Cited Podcast

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In every big story, you’ll find one; you’ll find a researcher, scientist, engineer, planner, policy wonk, data nerd, bureaucrat, regulator, intellectual, or pseudo-intellectual. Their ideas are often opaque, unrecognized, and difficult to understand. Some of them like it that way. On Cited, we reveal their hidden stories.

  1. The (ir)Rational Alaskans: Damaging Rationality (pt. 3 of 3)

    AUG 20

    The (ir)Rational Alaskans: Damaging Rationality (pt. 3 of 3)

    In our finale, while the fisherman and fisherwoman of Prince William Sound hope for legal damages stemming from the Exxon Valdez disaster, Exxon fights back. In that fight, they marshal the most-respected psychologist of a generation.

    1h 7m
  2. The (ir)Rational Alaskans: 12 Angry Alaskans (pt. 2 of 3)

    AUG 13

    The (ir)Rational Alaskans: 12 Angry Alaskans (pt. 2 of 3)

    A jury of ordinary Alaskans picks up the Exxon Valdez story. They muddle through the most devastating, and most complicated, environmental disaster in US history. How would they decide the case?

    1h 6m
  3. The (ir)Rational Alaskans: An Alaskan Nightmare (pt. 1 of 3)

    AUG 8

    The (ir)Rational Alaskans: An Alaskan Nightmare (pt. 1 of 3)

    After the unprecedented Exxon Valdez oil spill, a jury of ordinary Alaskans decided that Exxon had to be punished. However, Exxon fought back against their punishment. They did so, in-part, by supporting research that suggested jurors are irrational. This first part, an Alaskan Nightmare, covers the spill and its immediate effects.

    60 min
  4. The (ir)Rational Voters

    JUL 22

    The (ir)Rational Voters

    Early pollsters thought they had the psychological tools to quantify American mind, thereby enabling a truly democratic polity that would be governed by a rational public opinion. Today, we malign the misinformed public and dismiss the deluge of frivolous polls. How did the rational public become the phantom public?

    1h 9m
  5. The Hippie High-Rise (Darts Re-Run)

    JUL 15

    The Hippie High-Rise (Darts Re-Run)

    This week, we're taking a little break before continuing our latest season, the Rationality Wars. This week, we're playing one of the our best documentary episodes from the large archive of our previous show, Darts and Letters. The episode called the Hippie High-Rise. For seven years, from 1968 to 1975, one eighteen story high-rise was the heart of Canada's counterculture. Rochdale College in Toronto, ON, was jammed full with leftist organizers, hippies, draft dodgers, students, artists, and others just looking for a good time. Although, Rochdale wasn't really a "college." It was something much bigger: a political, educational, communal, artistic, and psychedelic experiment. During its time, it was endlessly lambasted by conservatives and leftists alike--until it reached its inglorious end. Today, like much of the counterculture, it's often remembered for its problems: its ideological contradictions, drug-addled hedonism, bourgeois individualism, sexism, suicide, and more. However, is that the whole story? Were the kids in the hippie highrise onto something, ...or was it indeed just one giant waste of time? Marc Apollonio investigates.

    1h 5m
  6. The (ir)Rational Priests

    JUL 8

    The (ir)Rational Priests

    A group of landholding elites waged psychological warfare on the El Salvadoran people, and oppressed them for generations. When a psychologist and Jesuit priest defended the rationality of the people against their oppressors, he paid the ultimate price.

    48 min
  7. The (ir)Rational Rainbow

    JUL 2

    The (ir)Rational Rainbow

    The psychological establishment has long pathologized diverse forms of sexual identity and gender expression. In the mid-century, a brave movement of gays and lesbians fought back and claimed: no, actually, we’re healthy. But in the process, did they define other identities unhealthy?

    1h 10m
  8. The (ir)Rational Mob

    JUN 24

    The (ir)Rational Mob

    Every protest movement has been dismissed as a mere ‘mindless mob,’ caught in a psychological frenzy. Where did this idea come from, and why does it last? This is episode one of Cited’s returning season, the Rationality Wars. This season tells stories of political and scholarly battles to define rationality and irrationality. For a full list of credits, and for the rest of the episodes, visit the series page. You can also hear a trailer of next week's episode, the (ir)Rational Rainbow, on our website.

    53 min
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In every big story, you’ll find one; you’ll find a researcher, scientist, engineer, planner, policy wonk, data nerd, bureaucrat, regulator, intellectual, or pseudo-intellectual. Their ideas are often opaque, unrecognized, and difficult to understand. Some of them like it that way. On Cited, we reveal their hidden stories.

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  • Creator
    Cited Media
  • Years Active
    2012 - 2024
  • Episodes
    21
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Cited Media Productions
  • Show Website
    Cited Podcast

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