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From The Amazon’s Hidden Civilization (One Year Anniversary)

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15/23
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44:01outside observer? >> Yes. >> If we were to just disappear >> here right now. Like, for our generation, not for the past. >> Yeah. >> That's a I'm we're going to I'm going to think about that more. Cuz I really do like that quite a bit. I really do like that quite a bit. And you might all know what's coming next because this kind of um just fascinating, incredible, deep, and fun conversation is brought to you by From First Principles. No. Uh >> [laughter] >> we we currently are just the two of us as we mentioned earlier. And so now we have to shill the pod a little bit. For those of you who are listening for the

44:41first time, welcome. The water's warm. FFP nation is growing. One of the best ways that you can support the show so that we can continue to have these fascinating conversations, like, share, comment, subscribe on any of the platforms you may listen to us on. We're available as a video podcast on Spotify. Coming soon in video to Apple Podcasts. So keep an eye out for that. You can also listen to us on your favorite podcast app. We're on all the podcast applications. Our website ffpod.com has the research papers we talked about, including the one we just talked about in this past Amazon story, which again was in Nature in July 2026. This was out

45:23of the Ibero-American Institute of Finland and the University of Helsinki about LiDAR scanning to penetrate through the canopy in the Amazon to learn that it was much more populated and dense than we did before. If you would like to support this show monetarily in this economy, you can go to ffpod.com/donate. One thing we've not talked about before, but it's going to be super helpful for us. If you're listening on Spotify and Apple, a five-star review will do wonders for us to get this to more people. Um and if you are in a journal club or have technical, curious, or science

46:04friends to talk to, uh this is a great show to send over to them. Uh for those of you watching our clips, send them in groups, send them to DMs. The clips is the best way to onboard people to being scientifically curious. And I want to just do a reminder before we get into wrapping up the episode with the books that we are going to add into the library that we are trying to build community around the show as we enter year two. Part of what we need to understand is who are our listeners. And so, we have our giveaway where we're going to have merch given out. Then we're going to choose We're going to start with 10 people.

46:4510 people, we might increase it to 20, is going to get some of our free merch, not just what we have on right now. You can go to our shop and see all the other stuff, t-shirts, sweaters, uh swag bags. Uh we have a great field notebook. There's a ton of stuff in there. Uh if you can complete our survey to help us better understand what you want us to do in our second year, that's over at ffpod.com/survey. To all of those who say, "What does Lester do on the show?" I show the website. >> [laughter]

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  1. EP 52

    The Amazon’s Hidden Civilization (One Year Anniversary)

    For FFP’s first anniversary, we uncover the densely populated precolonial Amazon, imagine what our civilization will leave behind, and build the first shelves of the From First Principles library.

    The Amazon’s Hidden Civilization (One Year Anniversary)

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