Episode 132: Earth

In episode 132 of Overthink, Ellie and David dig into the topic of earth for the third part of their four-part series on the elements. They discuss everything from earthworms and carbon dating to the earth as a living being. They look to Foucault, Freud, and Husserl for their ideas on how the earth can act as a metaphor for the past. Are there limitations to thinking about the Earth as a solid substance? What are the similarities between humans and earth? And what is it that we actually mean when we talk about earth as an element?