By Shanny Luft
A podcast for curious people! Shanny Luft, administrator and professor of religion at the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point, talks with experts about a broad range of topics from the scie
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If you are in a show hole, this episode is for you! Shanny talks with several guests who share their favorite movies, tv shows, and books from 2023. He also continues his conversation with media studies professors Kelly Wilz and Cary Elza about the biggest media news from last year.
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Shanny Luft is curious about Barbie so he invited professors Cary Elza and Kelly Wilz in Media Studies at the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point, to talk about it. Why was Barbie the most successful movie of 2023? We also talked about the films that inspired Greta Gerwig's directing, the doll's effect on body image, our favorite (and least favorite) scenes.
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The power of curiosity compels you! On this episode, we talked about William Friedkin's The Exorcist with Cary Elza, (Associate Professor of Media Studies from the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point) and Kathryn Lofton (the Lex Hickson professor of American studies and religious studies, professor of history and divinity at Yale University.)
Whether you are an Exorcist fanatic, or hate horror movies, this episode will have something for you. We talk about why The Exorcist caused a frenzy in 1973. How the movie portrays religious faith. And
This the 50th anniversary of The Exorcist, which enraptured audiences in 1973, making it the third highest grossing film of that decade. The Exorcist drove public fascination with the devil and exorcisms inside of churches, across popular culture, and deep in the public imagination.
For those of you who like extra credit, here is some further reading:
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On this episode of No Cure for Curiosity, I spoke with Stephen Prothero, author, religion scholar, and now retired professor from Boston University. Throughout his career Stephen Prothero has promoted thoughtful public consideration about religion. He has been published in the New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street, and many other newspapers and magazines. He’s been a guest on network television, NPR, CNN, The Daily Show with John Stewart and The Colbert Report.
Prothero published a book this year titled God the Bestseller: How one Editor Transformed American Religion a Book at a Time, a biography of Eugene Exman.If you have ever described yourself as "spiritual but not religious," or a "religious seeker," or if you've ever had a religious experience that you can't completely explain, I think you will enjoy my conversation with Stephen Prothero.
Books, articles, and interviews with Stephen Prothero can be found at www.stephenprothero.com
My favorite guest appearance Stephen had with Colbert is available here: https://media.mtvnservices.com/embed/mgid:arc:video:comedycentral.com:3be33026-ed01-11e0-aca6-0026b9414f30
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On this episode of No Cure for Curiosity, I asked five people to share their favorite media of the last year! If you are in a show hole or looking for a new novel for your book club, this episode is for you!
Lauren Gantz, Associate Professor English at UWSP
Gretel Stock, Dean of University College, at UWSP
Paula Weitzenberg, World Class Voracious Reader
Chris Williams, Associate Professor of English at UWSP
Kathryn Lounsbery, musician, educator, comedian, and musical executive for Cocomelon
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In our first episode of 2023, Shanny talks with Cary Elza and Kevin Obsatz, two media studies professors at UWSP, about the career of James Cameron and his latest movie, Avatar: The Way of Water. We talked about the themes that have dominated Cameron's career, his particular skill for getting audiences pumped up, and what we thought of the second film in the Avatar Pentalogy!
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November 2022 would have been the 100-birthday of Charles Schulz. To wrap up the second year of No Cure for Curiosity, we were curious about Schulz and his strip, Peanuts with Rob Stolzer, Professor of Art, and Neil Prendergast, U.S. Historian, from UWSP.
What made Peanuts such an iconic comic strip in the second half of the 20th century? What is Peanuts' vision of mid-century America? And why did NBC think that "A Charlie Brown Christmas Special" was going to be a disaster?
If you want to learn more from Rob Stolzer, check out his websites devoted to art, comic art, and illustration:
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For Halloween, Shanny Luft speaks with Robert Jadin, an evolutionary biologist, and Chris Diehm, an environmental ethicist, about SNAKES! How did snakes evolve? Why do they scare us? What do snakes taste like? (Plus, we talk about snake sex if you're curious about that sort of thing.)
Check out this creepy episode of No Cure for Curiosity! (And tell your friends about NCFC!)
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Shanny Luft speaks with Vera Klekovkina (Department of World Languages), Joshua Horn (Department of Philosophy), and Tomi Heimonen (Department of Computer Science) about their thoughts and concerns about robots.
This episode was inspired by UW-Stevens Point College of Letters and Science Community Engagement series, "When Robots Rule the World." From the futuristic portrayal of robots in film to robots in the operating room, from the daily use of artificial intelligence (AI) in mundane tasks to the latest advances in the field of human-centered AI, a wide range of university faculty will explore the implications of When Robots Rule the World, in lectures and public events in Stevens Point.
More information about the Community Engagement Series is available here.
Here are some links to books and articles referenced in this episode:
Kathleen Richardson, Sex Robots: The End of Love (2022)
David Levy, Love and Sex with Robots: The Evolution of Human-Robot Relationships (2009)
Jean Baudrillard, Simulation and Simulacra (1994)
European Parliament Report with Recommendations to the Commission on Civil Law Rules on Robotics (2017)
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Our intro music was written by UWSP music student Derek Carden and our logo is by artist and graphic designer Ryan Dreimiller.
You can send comments to [email protected].
The podcast currently has 28 episodes available.