Podcast Recommendations
This week's This American Life is one of my all-time favorites, on the theme of "Testosterone." If you have a chance and haven't heard it, do yourself a favor. It'll completely change the way you think of testosterone and what it does--and your jaw will drop at least four times as you listen. (The last segment is filler, but the first three are all top-notch.)
And while you're on iTunes, go--immediately--to WNYC's RadioLab, and download their latest episode titled "Laughter." They not only talk very intriguingly about why we laugh and what laughter means, but the episode ends with a flat-out amazing discussion of a "laughter epidemic" that struck Kinshasa in 1962 and affected hundreds of people. RadioLab is the most entertaining science program I've ever come across, and this is a perfect example of the kind of thing they do best: raising weird questions you didn't even know were questions in the first place.
And while you're on iTunes, go--immediately--to WNYC's RadioLab, and download their latest episode titled "Laughter." They not only talk very intriguingly about why we laugh and what laughter means, but the episode ends with a flat-out amazing discussion of a "laughter epidemic" that struck Kinshasa in 1962 and affected hundreds of people. RadioLab is the most entertaining science program I've ever come across, and this is a perfect example of the kind of thing they do best: raising weird questions you didn't even know were questions in the first place.
posted by Cowboy Dave Dickerson | 11:44 PM
4 Comments:
Yes! I love listening to the RadioLab podcast. It's a great example of how science can be fun and interesting and hip all at the same time. There should be educators lining up to listen to it and see what principles they can emulate in teaching.
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I thought the Testosterone show was very interesting, and my jaw DID drop at least four times, though what stuck with me the longest was a statement in Act II: men, walking alone down the street, intentionally swerve toward (or even into) each other as some sort of aggressive statement. I'm gobsmacked at the idea of adult men doing this to each other; I mean, really? Does that really happen?
Aggressive swerving? Not outside of a high school locker room, or possibly a crowded bar where there are women watching. So I don't know where he was getting that. I wouldn't let that trouble you too much. I was mostly horrified by his increased interest in science. Oy! And I have to say, it was nice to think that there might be some biochemical reason that makes it so damn hard for even a sensitive guy like me to cry, even when I know it would be healthy. I swear it's like pulling teeth.
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