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Creating Knowledge in Climate Extremes: An Evening with Hester Blum | PRAx
How has our knowledge of polar regions been challenged by climate extremes?
Hester Blum
@hesterblum.bsky.social
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A patched professor in Queen Nature’s granite-founded College. Polar humanities, C19, oceanic studies. Ask me about Moby-Dick. I teach environmental and nineteenth-century American literature at WashU. Protect trans kids. She/her. hesterblum.com
![Transcript of Exploring Moby-Dick exchange in which Rob and Hester talk about Bulkington as a normal guy in a novel of weird little guys (and thus why Bulkington can't hang around): I mean, he's like a normal guy you want to be around, which this book is not really [laughter] swollen with those types of people.
No, it's a weird little guys are central to this novel. [laughter]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:xkcatjaginqejitkkzp2dbw6/bafkreidkxpps2sa43dok4o4yfl3j7jwzenqayremcrg7iyfyjhd5ycpx4e)
