This episode also has a little glitch of repeated tape in it. Dang. Never noticed that before. Or else I uploaded the wrong version of the file …
Several of my NCSSM kids have in fact signed up for the newsletter, which is exciting.
Original Website Blurb from 2011
This one's a little late. I won't go into why, beyond saying the next time you're stuck in a slaver's camp outside the walls of Mereen, whatever you do, don't drink the river water. Walk to the well.
Speaking of the bloody flux, I started reading this year's A&T Text-in-Community book, Planet of Slums, during morning jazz at the Tate Street Coffee House yesterday. How I'm going to approach this mass of statistics with my math-phobic students, I am as yet unsure. Probably it will involve this:
If you have any ideas, please let me know.
Updates from 2021
My then-colleague Allison Walker (a common name in NC, and on LinkedIn, with 835 other entries!) has apparently made Professor at High Point University, where I currently am, waiting for the Watermelon Soiree to kick off the Governor’s School social season. She writes about service learning, among other things.
I’m not sure it’s fair to say the barefoot running debate continues, beyond the small circle of enthusiasts. The news cycle has certainly moved on. I cut it from the interview, other than the joke about hippies, but Allison was in fact a fan of the shoes with toes. This website, although not updated in a long time, is fairly detailed and seemingly objective. Daniel Lieberman is still at Harvard, doing multiple kinds of evolutionary skeletal research.
My sound editor at the time seems to be writing for a small-town newspaper and running her own photography business.
REFERENCES from the show
https://ugapress.org/book/9780820319803/nature-and-madness/
https://archive.org/details/ShepardNatureAndMadness/mode/2up
I tried the text-to-speech feature and did not like it.
https://pokemondb.net/pokedex/national
My kid, now 19, cares about Pokemon only nostalgically.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_sign_language
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_period_hypothesis
VSI Episode 13