In this episode, hosts Mark Schulz and Alison Hager welcome viewers and listeners to the first episode. They introduce themselves, share what ReNouned is all about, and then dive into discussion of the show's first noun: “orbit.”

ReNouned is a podcast for the curious. We dust off the commonplace to look for shiny new relevance as we challenge ourselves to think critically about the objects that surround us. How do they echo humanity’s past, reflect the present, or foreshadow the future?

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STUFF TO CHECK OUT FROM THIS EPISODE

Things to read:

De Cosmo, Leonardo. “Google Engineer Claims AI Chatbot Is Sentient: Why That Matters.” Scientific American.

Dobbs, David. “Beautiful Brains”. National Geographic.

Poe, Edgar Allan. (1843). The Tell-Tale Heart

Poe, Edgar Allan. (1829). Sonnet to Science.

Tufte, Edward R. The Visual Display of Quantitative Information.

Things to watch:

Orb it. Camp, Nicholas & Thiel, Don III. (2019).

Cosmos: A Space Time Odyssey with Neil deGrasse Tyson

Órbita 9. Khraiche, Hatem. (2017).

Things to listen to:

Music and sounds from Earth included on NASA Voyager’s “Golden Record.” (Includes images, as well!)

Things to do: 

Check out the first images from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope!

Consider supporting Wikipedia.org if it’s a resource you use on the regular.

Generate your own random words and Go Down the Rabbit Hole with your friends!

Support your local libraries!

Visit Hogpen Hill Farms – Edward Tufte’s landscape sculpture park with 5 miles of walking trails.

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