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Trampled Underfoot Podcast – 94 – The Ugly Ignoramus and Pepe the Dancing Turtle
In Episode 94 of the Trampled Underfoot Podcast, now that we’re about 60 days out from the start of the Corona virus lockdowns, have your thoughts on all this changed? Do you still have the same opinions on the subject that you had when this all hit the fan? What insights have you gained, and would you have done anything different? Mark Lindsay and Eloy Escagedo share their thoughts! Then the podcast turns to some Viking burial discoveries Eloy ran across surfing the web. The topics then come at a fast and furious pace. Eloy’s ancestor, the famous chronicler of Spanish history, the Transcontinental Railroad, how Mark ran over his…
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Trampled Underfoot Podcast – 83 – If I Could Talk to the Animals
How much do animals really know? Do we underestimate their cognitive abilities? Can they communicate with us? Or, on the flip side of that, do we over estimate their intelligence? Are they truly ruled by instinct and nothing else? Eloy Escagedo and Mark Lindsay discuss this topic with examples from dogs, apes, and other animals. Plus, they talk about some of the many tests we have read about, as well as documentaries they’ve watched on this subject. It’s truly fascinating! Then they run through a short list of famous (and not so famous) “Firsts” from around the world. We’ll leave the details out for now, but you can hear all…