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Laws in old Oregon were rough, not always ready
Offbeat Oregon History podcast - April 26, 2024 14:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 160 ratings“From 1861 to 1876, every man committed to the Oregon State Penitentiary for ‘life’ either escaped or was pardoned,” writes historian and newspaper columnist Erik Bromberg, quoting from the U.S. Federal Writers Project’s “Oregon Oddities” article of 1939-1941. “Some who escaped were recaptured an...
Everyday Discrimination Scale: Confronting Racial Stress in the Workplace
Espresso Talk Today - April 26, 2024 09:50 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingJoin Ama-Robin and Mel on a powerful episode of Espresso Talk Today, where today's brew is rich with insight and empowerment. Diving deep into the Every Day Discrimination Scale (EDDS), this episode tackles the often-overlooked yet deeply impactful issue of workplace discrimination and harassmen...
Deadly weather usually catches Oregon by surprise
Offbeat Oregon History podcast - April 25, 2024 14:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 160 ratingsCyclones, tornadoes, flash floods, earthquakes and volcanoes — the Beaver State is not immune to any of these things, but they're rare enough that no one is expecting them when they appear. (Statewide) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1210b-deadly-weather-usually-catches-oreg...
Part Two: The Bastards of Forensic Science
Behind the Bastards - April 25, 2024 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 13.6K ratingsRobert is joined again by Dr. Kaveh Hoda to continue to discuss why Forensic Science really doesn't work. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Never Heard of Scrupulosity? Neither Have Many Who Suffer From It
RadioWest - April 25, 2024 08:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 711 ratingsEven if you aren’t afflicted by it, you probably know about obsessive compulsive disorder. But even if you have it, there’s a good chance you’ve never heard of scrupulosity.
The short, tragic story of P-town’s municipal whale
Offbeat Oregon History podcast - April 24, 2024 14:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 160 ratings“Ethelbert” the orca somehow ended up stranded miles from the ocean in the Columbia Slough, much to the delight of most Portland residents. But it wasn't long before the city's would-be Nimrods came out and spoiled everything. (Columbia Slough, Multnomah County; 1930s) (For text and pictures, see...
Bootlegger ‘lobster trap’ a huge but costly success
Offbeat Oregon History podcast - April 23, 2024 14:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 160 ratingsNo one in Tillamook County even suspected the “Lee Film Company” was a front for government Prohibition enforcement until the trap was sprung ... but it has to have been the most expensive law enforcement operation in the county's history. (Tillamook County; 1920s) (For text and pictures, see htt...
Cigar Nerds Podcast: Welcome to the Vault
Cigar Nerds Podcast - April 23, 2024 13:17 - 1 second ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsThe Cigar Nerds Podcast: Welcome to the Vault. Good morning vault dwellers and wasteland survivors. This week the guys venture into the post apocalypses to talk about the Fallout series. In science we talk about real bunkers, microwave weapons, UK smoking ban, and living in a simulation. In Nerd ...
“Navigating a Career in Counterterrorism as a Muslim – with Angie Gad”
SpyCast - April 23, 2024 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 1.3K ratingsSummary Angie Gad (LinkedIn, Website) joined Andrew (X; LinkedIn) to discuss her career in intelligence analysis. Angie is a first-generation Egyptian-American. What You’ll Learn Intelligence The role of state fusion centers to national intelligence How counterterrorism analysis evolved after...
Part One: The Bastards of Forensic Science
Behind the Bastards - April 23, 2024 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 13.6K ratingsForensic Science is supposed to provide perfect certainty in the most serious criminal cases. What if it's all a bunch of bullshit? Robert sits down with Dr. Kaveh Hoda to talk about all the myriad cons in forensic "science.” See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
The Portland mining engineer who invented fracking (WPA oral-history interview with William Hampton)
Offbeat Oregon History podcast - April 22, 2024 14:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 160 ratingsWPA writer Walker Winslow's oral history interview with William Huntley Hampton, a son of Brigham Young although not a Mormon, who was probably Oregon's second most famous mining engineer around the turn of the Twentieth Century (behind Herbert Hoover). He invented the process of hydraulic fracki...
Ancient Egypt News 15 - 21 April 2024
Ancient Egypt News - a Weekly Catch-Up - April 22, 2024 05:00 - 8 minutesThe stories that made the Ancient Egypt headlines over the third week in April. The Capitals of Egypt Museum Improved Services at Egyptian Museum in Tahrir World Heritage Day Exhibitions https://egymonuments.com/locations/tickets/EgyptianMuseum These news stories are taken from various publ...
HuttCast Presents : Dr. Brian Ardis on Vaccine Controversies, Nicotine's Role, and Unveiling Global Agendas
HuttCast - April 21, 2024 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsVenture beyond the surface with us as we confront the controversies surrounding mRNA technology, revealing its startling connection to DNA plasmids and challenging the prevailing discourse on COVID-19 vaccines. Nicotine emerges from the shadows in our conversation, not as the villain it's often ...
It Could Happen Here Weekly 127
Behind the Bastards - April 20, 2024 04:00 - 3 hours ★★★★ - 13.6K ratingsAll of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file. You can now listen to all Cool Zone Media shows, 100% ad-free through the Cooler Zone Media subscription, available exclusively on Apple Podcasts. So, open your Apple Podcasts app, search for “Cooler Zone Media”...
Brothel owner Carrie Carrie’s sidekicks proved bad at corpse disposal (Part 2 of 2)
Offbeat Oregon History podcast - April 19, 2024 14:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 160 ratingsOn the morning of Nov. 25, 1881, two men were walking to work along the North End waterfront when they saw something incongruous in the river, just off the foot of Everett Street ... a pair of feet, sticking straight up into the air. (Portland, Multnomah County; 1990s) (For text and pictures, see...
Black & Bold: Core Values ain't just for White folks!
Espresso Talk Today - April 19, 2024 08:27 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingJoin us in a thought-provoking episode as we delve into the unique journey of identifying and living by core values as Black folks. Racism, a pervasive force, often acts as a formidable obstacle, diverting our focus and energy from our guiding principles. Through powerful anecdotes and insightfu...
Whales of the High Desert
RadioWest - April 18, 2024 14:33 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 711 ratingsIn 1888, the daily Salt Lake Herald-Republican reprinted a story from a Canadian paper. The headline? That a family of whales was flourishing in the Great Salt Lake.
Bordello madam Carrie Bradley was a real-life Brigid O’Shaughnessy (Part 1 of 2 parts)
Offbeat Oregon History podcast - April 18, 2024 14:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 160 ratingsThe Femme Fatale, like most really satisfying tropes in fiction, is based on real life. And arguably, the closest Oregon has ever come to a real-life femme fatale worthy of Hammett’s pen was in early 1880s Portland, in what today is known as the Tenderloin — in the person of a gorgeous, hard-eyed...
Socrates May Have Been Executed For Revealing Secrets of Athens’ Religious Rituals
History Unplugged Podcast - April 18, 2024 11:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★ - 3.5K ratingsThe influence of the ancient Greek philosopher Socrates has been profound. Even today, over two thousand years after his death, he remains one of the most renowned humans to have ever lived—and his death remains one of the greatest unsolved mysteries. There is another side to this story: impie...
Part Four: Beria: Stalin's Pedophile Cop & the Soviet Oppenheimer
Behind the Bastards - April 18, 2024 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 13.6K ratingsBeria? I hardly know'ya. Anyway, this is the last episode of the series. Goodbye. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Scholarly Albany flyer was the real father of Oregon aviation
Offbeat Oregon History podcast - April 17, 2024 14:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 160 ratingsIn a race with Portland neophile Henry Wemme to be the first owner of an airplane in Oregon, Cornell-educated John Burkhart was two weeks too late; but unlike Wemme, he designed, built and flew his own machine. (Albany, Linn County; 1910s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/14...
Breathing Salt Lake’s West Side Air
RadioWest - April 17, 2024 10:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 711 ratingsIf you live in the Salt Lake Valley, you know a thing or two about air pollution. There are days when you can see it. But if you live on the west side it’s even worse.
D. J. Taylor, "Who Is Big Brother?: A Reader's Guide to George Orwell" (Yale UP, 2024)
New Books in History - April 17, 2024 08:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★ - 187 ratingsAn intellectual who hated intellectuals, a socialist who didn't trust the state--our foremost political essayist and author of Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four was a man of stark, puzzling contradictions. Knowing Orwell's life and reading Orwell's works produces just as many questions as it a...
Eve Golden, "Strictly Dynamite: The Sensational Life of Lupe Velez" (UP of Kentucky, 2023)
New Books in History - April 17, 2024 08:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★ - 187 ratingsBefore Salma Hayek, Eva Longoria, and Penelope Cruz, there was Lupe Velez―one of the first Latin-American stars to sweep past the xenophobia of old Hollywood and pave the way for future icons from around the world. Her career began in the silent era, when her beauty was enough to make it onto the...
Jerry Grillo, "Big Cat: The Life of Baseball Hall of Famer Johnny Mize" (U Nebraska Press, 2024)
New Books in History - April 17, 2024 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 187 ratingsJohnny Mize was one of the greatest hitters in baseball’s golden age of great hitters. Born and raised in tiny Demorest, Georgia, in the northeast Georgia mountains, Mize emerged from the heart of Dixie as a Bunyonesque slugger, a quiet but sharp-witted man from a broken home who became a profess...
Thor Rydin, "The Works and Times of Johan Huizinga (1872-1945): Writing History in the Age of Collapse" (Amsterdam UP, 2023)
New Books in History - April 17, 2024 08:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★ - 187 ratingsThor Rydin joins to talk about his new book, The Works and Times of Johan Huizinga (1872- 1945): Writing History in the Age of Collapse (Amsterdam UP, 2023). This book offers a new perspective on the Dutch cultural historian Johan Huizinga (1872-1945), who remains one of the most famous European ...
Liz Tregenza, "Wholesale Couture: London and Beyond, 1930-70" (Bloombury, 2023)
New Books in History - April 17, 2024 08:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★ - 187 ratingsWholesale Couture: London and Beyond, 1930-70 (Bloomsbury, 2023) by Dr. Liz Tregenza seeks to revise the notion that wholesale couturiers were simply copyists and demonstrate the complexities of their design processes and business strategies. This term has fallen out of usage; however, it was use...
Philip Freeman, "Two Lives of Saint Brigid" (Four Courts Press, 2024)
New Books in History - April 17, 2024 08:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★ - 187 ratingsSt. Brigid is the earliest and best-known of the female saints of Ireland. In the generation after St. Patrick, she established a monastery for men and women at Kildare which became one of the most powerful and influential centres of the Church in early Ireland. The stories of Brigid's life and ...
Was Bridge of the Gods real? Almost certainly yes
Offbeat Oregon History podcast - April 16, 2024 14:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 160 ratingsThe geographical evidence isn't there; but every nearby Indian community has legends about the river tunneling underground for miles, and roughly similar accounts of the tunnel's collapse. What are the odds? (Near The Dalles, Wasco County; circa 1450 A.D.) (For text and pictures, see https://offb...
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