Threshold is a Peabody Award-winning documentary podcast about our place in the natural world. Each season, we take listeners on a journey into the heart of a complex environmental story, asking how we got here and where we might be headed. In our latest season, Hark, we hand the mic over to our planet-mates and investigate what it means to truly listen to nonhuman voices—and the cost if we don't. With mounting social and ecological crises, what happens when we tune into the life all around us? Threshold is nonprofit, listener-supported, and independently produced.
In our podcast, we discuss the relationship between humans and nature, specifically the way humans view themselves within the natural world, and how this relationship has evolved over time.
In this podcast, we take an in depth look at ancient and modern perceptions of conservation of sacred or valuable natural areas. We seek to answer why these spaces were conserved, and why we, as modern Americans, should continue this tradition.
Our harmful and irreversible damage to the earth is no different from that of the Ancient Greeks and Romans. This is evidenced by multiple writings we have studied this semester including Hesiod's Theogony, Hugh's Environmental Problems, and Pope Francis' Laudato Si.
In this podcast, Daniel and Mark discuss how the ancient audience of the Iliad, as well as its characters, viewed nature and the divine, while also seeing how well this view was translated into the film version of the Iliad.
This podcast discusses the human views of our world as a mother, protecting figure, and one that must be protected, and how these views changed over time. Through comparison of Earth's portrayal in Hesoid's Theogony to her portrayal in Pope Francis's Laudato Si, we discover how the differences between the two exemplify the change in opinion of Earth as time goes on, and emphasize the necessity of awareness of how our actions affect the natural world around us.…
This episode discusses creation stories and the role of nature in three different societies and religions across thousands of years: Greece and Rome in antiquity, and modern Christianity.
This podcast explores the relationship between humans and nature in both antiquity and current times, and how humans viewed and continue to view their surroundings.
This podcast explores how sacred places connected the Ancient Greeks closer to nature and how the natural elements they interact with, magnifies their spirituality and relationship with the divine.
The idea of elements told by Empedocles and found in Traditional Chinese medicine became the foundation of modern thought and could give us some insight on the reason for differences in thought.
In this episode we will be diving in to see the differences in sports in the ancient times compared to the present times and what effect the changes have on our society's relationship with nature.
In this podcast we explore the relationship between water and sexuality through the example of Aphrodite. We have selected three different stories and interpretations of Aphrodite and discuss how her sexuality is portrayed through the use of the natural world.
Over the course of this podcast we talk about certain stories that have come to interest us and analyze how people in antiquity would would view the topic. Afterwards, we give a scientific explanation of what is actually occurring using knowledge from the modern era.
A look at the treatment of animals for human gain from antiquity to present-day: how ancient mentalities have persisted for over 2,000 years, but on a larger scale.
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