Kgnu - How On Earth

Welcome to the Spring Pledge Drive edition of How On Earth. I'm this quarter's Executive Producer, Jim Pullen. We, the How On Earth team, encourage you to take a different take on the world, to examine assumptions, ideas and evidence critically. The great philosopher of science Karl Popper, a champion of the essential role of refutation in science, wrote in The Poverty of Historicism, For if we are uncritical, we shall always find what we want: we shall look for, and find confirmations, and we shall look away from and not see, whatever might be dangerous to our pet theories. Consider our relationship with the rest of the natural world... Do we humans have a special vitality that sets us apart or can we be best understood as just another smart ape? It's an essential question. In our feature interview, our guest scientist, bat biologist and Animal Planet host Dan Riskin, challenges us to reconsider--humorously, disgustingly, creepily, scarily--our perceptions of nature. Dan fields questions like, what's wrong