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On Being with Krista Tippett
"margaret mead" Discussed on On Being with Krista Tippett
"Hello again, Christa here. With the third part of this small series that is centered around words and ideas, which have emerged across 20 years of conversation here on on being with wise and graceful lives. These are four what I might think of as tethering understandings for being alive and walking into the callings of this world now. Today, I'm going to talk about time. I don't really think there's any more fascinating subject. And there's surely been nothing more intriguing in all the years of on being than coming close to people who think and work. And help the rest of us get inklings. Of the different scales and forms of the true nature of time. There is geological time, deep time, cosmic time, evolutionary time. And all of those are interestingly akin to a religious, prophetic imagination, the long arc of the moral universe that Martin Luther King Jr. invoked. The ancient Greeks have two very different words for time, and one is kronos, and that is time as we feel it in our bodies and in our lives and have tried to organize our world around. That is the stuff of clocks and calendars. Time as we can measure and plan and really want to rely on as kind of an arrow that's always moving forward. And then there is chiral time. This is an in breaking. A moment that disrupts everything that came before. Everything you thought you knew, it can be the telephone ringing. And hearing something that will change at all, Cairo's moments are these pivot points when the questions you're asking, holding, living, utterly change. Life is suddenly unalterably defined or really separated into a before and an after. And of course, when we speak of a Cairo's moment, it's a moment with a capital M, it can be a minute, it can be a century, and I've come to feel increasingly that this is a way to speak of this young century we inhabit this post 2020 world. That we are in a chiral moment as a species. So this is all a very grand way to speak of reality. But the beautiful and mysterious thing I've experienced in all of this way of thinking and imagining this way of cracking time open and seeing it's true manifold nature is that this actually expands my sense of the possible in the here and the now. It actually sends us right back to work with the raw materials of our lives, understanding that these are always the materials even of change at a cosmic or a societal level. And so as I investigate time, I have also been gathering intelligence and understanding of how generative transformation happens in human life and in society. And I've come across many teachers and gifts of practice in of language. I'll just name a few for you here. The great 20th century sociologist Margaret Mead gave me this image that there are in human society in many times and places what she called evolutionary clusters. And these are small groups of people who become more in these for her words, more propulsive, conscious, and responsible. She is also known to have made this statement never doubt that a small group of committed people can change the world, in fact, that's the only way it's ever happened. I think also of the wonderful civil rights elder Vincent Harding, who talked to us on being about what he's seen in so many places and communities that really gave birth to life and possibility he spoke of live human signpost. I think of the journalist gal beckerman who looked back at history and also in more recent history and kind of named the fact that what we see as big events as ruptures as revolutions as progress, these things always had a long what he called a long, quiet before of decades or of centuries, where that change was fermenting. And I think too, of Adrian Marie Brown, who is a 21st century next generation emergent strategist. And how she and people in her world are taking language from mathematics about fractals, this reality in nature that patterns at a small level repeat at a large scale. And this becomes a way to talk about the outsized, importance, even if we're not aware of it of what we're doing at the granular level in our lives in our present. And finally, the phrase that I want to leave with you here that in my mind captures all of this is from a friend and teacher to aunt being, John Paul lederach. Who is actually a global peace builder, a person who knows as much about conflict transformation as anyone alive in our world who has been present and who has participated over decades on multiple continents where real social transformation, real cultural evolution has happened. And the image
WNYC 93.9 FM
"margaret mead" Discussed on WNYC 93.9 FM
"The next all of it, actor John boyega's first breakout role was as Finn in a Star Wars trilogy. Now he's delivering what some are calling the performance of his lifetime in the film breaking. Boyega plays a veteran pushed to the edge. He and director Abby demers Corbin join us to discuss. I'm Alison Stewart joining me for all of it weekdays at noon. On WNYC. This is morning edition from NPR news. I'm Leila faulted. And I'm Steve inskeep, when a man stabbed the writer Salman Rushdie this month, he was about to give a public lecture. He was at the chautauqua institution in western New York. Chautauqua has a storied place in American life. There was a chautauqua movement dedicated to sharing arts and culture across the country. It is the definition of openness. The attack is forcing chautauqua to reexamine how open it should be. Jim's a rolling reports. Several hundred people stand under a hot sun waiting to get into the chautauqua institution amphitheater to hear acclaimed musician Rhiannon giddens. Visiting this lakeside resort with its narrow streets winding past gingerbread trimmed Victorian houses is like a journey into the past, but there's an all too modern element here, metal detectors. Keep on walking through, just keep a few inches between each other as you walk through. The rusty attack has forced chautauqua to introduce unprecedented security measures. It's a jarring intrusion into a friendly and gentle community that values intellectual curiosity and openness. Chautauqua is as close to utopia as you're ever going to get. Liz Culkin of buffalo is a longtime visitor to chautauqua who now lives here full time. Though you can swim in boat here if you want, what sets chautauqua apart is its long list of daily events concerts and classes and religious services and Culkin takes advantage of as many as possible. I max out at 9 a day. If I go to the morning service and end up at the amp at night, it's from 9 o'clock in the morning till about 10 o'clock at night. You're exhausted when you go to bed. The list of famous people who've come here is long and impressive. Booker T. Washington, Margaret Mead, Susan B. Anthony. In 1936, Franklin Roosevelt spoke here on the impending crisis in Europe. I have seen children starving. I have seen the agony of mothers and wife. I hate wrong. And there have been lots of artists everyone from Duke Ellington to Yo-Yo Ma. Before Kim hartney came here, she didn't know how much of the arts she was missing. It's a place that restores our souls because of the music and the dancing and the lecture that just enriches our lives every day. Should talk what was founded in 1874 as an uplifting vacation spot for middle class Protestant families. Hundreds of imitators soon sprang up. These days all faiths are welcome, renting a house here can be expensive, which is one reason chautauqua skews older. There's lots of gray hair here. But the essential mission hasn't changed, or at least it hadn't until August 12th, retired teacher rich Lewis witnessed the worst of the attack. And it was all over and probably, you know, 20, 30 seconds. I couldn't see a knife from where I was sitting, but I could see him attack or pummeling the victim over and over again. After the attack, Louis says some people were crying, some people were just standing, like I said, in shock because they couldn't believe it had happened, especially here. That's something you hear over and over again here. This kind of attack has never happened before. It's always been a safe place. Prime is not a has never been a significant factor at chautauqua. Michael hill chautauqua's president is facing questions about whether chautauqua did enough to protect rusty, who was under a fatwa's writing the satanic verses in the late 80s. Hill says the institution had consulted with local police and the FBI about security before rusty's talk. It is always easy to Monday morning quarterback after something's happened, but what is not an accurate statement is there is no security there that day. Since that day, chautauqua has temporarily stepped up security. But the institution is struggling to decide how much of a fortress it wants to be long-term. Chautauqua would not be chautauqua if it turned into what looked like a police state. It would rip at the very fabric of who we are and what we believe about the world. A lot of longtime visitors here like Barbara cassetta say the attack hasn't fundamentally changed. Their views of Chicago. So I think it was an aberration. I don't think that it's something I would expect, but then America today, you don't know what to expect. That's an idea commonly expressed here. Shiitake is supposed to be a place that looks outward to be true to itself. It needs to engage the world, not hide from it. And sometimes the outside world is going to intrude in an ugly way. For NPR news, this is Jim zoli. 25 years ago, on a Sunday morning, people woke up to this
TED Talks Daily
"margaret mead" Discussed on TED Talks Daily
"Be it in the United States or elsewhere. This first and foremost necessitates resettling refugees who are currently waiting in camps around the world to reach a place that they can call home. It also calls upon the international community to increase quotas for Afghan allies to accept more at risk Afghans for permanent resettlement and to expand programs like humanitarian parole. To generate more pathways for those in need. Third, as we find pathways forward for these individuals, we must not separate families. We must preserve them. Or at the very least create strict limits for the amount of time that families can be separated from family separation like mind generate irreparable harm. But clear and specific change to existing admission policies can ensure that other miners do not face the same fate that befell me and my family. Fourth, and this is the most important of them all. We must reestablish an international diplomat diplomatic presence in Afghanistan to hold Taliban accountable for their actions and provide counselor services to the people. It opens channel to address Taliban's actions rather than cutting off isolating and eliminating avenues for influence. And I have witnessed what engagement with the Taliban can look like firsthand. The negotiations that resulted in my release from captivity were the direct result of effective diplomacy with the Taliban on the world stage. Diplomats spoke to each other openly and resolved an issue of mutual concern. And while the success of these discussion is perhaps an anomaly, the kind of diplomacy demonstrated by my release can and should serve as a model for achieving other desired change for the future of Afghanistan, such as the restoration of girls education above grade 6 freedom of press, bolstering women's rights and most urgently increasing humanitarian assistance. At the same time, at the same time, or diplomacy can't be a blank check, the Taliban must live up to their end of the bargain to demonstrate that they are ready to engage in diplomacy as an actor that upholds basic human rights that ensure necessary freedoms and that does not take or hold hostages. At the end of the day the situation in Afghanistan is an extremely complex one. It can't be summed up in an 8 minute talk I wrote four days ago emerging from captivity. Yet there are tangible solutions and I'm in the privileged position of being able to advocate for them, but I'm here today to tell you that you are too. The truth of the matter is especially in the case of Afghanistan change has always and will continue to start with everyday people. This fall tens of thousands of people from around the world banded together at the grassroots level to aid Afghans in need. You don't need to be an expert to engage to volunteer to contribute to lobby to even simply welcome a refugee to advocate for them. As Margaret Mead once said, never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has. On the afternoon of my release ten days ago, I at long last climbed out of my basement cell. And into the sunlight without anything binding my hands are covering my eyes. I could see the sky. I traveled out of the prison through Kabul city in corolla sedan. I passed the American embassy and arrived at Kabul international airport. I walked onto the tarmac, I climbed into the C 17, I shook hands with American Qatari and British diplomats. And suddenly I was a free man again. But again, I was one of the lucky ones. Ultimately being a captive reminded me of a time when I was helpless and needed a voice. Now that I'm released, I have my voice back and mercifully. It puts me in a position where I can advocate for that little boy with the Statue of Liberty patch on his unit, CR donated genes chasing the American Dream. I hope you'll join me. PRX.
The Doctor's Farmacy with Mark Hyman, M.D.
"margaret mead" Discussed on The Doctor's Farmacy with Mark Hyman, M.D.
"Prizes. We trust you, your verified. We've done the due diligence. We've spent over 15 years and $6 million finding all of these organizations. So now it's about helping them thrive and then doing flow funding experiments of direct giving to them and then they become grand tours to their networks. Wow. So it's really about multiplier effect. It's about direct getting it's about reparations. It's about putting the money and the power in the hands of people who have been exploited and oppressed and marginalized by the patriarchy for way too many generations. So this is sort of a marketplace for people who are already acting and doing the right thing that are going to make the big difference to change things. And re generosity is a platform for people to access a way to support those existing innovations that are already making a difference. Yeah. Support and also learn from. Because it's all about reciprocity instead of saying, oh, I have financial capital saying everyone is rich. Everyone is a wealth holder. We just hold different forms of capital. And these people have natural capital experiential capital intellectual capital, cultural capital, social capital, all of these things, but they can't play in the modern economy because we all care about currency. And so it's about kind of recalibrating to these 8 forms of regenerative capital and reorienting and rebalancing. Which is partially what we try to do at region network as well. That's great. Now, you probably know more about this than almost anybody on the planet. In the top probably 1% of the amount of stuff you know about this, which please make you go to bed and never get out of bed. And yet you're kind of hopeful. Talk about your vision for a hopeful regenerative future. You know, it's easier to laugh in public than cry. But I cried almost every day about this stuff. Yeah, it's at once the greatest joy I've ever experienced to work on this work and also brings me such tender hearted but wholeness of recognizing and facing where we are with the world. And so I think it's holding that shadow and light both that enables me to stretch into the light. And yeah, like I said before, I'm option. The grand variety of futures and multiverses ahead. Most of them point to a lot of disaster, if not collapse. And 60% of climate scientists are saying somewhere between three and 4° by 2100 and they're not even talking about the clients of temperatures. And so it's actually only a small portion of us who are talking about 1.5 even still being possible. 1.5° C above pre industrial levels of warming. And so we still have that option though. It's still possible. Even though it's the window of opportunity continues to close. Because we're not even slowing down. On a lot of these trends yet? Yeah. Even though we've known for generations now? Yeah. But there's still an option. There's still an option. And so that's what gives me hope and it's more of kind of an engineer's approach of we need to maintain homeostasis in order for all of these other things to be able to exist in the world. And so that's kind of the base foundation of it all. And so there's an option. Let's go. It's like exit path through a burning building. Yeah. And then in doing that, it generates value, as you said. So as soon as I think about this conversation, it makes me kind of think a little bit about our healthcare system because our current healthcare system is one in one in $5 of our economy. 80% of that. One in $5 of the 16 trillion is completely preventable. And if we fix our food and if people eat healthy, these are completely preventable conditions. Right. And so we're literally throwing money out by not doing the right thing and continuing to pay for all the downstream consequences. And the downstream consequences of not addressing climate change right now are even far more drastic than what we're facing in healthcare. Yeah. And yet the flip side is that by doing the right thing, it really can be solved. Yeah. And solved in a generation. It can be solved in a generation. I mean, my hope is that my niblings, my nieces and nephews kids will never have to know how scary it was right now. Yeah. Well, I'll be laughing and having fun. Yeah. Yeah. And that by doing this work too, by doing it in a good way where unwinding capitalism and colonialism at the same time, right? It's like the all three seas, not just climate, but always a good thing. Just don't work anymore and that's why we're seeing all these different cousin gormans and threats of democracy and capitalism. It's really interesting. Right. Right. And climate is a threat multiplier on top of all of these really fragile political conditions right now. And so how do we, yeah, look at the whole system, climate is but a symptom of a series of broken systems upon one another. And so we're in a pivotal moment where if we all act. Individuals, governments, business, philanthropy, we really could shift this. And it sort of, but it actually, it actually can be shifted by a very few people doing the right thing. Quote, Margaret Mead who said often that never doubt that a small group of highly committed individuals can change the world. In fact, that's the only thing that ever has. And so I always feel like, you know, where am I going to do my one thing where am I going to give my value? And if I ask myself that question every day, how can I make the world a little bit better place? What are the choices I make differently? How do I reimagine my life? How can I be regenerative in my life instead of extracting in my choices in my boats with my dollars, my voice, my vote? It does make a difference. It really does make a difference. And we've seen massive movements in cultural shifts that we never imagined. Slavery, we think of slavery, for example, our entire economy was based on slavery. It was a Civil War because of it. Hopefully it won't end up in that situation, but that the entire economic fabric of America was based on slavery. And now it ended. So this is not an impossible thing. So I think we're in this really beautiful moment and I just thank you for your work. It's so selfless and dedicated and I know it's cost you a lot in many ways of your emotional well-being, but I think I hope at the end of it we're going to see a place where we can all dance and celebrate together. Yeah. I like to talk about and in 2053 when the earth cools according to the latest drawdown model that will have the biggest party ever. So instead of being apocalypse preppers, we could be party preppers. Party prepper. I love it. Okay. And people can learn more about your work and go to Reddit for generosity world and help support that. Yeah, also regen.
Food Psych
"margaret mead" Discussed on Food Psych
"And so they did. What a great idea. But when the war was over, they terminated her board. They got rid of Margaret Mead and her whole task force, but they kept just the nutrition scientists. And I think that's where one of the root problems is, as we have taken out that part that we don't eat in isolation and just a moment ago I was talking about the biochemical biological aspects and now if we add in all the social aspects of this and all the allostatic load, the stress impact of racism and stigmatization, all these types of things and how it raises cortisol and impacts so many other things. It's really complex. And I don't say these things to depress people, but to say that if you think one food's going to kill or cure you, there's not really been much research to show those types of things, unless you're talking about a peanut allergy or you're talking about arsenic or something contaminated in a food and I think it does a disservice to our mindset and we move away from the cultural connection like let's break bread and just eat, you know? And share and relate to each other and so on and not apologize about what you're eating or explain. Why you're eating what you're eating, you know? I think we'd have more connection. So well said, I so agree and I think we'll put a link to unite us's work in the show notes. I don't know if I'm saying that correctly either, but I've read a lot of what he's written with great interest and also started to feel like nutrition really is more of a philosophy or a worldview than it is a real science, a hard science with actual evidence of what we're that can guide what we should do because at the end of the day it misses so much nuance and so much humanity. That cultural connection that we have to food, the ways that we connect over food. The ways that we have access to food, constrained and limited by our culture by our position in society, our socioeconomic status or race, or all of these things. It's a lot more complicated than just, you know, people who eat more of X food live X years longer. Well, yeah, and then you bypass what the big problems are. You're telling everyone just to eat better, but when someone doesn't have access to food or they don't have clean water that's not contaminated, we're not giving solutions for that. And one thing that's been criticized, or criticisms we've had with intuitive eating so what about access? I think it's a really good question. Or what about people in marginalized bodies? I've had some great conversations. You know, I've had people say, no, conversation with some fat activists that, you know, it's one thing if somebody has thin privilege or their straight size and they make peace with food, they make peace with their eating and intuitive eating is a kumbaya experience. But you take somebody in a marginalized body, let's say, a.
The Astral Hustle with Cory Allen
"margaret mead" Discussed on The Astral Hustle with Cory Allen
"More aware of your surroundings and the other things that are going on. But because you're not actually trying to force something from your own point of view, you can relax. It's not there's no agenda, as you said, the witness, is that kind of an idea, to where you can actually just be, first of all, an observer, but really, truly a participant. You become more of a participant than you are when you're contracted. Yeah, absolutely. And I always find that rebalancing the mind in that way, particularly if you're feeling anxious. It's good to do if you're just enjoying yourself as well. But if you're feeling anxious or kind of tight about something a freaked out and then zooming out in that way, it really exposes the absurdity of the fact that your uptight at all. It's like, wait, this kind of hairless classy, fancy monkey, stuck to a rock floating in the middle of infinity. In this rock has been around for 3 billion years and I'm this little wiggly kind of fleshy wave of consciousness that has this minute little lifespan amongst billions of us. Why am I worried about typing this email properly or whatever? This is so it just turns into laughter because the absurdity of the fact that as you mentioned earlier, how strong our minds are that they can wind this up with a story that seems so real and so the stakes are so high that we get so pulled into it that we lose track of just the true nature of reality. And this allows us to breathe in and out with our perspective. And we can, you know, at times, yes, it's totally appropriate to be completely engaged, and at times it's not, or it's no longer useful, or it's just adding stress to a situation. So you can disengage and lapse into another easier way of being. My father had a very funny thing that he said, which was, you know, people were always coming to him with, you know, people from the free speech movement or whatever. They say, Alan, it's a huge problem. We've got to jump into action. Even Margaret Mead did this with a campaigning about nuclear weapons. Alan, you know, we need to align ourselves get a crusade going, and blah, blah, you know, and he said, oh, I don't know, you know? I have a theory that when somebody presents a problem to me, particularly, say, a business that I'll let it sit for 30 days. And see if it resolves itself. And Margaret, of course, would say, oh, you know, you have no love for your future generations and this is kind of scare me. Pretty agitated about this. You might push the button first to keep somebody else from pushing it. And see in their lies sort of the key to it. And it was really funny because he repeated this story while he was on tour in Japan to a group of people about this letting things go for 30 days. And he said, you know, some people would bother me about it, but some people understood what I was doing. And his third wife, jano, chimed in, but Alan, I've never done that. And he says, yes, dear, I know..
Oh No Ross and Carrie
"margaret mead" Discussed on Oh No Ross and Carrie
"And not everybody gets married. So yeah, there's a lot of ways to play with the numbers. So I could find numbers that sort of supported that. Once you get to your third marriage, the divorce rate is 75%. Okay. But that's not the way he was saying it, so. Yeah. I maintain. Sounds high. Also, that person and God bless them. It feels okay with divorce. The person who's divorced three times. They might be living with them. They've gone through it before. Yeah. I always think of Margaret Mead the anthropologist. She was asked at one point something along the lines of, well, what's it like to be such a successful? Woman, but also in your personal life, you've had three failed marriages. And she said, no, no, I've had three marriages. None of them were failures. I feel like that's the kind of thing that would have really lit my brain up in college. I was like, what? Right? You can look at it that way. Right, right. Interesting. Then he's talking about how lovemaking is always really good at first when you first get together and then it's once a week and then it's once a month and then it's once a year. So he says that there's three most important things in a relationship. Okay. Proximity, proximity. And proximity. Wouldn't that be funny if it was like two of the same ones and then one other proximity proximity and refrigerator. So then he goes into orgasm and we're going to talk about sex for a little bit just in case you want to avoid that. I guess skip forward four minutes. You prude, you freaking prude. And here's how he was painting, he was saying, like, it used to be considered mature love making for you to get the woman really excited. Then you immediately enter her. Okay. But he said, that's no good guys, 'cause then she's immediately desensitized. Bad plan. Okay. And then he warns us he gives his own little sex warning like, hey, by the way, if this is going to be TMI, the following is X rated, you can just step out now. This is the problem for you. One person just stands up and leaves. That would be great. That person was me. He said, guys, okay, so let's say she's got a firm grip going and you're getting close. And then she stops and starts kissing you. Are you gonna hit the O in this time we know what letter he's talking about? All right, okay. And no, of course not. This is so true. Yeah. Okay. Oh yeah, but this is his thing. And all of this is going to be very heteronormative. Sure. I'm sure if we were to ask him about more nuanced views of gender and sexuality, he would want none of it. Oh, okay, yeah. That's my sense. Interesting. Maybe I'll get the chance to talk to him about it. So he says, do you remember that movie, Sally met Harry? She faked, oh, you could tell he just, he was replaying the scene in his mind and he loved it. He's like, oh, she faked. So well. And so many women fake, so he talks about some of the numbers there. But not with me. Now with me, they don't. To his credit, he didn't quite say that, though. I think he maybe insinuates that later. So he talked about being on a panel with Nick gray, though, that's the author of men are from Mars when we are from Venus. John gray. And apparently that guy will blurb anybody who's talking about relationships in any way, shape or form. I immediately think of rhythm. I think he either went and spoke it with me or maybe blurbed Jerry's book. I feel like he shows up so much in our investigations, but anyways, he also blurs. The Simon true, by the way, did you know men are not from Mars and women are not from Venus? Wow, wow, wow. Yeah. I just learned this. Where else could they come from? They're all from earth. The organisms that we refer to as men and women. Yeah, are all from earth. This planet? Yes. I know. And yet the sensors at the book lords didn't stop him. Jason Delgado. And yet Jason Delgado stops Nick Delgado, and by the way, Jason silgado, I looked 90% sure it's his son. Okay, oh, there's a story there. I want to hear it. No kidding. Anyways, they were on a panel together and he pointed out like the women's reactions in the audience like guys, your women are all laughing at this. This is a problem. They're also faking. And then he said how orgasm and some religions, it's like being in the presence of God. When you're about to have an orgasm or when you're tasting food, very present, it is like being in the presence of God, I guess that was the point there. But then he gives us some other dismal poll results. Apparently 85% of women said they never achieved orgasm. Wow. Or a lot of women would say, I guess with a partner or they would say that he leaves and then I pull out the vibrator to get there. Okay, but still 85. That seems high. Sounds high. This is kind of the thing like where 85% of drivers say they're above average. So apparently 95% of men think that they're great lovers. Oh good, good for them, if true..
Dishing Up Nutrition
"margaret mead" Discussed on Dishing Up Nutrition
"I'm a registered and licensed dietitian, and often when I first start seeing a new client who is in menopause, they will often complain of being tired all day. And they just can't shake that fatigue. I know you have the same experience Britney with you. Absolutely. I hate that many times. Yeah, it's miserable. So what can cause menopausal fatigue and what can we do about it? Today, I want to start the show with a quote from Margaret Mead who is a well-known anthropologist from the 60s and 70s. She was frequently featured as both an offer, author, and a speaker. She says, there is no more creative force in the world than the menopausal women with zest. Margaret Mead was a menopausal woman with zest herself. She did not experience the fatigue that most menopausal women I feel are experiencing today because she ate real food Britney. Good morning. Brittany, you work with a lot of women who experience hormonal issues, such as PCOS, fertility issues, PMS, and women in menopause. I certainly know you're my 9-1-1 hormone help. But I have a client that I'm stumped with. So what are women looking for in a nutrition plan? When they talk to you? Yeah, well, first of all, good morning. Happy to be here. Yes, I have a special interest in hormones, so I tend to get many of those clients. And as a registered and licensed dietitian, I often get that question from women and perimenopause or menopause, how do I get my energy back? You know, a lot of people say they just don't feel like themselves. And so today we plan on answering these questions and your food choices and nutrition have a lot to do with how you feel. Absolutely. And that's that's what we're going to talk about today. Here's another quote from Margaret Mead. I often share this with my clients because I find it helpful. Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else. Everyone is unique. And I truly believe that. Everybody is so unique, if they're biochemistry is unique, and each one of us need our own personal eating plan based on our genetics. Our stress level, our likes and our dislikes, of course..
Car Talk
"margaret mead" Discussed on Car Talk
"Hello and welcome to card talk on national public radio with us click and collect the tappet brothers and with broadcasting this week from the fall foliage observation deck here at car talk Plaza. Speaking of the foliage deckers on the first floor this year. This is all the leaves I've already fallen, you know, it's a little late. I'm glad you brought up the subject of leaves. Yes. Because did you want me to leave? No, I wanted to ask you a question. Here's the question. Our plants really that stupid. I mean, everything most grateful philosophies are based on some illusion allusion to nature and the magnificence of nature. And I heard someone say the other day that because this has been a particularly warm autumn. Flowers are beginning to bloom when they were supposed to not bloom. They think it's spring again. And my question is, a plant that stupid? I thought plants were the ultimate in intelligence. Now, one with nature. They are nature. You mean nature isn't perfect and you can fool it by just throwing in a couple extra degrees and while it's come out? Sure, of course. Oh, okay, just fold you, huh? Actually, you want to read something funny? Not but I'd like to hear something. Here's an article sent to us by Bill Kent from Pennsylvania. He says, as NASA's Magellan probe, this is a, it looks like The Wall Street Journal. As NASA's Magellan probe approaches its 2500th orbit around Venus, it's spreading the interplanetary fame of female earthlings because the international astronomical union, the scientific group, which is charged with designated newly found heavenly places, has chosen to recognize distinguished women by giving their names to craters and other features now visible as Magellan's radar imaging device penetrates Venus's dense clouds. Interesting, huh? To help out a public nomination process for crater naming is being coordinated by the U.S. geological survey. And some names that get raised some women who have been nominated include the Dutch diarist and Frank. The American anthropologist Margaret Mead, and none other than Norwegian skater. Sonya. And Bill writes at the bottom. He says, dear brothers, I can see it all. Picture if you will, to concentric craters on Venus. The inner crater is named Sonja hennie and the other one is what? Her 2000. Three three two 9 two 8 7 hello, you're on cartoon. Hello, who says hello, this is Bill from Florida. Bill. Hi, Bill. What's up? Well, I've been having some problems with my 1987 Honda prelude. I take it out on a trip and about an hour into the trip, the air conditioner starts putting out mostly fog and a few minutes after that, it's not working anymore. Oh yeah. Not working. Meaning working at all, you know, it's just like not putting out any cold air at all and after you stop in the car shut down for, I don't know, 30 minutes to maybe an hour. And you started up again, it works again for a while. No kidding. Yeah. Okay, you say it's purple problems. Puts out fog, but the fog it puts out has no smell or taste or what are they called? He licks the dashboard. It's blowing in your face, right? Right. It had a somewhat of a taste of salty air, but I was driving along the beach at the time. And that's exactly what it was. Water vapor. Yeah. I mean, I don't think that has anything to do with the air conditioner itself. I mean, it may be that it was preceded the things not working. But the reason you got fog is that the air in the car was just so moisture laden that it was condensing when the cold air hit it. And that's what the fog is. You were making clouds in your car. We were like 30,000 feet. I could still see, you know, but barely. That's bad, huh? No, I mean, so I don't think that necessarily means that there was something wrong with the air conditioner or it means in fact that the air conditioner was working. And what was wrong was that you were in a very, very humid area. Right. But it did stop working after that. Maybe they're not related. Maybe they're not related. Okay, so when it stopped working, did air keep coming out of the vents, but it wasn't cold? Right, the fans still ran and there was air coming out the vents, but it was not cold. I did have it checked at a service station, and he said the ten to there said, they put it on a tester that they thought the high pressure switch was cutting out or something. I'm not that familiar with it, but that's something about the high pressure switch, but he recommended not bypassing that because it could cause other problems. Well, the precious which really means reads the amount of free on pressure that's in the system, and if it's not enough, it won't allow the compressor to kick in. Right. And they do that so that if you develop a system leak, you won't run the compressor dry and crook it. Right. Well, he was able to bypass that switch and get the compressor to run properly. And the cold air come out. No. Yes. Yes. Yes. And that's good. With a switch not bypassed. The compressor didn't run at that time at the time he checked it. And there was no cold air. Good for him. That sent me that's good because now you've narrowed it down, you know that the compressor does work because the other thing that it might have been was the compressor itself. It was in fact the other came out really cold or was it just colder than the haughty that had been coming out. It was a sufficiently cold. Do you feel it was working the way it had been?.
Real Estate Coaching Radio
"margaret mead" Discussed on Real Estate Coaching Radio
"Important this time of year as really, at the end of the day, some of you, like Julian and I made this mistake for a long time in our professional lives, we didn't intentionally, and that's the key word. Take time off during the holidays. And that meant that when the new year rolled back in, we hadn't really reset ourselves. We hadn't given ourselves an opportunity to take a breath, and we were hard driving and figured we didn't need it, but the accumulation effect of not having taken deliberate downtime especially this time of the year. It does cost you in the first quarter of the following year. And I wish Jillian and I would have discovered something like this when we got married 30 years ago when we were building our businesses because this would have really, I think, helped us to shift our mindset away from being hard drivers just long enough for us to have a little breath that into enjoy this time of year. And so Julia, I really appreciated this topic. I always fun writing it, and I think that part of my intention here is to help our listeners do what we try to do intentionally, and that is to build good habits of gratitude instead of just saying, hey, you know, it's getting Thanksgiving timer. It's getting holiday time of year. Let's get into gratitude. Just have the attitude of gratitude for the entire year and to get into some really good habits. We should tell them in case you guys hear noise in the background. It's because we are in our cabin in the mountains of where Kevin and the smoking mountains basically and it is raining pretty hard outside and this cabin has a metal roof. So if you guys hear any sort of pitter patter in the background, it's probably Zoe or our frenchie maxi. Our squirrel's running across the ceiling or squirrels, but it's most likely rain. So forgive us for the background noise. Hopefully it'll lend to the ambiance of the holiday season. As well. So Cicero called gratitude, the parent of all virtues. I think that's a good place to start. But the dictionary states that gratitude is the quality or the state of being thankful. Now, in doing a lot of research checking across many different stories, some of them modern some of them, so I actually read something this morning about Keanu Reeves of all people who had a lot of tragedy actually in his life, his wife died in a car accident, his dad abandoned him when he was three. But he is known for being seen just as a regular guy walking around in New York and just talking to people, buying coffee for people randomly and just giving of himself and has been noted doing that for his whole life. So that's just a little modern snippet. But I pulled out a story about the famous anthropologist named Margaret Mead, some of you guys learned about her in school. Margaret Mead was asked by a student once, what she considered to be the first sign of civilization in a culture. The student expected me to talk about clay pots, tools for hunting, grinding stones, or religious artifacts. But instead, Meade said that the first evidence of civilization was a 15,000 year old fractured femur, founded an archeological site..
Cinemavino
"margaret mead" Discussed on Cinemavino
"And I fucking loved it then and I fucking love it now. Amen. I was just about to say 8 o'clock in your clock, but I was literally thinking, man, maybe 6.5, 7, but I would say for nostalgia, 7 points. It was like when the first one maybe an 8 a lot better? At least a 7.5 or the violence. Yeah. I like the rubber Leonardo swords when he's like hitting a foot soldier. I was like, oh, I just took that guy's head. Wait, no, he just slapped him with a rudder. Wow. Yeah. What do you think? Well, I'm about a 6 and a half, 6 years and halftime when they're because I gave it three out of 5. Oh yeah, totally. Yeah, and I make clear in the review. It's like, I'm biased. There's no way around it. You can't not have nostalgia with this movie. I was like either you grew up in this time period and this movie is magical magical reminder of your childhood or you're too old or too young, and this is poop on a shingle. Yeah. Guys, just be very grateful that we didn't decide to do turtles three. So that's just dog shit. That is poop on the shingle. Yeah. They were really phoning it in. I don't think they brought back Casey Jones. He shows it out. They recast them for the third one? No. No, they make the same fuck. Yeah. Yeah. Be the change you wish to see in the world. Margaret Mead, or whoever? I think I was born with a king. Those Margaret Thatcher. The only thing that can redeem at the tape. That's cooperation. Bertrand Russell, not with a bang with a whimper. There you go. Tune in next time. We're going to do the line in winter. Yeah. And we thank you all so much. You can listen rate and subscribe at Apple podcasts, Spotify, or anywhere, podcasts are available. Our website is at cinema vino dot net and reviews of these movies can be found at Todd wofford movies dot com..
Leadership and Loyalty
"margaret mead" Discussed on Leadership and Loyalty
"You know what i think it is. This is for ordinary people in whatever role they might be an especially for for corporate leaders. i think is to realize that our responsibility is not just to our immediate institution. Responsibility is to the broader society to our community to our country to the world in which we live wherever you find yourself. Be aware of your agency as a human being your agency to change the institution in which you operate to change your immediate surroundings your community not to change your society to change out woo. Because i think fought who often we go through. Our lives fought to passively and margaret mead. Who was an extraordinary anthropologist. The first woman to be awarded a phd at harvard. If i'm not mistaken said right at the end of our head life. History is changed by the actions of small groups of thoughtful committed citizens. It has always been the case and it always will be. We'll all citizens of the world the will doesn't oscillating our responsibility to the world is to make it a slightly better placed than when we were born into it. Wonderful thank you andrew. I hope you'll stay with us to the end. I really appreciate you being with us. It has been a pleasure and honor sir. Thank you and utilise remember. You can hang out with other conscious leaders. You can chat about this episode. You've been listening to past episodes. You know facebook and linked groups. Just look for the leadership loyalty podcast. You know the truth. The matter.
Tamarindo
"margaret mead" Discussed on Tamarindo
"Love that. Yeah that that's that's really my my heart in it. We we love that money. We think that's very very aligning. We're just so so thrilled that you you're joining us today. And i think someone that's such a wonderful speaker. We've we've observed some of the very thoughtful conversations that you've had on your platform the most on instagram is where the police space that we engage with you. But now on this on this podcast which we're so honored to have you here. You've had some really thoughtful conversations about race and and and identity of course and so that's sort of the focus of today and i thought that a good starting off point would be maybe reflecting a little bit on the most recent conversations that is happening on this in the space for these conversations having which often twitter and the internet so we few weeks ago we had the release of the movie in the heights in. It's the movie adaptation of lin-manuel miranda's musical by the same name and reignited conversations about culturism in the next community. The film is based in dominican neighborhood and it was criticized for its lack of black and dark skin lead roles and now i myself was super excited to see the film. I was celebrating it as a win for latin next representation. But then i was quickly and so. We're a lot of people quickly. It turned into its hind for inner reflection including by lin-manuel who who described the project as feeling extractive when he responded to the criticism about the lack of of dark skinned black representation. Now we don't get it need to get into the film specifically but i think it's a really good jumping off point as folks are thinking about colors and are starting to accept and acknowledge their complicity in it. So maybe we could start there. It is it even fair to say that folks are starting to accept and acknowledge their complicity and colors. And you know what. What are some of your thoughts on this most truthful and most integral or like what i can answer for. My integrity is that. I feel really unqualified to talk about color. Ism and let the community. Mainly because i am mixed and i am light skin. I'm white in that. I'm racially ambiguous people. If i didn't say at though if i didn't say mula people wouldn't necessarily know that i was at the next and there's a she calls herself black puerto rican phd. Her name is rodney simplemente. She talks about people who are light. Skinned like me white passing whatever language you wanna use here as the white minority and i think it's so so important to start with people's whose experiences of color ism that are actually happened. They're having a racist or discriminatory experience. And so i am unqualified. Where because i've never experienced color ism and if i sat here and said yes because lynn and said sorry and that they were apologetic and now that they're going to do better commitment to doing better than it's gone and it's an incredibly harmful. Dare i say gas lighting for a white face to deny or reject effort matinees or latin next afro indigenous black and brown peoples experiences that something similar is assist person assist gender person. Somebody who is not trans said to me on a podcast or somewhere that i was listening into that transphobia done right or at least people are starting to be rest transphobic just because now people are putting their pronouns in their signatures or pronouns in their bios when the reality for trans women trans men gender non-conforming gender queer people is that we're getting targeted not only by legislation at an astronomical rate but also by direct violence twenty twenty. One is going to be the most violent year of our history so far for trans people being murdered and so as much as i want to say or believe that color ism is vanishing because now we have white faces that are willing to acknowledge the ways in which they'd been complicit in things like representation in things like hollywood it would be so so harmful if said as somebody who has never experienced color ism but i think people are getting it. Yeah totally and i appreciate first of all educating us about the awful fact that this is a very violent year against trans people this year. That that is alarming. And i think we're going to get into that a little bit in a in a moment i. I'm glad that we're talking about this. And i really appreciate you saying that like someone who has an experienced racism at i i share with you the way i present in the world as a white person. That's how i present or someone that at least gets people get confused. What kind of racist. They should be to me. And i wanted to talk about that because you know i think a lot of people that share the way we navigate in this world with this beige skin often will have observed and especially with this in the heights situation. This sort of centering of like well. No i can't. I can't possibly be racist because people in my community are of all colors or so. There's this this notion of sort of like the automatic is to get defensive and center. Self so i kind of want to put a pin on that and i'm going to bring up something in. Maybe we could kind of go back to that. That thought so. I just recently spent some time in mexico city with shayla. We spent some time in mexico city. And you probably have experienced this when you travel sometimes when you travel the algorithm feeds you. What's going on locally right. So it turns out that in mexico city at the time last week there was a well was trending was a harvard. Academic name reels. Who posted an info graphic. With the heading ed relatio- this senate whiteson right. The privilege of being whites again. The graphic includes data from a twenty nine hundred oc sem of mexico report showing how light skin and white mexicans benefit from there from higher wages crater educational opportunities and better jobs. We posted that same graphic on our channel on windows. Instagram generated a lot of comets mostly from people agreeing with the notion that white privilege exists and acknowledging that color ism and racism exists in mexico not surprisingly though there's always there was also aj plus article showing that some mexicans and you could probably imagine what kind of mexicans find the term white skin to be itself racist and divisive and so they're centering their own feelings rather than focusing on the real issues raised by the oxfam report. So i want to share this reason antidote because it seems that even countries outside of the. Us are having this moment of reckoning as it relates to race but also like in the us. there are those of you these conversations as divisive and it's really not unlike what's happening here in the us around critical race theory. So i would love to get your thoughts on this notion of censoring self and how that gets in the way of the real progress when it comes to our goal or effort at least goal that we have here on marino to build more inclusive spaces. So how does century and self get in the way of that. I think it absolutely. Does i think that in any movements spaces whether you're fighting across borders whether you are you're fighting undocumented folks to have rights here in the united states whether you're fighting disability whether whatever it might be whatever 'cause food sovereignty etc whenever caused that you're committed to. I think that they're fundamentally has to be a d- investment of self talk about this all the time in my work whether it's about ally ship or wealth. Redistribution is that. It's an aunt natural as a human race to be so fixated on self. And why do i say that. There's actually an anthropologist. Margaret mead in the fifties and sixties who had a noted that the start of civilization as we now know it almost sapiens rate when we started. We actually used to die like back in the day. We used to die because her femur bone broke so we wouldn't be able to forage food or honda run from predators etc. We that was A death sentence and the start of civilization We now know it as she knows started when we stop dying from our femur bones because another human would help us. They would see that we were in pain. And you know there's no allied ships sticker. There's no hashtag. Blm in your bio. There's none of that. It was just rooted from the right thing to do seeing another human suffering. And i see this all the time and even in the lgbtq community in the queer community were you know bisexual women or men or queer men gay men queer women will often senator themselves and say well what about me. What about my cane. And i often like to think about even like going to the hospital. The emergency room doctor. We'll get many different types of patients into the emergency room and prioritizes based on who is suffering and hurting the most. If you have somebody with a sprained wrist and somebody who's bleeding out the doctors obviously going to choose the person who was bleeding out. It's as ish a waiting room. The person with a sprained wrists or the spring able was like. Hey hey what about me. What about what about my you know what about my pain and such a great example. Such a great way to put it. Yeah thanks. And i think that there's an opportunity for us to re to not route so much of our community and so much of our care in scarcity when i mean my scarcity i mean a fear that your needs will not be mess and i just want to reassure anybody. That's listening to this. Are in everything about how our society is designed is to remind you that you are in lack of you are in lack of money so you need to have a job. You are in locker beauties in need all of these things and so we're constantly desperate for our needs to be met in this way is not true and hasn't been true for us as a civilization as as a human race that we have actually come very very far away from the days that margaret was referring to where we were just carrying for one another because it was the right thing to do and so i am unsurprised. Surprised that white beans or white mexicans are upset or that are like hey this is you know reverse racism and we have to be really engaged in in critical thinking and being able to be like who gave us this idea that we are all one race in but that changes somehow upon entry into the united states. Where you who. Who gave us the idea that we're all mixed that we all have african ancestry that we all have indigenous atms history and that's why racism can exist and who those narratives actually support who those stories actually help. Who do they uplift. And if we're not thinking about things critically we're not even thinking about the way that we show up in conversations or in community and we consistently consider ourselves we are actually doing the very colonial the very white thing which is to not care about anybody but ourselves.
Tamarindo
"margaret mead" Discussed on Tamarindo
"Love that. Yeah that that's that's really my my heart in it. We we love that money. We think that's very very aligning. We're just so so thrilled that you you're joining us today. And i think someone that's such a wonderful speaker. We've we've observed some of the very thoughtful conversations that you've had on your platform the most on instagram is where the police space that we engage with you. But now on this on this podcast which we're so honored to have you here. You've had some really thoughtful conversations about race and and and identity of course and so that's sort of the focus of today and i thought that a good starting off point would be maybe reflecting a little bit on the most recent conversations that is happening on this in the space for these conversations having which often twitter and the internet so we few weeks ago we had the release of the movie in the heights in. It's the movie adaptation of lin-manuel miranda's musical by the same name and reignited conversations about culturism in the next community. The film is based in dominican neighborhood and it was criticized for its lack of black and dark skin lead roles and now i myself was super excited to see the film. I was celebrating it as a win for latin next representation. But then i was quickly and so. We're a lot of people quickly. It turned into its hind for inner reflection including by lin-manuel who who described the project as feeling extractive when he responded to the criticism about the lack of of dark skinned black representation. Now we don't get it need to get into the film specifically but i think it's a really good jumping off point as folks are thinking about colors and are starting to accept and acknowledge their complicity in it. So maybe we could start there. It is it even fair to say that folks are starting to accept and acknowledge their complicity and colors. And you know what. What are some of your thoughts on this most truthful and most integral or like what i can answer for. My integrity is that. I feel really unqualified to talk about color. Ism and let the community. Mainly because i am mixed and i am light skin. I'm white in that. I'm racially ambiguous people. If i didn't say at though if i didn't say mula people wouldn't necessarily know that i was at the next and there's a she calls herself black puerto rican phd. Her name is rodney simplemente. She talks about people who are light. Skinned like me white passing whatever language you wanna use here as the white minority and i think it's so so important to start with people's whose experiences of color ism that are actually happened. They're having a racist or discriminatory experience. And so i am unqualified. Where because i've never experienced color ism and if i sat here and said yes because lynn and said sorry and that they were apologetic and now that they're going to do better commitment to doing better than it's gone and it's an incredibly harmful. Dare i say gas lighting for a white face to deny or reject effort matinees or latin next afro indigenous black and brown peoples experiences that something similar is assist person assist gender person. Somebody who is not trans said to me on a podcast or somewhere that i was listening into that transphobia done right or at least people are starting to be rest transphobic just because now people are putting their pronouns in their signatures or pronouns in their bios when the reality for trans women trans men gender non-conforming gender queer people is that we're getting targeted not only by legislation at an astronomical rate but also by direct violence twenty twenty. One is going to be the most violent year of our history so far for trans people being murdered and so as much as i want to say or believe that color ism is vanishing because now we have white faces that are willing to acknowledge the ways in which they'd been complicit in things like representation in things like hollywood it would be so so harmful if said as somebody who has never experienced color ism but i think people are getting it. Yeah totally and i appreciate first of all educating us about the awful fact that this is a very violent year against trans people this year. That that is alarming. And i think we're going to get into that a little bit in a in a moment i. I'm glad that we're talking about this. And i really appreciate you saying that like someone who has an experienced racism at i i share with you the way i present in the world as a white person. That's how i present or someone that at least gets people get confused. What kind of racist. They should be to me. And i wanted to talk about that because you know i think a lot of people that share the way we navigate in this world with this beige skin often will have observed and especially with this in the heights situation. This sort of centering of like well. No i can't. I can't possibly be racist because people in my community are of all colors or so. There's this this notion of sort of like the automatic is to get defensive and center. Self so i kind of want to put a pin on that and i'm going to bring up something in. Maybe we could kind of go back to that. That thought so. I just recently spent some time in mexico city with shayla. We spent some time in mexico city. And you probably have experienced this when you travel sometimes when you travel the algorithm feeds you. What's going on locally right. So it turns out that in mexico city at the time last week there was a well was trending was a harvard. Academic name reels. Who posted an info graphic. With the heading ed relatio- this senate whiteson right. The privilege of being whites again. The graphic includes data from a twenty nine hundred oc sem of mexico report showing how light skin and white mexicans benefit from there from higher wages crater educational opportunities and better jobs. We posted that same graphic on our channel on windows. Instagram generated a lot of comets mostly from people agreeing with the notion that white privilege exists and acknowledging that color ism and racism exists in mexico not surprisingly though there's always there was also aj plus article showing that some mexicans and you could probably imagine what kind of mexicans find the term white skin to be itself racist and divisive and so they're centering their own feelings rather than focusing on the real issues raised by the oxfam report. So i want to share this reason antidote because it seems that even countries outside of the. Us are having this moment of reckoning as it relates to race but also like in the us. there are those of you these conversations as divisive and it's really not unlike what's happening here in the us around critical race theory. So i would love to get your thoughts on this notion of censoring self and how that gets in the way of the real progress when it comes to our goal or effort at least goal that we have here on marino to build more inclusive spaces. So how does century and self get in the way of that. I think it absolutely. Does i think that in any movements spaces whether you're fighting across borders whether you are you're fighting undocumented folks to have rights here in the united states whether you're fighting disability whether whatever it might be whatever 'cause food sovereignty etc whenever caused that you're committed to. I think that they're fundamentally has to be a d- investment of self talk about this all the time in my work whether it's about ally ship or wealth. Redistribution is that. It's an aunt natural as a human race to be so fixated on self. And why do i say that. There's actually an anthropologist. Margaret mead in the fifties and sixties who had a noted that the start of civilization as we now know it almost sapiens rate when we started. We actually used to die like back in the day. We used to die because her femur bone broke so we wouldn't be able to forage food or honda run from predators etc. We that was A death sentence and the start of civilization We now know it as she knows started when we stop dying from our femur bones because another human would help us. They would see that we were in pain. And you know there's no allied ships sticker. There's no hashtag. Blm in your bio. There's none of that. It was just rooted from the right thing to do seeing another human suffering. And i see this all the time and even in the lgbtq community in the queer community were you know bisexual women or men or queer men gay men queer women will often senator themselves and say well what about me. What about my cane. And i often like to think about even like going to the hospital. The emergency room doctor. We'll get many different types of patients into the emergency room and prioritizes based on who is suffering and hurting the most. If you have somebody with a sprained wrist and somebody who's bleeding out the doctors obviously going to choose the person who was bleeding out. It's as ish a waiting room. The person with a sprained wrists or the spring able was like. Hey hey what about me. What about what about my you know what about my pain and such a great example. Such a great way to put it. Yeah thanks. And i think that there's an opportunity for us to re to not route so much of our community and so much of our care in scarcity when i mean my scarcity i mean a fear that your needs will not be mess and i just want to reassure anybody. That's listening to this. Are in everything about how our society is designed is to remind you that you are in lack of you are in lack of money so you need to have a job. You are in locker beauties in need all of these things and so we're constantly desperate for our needs to be met in this way is not true and hasn't been true for us as a civilization as as a human race that we have actually come very very far away from the days that margaret was referring to where we were just carrying for one another because it was the right thing to do and so i am unsurprised. Surprised that white beans or white mexicans are upset or that are like hey this is you know reverse racism and we have to be really engaged in in critical thinking and being able to be like who gave us this idea that we are all one race in but that changes somehow upon entry into the united states. Where you who. Who gave us the idea that we're all mixed that we all have african ancestry that we all have indigenous atms history and that's why racism can exist and who those narratives actually support who those stories actually help. Who do they uplift. And if we're not thinking about things critically we're not even thinking about the way that we show up in conversations or in community and we consistently consider ourselves we are actually doing the very colonial the very white thing which is to not care about anybody but ourselves.
Photofocus Podcast
Riley Arthur shares journalism and publishing tips
"This schmear young. And i'm joined by my co host. Who's dealing with the frigid. Fifty degree weather in florida right now. Skip cohen own. Showing you get not. I mean it's hysterical. Because it's the way we dress down here like today. I've got on shorts flip flops and a flannel shirt that makes no sense and if the fashion police came by most of us would be arrested. So that is. Let's get into today's program because you end. Our guest are both hanging out in a very cold place in the country right now when it's perfectly appropriate to do a hot podcast. How's that that sounds great because it is twelve degrees right now. Right things that. I'll i'll do my best not complain about having to put the top up. Okay hey seriously. Riley joins us today and she is a testimonial to a combination of the grapevine and social media. And here's the fun aspect of how i got to know riley. A good buddy of mine in boston sent me an. I am and a link to her work and said hey you need to go talk to her so a phone call later. That opened the door to this michigan based documentary photographer. She's an art director. She's an accomplished author. She's a big believer especially in themed projects like her diners of new york. Which is a a personal favourite of hers. And i happen to love the just to if you've lived in the new jersey new york area. Then you know that diners are just an incredible Concept she's a national geographic explorer. She's a fulbright fellow and her work has been published in numerous magazines and is in the permanent collections of seven. Different museums nine. Oh there's probably nothing. Riley can't photograph but as a journalist. What i love most about her work is. it's just about the simplicity of life And sometimes obviously more complex than a complex and less simple in any event riley. If i haven't screwed up something in technology here welcome to the mind. Your own business podcast. Thanks for having me well. It's good to have you here and i really am. I'm outnumbered today. Because i'm always complaining about the weather or or making shamir aware that she's in the coldest place in the country right now and now. The two of you can share that misery law like complaint. It's nice to have some company. Let me tell you and and riley. I'm so excited to chat with you because it sounds like you've had a very interesting journey. And we were kind of chatting in the pre interview chat and it was interesting to learn that you are not originally from michigan. But from the lemme say this right. American samoa correct yes. Correct soren and raised. That's somehow you ended up here in michigan. Where we're just happy to be in the double digits today and so kind of. Let's kick things off by having you kind of tell us about your background. how you ended up doing what you're doing today and just how you got here well since you mentioned where i was Warren raised american saw. I think that would be a great place to start off so you guys might know. American simul from a number of things like you know american football players to you know a variety of other cultural touch points. But you know the first person to make american samoa on the mainstream was the anthropologist margaret mead and some of her photographs and writings about american samoa. so you know and Independent som- so you know. When i was young american sama as i told you earlier is the third wettest is place in the world gets a tremendous amount of rain and one of the things that happens is that mold grows on just about anything including photographs and vhs tapes. You know back when there while people are using those so we had a you know a a system where we would take photographs When our film was ready would send it off to get you know in the mail to get back in the day and we get our photographs back. My mom would fill a photo album and then she sent it off to our grandparents the store because if we kept them on island they would mold in a number of years. We'd have no relics of our family. History so i became kind of fascinated by sort of documenting a place in time and the fact that where we were from. We couldn't really keep our photographs if we wanted them to actually survive more than say three years so that sort of drive to document is really becoming a leading charge in fascination with documenting things and being sort of for that picks niche interests. That might be sort of going away. So that's sort of a long answer to your question How i got started in my career was. I had my senior thesis in my undergraduate degree. I interned at the oregon shakespeare festival as a theatre photographer
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"margaret mead" Discussed on WNYC 93.9 FM
"They learned particular skills. They learned their own capacities and How to trust other people and how to trust themselves. They learn what respect is? Yeah. I'm very interested in the question of how social change happens. How human change happens. Somewhere. You talk about your mother's. Enduring question was what kind of world can we build for our Children? And it seems to me that you are seeing the metaphor of homemaking as Version or a variation on that question. That is Potentially as profound. Or perhaps more more. What is, um Appropriate to this profoundly interconnected world that we inhabit now. You know, um One of the things that biologists have have said about human beings. Is that we retain many of our infant characteristics. Throughout our life. You've heard stories about All the people that wanted to raise a lion in their home people that have wanted to have raised a chimp in their home. Other stories of trying to tame a wild animal. And when it matures. It loses its flexibility. And the relationship breaks down. And there are Typical physical changes that go with maturity and many species that are more dramatic than in human beings Get a lot more hair, for instance. Um And in a sense, human beings remain childlike. They're open to new learning. And even very deep learning that changes your personality, really? Right through the life cycle. Human beings remain playful. Yeah. And play is a very important part of learning. And experimental. Don't most other species. I figure out how how to be a rabbit or a chicken or And I all our fish, and that's what they do for the rest of their life. So learning is us. Yeah. What was your mother's notion of evolutionary clusters? What was that about? Well, you've probably seen that they they slogan that gets quoted all the time. Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world. That's a Margaret Mead quote. Yeah, yeah. We've never been able to find it. And it's the first, uh, adoration in print, but that's the definition of evolutionary clusters. Yes. Uh huh. On and That very often major. Accelerations of change. Came out when a group of people got together and learn together. And dared to think new thoughts. And then passed the mon. And that's you know, that's true of the disciples of Jesus. A small group that How spread out Spreading ideas that they'd learned It was true of The American Revolution. A group of Thoughtful. Columnist. Thinking, actually about French philosophy, mainly And Decided they wanted to be independent. And the point is that the evolutionary part of that Was in the relationships between the members of those small groups. Yeah, Feeding off of each other's Imaginations and insights. And wisdom. And then Spreading them out in the society. Going forward..
Dark Horse Entrepreneur
"margaret mead" Discussed on Dark Horse Entrepreneur
"My parents lost their business. Had it stolen from them so they literally their business partner locked. The doors stole about quarter million dollars worth of equipment. Left us having to sell our house in in a in a bad place. That was the first time. I tried to kill myself. That was age nine started doing drugs and so yeah. I've i've might. My past is interesting. I started studying buddhism. I had a girlfriend who lived on an indian reservation. So i studied indian culture quite a bit. I loved to learn about people. My favorite books have always been historical non fiction. Biographies it funny. Because i'm reading my on these value books that i read when i was a kid. And it's basically. I'll give you an example. We just just read understanding. The value of understanding and the character is margaret mead and she was an anthropologist who really sought to understand human nature and people in the nature of people in different environments. And so. I did that as a child. Now i'm reading those to my son who's six and he loves these and and they're all about values and stuff like that so i had all these mixed messages going on in life. I was very bullied for being i. I grew up in a town that it was not okay to be ju it was. It was not okay to be a big guy. And i had these hormone imbalances and i kept getting bigger and bigger no matter how much exercise i did or or anything just kept growing so i was this oddball out. Who spent a lot of time watching and observing the world. Because i wasn't really allowed to participate in it and i never knew how much that really affected me until i was in adult going hug will check one check shoe check three things that created me when people start asking me. Why are you who you are That was really help began and so at eighteen. I ended up for a year. In portland oregon. Which is very wet and cold and living under bridges and intense and in my car while i was working a fulltime. A graveyard job at seven eleven. I was training as security team in martial arts and at the portland saturday market and I was working at at my school. I ended up going to massage school and it was the best decision i ever made was going to this particular school because the things that fell into my lap were incredible in the industry. See it okay. You got you gotta dig in a little bit deeper right there so What i heard was you were homeless. This is the same timeframe right. Eighteen you're working at seven eleven graveyard shift your Martial arts and you decided to go to massage school and that was the best decision you made why some things fell into place. Obviously well i was paying for the school while homeless But by my third month in the school so the teacher the owner of the school had been a therapist for over forty years. Okay okay so. She didn't.
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"margaret mead" Discussed on WNYC 93.9 FM
"And I was looking for a metaphor. It would allow them to realize that the Ever they were making. Work out a new kind of woman's role was creative that it was an art form. Say life as an improvisation is an improvisatory art exactly. Well, you know, people think improvisation means you don't practice, but I have Ah, cousin. Who was a jazz food ist And I know that jazz musicians practice improvisation by the hour and improvisation is it's a high order of skill. Yeah. You know, you say in composing a life So again, this was some decades ago. This was in the latter part of the 20th century and now we're in the Early decades of the 21st you said in a stable society. Composing a life is somewhat like throwing a pot or building house. In a traditional form. The materials are known the hands move along familiar tasks. The fit of the completed hole in common life is understood. You know what you just said about the The situation of women in those latter decades of the 20th century. Is true of Everybody, just about everybody graduating from college now. That, as you said, the consistent career paths Aren't there for anyone in that. I think that's the case. I mean, I think we now live with constant change. And so They're on stage without a script. Yeah. Yes, and which again? I think just playing with this language and kind of delving into this language of composing and You know, Here's another piece of your writing. I like to think of men and women as artists of their own lives. Working with what comes to hand through accident or talent to compose and recompose a pattern in time that expresses who they are and what they believe in making meaning even as they're studying and working and raising Children. Creating and recreating themselves. You know that metaphor was simply a gift. Bad metaphor. Can create chaos. Literally right? Um, in composing a further life about later adulthood. I talk about what I call active wisdom? Yes, the concept of active wisdom. Yeah, of having a period before. Becoming frail and multiple medical problems the song so forth when you have the harvest of a life of learning and thinking and observing. And at the same time you're still active. I have to tell you, it's wisdom on the hoof. Well, you say there's you talk about adulthood. One The first phase of adulthood, which is what we traditionally have thought of as adulthood. But then, with these suddenly ever longer, productive lives, he's talk about adulthood, too. As a new developmental state, which I like wisdom on the hoof. I think it is. I think it's it's it is so profound a change. Really affect our status as a species. It's something that gives me hope that we will deal with climate change. We will learn. To be more careful with the ways we Used the planet. Um Because what's been happening? Is we've been thinking. Living longer and thinking shorter. We've been accelerating our activities. And Gosh, if we have more people that have lived into a certain degree of wisdom. Maybe we'll think twice. I'm Krista Tippett. And this is on being today with the wise writer Mary Catherine Bateson. She's an anthropologist and linguist and the daughter of the iconic 20th, century anthropologist Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson. Aziz, you yourself have composed your life. I mean, you composed her life You did become a linguist and a and an anthropologist. Which I mean the field which your mother In fact, both of your parents really helped create. Has radically evolved, but you are part of that field, but You know one thing you said about your mother is your mother composed her life. She made her marriage and her family fit into that. Then you've done it very differently. I mean, can I just ask you this? There's this quote of your mother of Margaret Mead that I've Discussed with other people, and I don't know if it's true, so I can ask you now that did she say So? Both of your parents had three marriages. Is that right? Each of them was married. Three. There was very three times and I've heard that your mother said that everyone Has three marriages, even if it's to the same person. Is that true? Um, I haven't ever heard it quoted it exactly that way. Um I think that's that. Adding, even if it's to the same person does make sense E mean You know, marriage. Don't know if you've heard this statistic that the average duration of a marriage In the United States today. Is longer than it was in colonial time. Yeah, because people didn't live as long right? And women died in childbirth. Exactly. Yeah. Divorce could be called a replacement for death. Yeah. I mean, that's a cynical way of putting it. But the point is We think of marriage as As a relationship between 21 Shore people hopefully Who love each other and settle in to Constancy and continuity. And in fact Those two people are growing and changing all the time. Mean, Justus, you have to keep learning your infant. You know from week to week because the infant is growing and discovering things. Marriage requires a constant rhythm of adaptation between two people who are changing. And.
Tara Brach
Our Refuge of Heart space
"So nama stay friend. Thank you for joining us. Really a welcome. Of course to all of you in the united states but also so many different countries that it just always Touches me to see where you're joining in from which means that it can be very late at night. I'm grateful and i'm particularly glad to be together this evening. There's so much Emotion so much intensity so much difficult intensity Living around these elections here in the united states and of course so many of us knowing that even supposedly when the elections are concluded there's not an end to the challenges this country and the world is facing so many fronts. So they're imagining that. As i speak that there's a range of what you are experiencing for some continued kind of anxiety. Fear for some hope some anger some may be feelings of aversion or hatred some grief and a lot more so i wanted to kind of right at the beginning pause. And just invite you to send you know what has been stirred up in you. What's the most predominant feelings. Perhaps that you're experiencing today these moments if you just did a meditation maybe not these moments but in general these last hours and what. I'd actually like to invite you. If you are interested in sharing in the zoom chat to just put in two words that capture perhaps a good amount of what you're feeling right now and i'll be returning back and and sharing a bit from what i see on this chat Later in the talk. So if you're in the mood to words that that express what you're feeling our inquiry this evening is really. How do we hold what we're experiencing. How do we connect to an inner refuge of presence of heart so that we can respond wisely to are hurting world. And there's a phrase. I've always loved From burmese meditation teacher. He describes us cultivating a heart. That is ready for anything a heart. That's not dependent on things being a certain way really has that openness and power presence that were really ready for anything and can respond wisely so just wanted to put that out there something to keep in mind as we explore together. I know for myself the lesson i have to keep learning and relearning and relearning and my own life is that the more things speed out other words. The more things urgen were seeking certainty wanting things to be a certain way afraid that they're not going to be that way the more in those times i need to slow down i need to pass. I need to come back into living presence. So i feel is a real power to us collectively positing right now. Listening together sensing what it means to come home to our heart our awareness. So tonight i'll i'll speak some and then all doing some will do some reflecting together and open it up to some questions. I wanted to Began this talking away with a story. That just keeps coming back to me. And it's about anthropologist margaret mead an years ago. She was asked by a student which she considered to be. The first sign of civilisation culture and the student expected her to talk about clay pots or tools for hunting grinding stones religious artifacts. That kind of thing but now what she said was the first evidence of civilization was a fifteen thousand year old fractured femur. The femur is the longest bone in the body. it links the hip the knee and it was founded an archaeological site and so in societies. That didn't have modern medicine. It would take six months six weeks of rest complete rest for a fractured fewer. To heal and this particular bone had been broken and healed and she said what this means is in the animal kingdom. If you break your leg you die now. There's no creature survives a broken leg long enough for the bone to heal your eating. I saw a healed femur indicates at someone helped a fellow human. They bound the wound. They carried them to safety rather than abandoning them to save their own life. So that's the beginning of civilization as this capacity to care about each other to help each other to sacrifice for each other it's correlated by evolutionary scientists who macken document a brain spur that humans went through ten to twenty thousand years ago where the frontal cortex got more complex and evolved and along with it. There was more communication collaboration and collaboration beyond ken. And that's a really big deal because that means that humans are able to care about each other in what i call widening circles and We're gonna come back to that to the the whole trajectory of evolution being this capacity to include our hearts widening circles of beings and now know scientists. They can actually wire up people to mri's and show us what's happening when we feel a kind of all inclusive care when you may well have touched this in your life where some way or hard open and gets really tender. And you really feel like you're holding all of life that we're all connected and so naro. Scientists can show that when that experience is happening of connectedness of oneness the frontal cortex lights up and there's integration to the whole brain kind of harmonising and in contrast one we feel separate when we feel angry when we feel hateful when we feel like we want to hurt others while the frontal cortex quiets down. And it's really the most primitive part of our brain. Our survival brain that's activated and takes over
BrainStuff
Why Do Some People Eat Dirt?
"Hey, brain stuff, Lauren Vogel. Von here in gas stations and flea markets. All around the southeastern United States, you can find packets or boxes containing crumbles whiteclay in Kenya. You can buy reddish dirt on the street formed into little pellets that look like baby carrots in Uganda. You can buy Yankee doodle brands dirt at the grocery store, a website called earth's. Klay store sells Klay from all over the world and ships them right to your home. But what are you supposed to do with it? When it gets to you. Well, you eat it. You might have a vague sense that you've heard of people eating dirt before pregnant women. Maybe pica is the overarching term for craving and eating things that are not food in the sixth century, see the physician Flavius Asia's noticed people sticking nonfood items in their mouths the way that Magpies pica in Latin pick up random objects in their beaks e figured these people had entirely indiscriminate appetites for just any old thing and termed the behavior after the magpie. It turns out pica is kind of misnomer because pica cravings are actually very specific though. According to the diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders or DSM. It includes a range of behaviors some people crave paperclips, batteries or coins. These potentially dangerous cravings are considered by the DSM to be actual disorders. But pica can also include cravings for Ross starch that's amylase g ice, that's pathogen and dirt. That's geology. Geology is one form of pica found an almost every country in the world. We spoke with Sarah young assistant, professor in the department of anthropology at Northwestern University. She said I was surprised when I first saw it. I was studying pregnant women nog Raphy in Zanzibar. And I asked a woman what she ate when she's pregnant, and incidentally, she said every day, I take earth from this wall and eat it. I was just learning. Sahelian was pretty good at it. But I really didn't think I was understanding correctly. My research assistant was like, yeah. You heard right. Young ended up writing her PHD dissertation on geology and winning the Margaret Mead award in twenty thirteen for her book craving earth, which detailed her research about geology practices worldwide in her research. Young tracked down medical literature historical texts research on animal behavior soil science in parasitology and came to the conclusion that there are four possible explanations. As to why people eat dirt. The most common longest running take on geology is that there's no good reason for it that it's a pathology. It's an aspirin behavior of some unknown origin, young explained, the racism sexism and classism behind that simplistic, take, quote, it's the women they know not what they do explanation. It was basically white men writing about this for the past few hundred years, and it was dismissed as abberant we can refute this. There are so many species of animals that go to great risk to get clan. Charcoal like the coldest monkey that steals charcoal from villagers, but even so we know very little about geology because for centuries. Scientists were stubbornly lacking curiosity about it. When scientists did start looking into it, the first hypothesis they came up with to explain why hundreds of thousands of people worldwide craven eat dirt is that. There must be something useful in the clay micronutrients of some kind young said the mother nature's multivitamin explanation is a really intuitive one. But. Fortunately, it doesn't really shake out for starters. Although the Klay her study participants in Zanzibar were eating was tinged with red indicating iron content investigations into whether that iron could be absorbed and used by the body came up empty, plus according to young people generally prefer whiter Klay. If you give geologist to the option of snacking on Georgia, white Kaelin or the reddish clay found on men's bar. They'll almost always pick the white Kaelin, which does not contain iron. So we turn to another hypothesis could hurt provide protection from germs the explanation that eating dirt somehow an immune system boost might not make sense on the surface. After all we're supposed to stay away from dirt wash our hands cleaner, close take off our shoes when we enter the house, but clay face masks can draw germs and oils and dead cells from your skin, and they're made of dirt. Right. According to young eating clay might collect stuff inside of the gut similar to how a mud mask collect stuff from your face. But why would somebody need an intestinal mud mask? The answer is protection from pathogens and harmful compounds many harmful microorganisms and compounds can enter your body via the things you eat. You digest the food and it's absorbed through the wall of your intestine and into your bloodstream, but lots of potentially harmful stuff can get to his in this way to Klay may stimulate the mucous membranes on the surface of your guts to create more mucus, thus forming a sort of protective barrier against those pathogens and compounds young said, it can also bind with whatever harmful thing you're eating for example, in the Andes people eat wild potatoes, which contain these toxic chemicals called glencoe alkaloids. But after they dip the potatoes in clay, they become safe to eat. But while eating clay might protect from pathogens and harmful chemicals, which is especially important in pregnant women. There's something of Goldilocks principle at play here. You want to shield yourself from the harmful stuff, but you also don't want to protect yourself from the nutrients you need, for example, if you eat a steak that's full of both bioavailable iron and pathogens. But you eat clay at the same time. The iron could also become bound by the clay and wouldn't be absorbed by your gut, although the claim might be protecting you from pathogens to some extent. It's also preventing you from absorbing the nutrients the fourth hypothesis for why people eat dirt or clay is that it might help nausea vomiting and diarrhea by coating stomach after all a number of anti-diarrhea treatments. Have Kaylynn in them. Kaelin puts the KO in kopech tape. Though, the reasons for geology are still rather mysterious young stresses that it's far more common than we realize partially because of those old stigmas against it. Young said people don't like to talk about it or admit it when I'm doing ethnic, graphic interviews. I always ask how much earth do eat instead of do you eat earth? Because so many people have sworn they don't eat it. And later told me that they do, but they lied because I didn't want you to think I was