Wonder Cabinet

By Wonder Cabinet ProductionsSociety & Culture Philosophy

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May 19, 2018The Third Act
If life is a play, what happens during the last act? What’s it like to live knowing you have a limited amount of time left?
Guests:
Sabrina Frey
Daniel Pink
Maureen "Ma Dukes" Yancey
Martin Amis
Segments:
Prepared To Go, But Still Busy Living
When Time Is The Best Motivator
Preserving J. Dilla's Legacy With A Beat
When Should An Author Call It Quits?
51 min
May 18, 2018 The Third Act
If life is a play, what happens during the last act? What’s it like to live knowing you have a limited amount of time left?
53 min
May 12, 2018Is The Nation State Splintering?
All over the world, nation states are splintering. Separatism is on the rise. What causes nation states to erode? And what happens when they do? Should we fight to hold on to our nation states...or let them go in favor of something new?
Guests:
John Feffer
Haleema Shah
Shannon Henry Kleiber
Mohsin Hamid
Segments:
What Would a Free Catalonia Mean For Spain - and the World?
If Nation States Rupture, What's Next?
Shaping National Identity in Pakistan
Love In A Time of Mass Migration
51 min
May 05, 2018Making Waves: Live in Milwaukee
Milwaukee is a city on water, right on the shore of Lake Michigan, split by the historic Milwaukee River. How did it shape the city's history, politics, culture, and people? We find out in this live broadcast from Turner Hall in Milwaukee.
Guests:
John Gurda
Dan Egan
Jenny Kehl
Chastity Washington
Ben Barbera
Russ Klisch
David Dupee
Tarik Moody
Siobhan Marks
Venice Williams
Kim Blaeser
Melanie Ariens
Interviews:
The Life, Death and Rebirth of the Milwaukee River
Who Owns the Great Lakes?
Fire, Hops and Beer Wagons: The Beer History of Milwaukee
If Macro Lagers Are Milwaukee's Beer Past, What Does The Beer Future Look Like?
How To Build Flow For A Water Show
Tracing the Enormity of the Great Lakes. By Foot.
The Garden as Parish, With Water as Prayer
Benediction: "A Song for Giving Back"
Building Bridges With Water-Themed Art
51 min
April 28, 2018The Secret Language of Trees
Trees talk to each other, and even form alliances with other trees or other species. Some are incredibly old — the root mass of aspens might live 100,000 years. In this hour, we explore the science and history of trees.
Guests:
Mark Hirsch
Richard Powers
Suzanne Simard
Amos Clifford
Daegan Miller
Interviews:
A Year In The Life Of A Tree
Listening to the Mother Trees
Writing the Inner Life of Trees
Bathing in the Beauty of the Trees
General Sherman, Karl Marx, and Other Aliases of Earth's Largest Tree
53 min
April 21, 2018 Handwork
More than 38 million Americans knit or crochet. Not because they crave mittens and afghans, but because they like the way knitting feels. Handwork turns out be a powerful antidote for digital overload.
Guests:
Betsan Corkhill, Colin McGinn, Lynda Barry, Richard Polt, Tyler Knott Gregson
Interviews:
Can Knitting Improve Your Health?, How Hands Have Shaped Humanity, Lynda Barry's Radio Drawing Lessons, The Magical Mechanical Typewriter, The Typewriter Poet
51 min
April 14, 2018 Hip Hop Future
Hip hop created a sound that changed music, art, fashion, and politics. What's next? Diplomacy? Journalism? Education? Philosophy?
Guests:
Chris Emdin, Xuman,Toni Blackman, Jeff Chang, Colson Whitehead
Segments:
For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood, Hip Hop as Diplomacy. Hip Hop as Journalism, Cultural Critic Jeff Chang On Art As A Political Possibility Space, Colson Whitehead's "The Underground Railroad"
52 min
April 07, 2018 Thinking with Animals
Can we ever get inside the mind of an animal? Can we really know how an octopus or a parrot thinks? Also, the fascinating story of Charles Foster's attempt to act like a badger, when he lived in a hole in the ground and ate worms.
Guests:
Helen MacDonald,Charles Foster,Peter Godfrey-Smith,Elena Passarello,
Interviews:
Living Like a Beast,B is for Birdle (the Parrot),The Tentacled Alien From Under The Sea,Why Do We Love to Watch Animals?
51 min
March 31, 2018 Healing Trauma
As terrible as it sounds, most of us will go through something traumatic at some point in our lives. The experience can be deeply isolating and crushing, but it doesn't have to be.
Guests:
David Morris,Mac McClelland,Jim Rendon,Bessel van der Kolk,Juan Thompson
Interviews:
A Brief History of PTSD,Secondary Violence and PTSD,The Positive Side Of Pain,Feeling Through Trauma,Life With Hunter S. Thompson
51 min
March 24, 2018 We've Had 30 Years Of Prozac. Why Are We Still Depressed?
Modern anti-depressants have saved a lot of minds. And lives. But what have
they done to our bodies? And how do we navigate that trade-off between
body and mind?
Guests:
Lauren Slater, Charles Raison, Anna Fels, Jaime Lowe
Interviews:
Your Body or Your Mind, A Pill That Saves Your Life But Destroys Your Body, Treating the Body To Treat The Mind, A Little Lithium for All Of Us?, The High Price of Breaking the Manic Cycle, The International Bipolar Foundation Recommends Stacks of Mental Health Reading
51 min

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Wonder Cabinet is an independent podcast from Anne Strainchamps and Steve Paulson, Peabody Award-winning creators of public radio's To The Best Of Our Knowledge. For 35 years, that show…