Episode 69: Wild Offerings

<p>This episode explores new research, which has used geochemical analysis to show that millions of wild birds were once sacrificed to Ancient Egyptian gods.</p> <p>---</p> <p>Read this episode’s science poem <a href='https://thepoetryofscience.scienceblog.com/1499/wild-offerings/'>here</a>.</p> <p>Read the scientific study that inspired it <a href='https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-72326-7'>here</a>.</p> <p>Read ‘Audubon Becomes Obsessed with Birds’ by Andy Brown <a href='https://www.poetryinternational.org/pi/poem/7887/auto/0/0/Andy-Brown/Audubon-Becomes-Obsessed-with-Birds/en/tile#:~:text=AUDUBON%20BECOMES%20OBSESSED%20WITH%20BIRDS,Brown%20-%20United%20Kingdom%20-%20Poetry%20International&text=Vishnu%2C%20the%20Preserver%3B,symbols%20of%20rebirth%20and%20life%3B&text=because%20birds%20are%20like%20ideas,visit%20us%20fleetingly%2C%20then%20disappear.'>here</a>.</p> <p>---</p> <p>Music by <a href='http://smarturl.it/thepaperwaits'>Rufus Beckett</a>.</p> <p>---</p> <p>Follow Sam on social media and send in any questions or comments for the podcast:</p> <p>Email: <a href='mailto:sam.illingworth@gmail.com'>sam.illingworth@gmail.com</a>   Twitter: <a href='https://twitter.com/samillingworth'>@samillingworth</a>  </p>