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Blue Dot: Harnessing the power of cold: an interview with Fred Hogge

Host Dave Schlom visits with British-born Thailand resident Fred Hogge about his new book, Of Ice and Men: How We've Used Cold to Transform Humanity. 

In it, Hogge traces how ice and cold have played a role in everything from polar exploration disasters to our modern world of refrigeration and air conditioning.

Imagine your favorite summer beverage without ice cubes handy to put in it. We take our ability to create ice and chilled air for granted, but it makes living in extreme heat climates possible as well as preserving our food as it travels from its sources to your local supermarket. It's a fascinating and chill conversation!

Dave Schlom is the longtime host and creator of Blue Dot. From surfing to Voyager in interstellar space, rock guitar to orcas in our imperiled oceans, the topics on Blue Dot are as varied as the host’s interests and connections -- which are pretty limitless! An internationally respected space history journalist, Dave is also deeply fascinated by all aspects of the grand workings of nature’s awesome machinery on scales ranging from galactic to subatomic. And topics take in all aspects of the arts and sciences.
Matt Fidler is a producer and sound designer with over 15 years’ experience producing nationally distributed public radio programs. He has worked for shows such as Freakonomics Radio, Selected Shorts, Studio 360, The New Yorker Radio Hour and The Takeaway. In 2017, Matt launched the language podcast Very Bad Words, hitting the #28 spot in the iTunes podcast charts.