Naturally Curious
Clayton Law
A show where I interview and pick the brain of very cool people every episode.
- 1 hour 10 minutesS2E5 - From Croatia, from Canada. With Cynthia Ashperger.
Having a foreign background is cool and people may want to ask what are you from, but when it's on the professional level, you sometimes can't help but wonder what is the motive behind the question, "Where are you from?". Actor, director, and writer Cynthia Ashperger understands that very well. Being from Croatia, she welcomes people asking her about her background in daily life, but on the professional level? Not so much.
28 June 2023, 4:16 pm - 58 minutes 55 secondsS2E4 - P-value, all of science hinges on that. With Kevin Peters.
Statistics plays a role in just about every field of science, and bad statistics will lead to bad science. In psychology and medicine in particular, we are now seeing the consequences to sloppy statistics in the form of the replication crisis. In this episode, psychology professor is here to talk about just that, solutions to the replication crisis, how to interpret and report results, and many more.
14 June 2023, 2:11 pm - 45 minutes 4 secondsS2E3 - Wild Turkey is Far More Interesting Than You Think! With Jenn Baici.
Turkey went extinct in Ontario in the early 1900s and was reintroduced in 1984, so naturally, this makes a great research topic. Ecologist Jenn Baici studies exactly just that. In this episode, Jenn talks about the population of wild turkey, catching turkeys, social interactions between wild turkeys, and more.
31 May 2023, 12:00 pm - 53 minutes 16 secondsS2E2 - So This is How It's Like to Have Lost Your Memories and Have to Relearn How to Walk and Talk, with Jenna Dakin
In a single minute, Jenna Dakin’s life disappeared. She suffered a stroke in December of 2021. The stroke left her half paralyzed, it caused her speech and cognitive deficits, and she lost most of her memories. Flash forward to today, Jenna is in grad school for psychology, and she is the author of her memoir, 21 Cups. Jenna is here today to chat with me about her journey, and her new outlook on life.
17 May 2023, 12:00 pm - 1 hour 21 minutesS2E1 - Theatre, Local History, and Life with Robert Winslow
"Professional Community Theatre", that might sound a little bit of an oxymoron, but that is exactly what Robert Winslow created with 4th Line Theatre. In this episode, Robert talks about why he thinks stories of local community is worth telling, his journey as an actor and playwright, and many more.
3 May 2023, 12:00 pm - 33 minutes 13 secondsEpisode 11 - Computer Science with Professor Richard Hurley
Professor Hurley talks about how he got into computer science, different programming languages, why is C so influential, logic, and more.
Links for this episode:
The International Obfuscated C Code Contest
Intro music credit to LEMMiNO: youtu.be/I2O7blSSzpI?t=318
7 March 2020, 6:47 pm - 1 hour 6 minutesEpisode 10 - International Development with Professor Haroon Akram-Lodhi
Professor Akram-Lodhi talks about how he got into development studies, world hunger, food system, real food, the importance of education, how local development is global development, and more.
Links for this episode:
Haroon Akram-Lodhi (AHAkramLodhi) on Twitter
Professor Akram Lodhi's website
Food Republic, "Why Do Canadian Eat So Much Mac 'N Cheese
The Lancet, "More than a diet"
Intro and outro music credit to LEMMiNO: youtu.be/I2O7blSSzpI?t=318
30 November 2019, 10:57 pm - 1 hour 47 minutesEpisode 9 - English Literature with Professor Stephen Brown
Professor Brown talks about how he was like when he was a kid, Shakespeare, Don Quixote, poetry, comedy, and more. Also, we went off on a lot of tangents.
Links for this episode:
Stephen Brown's Ted Talk "Why Shakespeare? Because it's 2016"
Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
"I'll give thee a wind" Macbeth (Act I Scene III)
The Newsroom - Encyclopedia vs The Internet
Ian Brown's article on encyclopedia
Stephen Brown's talk about the Encyclopedia Britannica
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
The Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy by Laurence Stern
Intro and outro music credit to LEMMiNO: youtu.be/I2O7blSSzpI?t=318
18 October 2019, 3:55 am - 44 minutes 49 secondsEpisode 8 - Statistics with Professor Wesley Burr
Professor Burr talks about how he got into statistics, why is statistics a field of its own rather than a sub-field in Mathematics, natural science before the invention of statistics, p-value, statistics in education, and more.
Links for this episode:
Wesley Burr (wsburr) on Twitter
Moving beyond P-value | American Statistical Association
Information Explosion | Wikipedia
Intro and outro music credit to LEMMiNO: youtu.be/I2O7blSSzpI?t=318
29 April 2019, 1:42 am - 39 minutes 20 secondsEpisode 7 - Talk about graduate school with Joseph Bogaard
Joseph talks about his experience as a graduate student, why he decided to get a master degree, giving advice for current undergraduate student who wish to do graduate school, and more.
Intro and outro music credit to LEMMiNO: youtu.be/I2O7blSSzpI?t=318
20 April 2019, 12:55 am - 42 minutes 36 secondsEpisode 6 - Talk about school with Kara Fitze
Kara and I talk about school-life balance, stress, productivity, and more.
Intro and outro music credit to LEMMiNO: youtu.be/I2O7blSSzpI?t=318
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