551. What Can Whales Teach Us About Clean Energy, Workplace Harmony, and Living the Good Life?

551.关于清洁能源、工作场所和谐和过上美好生活,鲸鱼可以教给我们什么?

Freakonomics Radio

社会与文化

2023-07-27

47 分钟
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In the final episode of our whale series, we learn about fecal plumes, shipping noise, and why "Moby-Dick" is still worth reading. (Part 3 of "Everything You Never Knew About Whaling.")

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  • How many times have you read Moby Dick?

  • 50 is probably reasonable.

  • I'm 50 years old.

  • I read Moby Dick for the first time at the age of 17.

  • What was your impression on your first reading at 17 years old?

  • Well, that was the launch event of really, my whole life.

  • Your life, not just your academic career, your life.

  • It's pretty central to my life.

  • I mean, I have a tattoo of a historic harpoon on my arm.

  • It's pretty.

  • It's been pretty formative.

  • Part of that was out of the kind of perversity of the kid who wanted to love the book that all of my classmates were groaning about having to read.

  • I could not believe the book.

  • If it were not for Moby Dick, wailing would be one of a series of interests.

  • But because Moby Dick has loomed so large.

  • You went all in on whaling then, huh?

  • Yes.

  • Yeah.

  • It's impossible to escape.

  • Hester Blum is a professor of English at the Pennsylvania State University.