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Common Science Podcast

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  • Ep. 42 - Anime
    Dré, Lauren, and Aidan ask, What is anime? Where did it come from? What makes anime unique? How has it influenced their own lives? And more.
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    REFERENCES
    Anime | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anime
    Otaku (Anime/Manga Fan) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otaku
    Manga | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manga
    Pokémon: The Japanese game that went viral | https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20200811-pokemon-the-japanese-game-that-went-viral
    What is gestalt psychology? | https://www.verywellmind.com/what-is-gestalt-psychology-2795808
    Godzilla was a metaphor for Hiroshima | https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/godzilla-was-metaphor-hiroshima-hollywood-whitewashed-it-n1236165
    The Soul of Anime: Collaborative Creativity and Japan’s Media Success Story | https://cmsw.mit.edu/ian-condry-the-soul-of-anime/
    One Piece (TV Series) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Piece_(TV_series)
    Dré’s Recommendations: Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, Attack on Titan, Paprika, Princess Mononoke, Ghosts in the Shell, Death Note
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    1 hr 1 min
  • Ep. 41 - Homeostasis
    Dré, Lauren, and Aidan ask, What is homeostasis? Where did the concept come from? What does it mean for the body? How might we apply homeostasis to everyday life? And more.
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    REFERENCES
    Homeostasis | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeostasis
    Homeostasis: The Underappreciated and Far Too Often Ignored Central Organizing Principle of Physiology | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphys.2020.00200/full
    2-Minute Neuroscience: Action Potential | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2hHt_PXe5o
    Homeostasis & Negative/Positive Feedback | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iz0Q9nTZCw4
    Sogyal Rinpoche, Tibetan Dzogchen lama | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sogyal_Rinpoche
    Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outliers_(book)
    Matthew Effect | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_effect
    Casting Crowns - City On The Hill | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7MC2wu49Cw
    The Comfort Crisis | https://eastermichael.com/book/
    Brené Brown | https://brenebrown.com/
    Joker (Film) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joker_(2019_film)
    The CEO who gave his employees a minimum wage of $ 70,000 says his company's revenue tripled | https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/369908
    Emotional well-being levels off beyond an annual income of ∼$75,000 | https://www.princeton.edu/~deaton/downloads/deaton_kahneman_high_income_improves_evaluation_August2010.pdf
    What is breathwork? | https://www.healthline.com/health/breathwork
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    1 hr 3 min
  • Ep. 40 - Microexpressions
    Dré, Lauren, and Aidan ask, What are microexpressions? Where did they come from? Which controversies surround them? Why should you care? And more.
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    REFERENCES
    Microexpressions | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microexpression
    Dr. Paul Eckman | https://www.paulekman.com/about/paul-ekman/
    How to read faces | Test by Dr. Eckman | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbFwp36VN2M
    Charles Darwin's little-known psychology experiment | https://bit.ly/3C9KJmR
    Language | Common Science Podcast | https://apple.co/3C2VvLw | https://spoti.fi/3C3lt1j | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LystOg12WiY
    The Psychology of Facial Expression | http://www.ffri.hr/~ibrdar/komunikacija/seminari/Russell,%201997%20-%20What%20does%20facial%20expression%20mean%20(chapter).pdf
    Loneliness may be a bigger killer than obesity | https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/318723
    Ex Machina (film) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ex_Machina_(film)
    Bill Clinton tells Jim Lehrer there 'is no sexual relationship' with Monica Lewinsky | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBzHnZiSv7U
    Why faces don’t always tell the truth about feelings | https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00507-5
    TSA SPOT Program | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPOT_(TSA_program)
    AI Now Institute | https://ainowinstitute.org/
    Towards on-farm pig face recognition using convolutional neural networks | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compind.2018.02.016
    How the daycare child abuse hysteria of the 1980s became a witch hunt | https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/a-modern-witch-hunt/2015/07/31/057effd8-2f1a-11e5-8353-1215475949f4_story.html
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    58 min
  • Ep. 39 - Ada Lovelace
    Dré, Lauren, and Aidan ask, Who’s Ada Lovelace? How’d she become a brilliant artist and a successful scientist? What did she contribute to humanity? What controversies exist in her story and what are challenges women face in STEM? And more.
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    REFERENCES
    Ada Lovelace | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace
    Lord Byron | https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Byron
    Don Juan | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/21700/21700-h/21700-h.htm
    Calculating Ada: The Countess of Computing (documentary) | https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p030s5bx
    Outliers: The Story of Success | Malcolm Gladwell | https://amzn.to/3gVZTUs
    Computer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer
    Charles Babbage Institute | https://cse.umn.edu/cbi
    Women in STEM | https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666389920301598
    Alan Turing | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing
    Apple’s Jobs and Wozniak | https://bit.ly/3yFqvyX
    George Washington Carver (audio only) | Common Scientists | https://apple.co/3tcsoSI | https://spoti.fi/3yEVlI5
    The Imitation Game (film on Alan Turing) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Imitation_Game
    String Theory (audio only) | Common Scientists | https://apple.co/3tpSi5P | https://spoti.fi/2WTFisY
    Finding Ada | Conference | Network | Ada Lovelace Day | And More | https://findingada.com/
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    47 min
  • Ep. 38 - Language
    Dré, Lauren, and Aidan ask, What is language? What are the benefits and limitations of language? Why is nonverbal communication important? How does language shape the way we think and experience the world? And more.
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    REFERENCES
    Language | https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language
    Ludwig Wittgenstein | https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/wittgenstein/
    Temple Grandin | https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_Grandin
    Autism | https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/autism-spectrum-disorder/symptoms-causes/syc-20352928
    Left vs Right Brain | https://www.healthline.com/health/left-brain-vs-right-brain
    Limitations of language | Michael Eriksson | http://www.aswedeingermany.de/50LanguageAndWriting/50TheLimitationsOfLanguage.html
    Nonverbal communication | https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonverbal_communication
    Steven Pinker | https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Pinker
    In the land of invented languages | Arika Okrent | http://inthelandofinventedlanguages.com/
    DuoLingo | Free Language Courses for English Speakers | https://www.duolingo.com/courses
    Arrival (film) | https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrival_(film)
    Sapir-Worf Hypothesis / Linguistic Relativity | https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity
    ASCII | https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII
    Mathematical universe hypothesis | https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_universe_hypothesis
    Semantics v syntax | https://www.writersdigest.com/write-better-fiction/semantics-vs-syntax-vs-pragmatics-grammar-rules
    Ethio-Jazz Ted talk | Meklit Hadero | https://www.ted.com/talks/meklit_hadero_the_unexpected_beauty_of_everyday_sounds?language=en
    Onomatopoeia | https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onomatopoeia
    Mellifluous | https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mellifluous
    How language shapes the way we think | Lera Boroditsky | https://www.ted.com/talks/lera_boroditsky_how_language_shapes_the_way_we_think?language=en
    Broca’s and Wernicke’s Aphasia | https://memory.ucsf.edu/symptoms/speech-language
    Schrödinger’s cat | https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schr%C3%B6dinger's_cat
    Dictionary of obscure sorrows | https://www.dictionaryofobscuresorrows.com/
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    1 hr 21 min
  • Ep. 37 - Library Science, Medicine, Music | Mary Beth Sancomb-Moran
    Mary Beth Sancomb-Moran, librarian at the University of Minnesota Rochester, sits down with Aidan to share her story, her path from music to history, opticianry to stock brokerage, and now librarianship, challenges search engines and social media pose to students and the public looking for meaningful information, resources land grant universities have to offer, innovations in higher education, and parallels between medicine and music.
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    REFERENCES
    University of Minnesota Rochester | https://r.umn.edu/
    Optician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optician
    Oregon Trail | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon_Trail
    Deadwood (TV Series) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadwood_(TV_series)
    Library Science | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_science
    Weeding (Library) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weeding_(library)
    Stack (Software) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stack_(abstract_data_type)
    Algorithms of Oppression | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithms_of_Oppression
    AllSides | https://www.allsides.com/unbiased-balanced-news
    False news travels faster | MIT | https://bit.ly/3B5kSvQ
    Right and left, partisanship predicts (asymmetric) vulnerability to misinformation | Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review | https://bit.ly/3yakbzw
    Database Search Tips: Boolean operators | MIT | https://bit.ly/3B5l8ei
    Boolean algebra | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boolean_algebra
    University of Minnesota Rochester’s NXT GEN MED | https://r.umn.edu/news/nxt-gen-med
    Carleton College Librarian Trading Card Gallery | https://bit.ly/3DaXVt2
    Jonas Salk | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonas_Salk
    COVID-19 Vaccine Development | https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/how-did-we-develop-a-covid-19-vaccine-so-quickly
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    1 hr 5 min
  • Ep. 36 - Veganism
    Dré, Lauren, and Aidan ask, Is veganism a philosophy or a diet? What’s vegan or not? Does eating vegan reduce unnecessary suffering? Is hunting or fishing important to conservation? And more.
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    REFERENCES
    Veganism | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veganism
    Vegan or Not (Game) | https://amzn.to/3iLHb33
    Vegan Society’s Definition | https://www.vegansociety.com/go-vegan/definition-veganism
    Merriam-Webster’s Definition | https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/vegan
    Earthlings Full Documentary | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cl3B4H9-0xo
    Comfort Crisis | Common Scientists’ Conversation | https://youtu.be/0J7lk35cj6g
    Comfort Crisis | Michael Easter and Joe Rogan’s Conversation | https://spoti.fi/3rnq769
    Genesis 1:26 | Free Bible | https://www.bible.com/bible/111/GEN.1.26.NIV
    American System of Conservation Funding | https://www.fishwildlife.org/afwa-informs/resources/american-system-conservation-funding
    Hunters as Conservationists | https://www.fws.gov/refuges/hunting/hunters-as-conservationists/
    Vegetarian Diet and B12 Deficiency | https://www.webmd.com/food-recipes/news/20030618/vegetarian-diet-b12-deficiency
    4-H (About) | https://4-h.org/about/what-is-4-h/
    Black Death/Plague | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Death
    Quarantine | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quarantine
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    1 hr 8 min
  • Ep. 35 - Urbanization
    Dré, Lauren, and Aidan ask, What is urbanization? Where did cities come from? What do current trends mean for individuals and society? How might we learn from the past to design cities that last? And more.
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    REFERENCES
    Urbanization | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urbanization
    Minnesota is becoming increasingly urban | https://minnesotago.org/trends/urbanization
    The Cities of the Future | https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazines/l/apr19/index-uk.html
    The Hunger Games | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hunger_Games
    Biggest State Fairs | https://www.readers.com/blog/biggest-state-fairs/
    Urban Threat | https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/urban-threats
    38th Street THRIVE Strategic Development Plan | https://www2.minneapolismn.gov/government/projects/cped/current-future/38th-thrive/
    New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacinda_Ardern
    Dunbar’s number | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_number
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    1 hr 4 min
  • Ep. 34 - Shoes
    Dré, Lauren, and Aidan ask, How much have you thought about your shoes? Where did shoes come from? How has shoe use changed over time? How might we be more sustainable? And more.
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    REFERENCES
    Ötzi | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96tzi
    History of basketball | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_basketball
    High-Tops vs. Low-Tops | https://www.insidescience.org/news/high-tops-low-tops
    Tinker Hatfield Documentary | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaSvGVhtszo
    Men in Heels | https://bit.ly/3jijJty
    Occasions and non-occasions | https://doi.org/10.1177%2F1350506814533952
    Chinese practice of foot binding | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foot_binding
    Salvation Army | https://www.salvationarmyusa.org/usn/
    Soles 4 Souls | https://soles4souls.org/give-shoes/
    The Wildly Complex Anatomy of a Sneaker | Angel Chang’s Ted Talk | https://bit.ly/3lpUwzS
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    1 hr 10 min
  • Ep. 33 - Bryn Shank: Energy & The Environment
    Bryn Shank, Energy Auditor at St. Paul, Minnesota’s Center for Energy and Environment, shares his story, his decision to depart college, his learnings in environmental advocacy, building bridges between science and the public, and making more healthful homes with Aidan.
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    REFERENCES
    Bryn Shank | Twitter @BrynShank | https://www.linkedin.com/in/bryn-shank-869406a8/
    Electric Cars Podcast | https://spoti.fi/2VhdihK | https://apple.co/3BM5zt6
    Stop The Line 3 Pipeline | https://www.stopline3.org/
    Solar Certification | ​​https://www.nabcep.org/certification/
    Indoor Air Quality Introduction | https://www.epa.gov/indoor-air-quality-iaq/introduction-indoor-air-quality
    Radon | https://www.epa.gov/radon
    PODCAST INFO
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    TAGS
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    48 min

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Common Scientists Lauren, Dré, & Aidan ask questions, experiment, and learn about the world in the Common Science Podcast Series.