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Current Work

· President, ReasonIO – public speaking, philosophical counseling, tutorials, online classes, consulting

· Editor, Stoicism Today 2016-2022, and team member of the Modern Stoicism organization

· Adjunct Professor in Philosophy and Humanities, Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design

· Content producer in my main YouTube channel – 3,000+ videos on thinkers, texts, and topics in philosophy – supported by crowdfunding through Patreon

Past Work and Accomplishments of Interest:

· Taught Philosophy, Religious Studies, Humanities, and Critical Thinking courses for 25 years, at Marquette University, Milwaukee Area Technical College, Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, Marist College, Fayetteville State University, Ball State University, among others. Includes some teaching in maximum and medium security prisons

· Public speaker – 300+ invited lectures and workshops at venues including universities and colleges, conventions, business organizations, companies, libraries, churches...

· Philosophical counseling, tutorial, and consulting work – clients include corporate executives and leaders, CEOs of smaller and start-up companies, psychotherapists, psychologists, medical professionals, professors, lifelong learners, and students

· Author of one book, editor of two books, dozens of academic articles, book chapters, and encyclopedia entries, many popular online writings

· Videos in main YouTube channel have been viewed over 14.5 million times, for over 2 million hours (over 225 years) of time

Educational Background:

· B.A. in Philosophy and Mathematics from Lakeland University (1994)

· M.A. and Ph.D. from Southern Illinois University Carbondale (1997, 2002)

· Faculty Fellowship, Erasmus Institute, Notre Dame University (2005)

· Charles Chesnutt Library Fellowship (2009-2010)

· Philosophical Counseling Training and Certification, American Philosophical Practitioners Association (2013)
Visiting Scholar, European Graduate School, Saas-Fee Campus, Switzerland (2014)

· Summer Research Residency, Institute for Saint Anselm Studies (2015)

· LEAP Institute for Non-Profit Leaders, Kacmarcik Center for Human Performance (2023)

Other Items of Note

· Grew up in Wales, Delafield, and Waukesha, in Wisconsin in the 1970s and 1980s

· Married to Andi Sciacca, who he met in high school. Has two children

· Plays banjo and bass guitar

· Reads classic Greek, Latin, German, and French and translates French and Latin works

· Was a combat engineer in the US Army

Important Websites to Mention or Link To: · ReasonIO - https://reasonio.wordpress.com/ – my business · My main YouTube channel – https://www.youtube.com/user/gbisadler · Sadler’s Lectures podcast - https://soundcloud.com/gregorybsadler · My Facebook author page – https://www.facebook.com/drgbsadler · My Twitter profile – https://twitter.com/philosopher70 · My Patreon site – https://www.patreon.com/sadler · My Substack - https://gregorybsadler.substack.com/


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Jim Johnson is a 28 year veteran in the live event and facility management field having run theatres, convention centers, arenas, and stadiums across the United States.  He is currently the Assistant General Manager at the Denny Sanford PREMIER Center complex in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

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Tierra Curry is a scientist who has worked for each of us in the past 20 years. She is working in the field, and at a desk in an effort to protect animals from extinction. Yes, from extinction! Her important work ultimately protects our own place on the planet.

In this episode the Monarch Butterfly serves as the gateway to the mix of threats facing thousands of animals. Tierra carefully shares the story of an insect which can fly well more than a thousand miles. The Monarch Butterfly’s journey from Canada to Mexico includes many stops, even in my yard. Your yard, also?

Tierra is a Senior Scientist at the Center for Biological Diversity. This link will take you into the depths of Responsibilities:

https://www.biologicaldiversity.org/action/

The countless number of monarchs beating their wings is in the following. The link : https://lightroom.adobe.com/shares/c83c3f9b9b1b4ac289a5ac1d5d56de71https://lightroom.adobe.com/shares/c83c3f9b9b1b4ac289a5ac1d5d56de71 provides high quality pictures of the butterfly and incredible sound recordings of the butterfly’s departure from Mexico. This material is a courtesy of Patrick Donnelly, a colleague of Tierra’s. Thanks, Patrick!!

Please generously support the endeavors of  the Center For Biological Diversity!

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This podcast is a hobby, but one that does bear some expense. I continue to enjoy the production. I have given well more than 2,000 hours to the enterprise. Consider touching on the SUPPORT THE SHOW and make an occasional anonymous donation.

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Dr. Gene Kritsky is much more than a most qualified entomologist! In this episode he will take us for a walk in a city park and carefully introduce the three cicada species that comprise the two broods due to emerge from the soil this May and June. The periodical cicada is not to be confused the the annual cicada which emerges in late summer.

It is possible, it is easy and it is recommended that you download the App SICADA SAFARI. Submit photos of cicadas you find, and check the cicada activity near you. Fun and Simple.   
http://cicadasafari.org

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Are you ready for some mania, crazy, fun?

https://www.cicadamania.com/

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Hey, let's follow her progress, and put fuel in the tank with her donation request at
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There is a definite thread connecting the 44 episodes on he podcast. That thread is sometimes described as competence, or it has  been properly described as a Lifetime of Adventure.

This episode puts us onto the "backseat" with Bridget McCutchen. A warning to Listeners; hang on tight and bring a map!!

World politics have delayed the official kickstart, but she has been on the road for a couple weeks and by August 29 she might be in Mexico. Bridget plans to join me for another episode from Tierra del Fuego before she heads north to Brazil and then into Europe!

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About Neil

https://neildahlstrom.com/

Neil Dahlstrom is an archivist, writer, and speaker. He grew up and lives in the Quad Cities, once known as the farm implement capital of the world. Today the Quad Cities is a vibrant community of cities on the Illinois and Iowa sides of the Mississippi River with an exciting history of innovation in the farm equipment and automobile industries.

Neil works at Fortune 100 company John Deere, as the archivist and historian. He is a member of the Kitchen Cabinet, the Food and Agriculture Advisory Board at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, and Visit Quad Cities.

Neil’s research and speeches have taken him to historical societies and museums, abandoned factories-turned-coffee shops, and state-of-the-art research centers across the country.

Tractor Wars: John Deere, Henry Ford, International Harvester and the Birth of Modern Agriculture is the untold story of the farm tractor. Underappreciated and overlooked, the emergence of the farm tractor and the birth of modern agriculture is not what you think. The race to introduce the farm tractor to the farmer was as bitter and hard fought as the race between Ford, Dodge, and General Motors. And Henry Ford, whose lifelong dream was to build a tractor, was at the center. Automobiles were luxuries. But the tractor and the power farming revolution it ushered in would revolutionize the world in a different way, allowing a shrinking farm population to feed a growing world. 

From the boardroom to the courtroom, from the draft table to the factory and the farm, the introduction of the tractor is an innovation story as essential as man’s landing on the moon or the advent of the Internet. Against the backdrop of a world war and economic depression, Tractor Wars is the unknown story of industry stalwarts and disruptors, inventors and administrators racing to invent modern agriculture. Before John Deere, Ford, and International Harvester became icons of American business, they were competitors in a forgotten war for the farm. 

“Mr. Dahlstrom…has written a superb history of the tractor and this long-forgotten period of capitalism in U.S. agriculture. We now know the whole story of when farming, business and the free-market economy diverged, divided and conquered.”

-Michael Taube, Wall Street Journal

“Neil Dahlstrom’s Tractor Wars engagingly tells the story of one of the great business battles of the twentieth century. Anyone interested in business, agriculture, or tractor history will enjoy this great tale, well-told.”

Gary Hoover, Executive Director, American Business History Center

Before John Deere, Ford, and International Harvester became icons of American business, they were competitors in a forgotten battle for the farm. By the turn of the twentieth century, four million people had left rural America and moved to cities, leaving the nation’s farms shorthanded for the work of plowing, planting, cultivating, harvesting, and threshing. That’s why the introduction of the tractor is an innovation story as essential as

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https://www.livinglandsandwaters.org/

To aid in the protection, preservation and restoration of the natural environment of the nations’ major rivers and their watersheds


ABOUT US:

Headquartered in East Moline, Illinois, Living Lands & Waters is a 501 (c)(3) environmental organization that was established by Chad Pregracke in 1998. Since the organization was founded, Living Lands & Waters has grown to be the only “industrial strength” river cleanup organization like it in the world.

Spending up to nine months a year living and traveling on the barge, the Living Lands & Waters crew hosts river cleanups, watershed conservation initiatives, workshops, tree plantings and other key conservation efforts.


10 Million Pounds!
With the help of over 108,000 volunteers and countless supporters, we’re excited to announce that we’ve removed over 10 MILLION pounds of garbage from America’s rivers. Check out our video below!

https://youtu.be/_RGkjMAKIgM

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In three successive years this small town produced more than a billion buttons annually.

This episode is a remarkable story told by an equally remarkable Guest.  Dustin Joy has the  great responsibility to reveal the circumstances along the Mississippi River which was the  Gold Rush of the Midwest!

Muscatine Iowa was the PEARL BUTTON CAPITAL OF THE WOLD.

https://muscatinehistory.org/about/


CLUSTERS OF CLAM SHELLS LIE on the banks of the Mississippi River in Muscatine, Iowa. Look closely and you’ll see each shell is dotted with perfectly neat holes. Many decades ago, these shells were plucked from the bottom of the river by the ton, soaked, steamed, and swept of their meat and pearls. Circular saws cut multiple discs out of each shell. These were called “blanks.” Each blank was sanded down into a perfect pearl button, ready to be sewn onto a dress, jacket, or glove.

Muscatine’s pearl button industry hit its peak between 1908 and the ’20s, when factories in the Iowa town produced 1.5 billion buttons, or one-third of the world’s pearl button supply. These buttons were worth $3.3 million, according to the 1910 edition of Encyclopaedia Britannica. But few of us who grew up along the Mississippi, who’ve held those milkweed-grey shells with holes in them, have actually held pearl buttons or heard a cohesive origin story about the industry. To get the definitive history I went to Terry Eagle, the Director of The National Pearl Button Museum at The History and Industry Center, in Muscatine. “The story of the pearl button is a national growth story, a national treasure story, and an environmental lesson,” Eagle says. “And if you don’t believe me now, I’ll prove it to you.”

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/pearl-buttons-muscatine-iowa

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M. Brunsdale, Special Collections Librarian at Illinois State University in Normal Illinoishares a story which describes a thrilling feature of life under the circus tent.  She  co-authored a book with Mark Schmitt, The Bloomington-Normal Circus Legacy, the Golden Age of Aerialists (History Press, 2013)      [email protected]

She co-authored  a book with Mark Schmitt, The Bloomington-Normal Circus Legacy, the Golden Age of Aerialists (History Press, 2013)

https://news.illinoisstate.edu/2012/09/circus-legacy-found-inside-milner-librarys-vault/.
By Ryan Denham) It is used without permission.

There aren’t a lot of places on the Illinois State campus where, at 9 a.m. on a weekday, a visitor has to be buzzed in through a locked door to reach a room called “The Vault.”

This is where Maureen Brunsdale and Mark Schmitt ’96 call home. They run Milner Library’s Special Collections and Rare Books department, comprised of four unique collections, including the Historical Textbook Collection and Children’s Literature Collection and the Lincoln Collection of Harold K. Sage.

But their busiest collection – the one that brings in researchers from around the world and has landed on ABC News, the Huffington Post, and the New Yorker – is the Circus and Allied Arts Collection.

“It’s a collection with a lot of depth,” said Schmitt.

Brunsdale is head of Special Collections and Rare Books. During a recent tour for a first-time visitor, her passion for the circus collection was clear as she moved between the narrow stacks of The Vault, rattling off individual stories about an impressively large chunk of more than 100,000 items in her care.

Otto Ringling’s letter to his brothers.

She pulled out a letter written in 1907 by Otto Ringling to his brothers – yes, those Ringling Brothers – suggesting they all consider buying their competitors, Barnum & Bailey. The brothers ended up doing just that later in 1907, though they didn’t operate them jointly until 1919. No one else has Otto’s letter – not the Ringling-themed Circus World museum in Baraboo, Wis., and not the Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota, Fla.

“The beginning of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey is right here!” Brunsdale said.

Milner Library and the Wisconsin and Florida museums are the three largest circus history research facilities in the U.S. Milner’s circus collection stood at 2,100 items in 1963 but now has more than 100,000 items – from 490-year-old books to canceled checks from 20th century circus companies. The single largest collection of items came via donation from Sverre Braathen, a collector from Madison, Wis., who befriended many in the circus community and did legal work for them.

Milner got the bulk of his collection after his death in 1974. Brunsdale only took over

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Donald Starzinski,  M.D., Ph.D. has had the privilege of  education in both  Western and Eastern Medicine. Initial undergraduate work at the University of Minnesota  was in Engineering and Social Sciences.  
 Doctoral Studies resulted in a Ph.D. in Psychopharmacology with his thesis involving and aggression.
 Subsequent medical (M.D.) training led to a Neurology Residency and related Board Certification. 
 Eastern Medical education has included Acupuncture and Herbal Medicine studies with Board Certification by the American Academy of Medical Acupuncture. He is also involved in ongoing education with American Meditation Institute. 
 Professional activities have included an initial Private Practice in general Neurology and the more prominent subsequent practice of Neurorehabilitation involving complicated brain injured individuals. 
 Duties have included consultation, direct patient care, Clinical co-ordination and teaching. Dr. Starzinski also enjoyed a small Private Practice of Integrative Medicine.
 Since his recent retirement, 
 dr. Starzinski is a developing a career in teaching  and writing, emphasizing Integrative Health and Wellness.
 Dr. Starzinski has given every indication to  future episodes.

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