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• Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai (Classic)

  Created by a volcanic eruption in 2015, this island in the South Pacific no longer exists… but we chat with a person who got to see it before it disappeared.LEARN MORE about Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai in this Reuters article and see it in the Atlas here

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• Shamanism: The Timeless Religion

  We talk with anthropologist Manvir Singh, whose research on shamanism took him from the small island of Siberut to study current practitioners, to exploring prehistoric cave art in France. It’s the subject of his new book, “Shamanism: The Timeless Religion” – and in it he also argues that we can find elements of shamanism in our own lives.  Find out more about Manvir Singh’s work: https://www.manvir.org/

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• Dylan’s Mailbag: Traveling With Kids, Girls’ Trips, and Pedal Pubs

  Dylan has just returned from a month-long trip with his family, and he and the gang answer listener questions about traveling with kids and more. Have a question for Dylan? Give us a call at 315-992-7902 and leave a message. You can also record a voice memo and email it to us at [email protected], or simply email your question.   

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• This Is Your Commute

  Listeners share stories about how they commute to work and back home as they also reflect on how special their neighborhood is too. Plus: We wanna hear stories about your first time traveling with your kids.  Tell us about that experience - where did you and your family travel to? And why there? How did your kids adjust to traveling? Did they love it? Or did they give you a hard time traveling? What memories did you make from that trip? Was this the right place for kids? What would you recommend to other parents traveling with their kids for the first time? Give us a call at 315-992-7902 and leave a message telling us your name and story. Our mailbox will cut you off after three minutes so please call in if you get disconnected. Or you can record a voice memo and email it to us at [email protected] Plus: The Atlas Obscura Explorer’s Guide to Inventing the World is out now! 

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• Time Travel with a Parking Lot Dinosaur

  Earlier this year a geologist at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science got a very unusual phone call. A construction crew ripping up the museum’s parking lot had found… dinosaur bones. We dig deeper and get a taste of what it would have been like to visit the Denver area during the Cretaceous Period. See the parking lot dino fossil: https://www.dmns.org/science/research/parking-lot-dinosaur/Check out the rock slab that “shows” the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event: https://coloradosprings.dmns.org/dmnshomepage/catalyst/fall-2024/recorded-in-stone-single-worst-day-for-multicellular-life-on-earth//

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