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- 'Bowling Alone' Author Tackles The American Dream
NPR's Scott Simon interviews 'Bowling Alone' author Robert Putnam
March 07, 2015
- 204 - 81 words - the American Psychiatric Association's classification of homosexuality
81 Words: The story of how the American Psychiatric Association decided in 1973 that homosexuality was no longer a mental illness. This American Life, January 18, 2002. Transcript available. Prologue - Ira Glass Host Ira Glass explains that the show this week consists of one long story, the story of something very small that was part of something very large in the history of our country. (2 minutes) Act One - Alix Spiegel In 1973, the American Psychiatric Association (APA) declared that homosexuality was not a disease simply by changing the 81-word definition of sexual deviance in its own reference manual. It was a change that attracted a lot of attention at the time, but the story of what led up to that change is one that we hear today, from reporter Alix Spiegel. Part one of Alix's story details the activities of a closeted group of gay psychiatrists within the APA who met in secret and called themselves the GAYPA...and another, even more secret group of gay psychiatrists among the political echelons of the APA. Alix's own grandfather was among these psychiatrists, and the president-elect of the APA at the time of the change. (24 minutes) Act Two - Alix Spiegel Alix Spiegel's story continues, with a man dressed in a Nixon mask called Dr. Anonymous, and a pivotal encounter in a Hawaiian bar. (30 minutes)
- Alder Stone's course on complexity, emergence, and most everything else
"Addressing our existential, planetary crisis via complexity, ecology, geosciences, bushcraft, arts & video to promote the emergence of new views of nature, Earth & life"
- Franz Messerli - Chocolate Consumption, Cognitive Function, and Nobel Laureates
Chocolate Consumption, Cognitive Function, and Nobel Laureates
Franz H. Masserli, New England Journal of Medicine 2012(Oct 18);367(16):1562-
- How Being Ignored Helped A Woman Discover The Breast Cancer Gene
Back in the 1970s, a geneticist named Mary-Claire King decided she needed to figure out why women in some families were much more likely to get breast cancer.
It took 17 years for King and her colleague to identify the single gene that could cause both breast and ovarian cancer.
Originally published on Sun March 30, 2014 9:17 am
Science article by Mary-Claire King: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/343/6178/1462
- Paul Renne - Absolute Ages Aren't Exactly
Perspective
Radioisotope dating
Absolute Ages Aren't Exactly
Paul R. Renne, Daniel B. Karner, Kenneth R. Ludwig
Science 4 December 1998;282(5395):1840-1841