Episode 98: Ali Mirza

On Episode 98, Nick chats with Ali Mirza, Fellow and Visiting Lecturer at the Center of Humanistic Inquiry and Department of History at Amherst College, about his interdisciplinary work in the field of Ichnology, the study of how animal behavior changes the structure of the Earth and produces new ecosystems through “traces” such as a burrows, footprints, nests, and reefs, the concept of epistemic enhancement, and how the historical sciences challenge our standard accounts of how science functions.