Internet and Terrorists, Gastrophysics, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

Internet and Terrorists, Gastrophysics, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

The Matt Townsend Show - Season 6, Episode 233

  • Sep 30, 2017 4:00 pm
  • 2:25:05 mins

Can the world ever really keep terrorists off the internet? (20:00) Shontavia Johnson, Ph.D., is a Professor of Law at Drake University Law School. Her academic specialties include Intellectual Property, Entrepreneurship, Property, and Entertainment Law. The internet can be a dangerous place, especially on social media.  There are child predators, serial killers, and even more recent: terrorist.  Is it possible to keep all terrorist off the internet? Shontavia Johnson explains the challenges companies face. Gastrophysics (1:05:39) Charles Spence, Ph.D., is a professor at the Oxford Department of Experimental Psychology and the author of Gastrophysics: The Science of Eating. There are four senses most people think of when eating a meal: taste, touch, sight, and smell.  But there is a 5th sense that can make or break a meal eating experience, sound.  Professor Charles Spence explains the emerging field of Gastrophysics. Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (1:52:17) Julie Rehmeyer is an award-winning freelance math and science journalist and contributing editor at Discover magazine.  Imagine for a second that you had an illness that no one understood or even believed in. Think how people would treat you and how frustrating something like that could be. You could be called attention seeking or lazy while your self-esteem and personal morale take hit after hit. That kind of loneliness could be crippling to a person. So how could you survive something like that? In her new book Through the Shadow Lands, science journalist Julie Rehmeyer walks us through her similar experience and how she was able to still find purpose and joy while on the healing path.

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