Ballast: not just for ships and giggles.Ballast might be old technology, but in this final episode of the Ballast podcast we explore how this basic feat of engineering is now being used in planes and state-of-the-art building designs, and disc

Episode 4: The Ballast in Your Life

Oct 7th, 2019 20m 55s

A little emotional ballast can help keep us afloat when life gets heavy.In this episode of Ballast, we sit in on Elin’s impromptu therapy session to explore ballast as a psychological metaphor and look at how ballast can lend emotional stabili

Episode 3: The Ballast of Living Things

Sep 30th, 2019 19m 36s

It’s a sink or swim world.Ballast doesn’t just help to stabilize objects on the surface of water; it comes in awfully handy underwater as well. In this episode we listen in on the vertical migrations of plainfin midshipmen, follow local advent

Episode 2: The Ballast of Colonization

Sep 23rd, 2019 18m 37s

From introduced species to the slave trade, ballast has had a huge impact on our world.In this episode, host Elin Kelsey serves up a ballast-infused meal inspired by a ballast flora artist. Then she gets into the dark story of the slave trade,

Episode 1: The Hidden History of Ballast

Sep 17th, 2019 17m 49s

The surprising connections between British Columbia jade, the Bristol Blitz, and a Swedish sunken ship.Find show notes and a transcript at www.hakaimagazine.com/ballast-podcast.

Ballast Podcast - Trailer

Sep 11th, 2019 2m 43s

Ship ballast from the United Kingdom built Manhattan. Or some of it. This was one of the enticing tidbits that got us very interested in ballast here at Hakai Magazine and we decided to delve in. A podcast on ballast? Sure, why not!

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