Each episode, Josie & Caragh give a semi-informed opinion on a topic before going away to research further. Was their chosen hill to die on worth it? They hope so, because they hate being wrong.
Episodes
Sunday Dec 11, 2022
Sunday Dec 11, 2022
CW: Explicit language
This episode Caragh & Josie discuss their childhood interest in the Bermuda Triangle and wonder whether we should still be concerned about it as adults.
Links:
Bermuda Triangle lost at sea (1990)
Drain The Bermuda Triangle (2014)
Man is missing in Atlantic (1969)
SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM Bermuda Triangle experiment (1978)
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Wednesday Sep 14, 2022
Wednesday Sep 14, 2022
CW: Explicit language, talk of animal abuse
This episode Josie is joined by Sarah, the host of It Came From The Sea to discuss how ethical aquariums are. Sarah goes away to learn more about large-scale, corporate aquariums while Josie focuses on home aquariums. Should betta fish really live in plastic cups? What's wrong with having whale sharks in tanks anyway?
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Show Notes & Sources:
Josie guests on It Came From the Sea
Corals in the city: cultivating ocean life in the Anthropocene.
Where are they all from? – sources and sustainability in the ornamental freshwater fish trade.
How to make sure your aquarium fish are ethical (commentary)
Patterns and drivers of aquarium pet discharge in the wild.
Barcoding and Border Biosecurity: Identifying Cyprinid Fishes in the Aquarium
Sea for yourself: the ethics of aquariums
Alice, longest-tenured whale shark at Georgia Aquarium, dies
Currently accredited zoos and aquariums - AZA
Whale sharks in the Kuroshio Sea tank
The Truth About Aquariums: Don't Lie To Our Children (5-minute version) [video]
Learning outcomes measured in zoo and aquarium conservation education
Wednesday May 11, 2022
Wednesday May 11, 2022
CW: Explicit language, talk of violence, homicide, animal cruelty, etc.
For the bed-pissers, firestarters and puppy-punters out there: this episode is for you. Josie and Caragh suss out whether the MacDonald triad is a useful tool to predict violent offending.
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Sources:
Browne, K. D., Beech, A. R., Craig, L. A., & Chou, S. (Eds.). (2017). Assessments in forensic practice : A handbook.
Fox, D. J. (2015). Antisocial, borderline, narcissistic and histrionic workbook : Treatment strategies for cluster b personality disorders.
Leary, T., Southard, L., Hill, Joe, I.,II, & Ashman, J. (2017). The Macdonald Triad Revisited: An Empirical Assessment of Relationships between Triadic Elements and Parental Abuse in Serial Killers. North American Journal of Psychology, 19(3), 627-640.
Macdonald, J. M. (1963). The threat to kill. American Journal of Psychiatry, 120(2), 125-130. https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.120.2.125
Parfitt, C. H., & Alleyne, E. (2020). Not the sum of its parts: A critical review of the MacDonald triad. Trauma, Violence, & Abuse, 21(2), 300–310. https://doi.org/10.1177/1524838018764164
Ryan, K. (2009). The Macdonald triad: Predictor of violence or urban myth? [Dissertation]. Fresno State University.
Simon, Ü. G. (2015). The Traits and the Thrill of Serial Killers. Internal Security, 7(2), 33-42. http://dx.doi.org/10.5604/20805268.1212110
Wilson, D., Yardley, E., & Lynes, A. (2015). Serial killers and the phenomenon of serial murder : A student textbook. Waterside Press.
Monday Feb 07, 2022
Monday Feb 07, 2022
CN: Explicit language, brief mention of murder
Josie & Caragh suss out whether you can predict a person's personality based on their music taste alone. Caragh listens to Weird Al Yankovic the most - what does this mean? Josie listens to everything from Gregorian chant music and her favourite genre is 90's Midwest Emo - perhaps she's more of a Samantha?
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Friday Oct 01, 2021
Friday Oct 01, 2021
CN: Explicit language, discussions around diet, body image and medical procedures
The third of four episodes exploring different genres and subgenres of reality television and whether they are helpful. Josie takes weight loss reality shows to task while Caragh casts a critical eye towards medical reality shows.
Do we learn anything by seeing chicken wings piled up in peoples kitchens? What does a close up of a persons stank butt do for us, exactly?
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Tuesday Sep 21, 2021
Tuesday Sep 21, 2021
Audio note: Due to technical difficulties (Josie), one persons audio is very bad (also Josie)
CW: Explicit language, discussions of state harms, racial violence, brief mention of rape
This episode Josie is joined by Joe Kassabian - historian, author, and host of Lions Led By Donkeys - to discuss whether Scared Straight crime prevention programs prevent crime. Does yelling at children in carceral settings deter offending behaviour? Surely nothing could go wrong when grown men scream in the faces of young children, right? Joe draws upon his own experiences as a poor kid from Detroit while Josie looks at the unambiguous literature spanning decades.
Sources:
Case, S., & Haines, K. (2021). Abolishing youth justice systems: Children first, offenders nowhere. Youth Justice, 21(1), 3–17. https://doi.org/10.1177/1473225419898754
Maahs, J., & Pratt, T. C. (2017). “I hate these little turds!”: Science, entertainment, and the enduring popularity of scared straight programs. Deviant Behavior, 38(1), 47-60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01639625.2016.1190619
McCarty, W. P. (2011). Scared straight programs. In W. J. Chambliss (Ed.), Juvenile crime and justice (pp. 226-238). SAGE.
Petrosino, A., Turpin-Petrosino, C., Hollis-Peel, M. E., & Lavenberg, J.G. (2013). 'Scared straight' and other juvenile awareness programs for preventing juvenile delinquency. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 4, 1-37, DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD002796.pub2
Scared Straight documentary (1999 release)
Welsh, B. C., & Rocque, M. (2014). When crime prevention harms: a review of systematic reviews. Journal of Experimental Criminology, 10, 245-266. DOI 10.1007/s11292-014-9199-2
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Saturday Jun 26, 2021
Saturday Jun 26, 2021
CN: Explicit language
The second of four episodes exploring different genres and subgenres of reality television and whether they are helpful. Caragh investigates real estate shows that centre around the purchasing of houses while Josie checks out the dynamics of house flipping & renovation shows.
Does anyone learn anything useful from shows like 'Location, Location, Location' or 'The Block'? What explicit and implicit messaging is delivered through these shows?
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Saturday May 08, 2021
Saturday May 08, 2021
NOTE: Audio difficulties between 23:18 and 53:36
CN: Explicit language, police violence, Black deaths in custody, sewage
The first of four episodes exploring different genres and subgenres of reality television and whether they are at all helpful.
In this episode Josie digs into policing-based reality shows such as Cops and Border Security. Caragh investigates courtroom-based reality shows such as Judge Judy and The People's Court.
What do Bad Boys do when 'they' come for them?
Are Judy's rulings truly final? Is it actually her courtroom? Is her name even Judy?
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Thursday Mar 18, 2021
Thursday Mar 18, 2021
CN: Explicit language, brief mention of war crimes
Will AI enslave us? Will AI decide we're too fickle to keep around? Will AI make paperclips out of our bowels? This episode Josie & Caragh ask whether artificial intelligence will actually take over the world one day.
Sources:
Abu Ghraib and Witches: What Might go Wrong if we let AI Predict Violence from Images
Boston Dynamics Dancing Robots (Copaganda)
How to Prevent AI From Taking over the World
Rebooting AI: Building Artificial Intelligence we can Trust
Will AI take over? Quantum theory suggests otherwise
Worried about AI taking over the world? You may be making some rather unscientific assumptions
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Monday Feb 08, 2021
Monday Feb 08, 2021
CN: Explicit language, eating disorders, body & gender dysphoria, sexual violence, police violence
This episode Caragh and Josie ask whether the body positivity movement is actually positive. After spitballing their opinions in the first portion of the show, they come back and discuss what they learned during the 'research period'.
Themes discussed:
- skinny shaming
- 'the promotion of obesity'
- the origins of the movement
- alternative questions to ask rather than, 'Is this actually body positive?'
- capitalist infiltration
- how to support trans folks in a body positive way
& more
Show notes:
- 'Why Diets Make Us Fat' by Sandra Aamodt
- 5 Questions to Ask Instead of 'Is this really body positive?'
- 4 'Body Positive' Phrases that Exclude Trans People (And What to Say Instead)
- Lazuka, W. (2020). Are We There Yet? Progress in Depicting Diverse Images of Beauty in Instagram’s Body Positivity Movement. Body Image, 34, 85–93.
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