How Rock Has Shaped Human Life : Short Wave : NPR

✍️ Berly Mccoy Sydney Lupkin Brent Baughman Rebecca Ramirez, Berly Mccoy, Sydney Lupkin, Brent Baughman, Rebecca Ramirez 📅 November 04, 2025 12:00 AM 🕐 Scraped: November 04, 2025

Summary: Why does the New York City skyline look the way it does? In part, because of what happened there 500 million years ago, says geologist Anjana Khatwa, author of the new book Whispers of Rocks. In it, she traces how geology has had profound effects on human life, from magnetism of the ocean floor to voter trends in the Southern U.S.Interested in more geology episodes? Email us your question at [email protected] to every episode of Short Wave sponsor-free and support our work at NPR by signing up for Short Wave+ at plus.npr.org/shortwave.

What secrets everyday rocks share about human history

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