Archetype ATLAS Podcast: Recent Episodes

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• Archetype ATLAS Podcast: Episode 29 - “The FOLKSPUN Tribe: Khadi Cloth”
• NOTES:
• Meet the FOLKSPUN Tribe.
• Khadi is a Hindi word for cloth spun and woven by hand locally; can be cotton, silk or wool. Gandhi made it into a political declaration of economic self-reliance.
• Indian designer Gaurung Shah has teamed up with local weavers to revive khadi and make it popular with the fashion crowd.
• Aequam memento rebus in arduis servare mentem – Horace
• email: archetypeatlas at gmail
• music: Exotics by Kevin MacLeod, Incompetech.com

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• Archetype ATLAS Podcast: Episode 28 “Yellow Makes for a Cheery Fellow”
• NOTES:
• Freesia (Pantone 14-0852) - a bright floral yellow is one of the Top 10 fashion colors for Spring 2014
• Yellow is associated with jealousy, envy, betrayal and cowardice as well as optimism, sunshine and pleasure; the yellow pigment on the horse in the Lascaux cave is estimated to be over 17,000 years old; Vincent van Gogh famously sung the praises of this sunny hue in a letter he wrote from the south of France to his sister in 1888. (via)
• Aequam memento rebus in arduis servare mentem – Horace
• email: archetypeatlas at gmail
• music: Shades of Spring by Kevin MacLeod, Incompetech.com

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• Archetype ATLAS Podcast Episode 27: “Jesus Loves it When U Pole Dance”
• NOTES:
• Hallelujah! Christians Pole Dance for Jesus in Texas
• Let them praise His name with dancing (part of Psalm 149)
• History of Pole: Chinese, Indian & Western - International Pole Dance Fitness Association
• Aequam memento rebus in arduis servare mentem – Horace
• email: archetypeatlas at gmail
• music: Virtutes Instrumenti by Kevin MacLeod, Incompetech.com

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• Archetype ATLAS Podcast: Episode 26: “Clowns are Creepy”
• NOTES:
• A creepy clown is on the loose in Northampton!
• The History & Psychology of Clowns Being Scary -Smithsonian.com (August 2013)
• Shakes the Clown starring Bobcat Goldthwait (1991) - best clown movie. ever.
• Aequam memento rebus in arduis servare mentem – Horace
• email: archetypeatlas at gmail
• music: Virtutes Instrumenti by Kevin MacLeod, Incompetech.com

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• Archetype ATLAS Podcast: Episode 25: “Dangerous Bonds that Bind”
• NOTES:
• Researchers from Aarhus University put heart rate monitors on people participating in a firewalking ceremony, as well as onlookers who were friends & family and audience-members that were strangers. They found the heart beats of the friends’ and family members’ in the audience beat almost as one with their friend/relative firewalking, thus documenting social bonding in a clever experiment. (via)
• text of the paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
• Aequam memento rebus in arduis servare mentem – Horace
• email: archetypeatlas at gmail
• music: Virtutes Instrumenti by Kevin MacLeod, Incompetech.com

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• Archetype ATLAS Podcast: Episode 24 - “Food for Jealous Thought”
• NOTES:
• Eating together involves socially bonding…it’s never “just” lunch - It’s Not Just Lunch: Extra-Pair Commensality Can Trigger Sexual Jealousy by Kevin M. Kniffin & Brian Wansink PLoS ONE 7(7): e40445. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0040445 (via)
• Social bonding in the tight-knit Italian-American community of Roseto, PA protected the members against heart attacks, despite what they ate and other lifestyle choices usually associated with heart attacks. (via)
• Aequam memento rebus in arduis servare mentem – Horace
• email: archetypeatlas at gmail
• music: StyleFunk by Kevin MacLeod, Incompetech.com

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• Archetype ATLAS Podcast: Episode 23 - “The Suits Maketh the Man”
• NOTES:
• “The thing with Eli Gold [played by Alan Cumming] I wanted to look like if you touch him he would shatter. He’s so uptight! He wears mostly Dolce & Gabbana, Versace and Paul Smith. I wanted him in two-button suits that feel very snugged to create that stiff look. Normally when a guy buttons a suit jacket and there are two buttons, he buttons just the top. Eli buttons both…it made sense because if he was going to have 10 buttons, he would button them all up. That’s his thing. His collar and tie are always done up, practically strangling himself. There’s always a perfect knot on the tie, and it’s just like relax, dude.” - costume designer Daniel Lawson of “The Good Wife” (via)
• Aequam memento rebus in arduis servare mentem – Horace
• email: archetypeatlas at gmail
• music: StyleFunk by Kevin MacLeod, Incompetech.com

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• Archetype ATLAS Podcast: Episode 22 - “I Dream of Ayahuasca”
• NOTES:
• “Everywhere I looked: darkness so thick that the idea of light seemed inconceivable. Suddenly, I swirled down a tunnel of fire, wailing figures calling out to me in agony, begging me to save them. Others tried to terrorize me. ‘You will never leave here,’ they said. 'Never. Never.’“ - Kira Salak in Peru: Hell and Back (National Geographic, March 2006) describing her experience taking ayahuasca.
• Ayahuasca is a Quechua word which means “vine of the soul”
• ayahuasca artist Pablo Amaringo
• more on various hallucinogens, including ayahuasca:
• Aequam memento rebus in arduis servare mentem – Horace
• email: archetypeatlas @ gmail
• music: Opium by Kevin MacLeod, Incompetech.com

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• Archetype ATLAS Podcast: Episode 21 - “Food on the Brain”
• NOTES:
• in the 1950s, scientists were able to induce mice to eat whether or not they were hungry by electrically stimulating the part of the brain that drives primal urges including aggression, sexual behavior & eating - called the lateral hypothalamus
• more recently, scientists isolated the pathways between the lateral hypothalamus and the area dealing with emotion, the amygdala, and began stimulating these bridge-pathways aka BNST synapses; when their BNST synapses were stimulated, the mice gorged & when the pathways were shut down, even food-deprived mice had no interest in eating.
• source: J. H. Jennings, G. Rizzi, A. M. Stamatakis, R. L. Ung, G. D. Stuber. “The Inhibitory Circuit Architecture of the Lateral Hypothalamus Orchestrates Feeding.” Science, 2013; 341 (6153): 1517 DOI: 10.1126/science.1241812 (via)
• Does this mean we could actually solve overeating and in particular binge eating?
• Aequam memento rebus in arduis servare mentem – Horace
• email: archetypeatlas @ gmail
• music: Laid Back Guitars by Kevin MacLeod, Incompetech.com

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• Archetype ATLAS Podcast: Episode 20 - “Choose Your Words with Care”
• NOTES:
• Hubristic language indicates a personality changing - and not necessarily for the better. Researchers publishing in the journal Cortex evaluated the speech used by Prime Ministers Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair & found it became distinctly hubristic as their terms went on. “Linguistic biomarkers of Hubris syndrome” - September 2013 (via)
• When describing their crimes, psychopaths tend to use more words pertaining to reaching a goal (“because”, “so that”) as well as physical needs, including money, food & sex. “Hungry Like the Wolf: A word-pattern analysis of the language of psychopaths” by Jeffrey T. Hancock, Michael T. Woodworth, Stephen Porter. Legal and Criminological Psychology, 2011; DOI: 10.1111/j.2044-8333.2011.02025.x (via)
• Aequam memento rebus in arduis servare mentem – Horace
• email: archetypeatlas @ gmail
• music: Laid Back Guitars by Kevin MacLeod, Incompetech.com

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• Archetype ATLAS Podcast: Episode 19 - “Would you move to the ‘Burbs?”
• NOTES:
• A new study shows that while an increasing proportion of the world’s population lives in suburban fringes, they are developing much differently than the post-war years of their initial sprawl. The Future of the Suburbs by Jill L. Grant, Arthur C. Nelson, Ann Forsyth, Michelle Thompson-Fawcett’s, Pamela Blais, Pierre Filion - in Planning Theory & Practice, 2013; 14 (3): 391 DOI:10.1080/14649357.2013.808833 (via)
• full text of The Future of the Suburbs
• Aequam memento rebus in arduis servare mentem – Horace
• email: archetypeatlas @ gmail
• music: Laid Back Guitars by Kevin MacLeod, Incompetech.com

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• Archetype ATLAS Podcast: Episode 18 - “Generation X Out Climate Change”
• NOTES:
• An ongoing study being conducted at the University of Michigan is finding increasing amounts of apathy & disbelief about the issue of climate change amongst the Gen X group.
• Aequam memento rebus in arduis servare mentem – Horace
• email: archetypeatlas @ gmail
• music: Laid Back Guitars by Kevin MacLeod, Incompetech.com

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• Archetype ATLAS Podcast: Episode 17 - “Last Earthling: please turn out the lights!”
• NOTES:
• Earth is about 4.5 billion years old - barring nuclear war or something like a crazy asteroid, how much longer before it enters the “hot zone” and no longer is habitable?
• Aequam memento rebus in arduis servare mentem – Horace
• email: archetypeatlas @ gmail
• music: Laid Back Guitars by Kevin MacLeod, Incompetech.com

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• Archetype ATLAS Podcast: Episode 16: “Power to the Underdog”
• NOTES:
• Geena Davis reminiscing about how women reacted so strongly to the 1991 movie Thelma & Louise
• “The Pursuit of Hopefulness: Operationalizing Hope in Entertainment Media Narrative,” by Abby Prestin in Routledge Journal’s Media Psychology, 2013 (16 (3): 318 DOI:10.1080/15213269.2013.773494) via Science Daily
• Aequam memento rebus in arduis servare mentem – Horace
• email: archetypeatlas @ gmail
• music: Laid Back Guitars by Kevin MacLeod, Incompetech.com

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• Archetype ATLAS Podcast: Episode 15 - “Lego to the Gadget-Tossing Rescue"
• NOTES:
• When one part of your phone breaks or needs to be upgraded, you have to throw the whole thing away. Which is a monumental waste & one of the biggest sources of electronic garbage, a growing waste stream. Dutch inventor Dave Hakkens has devised a modular phone solution called Phone Blocks: http://phone-blocks.com/
• Aequam memento rebus in arduis servare mentem – Horace
• email: archetypeatlas @ gmail
• music: Laid Back Guitars by Kevin MacLeod, Incompetech.com

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• Archetype ATLAS Podcast: Episode 14 - “Why Thin is In”
• NOTES:
• brief history of American obsession with dieting in the 19th century
• Sarah Lohman, “historic gastronomist” - Four Pounds Flour
• Thomas J. Barratt (1841-1914) the “father” of advertising
• Aequam memento rebus in arduis servare mentem – Horace
• email: archetypeatlas @ gmail
• music: Laid Back Guitars - Kevin MacLeod, Incompetech.com

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• Archetype ATLAS Podcast: Episode 13 - “Bon Appetit”
• NOTES:
• blog by Ron Shaich, founder, chairman & CEO of Panera Bread about participating in the weeklong SNAP challenge
• Jon Bon Jovi Soul Kitchen Community Restaurant
• FEAST: Why Humans Share Food by Martin Jones (Oxford University Press; 2007) - a review
• Aequam memento rebus in arduis servare mentem – Horace
• email: archetypeatlas @ gmail
• music: Cuillin by Kevin MacLeod, Incompetech.com

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• Archetype ATLAS Podcast: Episode 12 - “The Opera Goes Matrix”
• NOTES:
• MIT MEDIA LAB: Opera of the Future research area explores concepts and techniques to help advance the future of musical composition, performance, learning, and expression.
• Death and the Powers: US Premiere March 18 - by composer Tod Machover and developed at the MIT Media Lab, in collaboration with the American Repertory Theater and Chicago Opera Theater. It is a one-act, full evening work.
• Death & the Powers website
• Aequam memento rebus in arduis servare mentem – Horace
• email: archetypeatlas @ gmail
• music: Cuillin by Kevin MacLeod, Incompetech.com

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• Archetype ATLAS Podcast: Episode 11 - “Ground Control to Major Foster”
• NOTES:
• ARCHITECTURE ON THE CARPET: The Curious Tale of Construction Toys and the Genesis of Modern Buildings (Thames & Hudson, 2013)
• Meccano (erector) building sets
• Sir Norman Foster on playing with Meccano & still making presentations using 3D (via)
• Aequam memento rebus in arduis servare mentem – Horace
• email: archetypeatlas @ gmail
• music: Cuillin by Kevin MacLeod, Incompetech.com

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• Archetype ATLAS Podcast: Episode 10 - Song of Walter White
• NOTES:
• Idiocracy by Mike Judge
• Breaking Bad (AMC)
• Leaves of Glass - Poetry Foundation; by Kera Bolonik, former arts editor for Salon
• full text of “Leaves of Grass” by Walt Whitman (Gutenberg)
• Aequam memento rebus in arduis servare mentem – Horace
• email: archetypeatlas @ gmail
• music: Opium by Kevin MacLeod, Incompetech.com