This week’s episode is a double feature of archives from the past year or so that discuss two very different kinds of knowledge. In our fist story, we meet a Northwest Territories hunting guide and in the second a University of Alberta research scientist. Listen this week to get both your land- and data-based learning fixes.

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Kody Pritchard has been a hunting guide through the Mackenzie Mountains in the Northwest Territory for seven years. He’s had a number of unique experiences, Many of which so dangerous, they’d send most people racing back to the comfort and safety of civilization. Here Ashely Kocsis speaks with Pritchard about some of his most memorable experiences of life and survival in the depths of one of the few remaining wilderness landscapes in Canada.

What Graphs Cannot Tell

Many scientists are uncomfortable speaking about what their work means without sticking to the bounds of their data. But Rebecca Lawton is both a natural scientist and a creative writer. Chris Chang-Yen Phillips spoke to her in Edmonton, where she served as the Fulbright Visiting Research Chair in Humanities, Social Sciences, and Fine Arts at the University of Alberta.

Photo by: L.B. Brubaker