Making Family History Fun (and Addicting?!)

Making Family History Fun (and Addicting?!)

Top of Mind with Julie Rose - Radio Archive, Episode 697 , Segment 4

Episode: Upheaval in Yemen, Workplace Myths, Backcountry Tragedy

  • Dec 5, 2017 7:00 pm
  • 14:48 mins

Guests: Bill Barrett, PhD, Professor, Computer Science, Brigham Young University; Curtis Wigington, Masters’ Student, Brigham Young University In just a few clicks online, Top of Mind producer Tennery Taylor discovered that she’s a third cousin (six times removed, that is) to Abraham Lincoln. She was starting to feel some familial pride about that when she also discovered that she had the same relationship to Benedict Arnold. Win some, lose some. She was using the Relative Finder app, which is made by The Family History Technology Lab here at BYU.  Find fun famiily history apps and games here.

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Workplace "Myths"

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Guest: Jacob Rawlins, PhD, Assistant Professor, Linguistics and English Language, Brigham Young University Does it seem a bit silly when you go to a restaurant or retail store where the staff are insistent on calling you a guest, rather than a customer? Or they have some special name for their coworkers – teammates, associates. Or they add some little rhetorical flourish when they answer the phone, like the receptionist at my dentist’s office who always says, “This is so-and-so. I can help you.” Not, “How can I help you?” Just the confident “I CAN help you.” These touches might seem like gimmicks, but BYU linguistics professor Jacob Rawlins says they come from the stories companies weave about themselves and they really do matter. These stories are powerful tools.

Guest: Jacob Rawlins, PhD, Assistant Professor, Linguistics and English Language, Brigham Young University Does it seem a bit silly when you go to a restaurant or retail store where the staff are insistent on calling you a guest, rather than a customer? Or they have some special name for their coworkers – teammates, associates. Or they add some little rhetorical flourish when they answer the phone, like the receptionist at my dentist’s office who always says, “This is so-and-so. I can help you.” Not, “How can I help you?” Just the confident “I CAN help you.” These touches might seem like gimmicks, but BYU linguistics professor Jacob Rawlins says they come from the stories companies weave about themselves and they really do matter. These stories are powerful tools.