Critical Nonsense
181! Falconry and Lost Arts
What else can happen when we find new uses for lost arts?
This week, Joey and Jess talk about falconry, Top Gun, sword fighting, peatlands, owls, and mushrooms. They don’t talk about the Black Falcon School of Arms.
references
- Zoobilee Zoo and The Wuzzles
- The New York Times Magazine: The Ancient Art of Falconry at the Jersey Shore
- Neal Stephenson's Termination Shock
- Dutch police using eagles to hunt illegal drones
- Stone Masonry
- COBOL
- Also, Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash (again)
- Sumerian language
- The New York Times: Meet Peat, the Unsung Heroes of Carbon Capture
- Owls of LBL: Super predators and marvels of evolution
- Meati