Give your commute (or your run, or the baby’s nap time) a boost this week with five great podcast episodes from around campus. In our first roundup, you’ll find stories that just might have you seeing something in a new light—from the animated films of your childhood to Victorian sex surveys to what your Twitter language says about your health.
Podcast Mix #1, curated by Stanford Alumni
You may not realize it, but Disney has influenced how you view the natural world. You’ll never see Bambi the same way again. Generation Anthropocene, a podcast about planetary change, is a collaboration of Stanford’s School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences and Worldview Stanford.
What can we learn about our well-being from our digital text trail? In this episode, discover how Twitter language correlates with heart disease, hear what insights can be captured in crisis counseling text conversations and get a glimpse of the future of therapy. Raw Data is a Stanford podcast about how big data and technology are transforming society, produced by Worldview Stanford and supported by the Stanford Cyber Initiative.
What does belief in something mean for our lives? How are we changed by it? Hear stories about belief and what it can do. “Believing” is an episode of State of the Human, the radio show of the Stanford Storytelling Project, which shares stories that deepen our understanding of single, common human experiences all drawn from research into Stanford community.
Stanford professor Clelia Mosher polled Victorian-era women on their bedroom behavior — something nobody had thought to do before—then kept the startling results under wraps. This episode features the voice of Herant Katchadourian, emeritus professor of psychiatry and human biology. Stanford Out Loud is produced by STANFORD magazine.
To the rise of social entrepreneurship, punk rock offers a narrative by breaking sideways in a world that tends to go straight ahead. With the immensity of today’s global challenges, Ned Breslin argues that the story arc of punk—its relentless push for change—offers important insights into how social entrepreneurs operate everywhere, whether they like punk rock or not. Produced by Stanford Social Innovation Review.
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