Guests of History Repeating itself
Episode 29: The Benefits of Scavenging
(notes coming soon)
Episode 28: Are We Hunters At Heart?
(notes coming soon)
Episode 27: The Future of Writing
Guests:
Dr. Owen Churches is a research fellow in the Brain and Cognition Laboratory at Flinders University where he investigates the cognitive neuroscience of new forms of social interaction including emoticons and profile pictures.
http://www.flinders.edu.au/people/owen.churches
Dr. Tom Mullaney is Associate Professor of Chinese History at Stanford University. He is the author of Coming to Terms with the Nation: Ethnic Classification in Modern China and principal editor of Critical Han Studies: The History, Representation and Identity of China’s Majority. He received his BA and MA degrees from the Johns Hopkins University, and his PhD from Columbia University under the direction of Madeleine Zelin.
His most recent project, The Chinese Typewriter: A Global History, examines China’s development of a modern, nonalphabetic information infrastructure encompassing telegraphy, typewriting, word processing, and computing. This project has received three major awards and fellowships, including the 2013 Usher Prize, a three-year National Science Foundation fellowship, and a Hellman Faculty Fellowship. The book manuscript is now under review.
https://history.stanford.edu/people/tom-mullaney
Sources:
VIDEOS
-Crazy Chinese Typewriter
ARTICLES/OTHER
-Are There Really Benefits to Writing Things By Hand? Time.
-Bill Gates on Microsoft's 40th Anniversary. The Future is all Robots and Holograms. Fast Company.
-Chinese Typewriters Anticipated Predictive Text, Finds Stanford Historian. Stanford University.
-Don't Know the Difference Between Emoji and Emoticons? Let me Explain. The Guardian
-The Effects of Handwriting Experience on Functional Brain Development in Pre-Literate Children. Trends in Neuroscience and Education.
-Gates: Voice Recognition is the Next Big Thing. Tech Radar.
-The Impact of the Internet on the Reading and Information Practices of a University Student. The New Review of Libraries and Lifelong Learning.
-The New Era of Communication Among Americans. Gallop.
-No Time to Text? Say It With Stickers. The New York Times.
-Not-So-Social-Media: Why People Have Stopped Talking on Phones. NPR.
-The Reading Brain in the Digital Age: The Science of Paper vs. Screens. Scientific American.
-Reading Linear Texts on Paper verses Computer Screen: Effects on Reading Comprehension. International Journal of Educational Research
-Stop Texting Right Now and Learn from the Chinese: There's a Better Way to Message. Quartz.
-The Text Message Breakup. Who's Doing it? Cyber Dating Expert.
-Virtual Typewriter Museum Timeline
-What's Lost As Handwriting Fades? The New York Times.
-When the Word of the Year is Actually No Word At All. The Dallas Times.
-Why Handwriting Makes You Smarter. Reader's Digest.
-Why Your Eyes Will Replace Your Keyboard. Forbes.
Episode 26: The Evolution of Language
Guests:
Dr. Gareth Roberts is a professor of Linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania. His interests are in language evolution, cultural evolution, experimental semiotics, and social interaction.
Dr. Douglas Wulf is a professor of Linguistics at George Mason University, focusing on historical linguistics, computational linguistics, formal semantics and the semantics-pragmatics interface.
Sources:
VIDEOS
-Development of Writing and Writing Tools Throughout History.
TEXTS
-Bizzel, Patricia (1992). Academic Discourse and Critical Consciousness.
-Fischer, Steven Roger (2004). History of Writing.
-Fitch, Tecumseh (2010). The Evolution of Language.
-Maher, Jane (1996). Seeing Language in Sign. The Work of William C. Stokoe.
-McNeill, David (2012). How Language Began. Gesture and Speech in Human Evolution.
-Ong, Walter (1982). Orality and Literacy.
-Stokoe, William (2001). Language in Hand: Why Sign Came Before Speech.
ARTICLES/OTHER
-A Theory of Greek Tragedy. Substance
-Apes Point to Origins of Human Language. Live Science
-Revisiting Jack Goody to Rethink Determinism in Literacy Studies. Reading Research Quarterly
-The Consequences of Literacy. Comparative Studies in Society and History
-The Gestural Origins of Language. American Scientist
-The Origin of Speech. Scientific American
-The Origins of Writing. University of Chicago Magazine
-The Rebus Principle. Egyptology Man
-Top Ten Inventions and Discoveries of Ancient Greece. Ancient History Lists
-William C. Stokoe, Jr. Founder of Sign Language Linguistics. Gallaudet University Press
-William Stokoe Jr., Sign Language Advocate, Dies at 80. The New York Times
Episode 25: An Airplane For Everyone
Sources:
VIDEOS
-Autogyro Calidus Up Close
-Flying Car - Terrafugia Street-Legal Aircraft
-Introduction to Gyroplanes
-The Terrafugia TF-X
ARTICLES/OTHER
-10 Airplanes Under $20,000. Is it Possible? Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association.
-Amelia Earhart: Biography and Facts about Disappearance. Livescience.
-Autogyro Flight Training. Pilotfriend.com.
-Buy Your Plane at Penney's. Airandspace Magazine.
-Emile Berliner. Library of Congress
-Emile Berliner; An Unheralded Genius. Hebrew History Foundation
-Ercoupe History. Ercoupe.com
-Gyrocopter Man Completes Epic Round-the-world Flight. Wired.
-Igor Sikorsky. National Aviators Hall of Fame.
-Igor Sikorsky and His Flying Machines. Connecticut History.
-In Connecticut, Wright Brothers No Longer First in Flight. History.com
-Is Afalina the Awaited 'Affordable' Helicopter? Russia and India Report.
-Meet Afalina: Russian Manufacturer Reveals the World's Cheapest Helicopter. Russia Today.
-My Other Plane is an Ercoupe.
-Randolph, Stella (1937). Lost Flights of Gustav Whitehead.
-The Most Fun and Economical Private Planes to Own and Fly. Pilot-Planes.com
-The Rise and Fall of the Plane "Anyone Could Fly." Smithsonian Magazine.
-What Happened to Amelia Earhart? History.com
Episode 24: Football. Soon to be History?
Steve Almond has written ten books, including his most recent, Against Football. A Reluctant Manifesto. He's also a long-time journalist and book reviewer, contributing pieces to the New York Times, The Boston Globe, and many other publications. In addition to non-fiction, Almond has been writing short fiction for years and teaches at the Tin House Writer's Conference and Grub Street in Boston.
http://againstfootball.org/
Chris Elzey is a former professional basketball player who currently teaches U.S. History, Western Civilization, and Sports History at George Mason University.
http://historyarthistory.gmu.edu/people/celzey
Resources:
- 9 NFL Players Who Wouldn’t Let Their Sons Play Football. New York Magazine.
- A (Football) Tale of 2 Universities. Inside Higher Ed.
- Acceleration-Deceleration Sport-Related Concussion: The Gravity of It All. Journal of Athletic Training
- Big Ten Football: The Forgotten Big Ten Member, the Chicago Maroons. Bleacher Report.
- Cutting the Wrong Sport. Inside Higher Education
- Football: Concussions, years of play related to brain differences, especially in areas linked to memory. Science Daily.
- Football: Effect of UAB football reinstatement
- Poll: Wealthy, College-Educated Less Likely to Want Kids to Play Football. PBS
- President Obama: I wouldn't let my son play pro football. CBS Sports.
- Relationship of Collegiate Football Experience and Concussion With Hippocampal Volume and Cognitive Outcomes. JAMA
Study: "The Price of Poverty in Big Time College Sport." National College Player's Association.
- The Penn State sex-abuse scandal: Joe Paterno’s shameful inaction. The Seattle Times.
- Where Football and Higher Education Mix. New York Times.
Episode 23: Weddings. Now, Then, and Beyond.
Susan Squire is the author of three books, most recently I Don’t: A Contrarian History of Marriage (Bloomsbury USA, August 2008). Her work has appeared in numerous publications, including The New York Times Magazine, New York, and The Washington Post, and in the best-selling essay collection, The Bitch in the House.
Reference Material
-Brides, Inc.: American Weddings and the Business of Tradition
-Changing Your Last Name: Survey Reveals How Americans Feel About Women, Men Changing Their Names
-How to Avoid Going into Debt for a Wedding
-I Don't: A Contrarian History of Marriage
-One Perfect Day. The Selling of the American Wedding
-Princess for a Day
-The Bride is Keeping her Name: A 35-Year Retrospective Analysis of Trends and Correlates
-The Name Change Dilemma
-The White Dress That Changed Wedding History Forever
-Why Should Women Change Their Names On Getting Married
Episode 22: Pleasures and Pitfalls of Synthetic Love
Michael Brenneis, Ph.D., L.P.C. is a Licensed Professional Counselor, a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and a certified Master Addiction Counselor. During his years in the field he has developed specializations in the treatment of addictions, compulsive behavior disorders, gender and sexuality issues, and in the relationship between mental health and spirituality.
Adrien David Cheok is Director of the Imagineering Institute, Iskandar, Malaysia and chair Professor of Pervasive Computing at City University, London. Cheok focuses his research on interfaces that simulate human senses such as touch, taste, and smell.
Davecat is a 41-year-old man known online and around the world for his advocacy of human/non-human relationships. Davecat is in a relationship with three realistic dolls. He speaks about the benefits of non-human relationships and promotes a respect for those living outside the realm of currently-accepted practices. You can find Davecat blogging at
http://www.kuroneko-chan.com/echoes/
Matt McMullen is the founder and CEO of Abyss Creations, the maker of Real Doll. Real Doll is an anatomically correct synthetic doll that is sold primarily as a sex/entertainment product.
Diana Pozo, a doctoral candidate in Film and Media Studies at the University of California. Pozo is currently studying media interfaces that directly touch the body, from moving theater seats, to video game controllers, to teledildonics.
http://ucsb.academia.edu/DianaPozo
Dr. Mireille Miller-Young is an associate professor at the University of California, specializing in black cultural studies, pornography, and sex work. Miller-Young recently published "A Taste for Brown Sugar: The History of Black Women in American Pornography."
http://www.femst.ucsb.edu/people/mireille-miller-young
Episode 21: Sex Machines in Our History
Stowe Boyd is a futurist, researcher, and Managing Director of the company Work Futures. Boyd has given many talks around the world, including at TED, regarding the future of work.
Adrien David Cheok is Director of the Imagineering Institute, Iskandar Malaysia and a chair Professor of Pervasive Computing at City University London. Cheok focsuses his research on interfaces that simulate human senses such as touch, taste, and smell.
Sarah Forbes is the curator of the Museum of Sex in New York City.
Matt McMullen is the founder and CEO of Abyss Creations, the maker of Real Doll. Real Doll is an anatomically correct synthetic doll that is sold primarily as a sex/entertainment product.
Diana Pozo, a doctoral candidate in Film and Media Studies at the University of California. Pozo is currently studying media interfaces that directly touch the body, from moving theater seats, to video game controllers, to teledildonics.
http://ucsb.academia.edu/DianaPozo
Dr. Mireille Miller-Young is an associate professor at the University of California, specializing in black cultural studies, pornography, and sex work. Miller-Young recently published "A Taste for Brown Sugar: The History of Black Women in American Pornography."
http://www.femst.ucsb.edu/people/mireille-miller-young
Episode 20: Robots In Our Bed
Davecat is a 41-year-old man known online and around the world for his advocacy of human/non-human relationships. Davecat is in a relationship with three realistic dolls. He speaks about the benefits of non-human relationships and promotes a respect for those living outside the realm of currently-accepted practices. You can find Davecat blogging at
http://www.kuroneko-chan.com/echoes/
Matt McMullen is the founder and CEO of Abyss Creations, the maker of Real Doll. Real Doll is an anatomically correct synthetic doll that is sold primarily as a sex/entertainment product.
Diana Pozo, a doctoral candidate in Film and Media Studies at the University of California. Pozo is currently studying media interfaces that directly touch the body, from moving theater seats, to video game controllers, to teledildonics.
http://ucsb.academia.edu/DianaPozo
Dr. Mireille Miller-Young is an associate professor at the University of California, specializing in black cultural studies, pornography, and sex work. Miller-Young recently published "A Taste for Brown Sugar: The History of Black Women in American Pornography."
http://www.femst.ucsb.edu/people/mireille-miller-young
Episode 19: Living Ourselves to Death
Brandon Hidaka is a doctoral candidate at the University of Kansas for Medical Nutrition Science in the Department of Dietetics and Nutrition in the School of Health Professions. His focus connects high-dose long-chain omega-3 fatty acid supplementation to the prevention of breast cancer. Hidaka has published papers on the epigenetics of alcoholism in women and the factors of modern life tied to the increasing prevalence of depression.
Dr. Robert Kelly is a professor of archaeology and anthropology at the University of Wyoming. Kelly has written more than 100 articles, books, and reviews, including The Foraging Spectrum: Diversity in Hunter-Gatherer Lifeways, in which Kelly attempts to set the record straight regarding perceptions of hunter-gatherer societies.
Additional source material
http://www.cbc.ca/news/gut-feeling-how-intestinal-bacteria-may-influence-our-moods-1.2701037
http://www.ted.com/talks/barry_schwartz_on_the_paradox_of_choice?language=en
Episode 18: Learning from the Uncivilized
Brandon Hidaka is a doctoral candidate at the University of Kansas for Medical Nutrition Science in the Department of Dietetics and Nutrition in the School of Health Professions. His focus connects high-dose long-chain omega-3 fatty acid supplementation to the prevention of breast cancer. Hidaka has published papers on the epigenetics of alcoholism in women and the factors of modern life tied to the increasing prevalence of depression.
Dr. Robert Kelly is a professor of archaeology and anthropology at the University of Wyoming. Kelly has written more than 100 articles, books, and reviews, including The Foraging Spectrum: Diversity in Hunter-Gatherer Lifeways, in which Kelly attempts to set the record straight regarding perceptions of hunter-gatherer societies.
Additional source material
http://www.cbc.ca/news/gut-feeling-how-intestinal-bacteria-may-influence-our-moods-1.2701037
http://www.amazon.com/The-Foraging-Spectrum-Diversity-Hunter-Gatherer/dp/0975273884
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/teenbrain/from/sleep.html
http://4lakidsnews.blogspot.com/2013/07/sleep-and-teenage-brain-how-seemingly.html
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/sleep/
Episode 17: Obstacles
Dr. Alex Tabarrok is a professor of economics at George Mason University, as well as the Bartley J. Madden Chair of Economics at the Mercatus Center. Dr. Tabarrok's interests include health economics, alternative political institutions, empirical law and economics, and voting theory.
http://mason.gmu.edu/~atabarro/
https://ideas.repec.org/a/eee/irlaec/v37y2014icp180-188.html
OTHER RESOURCES:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/06/magazine/06suicide-t.html?pagewanted=all
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2003/10/13/jumpers?currentPage=3
http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Golden-Gate-Bridge-going-to-get-suicide-nets-5585482.php
Episode 16: Suicide- It's In Our Blood
Dr. Zach Kaminsky is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Johns Hopkins University.
http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/psychiatry/specialty_areas/moods/research/kaminsky_lab.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/07/140730043402.htm
Episode 15: What's Wrong With Suicide
Dr. Massimo Pigliucci is a Professor of Philosophy at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is also the Chair of the Philosophy Department at Lehman College. Prof. Pigliucci has published 126 technical papers in science and philosophy and co-hosts the podcast Rationally Speaking.
http://rationallyspeakingpodcast.org/about/#massimo
Episode 14: Football - Reforming the Brain
Dr. Tim Meier is a neuro imager at the Mind Research Network, and is formally of the Laureate Institute for Brain Research, where he and his colleagues completed a study that raised new questions about the consequences of Traumatic brain injury in sports.
Episode 13: Football vs Gladiatorial Combat Reboot
Dr. Steven Tuck is an Associate Professor in Classics and the History of Art at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, where he has taught since 2001. He has been named both a University Distinguished Scholar and an Outstanding Professor. He has also served as a national lecturer for the Archaeological Institute of America, has directed ten study tours to Italy and authored a course on DVD, Experiencing Rome: A Visual Exploration of Antiquity’s Greatest Empire. His publications include many articles in international journals on subjects such as gladiators and Roman spectacle entertainment, the decorative program of Roman amphitheaters, and triumphal imagery across the ancient Roman world.
Episode 12: Babes. Why?
Dr. David Benatar is professor of philosophy and head of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Cape Town in Cape Town, South Africa. In his book, Better Never to Have Been, Benatar argues that because of the ratio of suffering to joy that all humans experience, we’re better off never existing in the first place.
http://www.amazon.com/Better-Never-Have-Been-Existence/dp/0199296421
Dr. Gary Brase is a professor in the Department of Psychological Sciences at Kansas State University. Dr. Brase and his wife, Sandra, spent ten years researching the origins of “baby fever.” Additionally, Dr. Brase studies the evolutionary approaches to understanding the nature of human rationality.
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2011/09/13/male-biological-clock_n_946463.html
Laura Carroll’s book, Families of Two: Interviews With Happily Married Couples Without Children by Choice, received international attention and paved the way for her to become an expert on the childfree choice. Her research into why society finds this choice hard to fully accept led her to author The Baby Matrix: Why Freeing Our Minds From Outmoded Thinking About Parenthood & Reproduction Will Create a Better World.
In addition to writing nonfiction books, Laura holds a M.S. in Psychology & Communications, has worked over the last 15 years as a business and litigation psychology consultant. She has used her expertise in behavioral sciences, psychology, and communications to advise business, legal, and nonprofit professionals on their communications strategies and goals.
She has also published Finding Fulfillment From the Inside Out, which has been used in college Life Planning courses.
Laura has been featured on a variety of television shows, including Good Morning America and The Early Show, and has been a guest on many radio talk shows to discuss social science topics.
You can find Laura online at lauracarroll.com
Katie Nelson is a doctoral candidate at the University of California, focusing her research in the areas of happiness and parenting. Nelson has authored or co-authored several papers that look at the difference between parents and non-parents in terms of happiness and satisfaction. She has also determined which factors lead to happiness or unhappiness for parents.
http://www.skatherinenelson.com/uploads/2/7/1/7/27172343/nelson_kushlev__lyubomirsky_in_press.pdf
Dr. Christopher Ryan is a psychologist and author of the New York Times Bestseller, “Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality.” Ryan is also the host of the podcast, “Tangentially Speaking.”
www.sexatdawn.com
http://chrisryanphd.com
Richard Stallman is a computer programmer and founder of the free software movement. Since the 1980s, Stallman has been working to ensure that people are able to use, modify, and distribute free software.
Dr. Ellen Walker is a clinical psychologist and author of the book, “Complete without Kids, The Guide to a Great Childfree Living.”
http://completewithoutkids.com
Episode 11: Designing a Crime-Free World
Dr. Richard Wener is the Professor of Environmental Psychology in the Department of Technology, Culture and Society at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University, where he co-directs the Sustainable Urban Environments program, and is a faculty affiliate of the Rutgers University Center for Green Building. For the last thirty years, Wener has researched the links between architecture with human behavior, specifically in the prison environment. He’s written many articles and the book, “The Environmental Psychology of Prisons and Jails: Creating Humane Spaces in Secure Settings (Environment and Behavior)”
http://www.amazon.com/The-Environmental-Psychology-Prisons-Jails/dp/0521452767/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=undefined&sr=8-1&keywords=richard+wener+prison
OTHER RESOURCES:
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/eastern-state-penitentiary-a-prison-with-a-past-14274660/?no-ist=&page=1
Episode 10: Creating a Criminal
Dr. Fran Buntman is an Associate Professor of Sociology at George Washington University, focusing on prisons and other correctional institutions and how these institutions reflect society as a whole. She contributes to public debate, including on WAMU’s Kojo Nnamdi Show speaking about hunger strikes, at American University’s Washington College of Law, paying tribute to the late South African Chief Justice Arthur Chaskalson, and as panelist discussing plays connected with her scholarship at the Folger Shakespeare Library and Theater J.
http://sociology.columbian.gwu.edu/fran-buntman
Dr. Rolf Gainer is the founder of the Neurologic Rehabilitation Institute at Brookhaven Hospital in Tulsa, Oklahoma as well as the Neurological Rehabilitation Institute of Ontario, in Toronto, Canada. Dr. Gainer is a psychologist with more than twenty-five years of experience in the treatment and rehabilitation of individuals with brain injuries and a dual diagnosis. Dr. Gainer has also written many informative and insightful articles on brain trauma in sports.
http://www.brookhavenhospital.com/
http://www.nrio.com/
Dr. Nazgol Ghandnoosh is a research analyst for The Sentencing project. She analyzes racial disparities in incarceration, trends in public opinion about punishment, and sentencing policies. Her dissertation, Challenging Mass Incarceration: A California Group’s Advocacy for the Parole Release of Term-to-Life Prisoners, examined resistance to mass incarceration through an in-depth study of a South Los Angeles group. She taught an undergraduate seminar at UCLA based on her research, and regularly presents to a wide range of audiences. Her work has been published or referenced in outlets including theWashington Post and Huffington Post, and academic journals including Ethnic and Racial Studies. She edits The Sentencing Project’s Race and Justice Newsletter.
http://www.sentencingproject.org/detail/person.cfm?person_id=269&backto=63&back
Dr. Willard Oliver is a professor of criminal justice at Sam Houston State University. Oliver's current research includes an analysis of the presidents' use of symbolic rhetoric in their crime speeches and their use (and misuse) of signing statements. He is currently co-authoring three books, one on homeland security, another on federal law enforcement agencies and the last one on crime, history and Hollywood, which resulted from a special topics course he has taught at SHSU. In addition to his teaching and research. His biography of August Vollmer will be published in 2017.
http://www.cjcenter.org/directory/?mode=view&item=180
Dr. Al Pisciotta is a Professor of Criminal Justice at Kutztown University. Pisciotta has written over one hundred articles, book reviews, conference papers, and research reports. He received the New York State Archives Outstanding Researcher Award (1995). He also received the Outstanding Book Award (1997) presented by the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences for Benevolent Repression: Social Control and the American Reformatory-Prison Movement(1994).
Katy Suellentrop is the Director of State Support at The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy. her team works with grantees funded through the Office of Adolescent Health, the Family Youth Services Bureau and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
https://thenationalcampaign.org/about/leadership/katy-suellentrop
Dr. Irvin Waller is an author and university professor who is a prize winning champion of victim’s rights and violence prevention. He is sought after as a speaker both nationally and internationally because of his scientific expertise and personal passion.
Building on four decades of working in universities, governments and international agencies, Professor Waller is sharing his practical knowledge with crime victims, interested citizens, smart police leaders, and legislators. His two recent books, including the book "Smarter Crime Control," are written for this audience.
http://irvinwaller.org
http://cpcjalliance.org
Episode 9: Natural Burial - Robbing the Funeral Industry
Cynthia Beal is the founder of the Natural Burial Company. Located in Eugene, OR, Cynthia works with cemeteries and surrounding communities to create sustainable ways to handle the disposition of loved ones.
http://www.naturalburialcompany.com
Jesse Bering is a journalist and science writer. He's written many articles for magazines such as Scientific American, and he currently has three books on the shelves, including his latest work: The Belief Instinct.
http://www.jessebering.com
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/bering-in-mind/2011/05/04/my-dead-mother-the-tree-that-never-was-the-psychology-of-green-burial-practices
Jay Castano is a long-time educator and administrator at an international school in Washington D.C. Jay recently purchased a green burial plot at the Congressional Cemetery.
Dr. Gary Laderman is a professor of American Religious History and Cultures at Emory University. He is also the author of several books on death, religion, and end-of-life practices in the United States, including his latest work: Sacred Matters: Celebrity Worship, Sexual Ecstasies, the Living Dead, and Other Signs of Religious Life in the United States (2009).
http://www.religion.emory.edu/faculty/laderman.html
Margaret Puglisi is the vice president of the Congressional Cemetery in Washington, D.C.
http://www.congressionalcemetery.org
Joe Sehee is the founder of the Green Burial Council, an organization that works with cemeteries around the world to find the most sustainable, environmentally friendly end-of-life practices.
http://www.greenburialcouncil.org
Paul Williams is the president of the Congressional Cemetery in Washington, D.C.
http://www.congressionalcemetery.org
Episode 8: Pornography and High Heels
Charlotte Cowles is Senior Features Editor at Harper's Bazaar. Before that, she was a senior editor at The Cut at New York Magazine. She lives in New York.
Dr. Yulia Chentsova Dutton is a cultural psychologist at Georgetown University, focusing in the areas of social support and individual emotions shaped by culture and situational cues.
Elizabeth Semmelhack is the Senior Curator at the Bata Shoe Museum and an adjunct professor at Ryerson School of Fashion. She has written extensively on shoes and gender, including her book: Heights of Fashion: A History of the Elevated Shoe (2001).
Episode 7: Your Heels Came From Men
Charlotte Cowles is Senior Features Editor at Harper's Bazaar. Before that, she was a senior editor at The Cut at New York Magazine. She lives in New York.
Dr. Yulia Chentsova Dutton is a cultural psychologist at Georgetown University, focusing in the areas of social support and individual emotions shaped by culture and situational cues.
Elizabeth Semmelhack is the Senior Curator at the Bata Shoe Museum and an adjunct professor at Ryerson School of Fashion. She has written extensively on shoes and gender, including her book: Heights of Fashion: A History of the Elevated Shoe (2001).
Episode 6: High Heels, Footbinding, and Sexual Stimulation
Dr. Paul McGeoch is a neurologist and visiting scholar at the University of California, San Diego, working at the Center for Brain and Cognition on brain mapping and other neurological issues.
http://cbc.ucsd.edu
Mcgeoch, P. Does cortical reorganisation explain the enduring popularity of foot-binding in medieval China? Med Hypotheses. 2007;69(4):938-41. Epub 2007 Mar 26.http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17367956
Dr. Christine Lee is an anthropologist at the University of South Florida who has written a great deal about foot binding and the skeletal consequences of the Chinese tradition.
http://meeting.physanth.org/program/2012/session29/lee-2012-are-bound-feet-an-expression-of-chinese-ethnic-identity-during-the-manchurian-ruled-qing-dynasty-1644-1911.html
OTHER RESOURCES:
The Art of Social Change (NY Times)
By KWAME ANTHONY APPIAH
Published: October 22, 2010
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/24/magazine/24FOB-Footbinding-t.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
EPISODE 5: Cinderella and Footbinding
Dr. Paul McGeoch is a neurologist and visiting scholar at the University of California, San Diego, working at the Center for Brain and Cognition on brain mapping and other neurological issues.
http://cbc.ucsd.edu
Mcgeoch, P. Does cortical reorganisation explain the enduring popularity of foot-binding in medieval China? Med Hypotheses. 2007;69(4):938-41. Epub 2007 Mar 26.http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17367956
Dr. Christine Lee is an anthropologist at the University of South Florida who has written a great deal about foot binding and the skeletal consequences of the Chinese tradition.
http://meeting.physanth.org/program/2012/session29/lee-2012-are-bound-feet-an-expression-of-chinese-ethnic-identity-during-the-manchurian-ruled-qing-dynasty-1644-1911.html
OTHER RESOURCES:
The Art of Social Change (NY Times)
By KWAME ANTHONY APPIAH
Published: October 22, 2010
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/24/magazine/24FOB-Footbinding-t.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
EPISODE 4: Rob Ford's Predessors
No guests were interviewed for Episode 4.
Episode 3: The Decline of Football, Data and Reality
Dr. Paul Butler is a former surgeon and board member at Dover High School in New Hampshire. He appeared on NPR and in the New York Times over his fight to remove football as a taxpayer-funded sport, but when the vote came up, Butler lost 6-1, his vote the only vote in favor.
Randy Cohen is an American writer and humorist. Cohen was a writer on nearly 1000 episodes for the David Letterman Show. He’s also written for Slate magazine, and is most known for writing the Ethicist column at New York Times Magazine from 1999-2011. From 2001-2005, Cohen discussed ethics on the NPR show All Things Considered, and he currently hosts the program Person Place Thing, which can be found on Public Radio WAMC, and on iTunes.
Dr. Chris Elzy is a sports historian and professor at George Mason University, and formerly played professional basketball in Europe and Australia.
Dr. Rolf Gainer is the founder of the Neurologic Rehabilitation Institute at Brookhaven Hospital in Tulsa, Oklahoma as well as the Neurological Rehabilitation Institute of Ontario, in Toronto, Canada. Dr. Gainer is a psychologist with more than twenty-five years of experience in the treatment and rehabilitation of individuals with brain injuries and a dual diagnosis. Dr. Gainer has also written many informative and insightful articles on brain trauma in sports.
http://www.brookhavenhospital.com/
http://www.nrio.com/
Dr. Kevin Grier is a professor of Economics at the University of Oklahoma. His Grantland article, written with economist Tyler Cowen, dives into a possible future America without football.
Professor Grier's research has appeared in such journals as the Journal of Monetary Economics, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Journal of Finance, Journal of International Money& Finance, Journal of Law & Economics, Journal of Development Economics, Economic Inquiry, American Political Science Review and the American Journal of Political Science.
He is listed in the top 1000 economists (#593) by publications from 1990 – 2000 and is also included in Who's Who in Economics , (4th Edition, 2003) edited by Mark Blaug and published by Edward Elgar Press, which compiles information on "the 1,200 most frequently cited economists, in the years 1990-2000 using the Social Science Citation Index.
http://faculty-staff.ou.edu/G/Kevin.B.Grier-1/
Lisa McHale is the Director of Family Relations at the Sports Legacy Institute. In 2008, Lisa’s husband, Tom McHale, died in circumstances related to brain degradation most likely linked to McHale’s career as an NFL lineman. Since Tom’s death, Lisa has been working to educate people about the dangers of contact football, how to deal with troubling developments and how to prevent the damage in the first place.
Dr. Eric Nauman is a professor of mechanical engineering at Purdue University. Nauman also works in biomedical engineering and medical sciences. As part of the Purdue Neurotrauma group, Nauman and others led a five-year study to track the number of hits in a particular high school football program.
Episode 2: The Decline of Football and Boxing
Mike Silver is the author of "The Arc of Boxing: The Rise and Decline of the Sweet Science"
(McFarland Publishing, 2009). This critically acclaimed book reveals how socio-economic, demographic and environmental changes have affected the quality, performance, training methods and psychology of professional boxers over the past 100 years.
Mike is also a noted authority on Jewish boxing history. He has served as historical consultant for 18 documentaries on boxing broadcast by ESPN, PBS, HBO, the History Channel, A& E, and Madison Square Garden-TV. He has written extensively about the sport for The Ring Magazine, The New York
Times, Boxing Monthly and various boxing web sites. He is a former boxing promoter, Inspector with the New York State Athletic Commission, and a member of the International Boxing Research Organization.
http://www.mikesilverboxing.com
Paul Beston is the managing editor for the City Journal. He has also written many in-depth articles on sports and culture, including the article The Ghost Sport, which was referenced for this podcast.
http://www.city-journal.org
Don Landry is a former Nicholls State basketball coach and athletic director. He is recognized as the founder of the Louisiana Association of Basketball Coaches and went on to become the commissioner of the Southland and Sunshine State Conferences. Don’s book, “Boxing: Louisiana’s Forgotten Sport,” chronicles Louisiana's rich high school and college boxing history up until 1958.
Dr. Rolf Gainer is the founder of the Neurologic Rehabilitation Institute at Brookhaven Hospital in Tulsa, Oklahoma as well as the Neurological Rehabilitation Institute of Ontario, in Toronto, Canada. Dr. Gainer is a psychologist with more than twenty-five years of experience in the treatment and rehabilitation of individuals with brain injuries and a dual diagnosis. Dr. Gainer has also written many informative and insightful articles on brain trauma in sports.
http://www.brookhavenhospital.com/
http://www.nrio.com/
Episode 1: The Decline of Football and Gladiators
Dr. Kevin Grier is a professor of Economics at the University of Oklahoma. His Grantland article, written with economist Tyler Cowen, dives into a possible future America without football.
Professor Grier's research has appeared in such journals as the Journal of Monetary Economics, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Journal of Finance, Journal of International Money& Finance, Journal of Law & Economics, Journal of Development Economics, Economic Inquiry, American
Political Science Review and the American Journal of Political Science.
He is listed in the top 1000 economists (#593) by publications from 1990 – 2000 and is also included in Who's Who in Economics , (4th Edition, 2003) edited by Mark Blaug and published by Edward Elgar Press, which compiles information on the 1,200 most frequently cited economists, in the years 1990-2000 using the Social Science Citation Index.
http://faculty-staff.ou.edu/G/Kevin.B.Grier-1/
Paul Beston is the managing editor for the City Journal. He has also written many in-depth articles on sports and culture,including the article The Ghost Sport, which was referenced for this podcast.
http://www.city-journal.org
Mike Silver is the author of "The Arc of Boxing: The Rise and Decline of the Sweet Science"
(McFarland Publishing, 2009). This critically acclaimed book reveals how socio-economic, demographic and environmental changes have affected the quality, performance, training methods and psychology of professional boxers over the past 100 years.
Mike is also a noted authority on Jewish boxing history. He has served as historical consultant for 18 documentaries on boxing broadcast by ESPN, PBS, HBO, the History Channel, A& E, and Madison Square Garden-TV. He has written extensively about the sport for The Ring Magazine, The New York Times, Boxing Monthly and various boxing web sites. He is a former boxing promoter, Inspector
with the New York State Athletic Commission, and a member of the International Boxing Research Organization.
http://www.mikesilverboxing.com
Dr. Steven Tuck is Associate Professor in Classics and the History of Art at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, where he has taught since 2001. He has been named both a University Distinguished Scholar and an Outstanding Professor. He has also served as a national lecturer for the Archaeological Institute of America, has directed ten study tours to Italy and authored a course on DVD, Experiencing Rome: A Visual Exploration of Antiquity’s Greatest Empire. His publications include many articles in international journals on subjects such as gladiators and Roman spectacle entertainment, the decorative program of Roman amphitheaters, and triumphal imagery across the ancient Roman world.
http://www.ohiohumanities.org/steven-tuck.html
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