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It\u2019s hard to get lost these days. GPS pinpoints your location to within a few feet. Discover how our need to get from A to B holds clues about what makes us human, and what we lose now that every digital map puts us at the center.\nPlus, stories of animal navigation: how a cat found her way home across Florida, and the magnetic navigation systems used by salmon and sea turtles.\nAlso, why you\u2019ll soon be riding in driverless cars. And, how to map our universe.\nGuests:\n\n\nJohn Bradshaw \u2013 Director of the University of Bristol\u2019s Anthrozoology Institute, author of Dog Sense: How the New Science of Dog Behavior Can Make You A Better Friend to Your Pet and, most recently, Cat Sense\n\n\n\nKenneth Lohmann \u2013 Biologist at the University of North Carolina \u2013 Chapel Hill\n\n\nSimon Garfield \u2013 Author of On the Map: A Mind-Expanding Exploration of the Way the World Looks\n\n\n\nWilliam \u201cRed\u201d Whittaker \u2013 Roboticist at Carnegie Mellon University\n\n\nJames Trefil \u2013 Physicist at George Mason University, author of Space Atlas: Mapping the Universe and Beyond\n\n\nDescripci\xf3n en espa\xf1ol\nFirst released March 18, 2013.\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices