The Dark Material Podcast: His Dark Materials read-along

We FINALLY rejoin Mary Malone! She is settling in well with the mulefa, and makes a fascinating discovery when speaking to her friend Atal during a fishing trip. Cue: Crafting montage! Join us as we learn some polarisation facts, compare sraf measurements and generally enjoy the no-nonsense paciness of another excellent Mary Malone chapter! ------ Learn more about the history of Swiss Army Knives here [https://www.britannica.com/technology/Swiss-Army-knife]. If you want to have your mind blown by the longevity of oral histories, check this out! [https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ancient-sea-rise-tale-told-accurately-for-10-000-years/ ] Confused by our terrible descriptions of polarisation? Us too. Try reading more about it here [https://global.canon/en/technology/s_labo/light/001/05.html#:~:text=A%20water%20surface%20more%20intensely,fluctuations%20from%20the%20water%20surfaces] or here [https://www.physicsclassroom.com/class/light/Lesson-1/Polarization] - both excellent! ------ Music by: Jaymen Persaud [https://www.instagram.com/karmaroulette/?hl=en], performed by Claire Wickes [https://twitter.com/claire_wickes] www.thedarkmaterialpodcast.com [http://www.thedarkmaterialpodcast.com] Patreon: www.patreon.com/darkmaterialpodcast [https://www.patreon.com/darkmaterialpodcast] Twitter: @darkmaterialpod [https://twitter.com/DarkMaterialPod] Instagram: @thedarkmaterialpodcast [https://www.instagram.com/thedarkmaterialpodcast/?hl=en] Facebook: www.facebook.com/thedarkmaterialpodcast [https://www.facebook.com/thedarkmaterialpodcast]

Mrs Coulter is held prisoner by Lord Asriel in his basalt fortress in the mountains. We join the happy couple and Lord Asriel’s commanders on a tour of the iron works and for a demo of a strange new vehicle-weapon: the intention craft. Things don’t go to plan however… or do they? Who knows whether its all intentional or not…. Join us as we bask in the glory of Lord Asriel (Iain), admire Asriel’s forethought (Iain) and generally try to discuss other things that happen in the chapter (Amy). ------ Here is a link [https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O692765/pandemonium-print-martin-john/] to the artists impression Iain found for Pandemonium by John Martin. We also liked this video [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlNg4205Tpc] on how industrial-scale steel making actually works. Here [https://youtu.be/-gcLdZRXHcg?t=3m20s] is a link to the Eddie Izzard bit about trams and ALL THE LEVERS. Here [https://www.deviantart.com/jamesmargerum/art/The-Intention-Craft-28560214] and here [http://bridgetothestars.net/fanart/objects/intention_machine.jpg.php] are some MUCH better fan art pictures of the Intention Craft…check out our social media pages for our drawings! If you want to read an article on the state of Brain Computer Interfaces in 2017 (yes…quite behind the times…), this is an interesting overview [https://www.wired.com/story/inside-the-race-to-build-a-brain-machine-interface/]! ------ Music by: Jaymen Persaud [https://www.instagram.com/karmaroulette/?hl=en], performed by Claire Wickes [https://twitter.com/claire_wickes] www.thedarkmaterialpodcast.com [http://www.thedarkmaterialpodcast.com] Patreon: www.patreon.com/darkmaterialpodcast [https://www.patreon.com/darkmaterialpodcast] Twitter: @darkmaterialpod [https://twitter.com/DarkMaterialPod] Instagram: @thedarkmaterialpodcast [https://www.instagram.com/thedarkmaterialpodcast/?hl=en] Facebook: www.facebook.com/thedarkmaterialpodcast [https://www.facebook.com/thedarkmaterialpodcast]

We join Lyra, Will, Iorek and the galivespians as they set up a forge in a Himilayan cave, preparing for the daunting task of mending the knife together as a team. Join us as we shout ‘It will cut’ at every opportunity, share our own forging stories and enjoy Iorek’s indescribable but effective bear-stares. ------ We talk about the show Forged in Fire ALOT this episode…here [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CT9LtwvUadI] is a little taster of what the show is like! Here [https://www.popsci.com/what-does-brain-size-have-to-do-with-intelligence/] are some facts about Encephalisation quotient (EQ) so you can speculate about how smart a Gallivespian might be, relative to a being of the same size. There’s a little more here [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forge_welding] on the general principles and metallurgy of forge welding. Here [https://twitter.com/DarkMaterialPod/status/1437398225074393089] are some photos of us forging and the actual knives we made! We have a long way to go until we are Iorek-level bladesmiths…We did this at Oldfield forge [https://www.oldfieldforge.co.uk/], which we heartily recommend! ------ Music by: Jaymen Persaud [https://www.instagram.com/karmaroulette/?hl=en], performed by Claire Wickes [https://twitter.com/claire_wickes] www.thedarkmaterialpodcast.com [http://www.thedarkmaterialpodcast.com/] Patreon: www.patreon.com/darkmaterialpodcast [https://www.patreon.com/darkmaterialpodcast] Twitter: @darkmaterialpod [https://twitter.com/DarkMaterialPod] Instagram: @thedarkmaterialpodcast [https://www.instagram.com/thedarkmaterialpodcast/?hl=en] Facebook: www.facebook.com/thedarkmaterialpodcast [https://www.facebook.com/thedarkmaterialpodcast]

We join Lyra, Will and the galivespians as they head back into the Himalayas to find Iorek and see if he can help them with their plan to fix the knife. Join us as we make some of our worst noises yet, get tangled up with quantum physics and share some bizarre cures for whooping cough. ------ Here [https://www.popsci.com/what-does-brain-size-have-to-do-with-intelligence/ ] are some fun facts about Encephalisation quotient (EQ) - the term Amy half-remembered for the ratio of brain size to body size. Read more about Stradivarius and the European ‘Little Ice Age’ here [https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/did-a-little-ice-age-create-special-wood-for-great-violins]! This [https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn8886-whale-song-reveals-sophisticated-language-skills/ ]is the study about whale language structure which Amy refers to in this episode. ------ Music by: Jaymen Persaud [https://www.instagram.com/karmaroulette/?hl=en], performed by Claire Wickes [https://twitter.com/claire_wickes] www.thedarkmaterialpodcast.com [http://www.thedarkmaterialpodcast.com] Patreon: www.patreon.com/darkmaterialpodcast [https://www.patreon.com/darkmaterialpodcast] Twitter: @darkmaterialpod [https://twitter.com/DarkMaterialPod] Instagram: @thedarkmaterialpodcast [https://www.instagram.com/thedarkmaterialpodcast/?hl=en] Facebook: www.facebook.com/thedarkmaterialpodcast [https://www.facebook.com/thedarkmaterialpodcast]

This episode we spend some time with Will, Lyra, Tailys and Salmakia as they bring Lyra up to speed on the Amber Spyglass thus far and hatch a plan to visit a new world… Join us as we avoid repeating >10 episodes, give a great rendition of some slam poetry and agree (again) that Iorek really should have just solved everything.