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Podcast: Zoomer Week in Review
Episode: The Technology Finding Unmarked Graves & "Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe"
Description: Technology is enabling the discovery of unmarked graves of indigenous children on sites of former residential schools. The system is called ground penetrating radar and it is also used extensively in the construction industry. Dr. Terence Clark of the University of Saskatchewan is a practitioner and he tells Libby Znaimer that locating these burial grounds involves art as well as science.
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