Learn Me Something

Synopsis: This week on "Learn Me Something," Aaron and Rich delve into the regrettably common and often stigmatized issue of depression. We've aptly titled this episode "Smiling Depression," because a lot of us that deal with it are really good at hiding how we really feel.

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Duration: 56:59:00

Present: Aaron Stewart, Rich Plumb

• Depression
• Smiling Depression
• Symptoms: Major Depression vs. Walking Depression
• Smiling Depression: What You Need to Know
• Definition of depression
• Summary of evidence-based interventions for suicide prevention
• Infographic of mental health

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Synopsis: This week on "Learn Me Something," Aaron and Rich delve into stress, how it affects the human body, and some remedies and preventative maintenance to minimize it.

What is stress? Stress is your body's way of responding to any kind of demand. It can be caused by both good and bad experiences. When people feel stressed by something going on around them, their bodies react by releasing chemicals into the blood. These chemicals give people more energy and strength, which can be a good thing if their stress is caused by physical danger. But this can also be a bad thing, if their stress is in response to something emotional and there is no outlet for this extra energy and strength.

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Duration: 57:36:00

Present: Aaron Stewart, Rich Plumb

• Understanding and Dealing With Stress
• The Effects of Stress on Your Body
• 5 Sources of Stress and Anxiety in the Modern World
• Caffeine and Cortisol: Does Coffee Stress You Out?
• Internal and External Stress

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Synopsis: This week on "Learn Me Something," Aaron and Rich delve into carbon tax, why we have it, and what it means for our environment and future.

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Duration: 59:50:00

Present: Aaron Stewart, Rich Plumb

• How Carbon Tax Works
• Don’t dismiss them as ‘crackpots’: Who are Canada’s yellow vest protesters?
• British Columbia’s Carbon Tax
• Regulation has helped, not hindered California’s green economy
• Assembly Bill 32 Overview
• California’s New 100% Green Energy Target May Do More Harm Than Good
• Why is carbon pricing in some countries more successful than in others?

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Synopsis: This week on "Learn Me Something," Aaron and Rich delve into sex vs gender, which an expansion on the episode we did on gender identity.

Distinction between sex and gender differentiates a person’s biological sex (the anatomy of an individual’s reproductive system, and secondary sex characteristics) from that person’s gender, which can refer to either social roles based on the sex of the person (gender role) or personal identification of one’s own gender based on an internal awareness (gender identity)

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Duration: 50:27:00

Present: Aaron Stewart, Rich Plumb

• Sex and gender: What is the difference?
• Always #LikeAGirl
• The Effects Of A Gender Neutral Education | No More Boys & Girls Can Our Kids Go Gender Free
• The 6 Most Common Biological Sexes in Humans
• Born With the Wrong Body
• MEET CAREY LOHRENZ
• Sex verification in sports
• Gender

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Synopsis This week on "Learn Me Something," Aaron and Rich delve into the dark and unsettling history of residential schools in Canada.

When the school is on the reserve the child lives with its parents, who are savages; he is surrounded by savages, and though he may learn to read and write, his habits and training and mode of thought are Indian. He is simply a savage who can read or write. – Sir John A Macdonald, speech to Commons, 1883

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Duration: 41:32:00

Present: Aaron Stewart, Rich Plumb

• Why our kids need to learn about residential schools
• A history of residential schools in Canada
• The Residential School System
• Residential schools in Canada
• Mi’kmaq Confederacy chiefs say historical statues should reflect bad with the good
• Indian Residential Schools
• Where are the children?

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Synopsis This week on "Learn Me Something," Aaron and Rich celebrate the winter holiday by looking at the history of Christmas.

The first Christmas didn’t start until the 3rd century. Europeans celebrated light and birth in the darkest days of winter. Many peoples rejoiced during the winter solstice, when the worst of the winter was behind them and they could look forward to longer days and extended hours of sunlight.

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Duration: 1:10:19

Present: Aaron Stewart, Rich Plumb

• History of Christmas
• Origin And Development
• Was Jesus born on December 25? #3: Paganism borrowed December 25 from Christianity!

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Synopsis This week on "Learn Me Something," Aaron and Rich delve into online privacy. Is privacy a fundamental right and what are we doing to safeguard our data from companies that have ulterior motives?

How it got started:

It may seem obvious that you shouldn’t post risque photos of yourself online that may be used against you in the future by admissions officers or potential employers. But even an innocent-seeming comment or the mention of your birthday can have serious effects.

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Duration: 1:01:00

Present: Aaron Stewart, Rich Plumb

• Feds to enforce mandatory data breach disclosure rules on Nov. 1
• Identity theft stats & facts: 2017 – 2018
• GOOD NEWS! THE PRIVACY WINS KEEP COMING
• China’s influence on digital privacy could be global
• Is Digital Privacy A Right Or A Privilege?
• ‘The Pirate Bay of Science’ Continues to Get Attacked Around the World
• Cambridge Analytica closing after Facebook data harvesting scandal
• 8 Smart Ways To Maintain Your Digital Privacy
• Digital Privacy: Taking control of your digital life

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Synopsis This week on "Learn Me Something," Aaron and Rich delve into the history of tap dancing!

How it got started:

Tap dancing has a number of ancestors; most notably Irish step dancing and African dancing (particularly something called "juba"), both of which were brought over to the United States through immigration and slavery.

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Duration: 37:43:00

Present: Aaron Stewart, Rich Plumb

• History and Development of Dance/ Brockport
• TThe history of… tap dancing

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Synopsis This week on “Learn Me Something,” Aaron and Rich delve into how we can all build better B.S. detectors, i.e, critical thinking skills.

David Foster Wallace famously argued that:

learning how to think really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think.

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Duration: 50:23:00

Present: Aaron Stewart, Rich Plumb

• The Baloney Detection Kit: Carl Sagan’s Rules for Bullshit-Busting and Critical Thinking
• The Baloney Detection Kit Sandwich (Infographic)
• Bullshit Detector! A Guide to Being Less Wrong
• https://betterhumans.coach.me/cognitive-bias-cheat-sheet-55a472476b18

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Synopsis This week on “Learn Me Something,” Aaron and Rich delve into the topic of tickling and how it relates to intimacy as well as torture.

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Duration: 44:39:00

Present: Aaron Stewart, Rich Plumb

• Tickling on Wikipedia
• Tickle torture
• If You Can’t Stand Being Tickled, Why Are You Laughing?
• Why do people laugh when they get tickled?
• Welcome To The Dark World Of Tickling
• A Tickling Way to Reduce Fear

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Download: Episode 80: Tickling