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Curious? Us too! This podcast is for those who wonder about the universe and human experience. This podcast is produced by a high school social studies teacher who spends his days talking about things... now it's coming in podcast form! We'll talk about world history, public education & how it can improve, and much more. THE PURPOSE IS TO JOIN IN THE COMMUNITY OF THOSE WHO WONDER.
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Monday Jul 19, 2021
Monday Jul 19, 2021
Let's not call it homework... let's call it a FUN project...
You will be recording, logging, categorizing, and mapping WHAT you consume (food, clothes, technology, other) in a week and WHERE it comes from (maps baby, maps).
YOU have CHOICE in how you want to go about doing it.
Friday Jul 09, 2021
Friday Jul 09, 2021
Stevenson breaks down the rules of reality in world history in order to prepare you for understanding WHY the modern world is the way it is.
Ever play Monopoly? Settlers of Catan? Risk?
World history is all of those games together at once...
How do you win? What does it mean to win?
Who will you trade with? What will you trade? What will you do about those pesky (insert neighbor societies) who are growing their army?
Monday Jul 05, 2021
Monday Jul 05, 2021
Before we get into Industrialization, we need to look at what it isn't.
Stevenson takes a brief glimpse into life BEFORE infrastructure, where things (gas, food, water, electricity, etc.) don't come to you.
Monday Jun 28, 2021
Monday Jun 28, 2021
Think about making coffee in the morning...
What is required for you to do this? Water, beans, coffee maker, filter.
BUT... where does that water come from? How did it get to you? How did you coffee maker turn on with a push of a button? Where does that electricity come from?
The complexity of a functioning society runs deep... and don't even get Stevenson started on the complexity of flushing a toilet (x 300,000,000).
Monday Feb 08, 2021
Monday Feb 08, 2021
Jean-Jacques Rousseau published "On the Social Theory" in 1762 and was DROPPING WOKENESS... but is it really?
Stevenson dives into The Social Contract and how one can give up freedom to experience as much freedom as possible... seems contradictory...
How do we reduce the chaos and gain autonomy?
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Monday Jan 25, 2021
Monday Jan 25, 2021
Are humans free? Depends...
How are we free? Thoughts and actions...
How are we restricted? Where to begin...
Stevenson dives into the new unit: Liberty
How does freedom vary around the world and how is freedom restricted? How do different cultures view individual freedom vs the collective good?
Monday Jan 18, 2021
Monday Jan 18, 2021
Here's the game: Michael and Stevenson have established their own colony and are having a meeting on what WILL and WILL NOT be allowed.
The goals are to 1) keep our community functioning and 2) give our citizens as much freedom as possible.
What actions should be restricted in our society and why? You decide!
Monday Dec 21, 2020
Monday Dec 21, 2020
Special guest Michael Brookhart joins Stevenson in a discussion on SPORTS.
Are sports as natural as culture itself? Why do humans participate in such an activity?
We also look at two bizarre sports from around the world: Man vs. Horse & Buzkashi (riding horses and the ball is a goat carcass).
Monday Dec 14, 2020
Monday Dec 14, 2020
Stevenson dives into LANGUAGE.
What is it? How did it originate? How does it vary among cultures?
What are all the possible sounds we can make with our mouths? Are there any sounds that some cultures use that we don't? (answer: yes)
How would you and I make our own language? What if we didn't share a language to build on?
In the end, there's one conclusion: language is underrated.
Monday Dec 07, 2020
Monday Dec 07, 2020
Welcome our first guest! Chef Ryan Rizzuto (@chefryanrizzuto) joins the podclass to discuss the relationship between food and culture. Rizzuto dives DEEP into the world of food and is a great source of knowledge!
We discuss how food unites people, if there is an American food (Rizzuto argues soul food), Italian food, NYC pizza vs. Italian pizza, Hispanic food, and more!
My favorite lesson from this: there is SO much to learn about food... and we discuss how and where to start. We eat every day, might as well make it interesting!