Genghis Kahn's empire killed 2/3 of Northern China, but people under his rule knew unrivaled gender equality and religious freedom. Mother Teresa gave aid to the poor, but also encouraged their suffering. Spiky cacti sometimes contain life-sustaining water, and even the most beautiful roses have thorns. We’re all some mix of good and bad.

Thanks to our special guests Dimly Lit podcast.

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Music by Kevin MacLeod.

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Genghis Kahn's empire killed 2/3 of Northern China, but people under his rule knew unrivaled gender equality and religious freedom.  Mother Teresa gave aid to the poor, but also encouraged their suffering.   We’re all some mix of good and bad.

There is a literal world of funeral practices to choose from, from an Irish wake to Tibetan sky burial, from New Orleans Jazz funerals to Balinese ngaben cremation, from being buried in a car-shaped coffin in Ghana to burying the head of family with a funnel in their mouth in Nigeria, so you can give them palm wine during the funeral.

Thanks to our special guests from Life in Stories podcast.

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Music by Kevin MacLeod.

Links to all the research resources are on the website.

 

 

 

 

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There is a literal world of funeral practices to choose from, from an Irish wake to Tibetan sky burial, from New Orleans Jazz funerals to Balinese ngaben cremation, from being buried in a car-shaped coffin in Ghana to burying the head of family with a funnel in their mouth in Nigeria, so you can give them palm wine during the funeral.

Tests are all around us.  You probably took one the minute you were born. We look at tests named for the people who created them - Bechdel, Myers-Briggs, Apgar, and more.

01:25 Bechdel-Wallace 

09:00 DuVernay

13:40 Myer-Briggs

18:10 Apgar

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Music by Kevin MacLeod .

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Tests are all around us.   You probably took a test the minute you were born.  We look at tests, from movie theaters to hospitals, named for the people who created them.

Without getting into current politics, we can’t ignore the plight of children seized from parents of a particular group. And it’s not the first time either. A century ago, the American government took tens of thousands of children from Native families and placed them in boarding schools with strict assimilation practices. Their philosophy - kill the Indian to save the man....

01:00 Indian Schools

09:00 Australia's "stolen generations"

16:00 Ceausescu's orphans

20:15 the Dionne quintuplets

 

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Music by Kevin MacLeod and archive.org.

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A century ago, the American government took tens of thousands of children from Native families and placed them in boarding schools with strict assimilation practices.  Their philosophy - kill the Indian to save the man. Sadly, this isn't the only time a government took children from their families.

Death doesn’t mean everything stop for you. There are lots of ways we can live on after shuffling off the mortal coil. From body parts taken from famous bodies, to cells that won't stop growing, to a taxidermied person on display in a museum, we look at bodies and body parts that don't let death slow them down.

Topics:

02:35 Henrietta Lacks

06:40 Operation Mincemeat

10:15 Abraham Lincoln

12:00 JFK

13:45 Albert Einstein

16:30 Joseph Haydn

17:20 Frederic Chopin

18:30 Napoleon

23:45 the Tswana warrior

Thanks to our special guests Dumb and Busted podcast.

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Music by Kevin MacLeod and YouTube music library.

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Death doesn’t mean everything stop for you.  There are lots of ways we can live on after shuffling off the mortal coil.  From body parts taken from famous bodies, to cells that won't stop growing, to a taxidermied person on display in a museum, we look at bodies and body parts that don't let death slow them down.