Maliha Ahmed was an undergraduate student at UC Santa Cruz, studying linguistics, when she began working as a caregiver.  From the good moments to the bad, the experience of working with people in need in their homes taught her a lot about the complicated dynamics of care.  In this installment of The Tactile World, we talk with Ahmed about how many spoons it takes to get a cell phone fixed.

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Caregivers' Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Spoon Theory

Welcome to the inaugural episode of the Tropics of Meta and Dudeletter Podcasting podcast Doomed to Repeat! This history podcast interviews academics and contextualizes them with culture and conversation. In this first episode we look at the segregation that never left.

Season 1

Episode 1: Segregation

In this episode, we discuss the revolutionizing of drinking habits and the beer industry in modern America.

And finally, H. Robert Baker of our sister blog Tropics of Meta recently weighed in on the "end of craft beer."  Some more beer history to wash down the podcast with!  

https://tropicsofmeta.wordpress.com/2017/04/17/the-end-of-craft-beer/

Episode 2: IPA, YouPA (The Long History of Craft Beer)

In this mini-episode for Doomed to Repeat, Alex interviews the father of American alcohol studies, William Rorabaugh about his work and the book that helped inspire this episode, The Alcoholic Republic.

Mini Episode 1: An Interview with William Rorabaugh

Welcome to the inaugural episode of the Tropics of Meta and Dudeletter Podcasting Series Doomed to Repeat! The history podcast interviews academics, artists and writers and contextualizes their insights with a broader look at history and historiography. In the first episode, we look at the segregation that never left.

Episode 1: You gotta keep 'em separated (Segregation)

In this mini-episode Nic Hoffmann and Ben Parten sit down and talk about the Confessions of Nat Turner, how they were assembled, published and understood in their time.

Mini Episode 2: Ben Parten and The Confessions of Nat Turner

In this episode of Doomed to Repeat, we explore the history of the anti-vaccination movement from Victorian Britain to the modern day in America!

Episode 3: The Anti-Vaccination Movement

For some reason, people keep asking us to talk about Russia; not sure why, but it turns out that there has always been an interesting history there. We have two great interviews talking about the history of Russia and the end of the Cold War. Enjoy!

Episode 4: Russia

In this special mini-episode, contributor Juan Guzman interviews poet Gary Soto and talks about his museum.

Juan Guzman interviews Gary Soto

Interviews and discussions from Tropics of Meta and New Romantic Robot Productions.

Caregivers' Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Spoon Theory

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