Latest Aacs Podcast Episodes
Encore - Toys: Toy To The World
Trailblazers with Walter Isaacson - December 13, 2023 08:05 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 489 ratingsThe toy industry has a long history, but only really became a technology-heavy omnipresence since the 1970s. In this episode, see how toy manufacturers have adapted digital – or not – to win the battle for children’s attention.
Encore - Home Cooking: Technology Worth Savoring
Trailblazers with Walter Isaacson - November 15, 2023 08:05 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 489 ratingsWalter Isaacson asks: how did we go from inventing fire to the Instant Pot? How much different is cooking from its genesis tens of thousands of years ago? And just what does a microwave have to do with weaponry?
Encore - Wellness: Knowing Yourself
Trailblazers with Walter Isaacson - October 04, 2023 07:05 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 489 ratingsWhat do we mean when we talk about wellness, and why do people want it so badly? In this episode, we dive deep into this sometimes-nebulous field, talking to practitioners who spend their time helping people become well.
Encore - Education: Head of the Class
Trailblazers with Walter Isaacson - September 06, 2023 07:05 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 489 ratingsFrom the blackboard to bots, technology has made inroads into classrooms all over the world. Where will the next innovation in education come from? We take you to the head of the class in this episode.
Encore - Ice Cream: Innovation on Ice
Trailblazers with Walter Isaacson - August 16, 2023 07:05 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 489 ratingsThroughout the world and throughout history, you can find evidence of cultures enjoying cold desserts—precursors to the ice cream we love today. The desire to keep food cold led to the creation of European wine slushies in 1558 and to the transportation of ice from New England to the Caribbean i...
Encore - Meat: Break a 2.5 Million Year Old Habit
Trailblazers with Walter Isaacson - July 19, 2023 07:05 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 489 ratingsThe human obsession with meat has never wavered from prehistoric times until now. However, this food once reserved for the rich and powerful has led to global problems of an unprecedented scope and has exacerbated climate change in a way that few other industries have. Finding a way to break our...
Encore - Golf: Tee Time
Trailblazers with Walter Isaacson - June 07, 2023 07:05 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 489 ratingsThis episode originally aired on March 20, 2018. Whether you see golf as an intense, white-knuckle competition, or a leisurely stroll around a course, the game has endured and the magic of the sport keeps growing. In this episode, we’ll take a look at how innovations have made golf bigger, bett...
Encore - Parenting: It Takes a Village
Trailblazers with Walter Isaacson - May 10, 2023 07:05 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 489 ratingsThis episode originally aired on August 11, 2021. You’ve probably heard the proverb, “It takes a village to raise a child.” That's because for most of human history, when it came to child-care, people had the daily support of family, friends and neighbours. Today, that's not the reality for m...
Visual Effects: Making Magic on the Silver Screen
Trailblazers with Walter Isaacson - April 05, 2023 07:05 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 489 ratingsThe 1902 film "A Trip to the Moon," is considered one of the earliest films to incorporate visual effects. Using double exposure stop motion animation, director George Méliès created the iconic image of a rocket skip flying directly into the Moon’s eye. This ingenious bit of visual trickery hel...
Prediction: Seeing the Future
Trailblazers with Walter Isaacson - March 22, 2023 07:05 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 489 ratingsIn the early twentieth century, Evangeline Adams was the most famous fortune teller in America. Kings, actors and even bankers came to her for predictions. Though Adams was an astrologer, she wasn’t the only one predicting the future at the time. Government agencies started making predictions ab...
Board Games: A Winning Strategy
Trailblazers with Walter Isaacson - March 08, 2023 08:05 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 489 ratingsSince its release in 1935, Monopoly has been translated into 37 languages and is played in more than 103 countries around the globe. It’s arguably the world’s most famous board game. But this iconic pastime we now associate with cutthroat capitalism had a very different message when it was first...
Memory: The Science of How We Remember
Trailblazers with Walter Isaacson - February 22, 2023 08:05 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 489 ratingsIn 1933, a seven year old boy named Henry Molaison was knocked down by a passing bicycle. Shortly after, he started getting seizures. To fix the seizures, Henry underwent experimental brain surgery. Unfortunately, the procedure left him with amnesia from which he would never recover. Henry’s tra...
Birth: Giving Life to Innovation
Trailblazers with Walter Isaacson - December 14, 2022 08:05 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 489 ratingsIn the Middle Ages, women in labor could ask for a special birthing stone to help reduce the pain. While this was likely ineffective, pain reduction techniques and the midwives who practiced them were often suspected of witchcraft. We’ve come a long way since then but when it comes to pregnancy ...
Social Media: Keeping Up with Communities
Trailblazers with Walter Isaacson - November 30, 2022 08:05 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 489 ratingsSince the 1970s, people have been using digital tech to share information and connect with others. As times changed and more people gained access to computers and the internet, social networking technology changed too. Now, social networking has been replaced with social media and networks with ...
Ice Cream: Innovation on Ice
Trailblazers with Walter Isaacson - November 16, 2022 08:05 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 489 ratingsThroughout the world and throughout history, you can find evidence of cultures enjoying cold desserts—precursors to the ice cream we love today. The desire to keep food cold led to the creation of European wine slushies in 1558 and to the transportation of ice from New England to the Caribbean i...
Nutrition: A Recipe for Good Health
Trailblazers with Walter Isaacson - November 02, 2022 07:05 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 489 ratingsIn 1753 a Scottish doctor named James Lind published Treatise of the Scurvy where he named oranges and lemons as cures for the disease. However, it wasn’t until 1912 when researcher Casimir Funk published The Etiology of Deficiency Diseases, introducing the concept of illness as a result of some...
Dentistry: An Oral History of Disruption
Trailblazers with Walter Isaacson - August 17, 2022 07:05 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 489 ratingsAshes, burnt eggshells, stale toast and chalk. These are just some of the ingredients used to make toothpaste throughout the centuries. And though civilizations have always been concerned with oral hygiene, the methods they used to treat dental problems weren’t always so effective and were often...
Tattoos: Innovation In Ink
Trailblazers with Walter Isaacson - August 03, 2022 07:05 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 489 ratingsThough evidence of tattooing exists worldwide in the remains of many Indigenous cultures, it was only in about the 18th century when sailors brought tattoos to Europe. The practice spread as sailors who learned to tattoo on ships began to open storefronts on land. Now, tattoos have sailed into ...
Tattoos: Innovation in Ink
Trailblazers with Walter Isaacson - August 03, 2022 07:05 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 489 ratingsThough evidence of tattooing exists worldwide in the remains of many Indigenous cultures, it was only in about the 18th century when sailors brought tattoos to Europe. The practice spread as sailors who learned to tattoo on ships began to open storefronts on land. Now, tattoos have sailed into ...
Sports Officiating: Changing The Game
Trailblazers with Walter Isaacson - July 20, 2022 07:05 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 489 ratingsVideo replay, tracking technology and new software in sports have the power to make calls quickly, eliminate arguments between players and officials and add speed and excitement back into centuries-old games. As officiating technology continues to evolve, professional leagues and officials wei...
Festivals: Amped Up Experiences
Trailblazers with Walter Isaacson - July 06, 2022 07:05 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 489 ratingsOver four days in 1969, more than half a million people gathered on a dairy farm in Bethel, New York for what would become known as one of the most legendary music festivals of all time—Woodstock. Though festivals had been celebrated since antiquity, Woodstock helped cement the music festival ...
Retirement: A New Way of Living
Trailblazers with Walter Isaacson - May 04, 2022 07:05 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 489 ratingsUntil the middle of the 20th century, most American workers didn’t have the opportunity to plan for a long and fruitful retirement. But as life expectancy increased, government and employer policies changed and retirement communities developed, retirement at age 65 became another ritual of Ameri...
Emergency Response: The Science of How We Deal with Disasters
Trailblazers with Walter Isaacson - April 20, 2022 07:05 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 489 ratingsSince ancient times, humans have balanced the risks of settling in hazardous places with the benefits of the resources and opportunities they provide. Though we’ve created thriving communities all over the world, we’re still threatened by floods, fires, earthquakes and more. Thanks to climate ch...
Running: Making Strides
Trailblazers with Walter Isaacson - April 06, 2022 07:05 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 489 ratingsMany believe humans were born to run. It’s our evolutionary advantage over other mammals. But were we really meant to run over 25 miles in a single race? Though the modern marathon got its start in 1896, almost a century passed before long distance running really took off in the mainstream. It ...
Weddings: To Have and to Hold
Trailblazers with Walter Isaacson - March 23, 2022 07:05 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 489 ratingsThe first recorded evidence of weddings comes from ancient Mesopotamia around 2350 B.C. In those days, marriage was a strategic, political alliance that expanded a tribe’s circle of trust and resources. Later, marriages became so economically important that they needed to be recognized publicly—...
Star Trek Discovery | Season 4, Episodes 12 & 13: “Species 10-C” & “Coming Home”
Feminist Frequency's Star Trek Podcast - March 22, 2022 09:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★ - 44 ratingsIt’s the season finale of Feminist Frequency’s Star Trek Podcast as Ebony returns to discuss the final two episodes of Star Trek Discovery, season 4. Listen in as she and Anita catch up on how they’ve been feeling about the season overall, and make sure you stick around for The Hair Report! Fin...
Star Trek Discovery | Season 4, Episodes 10 & 11: “The Galactic Barrier” & “Rosetta”
Feminist Frequency's Star Trek Podcast - March 08, 2022 10:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★ - 44 ratingsSeason 4 of Discovery is drawing to a close, and joining Anita to discuss how (un?)successfully it’s approaching that conclusion are returning special guests and Women at Warp: Jarrah Hodge and Sarah Gulde. Links Mentioned: Women at Warp: www.womenatwarp.com or @womenatwarp on Twitter, Faceboo...
Star Trek Discovery | Season 4, Episodes 8 & 9: “All In” & “Rubicon”
Feminist Frequency's Star Trek Podcast - February 22, 2022 10:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★ - 44 ratingsAfter a lengthy mid-season break, STAR TREK DISCOVERY season 4 is back and so are we! Joining Anita are two exciting returning guests: clinical psychologist Ali Mattu and NASA engineer Bobak Ferdowsi, both with impressive Star Trek credentials (such as having actually watched DS9). We had an awe...
Star Trek Discovery | Season 4, Episodes 6 & 7: “Stormy Weather” & “…But to Connect”
Feminist Frequency's Star Trek Podcast - January 04, 2022 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 44 ratingsIf you like Youtubers, Trekkies, and Trekkie Youtubers, this is your episode. Anita is joined by special guests Steve Shives and Jessie "Gender" Earl to discuss episodes 6 and 7. Listen in as they share their thoughts on the first half of the season (including the, so far, stellar handling of me...
Star Trek Discovery | Season 4, Episodes 4 & 5: “All Is Possible” & “The Examples”
Feminist Frequency's Star Trek Podcast - December 21, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 44 ratingsWriter, journalist, and returning guest Laura Hudson, and author, comedian, and new-to-the-podcast special guest Leighann Lord have both beamed aboard to join Anita in discussing episodes 4 & 5 of the 4th season of Star Trek: Discovery. Together we talk about our feelings on the season so far an...