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The TGKC team put a series of (for the most part, not at all) anonymous messages together for Cher! Moderated by assistant writer/researcher Jenny S. (Oxford French and Philosophy), this is the most blatantly self indulgent instalment of the show to date. It's almost laughable how easy the vast majority of these messages were for Cher to identify. Still, she did get tripped up by the low effort ad hominem that inevitably had to be said.
CREATOR/DIRECTOR, PRODUCER: Cher C.
CO-HOSTS, PRIMARY WRITER/RESEARCHERS: Cher C. and Teia C.
PRIMARY EDITOR: Cher C., SECONDARY EDITOR: Teia C.
AUDIO ENGINEER: Teia C.
ASSISTANT WRITER/RESEARCHERS, TRANSCRIBERS: Alex E., Delaney L., Isaiah H., Jenny S., Lucas H.
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Boo!
It’s our first ever joint hosted episode, just in time for Halloween! This episode, Cher and Teia both wrote games for the debut of this truly co-hosted installation of TGKC. Leaning hard into the philosophy this season, Cher talks philosophical zombies, otherwise known as p-zombies (yes, really) and subjunctive possibility; Teia takes a turn with another academically spooky Connect the Dots.
Cher’s word of the day: qualia, /ˈkwɑːliə, ˈkweɪ-/Noun: the subjective or qualitative properties of experiences. Definition from the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
Teia’s quote of the day: “Gemma thinks she has seen a ghost.” – Marcus Bentley, on Celebrity Big Brother.
Teia's sources for this episode:
Chan, Hong Yin. “The Hungry Ghost Festival in Singapore: Getai (Songs on Stage) in the Lunar Seventh Month.” Religions (Basel, Switzerland ) 11, no. 7 (2020): 356–.
Clifford Geertz, Negara: The Theater State in Nineteenth-Century Bali (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1980)
Frazer, Elizabeth, 'Politics and Theatre: Hamlet', Shakespeare and the Political Way (Oxford, 2020; online edn, Oxford Academic, 22 Oct. 2020), https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198848615.003.0009, accessed 24 Oct. 2023.
Cher's sources for this episode:
Kirk, Robert, "Zombies", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2023 Edition), Edward N. Zalta & Uri Nodelman (eds.), URL = https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2022/entries/camus.
Starr, W., "Counterfactuals", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2022 Edition), Edward N. Zalta & Uri Nodelman (eds.), URL = https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2022/entries/counterfactuals/.
Tye, Michael, "Qualia", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2021 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2021/entries/qualia/.
We hope you enjoyed this episode of The Gifted Kid Complex! This special is joint hosted by the creator of the show, Cher C. (UCL Philosophy) and by Teia C. (Oxford History).
Head over to https://www.patreon.com/TheGiftedKidComplex if you would like to help support our team with a little tip. Thank you so much for your contributions and support to help us do what we love: to keep this show going.
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CREATOR/DIRECTOR, PRODUCER: Cher C.
CO-HOSTS, PRIMARY WRITER/RESEARCHERS: Cher C. and Teia C.
PRIMARY EDITOR: Cher C., SECONDARY EDITOR: Teia C.
AUDIO ENGINEER: Teia C.
ASSISTANT WRITER/RESEARCHERS, TRANSCRIBERS: Alex E., Delaney L., Isaiah H., Jenny S., Lucas H.
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Ahoy, ye landlubbers!
This episode, Teia and Cher test out terrible pirate accents that would send them straight to Davy Jones’ locker, do some pirate mythbusting, and sail the seven seas in an exploration of pirate linguistics. Of course, we also pay our must needed homage to the iconic Zheng Yi Sao, and delve into the depths of East Asian thalassocratic piracy.
Teia’s word of the day: Scuttlebutt, /ˈskʌtəlbʌt/
Noun: a cask of drinking water; slang for gossip. Definition by Wikipedia
Sources for this episode:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zheng_Yi_Sao
MacKay, Joseph. “Pirate Nations: Maritime Pirates as Escape Societies in Late Imperial China.” Social Science History 37, no. 4 (2013): 551–73. http://www.jstor.org/stable/24573942.
https://www.yourdictionary.com/articles/pirate-terms
https://piratevoyages.com/pirate-lingo/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VRFR81x8ME
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/article/120919-talk-like-a-pirate-day-news-history?loggedin=true&rnd=1689867823214
https://www.rmg.co.uk/stories/topics/why-do-pirates-say-ar
We hope you enjoyed this episode of The Gifted Kid Complex! This episode is hosted by Teia C. (Oxford History BA) and presented with the creator of the show, Cher C. (UCL Philosophy BA), who hosts every other episode.
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CREATOR/DIRECTOR, PRODUCER: Cher C.
CO-HOSTS, PRIMARY WRITER/RESEARCHERS: Cher C. and Teia C.
PRIMARY EDITOR: Cher C., SECONDARY EDITOR: Teia C.
AUDIO ENGINEER: Teia C.
ASSISTANT WRITER/RESEARCHERS, TRANSCRIBERS: Alex E., Delaney L., Isaiah H., Jenny S., Lucas H.
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It’s the season finale of the first season of TGKC!
If you think about it, milk is a terrifying concept. Really ruminate upon it. We’ve normalised it so much in our dairy aisles, but it's a mammalian bodily secretion. Milk and its derivatives are in our food everywhere, and it’s a staple in most cultures (haha dairy joke). Why have humans decided to take the milk from other animals? Why have we continued to consume it past infancy when most adults don’t possess the ability to digest it? One more question, what if we take the milking stage between animal to human and just remove it entirely?
This week, we have our very first guest: Jenny S! She’s an assistant writer/researcher to TGKC, Cher’s childhood friend, and avid lover of milk. She drinks it neat on the streets of Oxford.
Cher’s advice of the day: “Be wary of milk or you could get the shits.”
Sources for this episode:
Lactose intolerance:
https://www.niddk.nih.gov/health-information/digestive-diseases/lactose-intolerance/definition-facts
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_cream
Human-animal breastfeeding:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human–animal_breastfeeding
Carl von Linné and Lindberg, F. (1752). Nutrix noverca.
Schiebinger, Londa L. (1993). Nature's Body: Gender In The Making Of Modern Science. Rutgers University Press. ISBN 9780813535319.
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/republic-of-ireland/model-breastfeeding-a-puppy-calendar-has-dog-lovers-feeling-hot-under-collar-28578873.html
We hope you enjoyed this week’s episode of The Gifted Kid Complex! This episode is hosted by the creator of the show, Cher C. (UCL Philosophy) and presented with Jenny S. (Oxford Philosophy and French) and Teia C. (Oxford History), who hosts every other episode.
Head over to https://www.patreon.com/TheGiftedKidComplex if you would like to help support our team with a little tip. Thank you so much for your contributions and support to help us do what we love: to keep this show going.
For business enquiries, contact [email protected]
CREATOR/DIRECTOR, PRODUCER: Cher C.
CO-HOSTS, PRIMARY WRITER/RESEARCHERS: Cher C. and Teia C.
PRIMARY EDITOR: Cher C., SECONDARY EDITOR: Teia C.
AUDIO ENGINEER: Teia C.
ASSISTANT WRITER/RESEARCHERS, TRANSCRIBERS: Alex E., Delaney L., Isaiah H., Jenny S., Lucas H.
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This episode, Teia and Cher explore the frontiers of the sense-scape by looking at psychological studies on synaesthesia, ‘sixth’ senses on our earthly kingdom, but also powerful fatidical, clairvoyant women in global history and culture.
Only coming up with this theme in the middle of the season, Teia realised that she would have had to tackle both sight and sound in this episode (she miscalculated). So, she took the opportunity to go off-the-rails as a conclusion to her mini-series - and in the end was left with more questions than answers! However, that is, after all, always the ideal.
Teia’s word of the day: Adenoidal, /ˌæd.ənˈɔɪ.dəl/.
Adj: relating to or seeming to come from the adenoids (the flesh between the back of the nose and the throat). [Cambridge Dictionary]
Sources for this episode:
Synaesthesia:
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/apr/27/benefit-synaesthesia-brain-injury-mental-decline
Moos, Anja, et al. ‘Color and texture associations in voice-induced synesthesia.’ Sec. Cognitive Science 4. (2013) https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00568 Accessed online: 2 Sep 2023.
Haigh, Alastair, et al. ‘How well do you see what you hear? The acuity of visual-to-auditory sensory substitution.’ Sec, Cognitive Science 4. (2013) https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00568 Accessed online: 2 Sep 2023.
Clairvoyant Historical and Cultural Women:
https://www.faust.com/legend/marie-anne-lenormand/ https://www.koreasociety.org/images/pdf/KoreanStudies/Curriculum_Materials/LessonbyTime/4_Modern/Korean_Shamanism_Today.pdf
Morris, George. 'The Trance Phenomena of Mrs Thompson: Mediumship, Evidence, and Intimacy in Early Twentieth-Century Britain', Twentieth Century British History 32, no. 4 (Dec 2021): 608–629.
Bostic, Joy R. African American Female Mysticism: Nineteenth-Century Religious Activism Palgrave Macmillan, New York (2013). https://doi-org.ezproxy-prd.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/10.1057/9781137375056_6
We hope you enjoyed this episode of The Gifted Kid Complex! This episode is hosted by Teia C. (Oxford History BA) and presented with the creator of the show, Cher C. (UCL Philosophy BA), who hosts every other episode.
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CREATOR/DIRECTOR, PRODUCER: Cher C.
CO-HOSTS, PRIMARY WRITER/RESEARCHERS: Cher C. and Teia C.
PRIMARY EDITOR: Cher C., SECONDARY EDITOR: Teia C.
AUDIO ENGINEER: Teia C.
ASSISTANT WRITER/RESEARCHERS, TRANSCRIBERS: Alex E., Delaney L., Isaiah H., Jenny S., Lucas H.
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Cher here. If you know me, you know I love IPA. The International Phonetic Alphabet, that is. In fairness, before I went sober, I did enjoy a pint at the pub or at the pool table. Still, India pale ale was never my thing, I was always more of a Lager enjoyer.
Today, we explore the story of an accident involving an absolutely absurd quantity of beer in a rookery of London that occurred on the 17th of October in 1814, right by where UCL is now. Let’s dive into the history of Horse Shoe Brewery.
Cher’s term of the day: IPA, /aɪ pʰiː eɪ/
Noun: an alphabet developed in the 19th century to accurately represent the pronunciation of languages. [Britannica]
Sources for this episode:
Meux's Brewery, c. 1910. Etching by artist Stanley Anderson
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/friday-zak-ebrahim-stolen-cabin-sphinx-unearthed-and-more-1.2902846/a-real-beer-tsunami-remembering-the-big-british-beer-flood-of-october-1814-with-brewing-historian-martyn-cornell-1.2902838
https://www.thehistorypress.co.uk/articles/the-london-beer-flood/
https://www.thesocialhistorian.com/london-beer-flood-1814/
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/features/what-really-happened-in-the-london-beer-flood-200-years-ago-9796096.html
https://zythophile.co.uk/2014/10/17/remembering-the-victims-of-the-great-london-beer-flood-200-years-ago-today/
Head over to https://www.patreon.com/TheGiftedKidComplex if you would like to help support our team with a little tip. Thank you so much for your contributions and support to help us do what we love: to keep this show going.
For business enquiries, contact [email protected]
CREATOR/DIRECTOR, PRODUCER: Cher C.
CO-HOSTS, PRIMARY WRITER/RESEARCHERS: Cher C. and Teia C.
PRIMARY EDITOR: Cher C., SECONDARY EDITOR: Teia C.
AUDIO ENGINEER: Teia C.
ASSISTANT WRITER/RESEARCHERS, TRANSCRIBERS: Alex E., Delaney L., Isaiah H., Jenny S., Lucas H.
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You might have caught the scent of where Teia’s going with her episodes this season. A new game, and a flip of the format has Teia and Cher trying to understand diseases that even scientists today don’t fully understand, crafting sordid and slanderous tales, and plumbing the depths of their childhood memories. Why is it that our sense of smell makes us so existential? We’re going to sniff out the answer.
(Teia would like to apologise for being so liberal with the nose-related puns in the shownotes.)
Teia’s word of the day: Kakidrosis, /ˌkakə̇ˈdrōsə̇s/
Plural: secretion of sweat of a disagreeable odour. Definition by Merriam-Webster.
Sources for this episode:
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/loss-smell-warning-sign-alzheimers-lose-sense-smell-covid-rcna40665
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9798353/
https://www.drfurze.com/blog/can-a-rhinoplasty-affect-my-sense-of-smell
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/02/how-scent-emotion-and-memory-are-intertwined-and-exploited/
https://www.nhsinform.scot/illnesses-and-conditions/immune-system/sjogrens-syndrome
We hope you enjoyed this week’s episode of The Gifted Kid Complex! This episode is hosted by Teia C. (Oxford History BA) and presented with the creator of the show, Cher C. (UCL Philosophy BA), who hosts every other episode.
Head over to https://www.patreon.com/TheGiftedKidComplex if you would like to help support our team with a little tip. Thank you so much for your contributions and support to help us do what we love: to keep this show going.
For business enquiries, contact [email protected]
CREATOR/DIRECTOR, PRODUCER: Cher C.
CO-HOSTS, PRIMARY WRITER/RESEARCHERS: Cher C. and Teia C.
PRIMARY EDITOR: Cher C., SECONDARY EDITOR: Teia C.
AUDIO ENGINEER: Teia C.
ASSISTANT WRITER/RESEARCHERS, TRANSCRIBERS: Alex E., Delaney L., Isaiah H., Jenny S., Lucas H.
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From mythology to cryptids, today we talk about the most unscientific theories about the real world. Yes, we all know by now that Cher is a science nerd - even despite what her philosophy degree would make you think. Most of the episodes she’s written have been science based in some way. Not only is this episode not about anything factually accurate, it’s about that which straight up does not exist. No conspiracy theories here on The Gifted Kid Complex.
Cher’s word of the day: preternatural; /ˌpɹiː.təˈnæt͡ʃ.(ə)ɹ.əl/
existing outside of natureexceeding what is natural or regularinexplicable by ordinary meansSources for this episode:
Myth and syncretism:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syncretism
Loveland Frog:
https://theportalist.com/the-loveland-frog
Ningen:
https://shimajournal.org/issues/v14n1/10.-Greenland-and-Hayward-Shima-v14n1.pdf
Mongolian Death Worm:
https://science.howstuffworks.com/science-vs-myth/strange-creatures/mongolian-death-worm.htm
Futakuchi-Onna:
https://yokai.com/futakuchionna/
Jersey Devil
:https://pinelandsalliance.org/learn-about-the-pinelands/pinelands-history-and-culture/the-jersey-devil-and-folklore/
Bake-Kujira:
https://yokai.com/bakekujira/
Leshy:
https://www.britannica.com/topic/leshy
We hope you enjoyed this episode of The Gifted Kid Complex! This episode is hosted by the creator of the show, Cher C. (UCL Philosophy) and presented with Teia C. (Oxford History), who hosts every other episode.
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CREATOR/DIRECTOR, PRODUCER: Cher C.
CO-HOSTS, PRIMARY WRITER/RESEARCHERS: Cher C. and Teia C.
PRIMARY EDITOR: Cher C., SECONDARY EDITOR: Teia C.
AUDIO ENGINEER: Teia C.
ASSISTANT WRITER/RESEARCHERS, TRANSCRIBERS: Alex E., Delaney L., Isaiah H., Jenny S., Lucas H.
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This episode, Teia and Cher talk touch on a long-distance, online podcast. Why is it that touch feeds so deeply into a sense of ‘primalness’, or seen as something animalistic? We’d consult our respective pets if we could. We also talk through Cher’s extensive collection of high end fidget toys, and Teia’s deep desire for scented slime.
Teia’s quote of the day: “First of all, the face that should be decorated with hair is as bald as a kettle.” -I am a Cat, by Natsume Sōseki.
Sources for this episode:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somatosensory_system
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haptic_communication
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/touch/
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/why-do-animals-love-petting/
https://a-z-animals.com/blog/why-do-animals-like-being-petted/
https://blog.sensoryedge.com/the-science-behind-fidget-toys/
We hope you enjoyed this week’s episode of The Gifted Kid Complex! This episode is hosted by Teia C. (Oxford History BA) and presented with the creator of the show, Cher C. (UCL Philosophy BA), who hosts every other episode.
Head over to https://www.patreon.com/TheGiftedKidComplex if you would like to help support our team with a little tip. Thank you so much for your contributions and support to help us do what we love: to keep this show going.
For business enquiries, contact [email protected]
CREATOR/DIRECTOR, PRODUCER: Cher C.
CO-HOSTS, PRIMARY WRITER/RESEARCHERS: Cher C. and Teia C.
PRIMARY EDITOR: Cher C., SECONDARY EDITOR: Teia C.
AUDIO ENGINEER: Teia C.
ASSISTANT WRITER/RESEARCHERS, TRANSCRIBERS: Alex E., Delaney L., Isaiah H., Jenny S., Lucas H.
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In a sick twist of The Gifted Kid Complex canon, Cher hosts a history based episode! That's right, it's a hard divergence from her usual interests, but she tackles Teia's territory in her own way. First, we’ll uncover one story codified in the Takenouchi documents, setting a very well known religious figure somewhere barely anyone would think to place him. To carry on from historical strange twists, Cher quizzes Teia on categorising whether the outdated remedies for various ailments were genuinely used, or if our team made them up.
Cher’s word of the day: panacea, /ˌpæn.əˈsiː.ə/
Noun: a solution or remedy for all difficulties or diseases. Definition from Oxford Languages.
Sources for this episode:
Chinese superstitions:
https://www.ltl-shanghai.com/chinese-superstitions/
Jesus in Japan:
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1381&context=byusq
https://www.nippon.com/en/japan-topics/g00658/keeping-the-faith-christ’s-tomb-in-aomori-and-japanese-religion.html
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-little-known-legend-of-jesus-in-japan-165354242/
Julius Wagner-Jauregg, Malaria to treat GPI:
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1927. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Prize Out reach AB 2023. Mon. 12 Jun 2023. https://www.eugenicsarchive.ca/connections?id=531f83e1132156674b00020c&
Hippocrates: hot irons to treat hemorrhoids:
https://www.pharmacytimes.com/view/fun-fact-on-fire-s-ability-to-treat-an-initial-injury-leaving-a-potentially-less-bad-burn
Kang L, Pedersen N. Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything. New York, NY: Workman Publishing; 2017.
We hope you enjoyed this week’s episode of The Gifted Kid Complex! This episode is hosted by the creator of the show, Cher C. (UCL Philosophy) and presented with Teia C. (Oxford History), who hosts every other episode.
Head over to https://www.patreon.com/TheGiftedKidComplex if you would like to help support our team with a little tip. Thank you so much for your contributions and support to help us do what we love: to keep this show going.
For business enquiries, contact [email protected]
CREATOR/DIRECTOR, PRODUCER: Cher C.
CO-HOSTS, PRIMARY WRITER/RESEARCHERS: Cher C. and Teia C.
PRIMARY EDITOR: Cher C., SECONDARY EDITOR: Teia C.
AUDIO ENGINEER: Teia C.
ASSISTANT WRITER/RESEARCHERS, TRANSCRIBERS: Alex E., Delaney L., Isaiah H., Jenny S., Lucas H.
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This episode, Teia and Cher illustrate (ha!) that art, in its creation, appreciation, but also destruction, tells us a lot about the ethical and psychological consequences of ‘expressing yourself’ in this day and age. They also chat sh*t about the kinds of art they like, because it’s their podcast, and they make the rules.
Teia’s quote of the day: “Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.” The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde.
Sources for this episode:
Physical Works:
Manganiello, Dominic. “Ethics and Aesthetics in ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray.’”
The Canadian Journal of Irish Studies 9, no. 2 (1983): 25–33. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25512571.
Wilde, Oscar. The Picture of Dorian Gray. 2015.
Chang, Jung. Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China. Modern Classics (Collins). London, 2021.
Shakespeare, William, and Trevor R. Griffiths. A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Shakespeare in Production. Cambridge, 1996.
Online Resources:
https://asiasociety.org/art-and-chinas-revolution
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/oct/14/just-stop-oil-activists-throw-soup-at-van-goghs-sunflowers
Channel 4’s ‘Graffiti Wars’:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulOiB3xEkzM
http://ldngraffiti.co.uk/graffiti/banksy-vs-team-robbo-timeline/
https://www6.slac.stanford.edu/news/2023-07-06-humidity-not-just-light-causes-color-degradation-historical-paintings-researchers
Into the Wicked, by Cher C:
https://open.spotify.com/track/0g7BCgXZr7Vtc6cITgvdPj?si=c2a24524388b4d9b
We hope you enjoyed this episode of The Gifted Kid Complex! This episode is hosted by Teia C. (Oxford History BA) and presented with the creator of the show, Cher C. (UCL Philosophy BA), who hosts every other episode.
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CREATOR/DIRECTOR, PRODUCER: Cher C.
CO-HOSTS, PRIMARY WRITER/RESEARCHERS: Cher C. and Teia C.
PRIMARY EDITOR: Cher C., SECONDARY EDITOR: Teia C.
AUDIO ENGINEER: Teia C.
ASSISTANT WRITER/RESEARCHERS, TRANSCRIBERS: Alex E., Delaney L., Isaiah H., Jenny S., Lucas H.
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Here's the full version of us discussing the fun facts (I promise they are fun) we covered in 'Blue eyes are a lie'!
Capillaries:
https://training.seer.cancer.gov/anatomy/cardiovascular/blood/classification.html
Uvulas and their human uniqueness:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1408233/
Blue eyes and structural colour:
https://www.aao.org/eye-health/tips-prevention/your-blue-eyes-arent-really-blue
Descartes on the pineal gland:
https://n.neurology.org/content/94/15_Supplement/914
The Patella:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patella
The Foramen Magnum, the biggest hole in the skull:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK526041/
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Anatomy is strange. Etymology can be even stranger. This episode, Cher implores Teia to attempt identifying parts of the body based solely on their namesake If you know anything about root words, they can appear absolutely out of pocket. What part of the body do you think is named ‘big hole’?
We talk about teleological arguments, undoing vasectomies, and doughnut topology. To escape the highbrow nonsense, we also play a few rounds of Innuendo, making the most incredibly crass, raunchy - and hopefully witty - euphemisms and pick up lines.
Cher’s quote of the day: “Biology is the study of complicated things that give the appearance of having been designed for a purpose”Richard Dawkins (2015). “The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design”, p.13, W. W. Norton & Company
Sources for this episode:
Capillaries:
https://training.seer.cancer.gov/anatomy/cardiovascular/blood/classification.html
Uvulas and their human uniqueness:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1408233/
Blue eyes and structural colour:
https://www.aao.org/eye-health/tips-prevention/your-blue-eyes-arent-really-blue
Descartes on the pineal gland:
https://n.neurology.org/content/94/15_Supplement/914
The Patella:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patella
The Foramen Magnum, the biggest hole in the skull:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK526041/Manfred Werner/Tsui - CC by-sa 4.0, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons
We hope you enjoyed this episode of The Gifted Kid Complex! This episode is hosted by the creator of the show, Cher C. (UCL Philosophy) and presented with Teia C. (Oxford History), who hosts every other episode.
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For business enquiries, contact [email protected]
CREATOR/DIRECTOR, PRODUCER: Cher C.
CO-HOSTS, PRIMARY WRITER/RESEARCHERS: Cher C. and Teia C.
PRIMARY EDITOR: Cher C., SECONDARY EDITOR: Teia C.
AUDIO ENGINEER: Teia C.
ASSISTANT WRITER/RESEARCHERS, TRANSCRIBERS: Alex E., Delaney L., Isaiah H., Jenny S., Lucas H.
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Cher wrote a game that contained an Aztec myth. Teia turned the tables and educated Cher about not only Aztecs, but additionally about Incas too, rubbing salt in the wound. Jokes aside, enjoy our first bonus content episode, taken from Episode 1, 'The beginning of an era'.
Sources for this bonus episode:
The Florentine Codex, Book 12, Chapter 1: https://enl.wired-humanities.org/fcbk12ch01
Compiled by Bernardino de Sahagun and many indigenous Nahua scribes in the mid 16th century in the Colegio de Santa Cruz.
Translated by A. J. O. Anderson and C. E. Dibble. This website has the other chapters in Book 12 which cover the conquest of the Mexica by the Spaniards, and is one of our only sources written in the indigenous Nahuatl as well as in Spanish.
R. Hassig, 'Time, History, and Belief in Aztec and Colonial Mexico'.
S. Gruzinski, 'Man Gods in the Mexican Highlands' (Stanford UP, 1989)
D. Carrasco, "Quetzalcoatl and the Irony of Empire: Myths and Prophecies in the Aztec Tradition" (revised edition, 2000.)
T. d'Altroy, The Incas, (Oxford, 2014)
https://www.livescience.com/21677-antarctica-facts.html
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CREATOR/DIRECTOR, PRODUCER: Cher C.
CO-HOSTS, PRIMARY WRITER/RESEARCHERS: Cher C. and Teia C.
PRIMARY EDITOR: Chris K., SECONDARY EDITOR: Cher C.
AUDIO ENGINEER: Teia C.
ASSISTANT WRITER/RESEARCHERS, TRANSCRIBERS: Alex E., Delaney L., Isaiah H., Jenny S., Lucas H.
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This episode, Teia and Cher try not to yuck your yum (or yum your yuck) by discussing how we taste food, whether or not we think we would like some weird foods eaten in history, and the gustatory experience in its full qualitative glory. We apologise for the budget ASMR conducted in this episode - we sincerely hope you don’t mind.
Teia’s word of the day: Slumgullion /slʌmˈɡʌljən/
Noun: a meat stew. [Definition from Merriam-Webster]
Sources for this episode:
Tyromancy:
https://backyardbanshee.com/divination/tyromancy/
https://www.jstor.org/stable/330839
The Science of Taste:
https://www.science.org.au/curious/people-medicine/how-do-our-tastebuds-work
https://www.kikkoman.co.uk/inspiration/umami-the-5th-taste/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taste_receptor
https://foodinsight.org/the-science-of-taste/
Fun Foods in History:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicha
https://www.delish.com/food-news/a46006/astronaut-ice-cream-is-a-lie/
https://www.historynet.com/revolting-rations/
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-27118824
We hope you enjoyed this week’s episode of The Gifted Kid Complex! This episode is hosted by Teia C. (Oxford History BA) and presented with the creator of the show, Cher C. (UCL Philosophy BA), who hosts every other episode.
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CREATOR/DIRECTOR, PRODUCER: Cher C.
CO-HOSTS, PRIMARY WRITER/RESEARCHERS: Cher C. and Teia C.
PRIMARY EDITOR: Cher C., SECONDARY EDITOR: Teia C.
AUDIO ENGINEER: Teia C.
ASSISTANT WRITER/RESEARCHERS, TRANSCRIBERS: Alex E., Delaney L., Isaiah H., Jenny S., Lucas H.
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I don’t know about you, but I am both fascinated and scared shitless by the ocean. Granted, I’m not one of those old timey seamen standing on the deck yelling that the sea calls to me and that I love her, but I still believe marine biology is truly a marvel. Deep sea gigantism and whale falls, anyone? Something that keeps me up at night though, is that we’ve only explored around 5% of the oceans so far, and even scarier shit is definitely down there.
Cher’s word of the day: Bathypelagic, /bæθ.ɪ.pəˈlædʒ.ɪk/
Adjective: relating to the part of the ocean that is between approximately 2000 feet (600 metres) and 12,000 feet (3,600 metres) deep. Definition provided by Cambridge Dictionary.
Sources for this episode:
Sperm whales and spermaceti:
https://archive.org/details/greatspermwhalen0000elli/mode/1up
https://archive.org/details/nasa_techdoc_19720017412/
Yeti crab:
https://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/14/science/in-the-deep-deep-sea-the-yeti-crab.html
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3227565/
Cuttlefish:
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2020.3161
Nautilus:
https://www.mbari.org/news/16-things-you-probably-didnt-know-about-cephalopod-sex/
North Atlantic Right Whales:
https://www.worldwildlife.org/species/north-atlantic-right-whale
Pom pom Crabs:
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/crabs-anemones-pom-pom-clones-fight
We hope you enjoyed this episode of The Gifted Kid Complex! This episode is hosted by the creator of the show, Cher C. (UCL Philosophy) and presented with Teia C. (Oxford History), who hosts every other episode.
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CO-HOSTS, PRIMARY WRITER/RESEARCHERS: Cher C. and Teia C.
PRIMARY EDITOR: Cher C., SECONDARY EDITOR: Teia C.
AUDIO ENGINEER: Teia C.
ASSISTANT WRITER/RESEARCHERS, TRANSCRIBERS: Alex E., Delaney L., Isaiah H., Jenny S., Lucas H.
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Teia takes the reins in this episode of The Gifted Kid Complex, as she and Cher attempt to tackle what it feels like living in a body with (hopefully) some success. We contemplate some of the science behind transhumanism, and some of the fiction behind it too, and the scope of what it could do for us in the not so far future.
Teia’s quote of the day: ‘Why should our bodies end at the skin, or include at best other beings encapsulated by skin?’
Donna Haraway, ‘A Cyborg Manifesto’
Full Citation: Donna J. Haraway, “A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century,” in Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature (New York: Routledge, 1991), 149-181.
Sources for this episode:
Transhumanism:
https://www.britannica.com/topic/transhumanism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-transcendence
Tattoos and ink:
Ted-Ed Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMuBif1mJz0
https://thevarsity.ca/2021/10/31/science-of-tattooing/
Neuralink:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-65717487
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jun/04/elon-musk-neuralink-approved-human-testing-concern
In Vitro Fertilisation:
https://www.britannica.com/science/in-vitro-fertilization
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/neuroscience/in-vitro-fertilisation
https://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/in-vitro-fertilization/about/pac-20384716
We hope you enjoyed this episode of The Gifted Kid Complex! This episode is hosted by Teia C. (Oxford History BA) and presented with the creator of the show, Cher C. (UCL Philosophy BA), who hosts every other episode.
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CREATOR/DIRECTOR, PRODUCER: Cher C.
CO-HOSTS, PRIMARY WRITER/RESEARCHERS: Cher C. and Teia C.
PRIMARY EDITOR: Cher C., SECONDARY EDITOR: Teia C.
AUDIO ENGINEER: Teia C.
ASSISTANT WRITER/RESEARCHERS, TRANSCRIBERS: Alex E., Delaney L., Isaiah H., Jenny S., Lucas H.
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It’s the first ever episode of The Gifted Kid Complex! In this episode hosted by Cher, we introduce and talk about the meta of the show, about beginnings and myths, then have a bit of a silly laugh at the end talking about an iconic figure of Early Modern Philosophy with whom UCL is scarily, and frankly, concerningly obsessed.
Cher’s word of the day: Prolegomenon, /prəʊlɛˈɡɒmɪnən/
Noun: a preliminary discussion; introductory essay, as prefatory matter in a book; a prologue. Definition from Oxford Languages.
Sources for this episode:
Judeo-Christian Genesis Creation Narrative:
https://mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt0101.htmhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genesis_creation_narrative
Aztec Five Suns:
https://www.jstor.org/stable/1062864https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Suns
Chinese Pangu Creation Myth:
https://www.confuciusinstitute.ac.uk/1-2-3-the-legend-of-pangu/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pangu
Jeremy Bentham:
https://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/transcribe-bentham/jeremy-bentham/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Bentham
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bentham-project/about-jeremy-bentham/auto-icon
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D7863973
We hope you enjoyed this week’s episode of The Gifted Kid Complex! This episode is hosted by the creator of the show, Cher C. (UCL Philosophy BA) and presented with Teia C. (Oxford History BA), who hosts every other episode.
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CREATOR/DIRECTOR, PRODUCER: Cher C.
CO-HOSTS, PRIMARY WRITER/RESEARCHERS: Cher C. and Teia C.
PRIMARY EDITOR: Cher C., SECONDARY EDITOR: Teia C.
AUDIO ENGINEER: Teia C.
ASSISTANT WRITER/RESEARCHERS, TRANSCRIBERS: Alex E., Delaney L., Isaiah H., Jenny S., Lucas H.
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It's the first bonus (and first overall) episode of The Gifted Kid Complex! This episode is hosted by the creator of the show, Cher C. (UCL Philosophy BA) and presented with Teia C. (Oxford History BA), who hosts every other episode. In this bonus episode, Cher talks Teia through the meta and all the formats she's written for the show, as well as from where all of her ideas were stolen.
Three full episodes are to be published together for the launch of our show on either the 4th or the 11th of July depending on time constraints; episodes should be released weekly from then on.
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Thank you so much for your contributions and support to help us do what we love: to keep this show going.
For business enquiries, contact [email protected]
CREATED BY: Cher C.
CO-HOSTED, WRITTEN, PRODUCED, EDITED BY: Cher C. and Teia C.
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Surprise! It’s the trailer for The Gifted Kid Complex, the show where the panellists were gifted kids and refuse to move on. Today, we briefly introduce the hosts, the structure, and concept for the show; namely, to satirically take on intellectual elitism by having the most (tongue-in-cheek) inane, pedantic, and convoluted conversations every week. Each episode will be hosted by either the creator of the show, Cher C. (UCL Philosophy BA) or by Teia C. (Oxford History BA); we will be individually writing the episodes that we host so we can surprise each other, and part of our jobs will be attempting to hold the banter together.
Three episodes are to be published together at the beginning of July for the launch of our show; episodes should be released every Tuesday after launch.
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CREATOR/DIRECTOR, PRODUCER: Cher C.
CO-HOSTS, PRIMARY WRITER/RESEARCHERS: Cher C. and Teia C.
PRIMARY EDITOR: Chris K., SECONDARY EDITOR: Cher C.
AUDIO ENGINEER: Teia C.
ASSISTANT WRITER/RESEARCHERS, TRANSCRIBERS: Alex E., Delaney L., Isaiah H., Jenny S., Lucas H.
