Book Talk

"Drawing on his own experience, McIntyre outlines the common themes of science denialism, present in misinformation campaigns ranging from tobacco companies’ denial in the 1950s that smoking causes lung cancer to today’s anti-vaxxers. This book offers tools and techniques for communicating the truth and values of science, emphasizing that the most important way to reach science deniers is to talk to them calmly and respectfully—to put ourselves out there, to meet them face to face.

Publisher Site: https://mitpress.mit.edu/

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00:00 - Show Opening

01:07 - Discern / Define - The Poets of Rhythm

01:08 - Episode Intro

04:51 - Discern / Define (Cont’d) - The Poets of Rhythm

05:08 - Interview with Lee McIntyre, Part 1

21:21 - We - The Poets of Rhythm

22:21 - Interview with Lee McIntyre, Part 2

39:04 - Smilin (While You’re Crying) - The Poets of Rhythm

39:15 - Episode Outro

41:00 - Smilin (While You’re Crying) (Cont’d) - The Poets of Rhythm

42:21 - Show Closing

43:49 - Finish

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"Combining a Hitchcockian sensibility with wickedly dark humor, Virginia Feito, a brilliantly talented and, at times, mischievous newcomer, offers a razor-sharp exploration of the fragility of identity. A mesmerizing novel of psychological suspense and casebook insecurity turned full-blown neurosis, ‘Mrs. March’ will have you second-guessing your own seemingly familiar reflection in the mirror.

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00:00 - Show Opening

01:06 - Where To Now? - Hippo Campus

01:20 - Episode Intro

03:36 - Where To Now? (Cont’d) - Hippo Campus

04:32 - Interview with Virginia Feito, Part 1

21:20 - Sex Tape - Hippo Campus

23:50 - Interview with Virginia Feito, Part 2

39:45 - Deepfake - Hippo Campus

39:52 - Episode Outro

41:00 - Deepfake (Cont’d) - Hippo Campus

42:20 - Show Closing

43:49 - Finish

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"Equal parts Marguerite Duras and Shirley Jackson, Rachel Cusk and Samanta Schweblin, ‘Savage Tongues’ is a compulsive, unsettling, and bravely observed exploration of violence and eroticism, haunting and healing, and the profound intimacy born of the deepest pain.

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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00:00 - Show Opening

01:06 - Cruzando el Alma - José Ciénaga

01:11 - Episode Intro

02:53 - Cruzando el Alma (Cont’d) - José Ciénaga

04:31 - Interview with Azareen van der Vliet Oloomi, Part 1

13:45 - Amor Fiebre - José Ciénaga

15:03 - Interview with Azareen van der Vliet Oloomi, Part 2

31:25 - Materna - José Ciénaga

31:57 - Episode Outro

33:09 - Materna (Cont’d) - José Ciénaga

35:50 - Show Closing

37:20 - Finish

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"Deep in the Appalachian Mountains lies the last truly quiet town in America. Green Bank, West Virginia, is a place at once futuristic and old-fashioned: It’s home to the Green Bank Observatory, where astronomers search the depths of the universe using the latest technology, while schoolchildren go without WiFi or iPads. With a ban on all devices emanating radio frequencies that might interfere with the observatory’s telescopes, Quiet Zone residents live a life free from constant digital connectivity. But a community that on the surface seems idyllic is a place of contradictions, where the provincial meets the seemingly supernatural and quiet can serve as a cover for something darker.

Publisher: Harper Collins

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00:00 - Show Opening

01:06 - Swan Dive - Ben de la Cour

01:12 - Episode Intro

03:00 - Swan Dive (Cont’d) - Ben de la Cour

06:24 - Interview with Stephen Kurczy, Part 1

17:53 - From Now On - Ben de la Cour

19:54 - Interview with Stephen Kurczy, Part 2

35:16 - God’s Only Son - Ben de la Cour

35:27 - Episode Outro

36:40 - God’s Only Son (Cont’d) - Ben de la Cour

39:35 - Show Closing

41:03 - Finish

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"Meet Persephone Wilder, a displaced genius posing as the wife of an American diplomat in Namibia. Persephone takes her job as a representative of her country seriously, coming up with an intricate set of rules to survive the problems she encounters: how to dress in hundred-degree weather without showing too much skin, how not to look drunk at embassy functions, and how to eat roasted oryx with grace. She also suspects her husband is not actually the ambassador’s legal counsel but a secret agent in the CIA. The consummate embassy wife, she takes the newest trailing spouse, Amanda Evans, under her wing.

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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00:00 - Show Opening

01:06 - Fumbled A Few - Charlie Duda

01:12 - Episode Intro

03:03 - Fumbled A Few (Cont’d) - Charlie Duda

04:29 - Interview with Katie Crouch, Part 1

21:51 - Please Irene - Charlie Duda

24:42 - Interview with Katie Crouch, Part 2

46:00 - Really Really - Charlie Duda

46:07 - Episode Outro

48:40 - Really Really (Cont’d) - Charlie Duda

48:51 - Show Closing

50:20 - Finish

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"The Great War has finally come to an end, but tensions remain high throughout Europe. In Ireland, no one has forgotten the bloody 1916 Easter Rising that fought to end British rule in the country. Bess’s old friend, nurse Eileen Flynn, returns to her isolated Irish village where two factions continue to battle against each other. Eileen’s time with the British army makes her a target for retaliation. Her missing cousin, who was active in the rising and is still being hunted by the British, is her only protection.

Publisher: Harper Collins

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00:00 - Show Opening

01:06 - Parisian Enclave - The Mountain Goats

01:12 - Episode Intro

02:28 - Parisian Enclave (Cont’d) - The Mountain Goats

03:02 - Interview with Charles Todd, Part 1

16:03 - Mobile - The Mountain Goats

19:30 - Interview with Charles Todd, Part 2

36:28 - Before I Got There - The Mountain Goats

36:30 - Episode Outro

38:10 - Before I Got There (Cont’d) - The Mountain Goats

40:33 - Show Closing

42:01 - Finish

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"Canada Day was this past weekend, but it was much less of a celebration than any Dominion Day in, perhaps, the last 100 years. Why? Because of the recent horrors unearthed from the discovery of over 1,000 children’s graves at the hands of the Federal Government and Catholic Church. This week I share with you some historical reporting, government reconciliation, memoir, and historical fiction by Indigenous writers that every Canadian, if not every human being, needs to read.

Links mentioned in this episode

http://nctr.ca/records/reports/

http://www.cbc.ca/books/48-books-by-indigenous-writers-to-read-to-understand-residential-schools-1.6056204

http://bookriot.com/indian-residential-schools-books/

http://www.indianhorse.ca/en/book

00:00 - Show Opening

01:06 - Cold Blue Halo - Jason Collett

01:35 - Episode Intro

15:30 - Hangover Days - Jason Collett

19:37 - Books on the History of the Canadian Indigenous Residential School System

29:18 - Roll On Oblivion - Jason Collett

32:33 - Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese

41:22 - Love Song to Canada - Jason Collett

45:07 - Show Closing

46:35 - Finish

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"One-half of the celebrated ‘Men in Blazers’ duo, longtime culture and soccer commentator Roger Bennett traces the origins of his love affair with America, and how he went from a depraved, pimply faced Jewish boy in 1980s Liverpool to become the quintessential Englishman in New York.

Publisher: Dey St. (an imprint of Harper Collins)

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00:00 - Show Opening

01:06 - Lonely Days In Hollywood - Turner Cody & The Soldiers of Love

01:13 - Episode Intro

03:12 - Lonely Days In Hollywood (Cont’d) - Turner Cody & The Soldiers of Love

05:06 - Interview with Roger Bennett, Part 1

19:38 - Boozing and Losing - Turner Cody & The Soldiers of Love

22:51 - Interview with Roger Bennett, Part 2

43:07 - Telling Stories - Turner Cody & The Soldiers of Love

43:19 - Episode Outro

44:36 - Telling Stories (Cont’d) - Turner Cody & The Soldiers of Love

48:09 - Show Closing

49:38 - Finish

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"June 1942. The shadow of the Third Reich has fallen across the European continent. In desperation, Winston Churchill and his chief of staff form an unusual plan: a new commando unit made up of Jewish refugees who have escaped to Britain. The resulting volunteers are a motley group of intellectuals, artists, and athletes, most from Germany and Austria. Many have been interned as enemy aliens, and have lost their families, their homes—their whole worlds. They will stop at nothing to defeat the Nazis. Trained in counterintelligence and advanced combat, this top secret unit becomes known as X Troop. Some simply call them a suicide squad.

 

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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00:00 - Show Opening

01:06 - Noise - Dolly Ave

01:10 - Episode Intro

03:07 - Noise (Cont’d) - Dolly Ave

04:08 - Interview with Leah Garrett, Part 1

14:10 - People - Dolly Ave

15:23 - Interview with Leah Garrett, Part 2

31:31 - Play Fair - Dolly Ave

31:47 - Episode Outro

33:02 - Play Fair (Cont’d) - Dolly Ave

34:06 - Show Closing

35:34 - Finish

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"Written for musicians and music lovers with any level of science and math proficiency, including none, ‘Music, Math, and Mind’ demystifies how music works while testifying to its beauty and wonder.

Publisher: Columbia University Press

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00:00 - Show Opening

01:06 - Non Me Mordas Habibi (Don't Bite Me Baby) - Dave Soldier

01:11 - Episode Intro

03:00 - Non Me Mordas Habibi (Don't Bite Me Baby) (Cont’d) - Dave Soldier

03:55 - Interview with David Sulzer, Part 1

28:01 - Il Concerto - Dave Soldier

30:22 - Interview with David Sulzer, Part 2

56:30 - Water and Fire - Dave Soldier

56:44 - Episode Outro

58:07 - Water and Fire (Cont’d) - Dave Soldier

62:03 - Show Closing

63:32 - Finish

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