Synopsis: This week on “Learn Me Something,” Aaron and Rich delve into a complex and mind-bending topic of crystals. No, we aren’t talking about how crystals can cure cancer. Crystals have internal energy including some energy associated with molecular vibrations. Physicists have created the world’s first time crystal. So how does this work?

Crystals have internal energy including some energy associated with molecular vibrations. In addition to molecular vibrations, crystals can exhibit mechanical (macroscopic) vibrations. An example of a resonant macroscopic vibrator is a tuning fork.

Duration: 36:44:00

Present: Aaron Stewart, Rich Plumb

• 20 Things You Didn’t Know About… Crystals
• CRYSTALS FOR BEGINNERS! HERE ARE THE TOP 10 ESSENTIAL CRYSTALS & THEIR USES
• Any scientific basis behind “crystal energy”?
• Time Crystals Might Exist After All – And They Could Break Space-Time Symmetry
• Physicists Just Created The World’s First Time Crystal
• Physics team proposes a way to create an actual space-time crystal

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Download: Episode 29: Crystals: What We Think We Know

Synopsis: This week on “Learn Me Something,” Aaron and Rich delve into a complex and mind-bending topic of crystals. No, we aren’t talking about how crystals can cure cancer. Crystals have internal energy including some energy associated with molecular vibrations. Physicists have created the world’s first time crystal. So how does this work?

Duration: 36:44:00

Present: Aaron Stewart, Rich Plumb

Download: Episode 29: Crystals: What We Think We Know

Synopsis: This week on “Learn Me Something,” Aaron and Rich delve into the topic of schizophrenia. With modern day science, psychology, and access to a wealth of information at our fingertips, why are there still so many misconceptions about what schizophrenia is?

Schizophrenia is a chronic and severe mental disorder that affects how a person thinks, feels, and behaves. People with schizophrenia may seem like they have lost touch with reality. Although schizophrenia is not as common as other mental disorders, the symptoms can be very disabling.

Duration: 43:00:00

Present: Aaron Stewart, Rich Plumb

• What Is Schizophrenia?
• Signs and Symptoms pf Schizophrenia
• Schizophrenia Facts and Statistics
• A Brief History of Schizophrenia
• Schizophrenia definition on Psychology Today
• Helping Someone with Schizophrenia
• How Do Doctors Diagnose Schizophrenia?
• I Am Not A Monster: Schizophrenia | Cecilia McGough | TEDxPSU
• Schizophrenia Simulation
• Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders

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Download: Episode 28: Schizophrenia

Synopsis: This week on “Learn Me Something,” Aaron and Rich delve into the topic of schizophrenia. With modern day science, psychology, and access to a wealth of information at our fingertips, why are there still so many misconceptions about what schizophrenia is?

Duration: 43:00:00

Present: Aaron Stewart, Rich Plumb

Download: Episode 28: Schizophrenia

Synopsis: This week on “Learn Me Something,” Aaron and Rich delve into the topic of narcissism, narcissistic behaviour, and what qualities one must possess to qualify for it.

inordinate fascination with oneself; excessive self-love; vanity.

Duration: 1:00:00

Present: Aaron Stewart, Rich Plumb

• Narcissism Wikipedia explanation
• Narcissism dictionary definition
• Narcissistic Personality Disorder
• Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
• Five Ways a Narcissist Comes Unglued
• 6 Signs of Narcissism You May Not Know About
• 8 Ways to Handle a Narcissist
• 10 Signs You Might Be a Narcissist
• Ten Ways to Tell if You’re a Narcissist
• 14 Signs You’re Dealing With A Narcissist
• 23 Signs You’re Secretly a Narcissist Masquerading as a Sensitive Introvert
• Trump’s Mental Health: Is Pathological Narcissism the Key to Trump’s Behavior?
• This is the main difference between narcissistic men and women
• The Difference Between Male and Female Narcissists
• Can Narcissists Change?

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Download: Episode 27: Narcissism

Synopsis: This week on “Learn Me Something,” Aaron and Rich delve into the topic of charities and the nitty gritty of how they work. What makes a good or bad charity and how do we rank them? There are more to charities than you likely know, so listen in to learn something.

American’s donate $350 billion per year to charities.

More than 1.5 million charities in the US.

Duration: 54:17:00

Present: Aaron Stewart, Rich Plumb

• Public Charity vs. Private Foundation
• 25 of America’s Worst Charities—Plus Tips on How to Avoid Getting Scammed
• How Does a Charity Work?
• Charity Navigator
• Nonprofit Law Basics: What is the Difference Between a Public Charity & a Private Foundation?
• How is a charity different from a foundation?
• Towards a better understanding of how charities work
• Overview of Private Foundations
• Not Fit For Purpose: Why I’m Done With the Foundation World

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Download: Episode 26: Charities

Synopsis: This week on “Learn Me Something,” Aaron and Rich delve into the topic of charities and the nitty gritty of how they work. What makes a good or bad charity and how do we rank them? There are more to charities than you likely know, so listen in to learn something.

More than 1.5 million charities in the US.

Duration: 54:17:00

Present: Aaron Stewart, Rich Plumb

Download: Episode 26: Charities

Synopsis: This week on “Learn Me Something,” Aaron and Rich delve into the topic of Nostalgia. Looking to the past with sentimentality isn’t always a negative thing, but at what point does living in the past create a problem for how we define the future?

Many researchers believe that the reminiscence bump reflects the strategies we use to retrieve key memories from our life. As Garry puts it: “I have a vast soup of experiences in my life – how do I wade through to try and find the most important ones?”

One theory is that that our culture provides a sort of blueprint that we use to determine which memories are important. We will tend to better recall experiences that are culturally-valued, and a lot of those events occur when we are children and young adults. This is the period when we graduate from school or university, work in our first jobs, and have our first romantic partners.

Duration: 1:05:00

Present: Aaron Stewart, Rich Plumb

• The reminiscence bump: why America’s greatest year was probably when you were young
• When Nostalgia Was a Disease
• Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?
• The True Meaning of Nostalgia
• Motivated Reasoning Is Why You Can’t Win An Argument Using Facts
• Look back with danger

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Download: Episode 25: Nostalgia

Synopsis: This week on “Learn Me Something,” Aaron and Rich delve into the topic of Nostalgia. Looking to the past with sentimentality isn’t always a negative thing, but at what point does living in the past create a problem for how we define the future?

One theory is that that our culture provides a sort of blueprint that we use to determine which memories are important. We will tend to better recall experiences that are culturally-valued, and a lot of those events occur when we are children and young adults. This is the period when we graduate from school or university, work in our first jobs, and have our first romantic partners.

Duration: 1:05:00

Present: Aaron Stewart, Rich Plumb

Download: Episode 25: Nostalgia