Gaps In Knowledge

S3E2 - A little magic chess machine

Today Rhys get all atmospherically gassy, parks in a solar powered car park and goes to Mecca to see how it is. Will chucks up the vomitorium, plays magic mechanical chess then runs naked in The Games. Rhys talks about: The most abundant Green House Gas [https://climate.nasa.gov/explore/ask-nasa-climate/3143/steamy-relationships-how-atmospheric-water-vapor-amplifies-earths-greenhouse-effect/] Solar Panel being build on Car Parks / Parking Lots [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeaQUhAOdtk] The Masjid al-haram, Mecca - Reviews [https://maps.app.goo.gl/cChpw5mPgSAKCDQN9] Will talks about: Vomitoriums [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vomitorium] Wolfgang von Kempelen's Mechanical Turk [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_von_Kempelen] The Ancient Olympic Games [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Olympic_Games] Time Stamps 1:58 - Most Abundant Greenhouse Gas 11:40 - Vomitorium  19:40 - Solar Panel Parking Lots 33:57 - Magical Chess Machine 57:51 - Mecca's Google Reviews 1:08:48 - The Ancient Games  1:20:43 - Outro

S3E1 - Ropey Rasputin

Today Rhys gets all docky, shippy and ropey while Will goes Raving with Rasputin, fleeing the French Revolution, and getting spooky in the States with the Winchester mystery house! Rhys talks about: Oklahoma - The Tulsa Port of Catoosa Malcolm McClean and Containerisation The Chatham Dockyard Ropery Will talks about: Rasputin Louis XVI attempt to flee France The Winchester Mystery House

S2E7 - The Glastonbury Chronicles

Today Rhys sorts out the relationship between Greenland and Denmark, Look at the phosphate mining in Nauru and the dives into the unfathomable depth of the Mariana Trench. Will goes all normal for the first King of England, parties hard in Glastonbury then sorts out his solstice stones in Stonehenge. Rhys Links: * "Epistemic geographies of climate change" by Martin Mahony and Mike Hulme. [https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132516681485] * "Introduction: Postimperial sovereignty games in the Nordic region" by Rebecca Adler-Nissen and Ulrik Pram Gad. [https://doi.org/10.1177/0010836713514148] * Greenland unveils draft constitution in push for complete independence from Danish control [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHOpO0IydBY] * Mining, land restoration and sustainable development in isolated islands: An industrial ecology perspective on extractive transitions on Nauru [https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13280-018-1075-2] * Phosphate Mining on Nauru [https://ejatlas.org/conflict/phosphate-mining-on-nauru]   * The Story of Nauru: The "Country that Ate itself" [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMvAQh3eLnU&t=20s] * Mariana Trench [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariana_Trench] Will's Links: * Alfred The Great [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_the_Great] * Glastonbury [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glastonbury] * Stonehenge [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonehenge]

S2E6 - The Geography Quiz

Today, join Rhys for traffic congestion myths, a wildfire crash-course and naming lizards that have opinions on desertification. Will suprises Rhys for his three-part Geography quiz! Border, flags and countries! Rhys links: * ⁠⁠⁠ [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgian_wine]Critical factors for mitigating car traffic in cities [https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0219559] * ⁠⁠⁠ [https://www.politico.eu/article/sex-drugs-sustainability-music-festival-green-environment/]⁠ [https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-44965957]7 Burning Questions: Wildfires & Public Lands [https://www.doi.gov/blog/7-burning-questions-wildfires-public-lands] * ⁠⁠⁠⁠ [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orinoco_wetlands]⁠Land management practices for combating desertification cause species replacement of desert lizards⁠ [https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2664.2006.01177.x] Will links: * Belgium's Venn Bahn [https://www.vennbahn.eu/en/] * ⁠⁠⁠ [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_and_Clark_Expedition]⁠World Flags [https://www.worldometers.info/geography/flags-of-the-world/] * ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠193 countries in the world - United Nations [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations] Want to leave us a voice message? Follow this ⁠⁠⁠link⁠⁠⁠ [https://anchor.fm/gapsinknowledge/message]. You can contact us on ⁠⁠⁠Twitter @gapspodcast⁠⁠⁠ [https://twitter.com/GapsPodcast], or email us at gapsinknowledge@outlook.com Please send us your questions for us to answer! We would love to hear them! Timestamps Intro 00:00 Misconception Corner: Traffic Congestion 01:46 Misconception Corner: Venn Bahn 11:57 Main Event: Wildfire Crash-Course 18:05 Main Event: Flag Quiz 40:01 Number Time: Lizards and Desertification 01:04:46 Number Time: All the countries of the world 01:25:04 Outro: 01:33:00

S2E5 - Sipping and Shipwrecks

Today, join Rhys for Georgian wine adventures, and a deep dive into Georgetown and we play 'Georgia or Georgia?'. Then, Will unpacks Shakespeare's relevance, reflects on Gallipoli, and analyses the Titanic's failures. Rhys links: * ⁠⁠Drinking Wine in Georgia [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgian_wine] * ⁠ [https://www.politico.eu/article/sex-drugs-sustainability-music-festival-green-environment/]Guyana hits back after 'watery wilderness' NYT article [https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-44965957] * ⁠⁠ [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orinoco_wetlands]Georgia or Georgia? [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_(U.S._state)] Will links: * ⁠ [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Columbus]Titanic failures [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titanic] * ⁠ [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_and_Clark_Expedition]Gallipoli [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallipoli_campaign] * ⁠⁠ [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_landing]Shakespeare’s actually not that bad [https://www.shakespeare.org.uk/explore-shakespeare/shakespedia/shakespeares-plays/?gclid=CjwKCAjwjYKjBhB5EiwAiFdSflTpAy-KwLWIP01wl-VfNimeaKVCfG8S2Uf5KmDg7xT_cTi5aHWfCRoC5h8QAvD_BwE] Want to leave us a voice message? Follow this ⁠⁠link⁠⁠ [https://anchor.fm/gapsinknowledge/message]. You can contact us on ⁠⁠Twitter @gapspodcast⁠⁠ [https://twitter.com/GapsPodcast], or email us at gapsinknowledge@outlook.com Please send us your questions for us to answer! We would love to hear them! Timestamps Intro 00:00 Misconception Corner: Drinking Wine in Georgia 01:50 Misconception Corner: Titanic failures 10:37 Main Event: The True Georgetown 17:23 Main Event: Gallipoli 29:19 Number Time: Georgia or Georgia? 46:38 Number Time: Shakespeare’s actually not that bad 52:04 Outro: 01:05:47