John Harvey Kellogg was a famous American physician. His brother Will was an ingenious businessman. Together, they invented flaked cereal and revolutionized American breakfast. But John Harvey and Will were bitter rivals, and they waged war over the very food that made them famous. So which Kellogg is the one whose name we remember today?
Everything Everywhere Daily - Radiation 101
Radiation or radioactivity is one of the scariest words in the English language.
While radiation can indeed be very dangerous, most people don’t really understand how it works and it is often treated as magic death cooties which leads to unwarranted fear.
Learn more about radiation, how it works, and where it’s found in nature, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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Audio Poem of the Day - Dear One Absent This Long While
by Lisa Olstein
Life Raft - So You’ve Got Climate Anxiety. Here’s What You Can Do With It.
No matter where you fall on the eco-anxiety spectrum, on a scale from low-key stressed to lying up at night in a dread spiral, you could probably use some advice on doing something about it. Climate change can be scary, after all.
We talk with science writer Britt Wray, who has been researching the overlap of mental health and climate change. She defines some terms, offers some tips and tricks, and shares her personal experience with feelings of climate dread. Plus, she tells a fun story of that time she gave a presentation on climate denial and eco-stress to a bunch of energy executives.
Here are some great resources for digging deeper on climate change feelings:
Gen Dread (Britt Wray’s newsletter)
Good Grief Network (here’s the Facebook link)
Climate Psychology Alliance (North America)
Psychology for a Safe Climate (Australia)
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Read Me a Poem - “Wait” by Galway Kinnell
Amanda Holmes reads Galway Kinnell’s poem, “Wait.” Have a suggestion for a poem by a (dead) writer? Email us: podcast@theamericanscholar.org. If we select your entry, you’ll win a copy of a poetry collection edited by David Lehman.
This episode was produced by Stephanie Bastek and features the song “Canvasback” by Chad Crouch.
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