One Man's Meat II
A day or two ago I bragged on our local NPR folks. One of the highlights is Fred Anderle, who hosts "Open Line." I mean, it is talk radio, and it is NPR, so if you're looking to punish your teenager, you take away their iPod and make them listen to this.
But if you're interested in good talk radio and in the topic at hand, Anderle is as fair a person as you're going to get. Today he had two excellent guests (on separate hours).
Probably the more interesting of the two was Roger Ekirch, author of a book about human behavior at night from 1500 to 1750 (I'm not quite sure of the dates, but thereabouts). His tone was radio (and one imagines lecture hall) death, but he was well informed and quite interesting. Turns out a lot of our nightmares are valid ones.
The other guest was the University of Chicago's Robert Pape, writing about "suicide terrorism." While my sense was Pape would clearly be opposed to fighting terrorism by, you know, fighting it, he nonetheless presented an interesting and worthwhile study.
posted by ColumbusGuy @ 12:08 PM
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Ekirch believes people used to sleep for a while, then wake up for an hour, then sleep again, back before elctricity. This is controversial. I don't understand why this can't be tested. Maybe it's because he's an historian, not a scientist, and historians don't have to test their theories.
Interesting. I suppose that would have implications regarding REM and all that, and the psychological health of the population at large. This wasn't discussed or if it was I missed it.
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