15 Minute Maps
15 Minute Maps
Hugo Powell
Episode 16 – John Huth: The Map Hidden in the Waves
21 minutes Posted Nov 17, 2025 at 1:00 pm.
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Ever Wondered How You’d Navigate the Ocean With No Compass, No GPS, and No Land in Sight? Well this episode once again proves the importance of maintaining indigenous knowledge. That question led Bonner Professor John Huth, Harvard physicist and renowned member of the team that discovered the Higgs boson, into an entirely different field of research — mapping the ocean waves that Indigenous Marshallese navigators use to navigate their many atolls. In this episode we discuss: How Marsha...