This episode explores two cases when we have realized that what we thought was common sense – well – wasn’t.
Guest essay – Scott Lough, “The Weirdness of Time” (part 1)
- for further reading:
- Anthony Aveni, Empires of Time: Calendars, Clocks, and Cultures (UP of Colorado, 2002).
- Scott Lough is a husband, father, Montessori teacher trainer, educational consultant, science writer, lay preacher and resident of Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, in Canada.
Host essay – “Quantity vs. Quality”
- for further reading:
- Michael Adas, Machines as the Measure of Men: Science, Technology, and Ideologies of Western Dominance (Cornell UP, 1992).
- Marcia Ascher, Mathematics Elsewhere: An Exploration of Ideas across Cultures (Princeton UP, 2002).
- Zakes Mda, The Heart of Redness: A Novel (Picador, 2003).
- Marguerite Poland, David Hammond-Tooke, and Leigh Voigt, The Abundant Herds: A Celebration of the Cattle of the Zulu People (Fernwood Press, 2003).
- Keith Thomas, Man and the Natural World: Changing Attitudes in England, 1500-1800 (Oxford UP, 1983).
On the Shelf:
- Roberta Bivins, Alternative Medicine?: A History (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2007).
Audio credits:
All music on this program courtesy of the Podsafe Music Network, except where noted.
- Sunburn in Cyprus, History (intro & outro)
- Happy Gemini 3, Pondering the 10th Planet (transitions)
- Ichiro Nakagawa, Slightly Different Flow of Time (during first segment)
- nurse, Daylight Savings Time Again (following first segment)
- Daniel Berkman, Heartstrings 2004 (during second segment; courtesy of Magnatune)
- Thee Phantom 5ive, Cattle Swagger (following second segment)
- Sound effects courtesy of the FreeSound Project:
