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Seeking Engagement at the Intersection of Psychology, Environment, and Culture

http://lftlc.com/carriage/InDeep_AngieCoiro_160217W_Lertzman.mp3 To download this episode, begin playback by clicking the 'play' triangle, hover over the black player bar, right-click or CTRL-click on Mac, and select 'Save Audio As.' Show #117.1 | February 17, 2016 | Esteemed academic and author Dr. Renee Lertzman explores the challenges of societal engagement in her new book Environmental Melancholia: Psychoanalytic Dimensions of Engagement. Guests: ...

Mortal Remains, Society, and Culture Throughout History

http://lftlc.com/carriage/InDeep_AngieCoiro_160213F.mp3 Show #117 | February 13, 2016 |In The Work of the Dead, University of California professor and author Thomas W. Laqueur explores why cultures have never been indifferent to mortal remains. Even in our supposedly disenchanted scientific age, the dead body still matters--for individuals, communities, and nations. Guests: Author Thomas W. Laqueur discusses his latest The Work of the Dead: A Cultural History of Mortal Remains. He is the Helen Fawcett Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley, and his previous books include Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud and Solitary Sex: A Cultural History of Masturbation. He is a regular contributor to the London Review of Books. Permalink for this podcast here....

Language of Food for Linguistic Pleasure

http://lftlc.com/carriage/InDeep_AngieCoiro_160206F.mp3 Show #116 | February 6, 2016 |In The Language of Food, Stanford University professor and MacArthur Fellow Dan Jurafsky peels away the mysteries from the foods we think we know. Why do we eat toast for breakfast, and then toast to good health at dinner? What does the turkey we eat on Thanksgiving have to do with the country on the eastern Mediterranean? Can you figure out how much your dinner will cost by counting the words on the menu? Guests: Author Dan Jurafsky, Professor and Chair of Linguistics and Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University. He is the recipient of a 2002 MacArthur Fellowship, is the co-author with Jim Martin of the widely-used textbook Speech and Language Processing, and co-created with Chris Manning one of the first massively open online courses, Stanford's course in Natural Language Processing. His new trade book The Language of Food: A Linguist Reads the Menu came out on September 15, 2014, and was a...

The Crossroads of Medical Ethics, Human Rights, and Religion

http://lftlc.com/carriage/InDeep_AngieCoiro_160130F.mp3 Show #115 | January 30, 2016 | This month, a California court upheld the right of Dignity Health hospitals to withhold health treatments that conflict with its Catholic standards. The ACLU plans to appeal. And Washington state law requiring pharmacists to dispense prescriptions regardless of their personal convictions may be headed to the Supreme Court. What happens when the rights of a patient - usually a woman - conflict with the moral standards of the individual charged with her medical care? Guests: Phyllida Burlingame, Reproductive Justice Policy Director with the Northern California ACLU. Burlingame’s a nationally recognized expert on sex education advocacy, and she has led the ACLU-NC’s work on this issue since 2001. A summa cum laude Harvard graduate, she is the steering committee chair of Bay Area Communities for Health Education and a member of California’s Adolescent Sexual Health Working Group and the Fresno Regional Foundation’s Teen Pregnancy Prevention committee. David DeCosse is Director of Campus Ethics Programs, Markkula...

From Effeminate Texan to the Few, the Proud, the Marines

http://lftlc.com/carriage/InDeep_AngieCoiro_160123F.mp3 Show #114 | January 23, 2016 | In this land before Gay Pride became almost a national holiday, can a flighty, 112-pound, effeminate Texan transform into one of the few, the proud, the Marines? The Pink Marine: One Boy’s Journey Through Boot Camp to Manhood is the story - full of hilarity and heartbreak - of how a teenage boy who struggles with self-acceptance and sexuality finds self-worth in Marine Corps boot camp. Guests: Greg Cope White is a television comedy writer. He's written for Norman Lear, Marta Kauffman & David Crane among others, and for shows airing on NBC, ABC, CBS, FOX, and HBO. He's not a doctor but he played one on Another World. He's a world-traveling bon vivant with a voracious appetite for life. He puts his funny where his mouth is, blogging on EatGregEat, The Huffington Post, and is featured on the Cooking Channel's Unique Sweets. Permalink for this podcast here....

The Complicated Future of Waste

http://lftlc.com/carriage/InDeep_AngieCoiro_160116F.mp3 Show #113 | January 16, 2016 | Recycling is such a norm in some cities it's easy to think that's true all over the US. But some cities still don't have curbside pickup. And for those that do, questions and conflict about. Residents might be surprised to find out how many "recyclables" end up in landfills. Emphatic critics of popular "all in one bin" collection see it as more harmful than helpful. Then there's the untapped potential of trash-as-resource. Can the tons of refuse produced worldwide realistically be a source of energy or reclaimed resources? Do landfills harbor buried treasure? Guests: Bea Johnson is the author of Zero Waste Home, and the blog of the same name. She endorses living simply and with minimal waste through the 5R's: Refuse, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, and Rot. Grand Prize winner of The Green Awards, she speaks at universities, corporate events and conferences internationally, and opens her home to educational tours and the...

An Oral History of Workers Who Built the Iconic Golden Gate

http://lftlc.com/carriage/InDeep_AngieCoiro_160109F.mp3 Show #112 Hour 1 | January 09, 2016 | Moving beyond familiar accounts of politics, celebrity engineers, and designers, Building the Golden Gate Bridge: A Worker's Oral History by Harvey Schwartz gives the voices of the workers themselves center stage. The survivors vividly recall the hardships, hazards, and victories of constructing the landmark span during the Great Depression. Guest: Harvey Schwartz has compiled oral histories of nine Golden Gate Bridge workers. Their powerful recollections chronicle the technical details of construction, the grueling physical conditions they endured, the small pleasures they enjoyed, and the gruesome accidents some workers suffered. The result is an evocation of working-class life and culture in a bygone era. Schwartz also features women: two nurses who cared for the injured and tolerated their antics, the wife of one 1930s builder, and an African American iron worker who toiled on the bridge in later years. All these powerful stories are accompanied by stunning photographs of the bridge under construction....

Best of 2015: Raising an Adult (Julie Lythcott-Haims), Vietnam: The People Make the Peace (Frank Joyce & Judy Gumbo), Ghost Quartet (Dave Molloy), Fire on the Mountain (David Lutkin)

Some news! KALW-FM in San Francisco has added In Deep to its lineup, broadcasting Tuesday nights at 9PM. For our first show, January 5, 2015, we put together a one-hour "best of" retrospective with highlights from interviews with Julie Lythcott-Haims, Frank Joyce and Judy Gumbo, Dave Malloy, and David Lutkin. 2015 was a great year for us, with many fascinating guests. We hope you enjoy this sample of our 2015 shows. permalink here...

The Evolution of Autism, Rendered Poetically and Empathetically in Neurotribes

http://lftlc.com/carriage/InDeep_AngieCoiro_151121A_H1.mp3 Show #111 Hour 1 | November 21, 2015 | Award winning science writer Steve Silberman turned his incredibly successful TED talk “The Forgotten History of Autism” into the 2015 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction, NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity. Guests: Steve Silberman is an award-winning science writer whose articles have appeared in Wired, the New Yorker, and many other publications. His writing on science, culture, and literature has been collected in a number of major anthologies including The Best American Science Writing of the Year and The Best Business Stories of the Year. Silberman’s Twitter account @stevesilberman made Time magazine’s list of the best Twitter feeds for the year 2011. Silberman also won a gold record from the Recording Industry Association of America for co-producing the Grateful Dead’s career-spanning box set So Many Roads (1965-1995), which was Rolling Stone’s box set of the year. Permalink for this podcast here....

An Unconventional Novel and Protagonist Put Hotels of North America on Notice

http://lftlc.com/carriage/InDeep_AngieCoiro_151121A_H2.mp3 Show #111 Hour 2 | November 21, 2015 | Journalist, musician, self-proclaimed Life Coach, and novelist Rick Moody explores today’s ‘reviewer’ culture with a quirky, unreliable protagonist in latest novel, Hotels of North America. Guests: Rick Moody is a contemporary renaissance man. His novels include Garden State, The Ice Storm (adapted for film, directed by Ang Lee), Purple America, The Diviners, The Four Fingers of Death, and his latest, Hotels of North America. Moody’s radio pieces have appeared on The Next Big Thing, Re:Sound, Weekend America, Morning Edition, and at the Third Coast International Audio Festival. His album Rick Moody and One Ring Zero was released in 2004, and The Wingdale Community Singers, in which he plays and write lyrics, have released two albums. He lives in Brooklyn, New York and teaches in the Creative Writing program at NYU. Permalink for this podcast here....