Curious Insights from History: Recent Episodes
John Walker
A fast podcast that is all about gaining understanding, finding inspiration, and maybe laughing a little at some curious insights. The ideas come from more popular non-fiction books. John Walker is the host.
A good discussion of two guys eating a nice meal and talking about life, wars and noble living.
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This is over a year old. I kind of forgot about it. It is my take on interesting inventions and what I believe is the greatest invention of all time.
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A brief discussion of medical advances and the associated darker resources that help with those advances.
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A look a a couple of real life examples of trying something new.
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We start with the arrogance of John Adams. We end with the first amendment.
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We discuss the telling of the truth by a pair of famous historical figures. Is lying such a bad thing? Some say telling a few fibs is a normal development. An honest youth might grow up to be not so honest as an adult.
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It is amazing how looking back some things appear obvious. Yet at the time, no one really noticed.
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This episode is a curious blending of war and medicine. A fascinating start to one branch of cancer treatment. I like it. I hope you will too.
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A discussion of a sad day in American history and a man named Silas Soul.
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Excessive punishment sometimes results in extreme reaction!
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The definitive word on Civil War monuments. Or at least one opinion on one Civil War hero,
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A Russian Spy from the 80's is discussed. How he did what he did and why.
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The fascinating story of Alfred Nobel. How he went from dynamite king to originator of the Peace Prize.
List of Nobel Prize Winners:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates
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Today we talk about a book by Upton Sinclair called The Fasting Cure. It is an old book, but is amazingly modern considering the recent understandings of what fasting can do for health.
This is a good general article about water fasting:
https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/water-fasting
This is the actual text of The Fasting Cure by Sinclair Lewis:
http://apache2.pum.edu.pl/~fasting/upton.pdf
This is an interesting podcast on intermittent fasting: https://www.ihmc.us/stemtalk/episode-79/
STEM talk is one of my favorite podcasts.
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Sometime bad events lead to better outcomes.
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A discussion of slavery and black soldiers during the Civil War.
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A very confident young man and his exploits.
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The story of a great scientist and his humble beginnings
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Why it can be an advantage to be an underdog.
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A discussion of a characteristic of dogs and Harry Truman
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A discussion of the annual reenactment of a famed Explorer.
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A discussion concerning two disasters. Actually two duel disasters.
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Why we must be critically vigilant and the famous person from history that took this advice to heart.
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