On a remote mountain in Hawaii, there's a fake planet Mars. Six volunteers are secluded in an imitation Mars habitat where they will work as imitation astronauts for one very real year. The goal: to help NASA understand what life might be like on the red planet—and plan for the day when the dress rehearsals are over, and we blast off for real. Host Lynn Levy has been chronicling this experiment from the moment the crew set foot in their habitat, communicating with them through audio diaries that detail their discoveries, their frustrations, and their evolving and devolving relationships...
The Habitat introduces How to Save a Planet, a new Gimlet Media podcast hosted by journalist Alex Blumberg and scientist Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson. This show asks the big questions: what do we need to do to solve the climate crisis, and how do we get it done? In this episode, "Unnatural...
Published 10/08/20
Introducing The Cut on Tuesdays, a new podcast from New York Magazine’s The Cut and Gimlet Media. It’s a show about being a woman in the world, about how weird and messy and laugh-until-milk-comes-out-your-nose funny that can be. In this episode, host Molly Fischer investigates: what’s going on...
Published 11/29/18