dropping like flies,’ says Ontario home care nurse” by Zaid Noorsumar in Rank and File “Fear and exhaustion: Working as a PSW in long-term care during the coronavirus” by Alanna Mitchell in Maclean’s “Comparing Care Regimes: Worker Characteristics and Wage Penalties in the Global Care Chain” by Naomi Lightman in Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society   This episode is sponsored by Freshbooks Additional music from Audio Network

As land-based animals, we often don’t appreciate just how important healthy oceans are to all life on the planet. Yet, one third of the oxygen we breath comes from zooplankton, whose coral nurseries are dying from warming and acidifying seas – caused by human greenhouse gas emissions.

As land-based animals, we often don’t appreciate just how important healthy oceans are to all life on the planet. Yet, one third of the oxygen we breath comes from zooplankton, whose coral nurseries are dying from warming and acidifying seas – caused by human greenhouse gas emissions.For a look at the state of the world’s oceans and why we need to press for serious remedial action, join Planet Haliburton co-hosts Terry Moore and Greg Roe for a conversation with Alanna Mitchell, acclaimed Canadian science writer and author of the award winning book “Sea Sick: The Global Ocean in Crisis”.Show Notes: https://canoefm.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Resource-for-September-25-2017.pdf

Musical impressionist Christina Bianco reveals how she captures the voice and style of so many different musical divas like Shirley Bassey and Celine Dion, with a special performance on the Front Row stage. The surprise hit of this year’s Fringe has been Basil Brush Unleashed. The children’s TV icon is celebrating fifty years in showbusiness with a chat show aimed at adults. Basil talks to Kirsty about his career highlights, and his Edinburgh show and how keeps it the right side of PC. Edinburgh based author Mary Paulson-Ellis has used foxy themes in her novels The Other Mrs Walker and The Inheritance of Solomon Farthing. She gives Front Row a guide to the Fox in Fiction from Aesop's Fables, the medieval stories of Reynard to Kate Atkinson's Life After Life. A big trend at this year’s Edinburgh Festivals is the number of shows about climate change. Kirsty discusses how they are capturing hearts and minds with Alanna Mitchell whose one-woman show Sea Sick is about a crisis in the world’s oceans, and Oli Savage, Artistic Director of The Greenhouse venue, an eco-friendly arts space. Shows like Hamilton and Come From Away are reinventing the way we think of musicals. Kirsty speaks to Robyn Grant about their musical Unfortunate: The Untold Story of Ursula the Sea Witch, that reimagines the Little Mermaid story, and to Finn Anderson, whose show Islander draws on Scottish folk tradition - with loop pedals. Presenter : Kirsty Lang Producer : Hannah Robins

Science writer Alanna Mitchell has arguably done more than any single person to ring warning bells internationally about the deteriorating state of our oceans due to climate change. In 2009, Sea Sick was released as a bestselling book which won the prestigious Grantham Award. It then morphed into a popular TED Talk, and is now a one-woman play which she is performing around the world, including this August at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. “This is not my father’s science,” says Mitchell. “In my father’s day a scientist would spend an entire career trying to figure out the life cycle of a single creature — how many babies it had, what it ate, how it spent the winter. It was all leisurely. Today they are racing to try and figure out how one species, humans, are radically altering nature‘s plan.” A native of Regina, Mitchell has been one of Canada’s leading science journalists and authors for decades, getting her start at the Financial Post and then the Globe and Mail. She has written about everything from cancer to climate change, evolution to Arctic exploration. Her most recent book, The Spinning Magnet, explains Earth’s electromagnetic field and how a reversal of the planet’s magnetic poles might impact our modern infrastructure.

In this episode of Talk Nerdy, Cara speaks with science journalist Alanna Mitchell about her new book, “The Spinning Magnet.” They examine magnetismʼs long history of discovery, including the hundreds of times the Earthʼs poles have flipped. Follow Alanna @amitchelltweets.

In this episode of Talk Nerdy, Cara speaks with science journalist Alanna Mitchell about her new book, “The Spinning Magnet.” They examine magnetismʼs long history of discovery, including the hundreds of times the Earthʼs poles have flipped. Follow Alanna @amitchelltweets.

Thomas Moore knows just about everything anyone can know about world religions. How does he relate to his soul? Learn how to create a lifelong journey of meaning. - The brilliant Alanna Mitchell tries her best to educate me about Earth's magnetic poles with The Spinning Magnet. - And Diane Barth, a NYC therapist, helps us understand women's relationships with our gal friends in her book I Know How You Feel. I feel like Shining On!!! xo Kc

Mon 26th Feb 2018Ocean DrawdownDo you get seasick out on the ocean?Is the sea sick of climate change?Alanna Mitchell overcame her sea sickness and went down to the bottom of the ocean. She is an award winning Canadian Science journalist. After her show “SEASICK”, she spoke to Vivien about the erotic thrill of witnessing coral spawning. Her play dramatises the enormity of climate change affecting the ocean’s chemistry. As Charlie Veron said after bleaching, the coral will dissolve like an Alka Selzer Tablet in a jug of water. Dealing with the grief and tapping into a more creative response is all part of this sobering interview.Professor Rocky De Nys from James Cook University is the leader of the Macroalgal Biofuels and Bioproducts project. He talks to us about Apsparagopsis Taxiformis and how it reduces methane produced by ruminant animals. The scientists thought it must have been a mistake when the results of 80% reduction in sheep came back from the lab.We talk about the hopes for kelp farms sequestering carbon and other ocean based climate solutions.Further reading:“A cow walks onto a beach” in Paul Hawken’s book Drawdown.Alix Foster Van Elst is an Antarctic campaigner with Greenpeace. Their ship is right now in the Weddell sea where there is growing momentum to create an ocean sanctuary of 1.8million square kilometres, proposed by the EU. Healthy oceans draw down vast quantities of CO2 as well as protecting marine life. So it would be a boon for the climate. At the Bonn Climate conference last November, Australia was among the very lowest performing countries, yet when it came to protecting Antaractica in 1991 Bob Hawke proved that we could be environmental leaders. Is this new Antarctic Ocean Sanctuary an opportunity for us to regain our self respect?http://media.greenpeace.org/archive/Actor-Javier-Bardem-dives-in-Greenpeace-submarine-in-Antarctic-Ocean–with-Greenpeace-marine-biologist-John-Hocevar.-News-Edit-27MZIFJXE45T0.html  

What would life look like if the electromagnetic technology of the entire earth was suddenly wiped out? No cell phones, no internet, and maybe not even basic electricity? This isn’t science fiction. Electromagnetism, one of the four fundamental physical forces in the universe, is in many ways the bedrock of modern civilization. But the Earth’s magnetic poles are primed for a switch. The magnetic North Pole will trade places with the magnetic South Pole—a phenomenon that has happened before, and is overdue to happen again. It could be the undoing of everything that has come to define 21st century life, not to mention the biology of the natural world. In THE SPINNING MAGNET: The Electromagnetic Force that Created the Modern World—and Could Destroy It, science journalist Alanna Mitchell shares an immersive global investigation of electromagnetism and what it means for our planet. Alanna Mitchell discusses: · How the Earth’s magnetic field came to be so important for navigation, from animal migration to human exploration of the oceans and continents…and the tricks it can play on us. · Culture clashes: historically, accepting the concept of magnetism was fraught with contention. From Ancient Greece to modern-day Canada, Mitchell traces the challenge this concept posed to traditional beliefs. · The practical, environmental, and human costs of a pole switch: The fallout of a pole switch will be cataclysmic. Mitchell breaks down the impact a pole switch will have on everything from the insurance industry to human healthcare to the habitable regions of our planet. The last time the poles switched, 780,000 years ago, our species did not exist. When it happens again, the myriad species that call Earth home will have to adapt to a new reality: deadly solar and cosmic rays, the breakdown of our planet’s protective magnetic field, a loss of the internal “compass” that guides animals in their migratory patterns, and the destruction of electromagnetic technology that we rely on daily. THE SPINNING MAGNET is a compelling examination of the value of earth’s magnetic field—a force that also poses one of the least-discussed – yet most unavoidable – threats currently facing modern civilization. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Alanna Mitchell is an acclaimed science journalist and the author of Sea Sick: The Global Ocean in Crisis, which won the Grantham Prize for Excellence in Environmental Journalism. In 2014, she won a National Magazine Award for a feature on the biology of extinction. In 2015 she won a New York Festival’s International Radio Silver Medal for her science documentary on neonicotinoid pesticides as well as the Lane Anderson Award for best Canadian science book written for adults. She has written for The New York Times Science section and is a contributor to CBC Radio’s Quirks & Quarks. The Spinning Magnet is her fifth book of non-fiction. She is renowned for her ability to turn science into narrative.

What would life look like if the electromagnetic technology of the entire earth was suddenly wiped out? We're talking about no cell phones, no Internet, and maybe not even basic electricity. This isn’t science fiction: the Earth’s magnetic poles are primed for a switch. Here to explain is Alanna Mitchell, an acclaimed science journalist and author of the brand new book "THE SPINNING MAGNET: The Electromagnetic Force that Created the Modern World—and Could Destroy It."Image credit: shutterstock.com

Editor-Publisher David Wilson's Observations; interview with author Alanna Mitchell and Erica Lenti's Spirit Story