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The podcast by Malcolm Gladwell Blame Game was about in 2009, hundreds of Toyota car owners came out to the public with alarming allegations. The world’s most popular car had something badly wrong causing people to be badly injured or even causing death. Toyota car owners were saying the cars would uncontrollably start to acierate. Once this allegation came out to the public, Toyota was forced to recall over 10 million vehicles. Toyota ended up paying 1.2 billion dollars in fees to the US Government, 1.1 billion to settle class action lawsuits, and have settled 400 separate lawsuits. This allegation come out to the public when a family called 911 in a panic. The family said while on the phone the family was approaching an intersection. The

The Serial podcast, hosted by Sarah Koenig, is about the murder of young Woodlawn High School student Hae Min Lee. Hae was a smart, ambitious, and outgoing young lady taken from this world too soon. Sarah Koenig and the podcast takes us through the ins and outs of typical and unusual teenager behavior to try and uncover something unseen in this case. Adnan Syed, the now convicted murder, and Jay Wilds, the state’s only witness, are the key people of this story. I believe Adnan’s innocence should be maintained because Jay’s story should not have been used for evidence, there was not enough evidence to even arrest Adnan, and Adnan had a trustworthy alibi.

In “Happiness 101,” Harvard professor Dr. Tal Ben-Shahar presents his ideas pertaining to the achievability of happiness. He begins by discussing how individuals must give themselves permission to be human, so that they can feel the negative feelings before they reach the positive feelings. If negative feelings are held back without release, then they only intensify eventually blocking out the positive feelings. Ben-Shahar continues his presentation to the topic of managing stress on the micro, mezza, and macro levels. These levels include the ideas of meditation, sleep, taking time off, vacations, and the “three deep breaths.” Simplifying agendas and practicing quality over quantity has a positive effect on stress levels as well. At the conclusion of his presentation, Ben-Shahar discusses the positive effect of practicing gratitude on health, happiness, and well-being. After listening to Tal Ben-Shahar’s presentation, I completely agree with every point that Ben-Shahar uses over the topics of giving permission to be human, stress management, and practicing gratitude covered throughout his presentation over happiness.

Starting as a receptionist at a tanning salon, Colbie Caillat became an uprising artist. It all begins when she was eleven years old. She picked up singing and playing guitar in order to express herself. As everything progress, Colbie started writing her own lyrics. She recorded herself and her friend helped Colbie deliver her messages in her music on the Internet. Colbie friend started posting her music on Myspace to share her wonderful voice and powerful lyrics. Four months later, Colbie had more than 44 million hits on her music. It all escalated from there. According to Ellen’s interview with Colbie Caillat on the talk show “ The Ellen Show”. Colbie Caillat love writing song about herself dealing with women generally. About women insecurities, imperfections, self-confidences, and higher expectations as a woman in today’s society, Colbie told Billboard Magazine. That’s where the empowering song “Try” was written to be. An expression of how women should be more happy with their natural beauty verse being unhappy with their given looks.

In Vernā Myers’ TED Talk “How to overcome our biases? Walk boldly towards them,” originally presented at TEDxBeaconStreet, diversity advocate Myers argues that peoples’ subconscious attitudes are affecting the prospering of black people in society. She also proposes three ideas on how to overcome our biases, which will open a world of possibilities where everyone no matters his or her ethnicity or race has equal opportunities to succeed in this constantly changing environment. According to Myers, the first step to overcome our prejudices is to acknowledge the biases that subconsciously influence our attitudes towards black people. According to Myers, “our default is white,” this demonstrates that people are more likely to trust white people

My thoughts after listening to The American Life podcast was, as bad as it sounds I didn’t even really know that there were still all black and all white schools. I didn’t know that kids were still separated in that way. I think it’s sad that still after so many years people can’t all come together as one, they have to separate themselves based on skin color. Which is just wrong. The part where they talked about students that we behind. They were correct. If you’re someone who is already way behind where you should be and you are then given bad resources and unskilled teachers you are either going to stay where you are, or get worse. If you are on a classroom with a bunch of kids who are advanced, you are more likely to catch up. The kids that

Of the many techniques people use to reduce stress, yoga is among one of the more popular. Although some may believe that effects of yoga are merely physical, there is research that suggests that yoga has direct impacts on one’s mental state. According to Forbes, in addition to the benefits on the heart and blood flow, yoga helps release dopamine and gaba and serotonin (Walton, 2012). All of these are known to create feeling of happiness in a person (K. W. Brown, personal communication, Sept. 7). For this lab, I decided I would try yoga for myself to test the results.

Bill O’Reilly is the author of Killing Kennedy, and he wrote the book in 2012. O’Reilly was born in 1949 in New York City and later graduated from Marist College with a degree in history in the 1970s. Bill then taught high school for many years before going back to college to get a masters degree in journalism. Starting in the 1980s, O’Reilly began working in television becoming a correspondent for many different news stations. In the 1990s, Bill went back to school this time at Harvard to get a degree in public administration. Shortly after this O’Reilly began his own show on Fox News and years later began his own radio talk show. In the past few years Bill has written a number of books that were about different parts of history including Killing Lincoln and Killing Kennedy. Since Bill O’Reilly has a background in history and even a degree in history so that makes him even more qualified to write a book on John F. Kennedy and his presidency. Also at the time of the Kennedy presidency O’Reilly was alive and an aware citizen of society. Since Bill O’Reilly lived through this part of history this makes him even more qualified to write about this time in America.

The Radio show that I covered was the Dan Patrick Show, which is a nationally broadcasted radio show that is also syndicated on tv on the NBC sports network. The show is hosted by Dan Patrick, one of the most well-known and famed broadcasters in Sportscenter history, as he enjoyed a very successful time working for ESPN before transitioning into his radio career. His time spent at ESPN as well as contributing to NBC with their NBC Sunday Night Football coverage certainly indicates his vast sports knowledge and experiences that would indicate his credibility in hosting a sports radio show. Also in 2013 USA Today’s, The Big Lead ranked the show number four, in its ranking of the top sports radio broadcasts.

Doom morphed into fear. Though I never broke any bones while practicing yoga, I became fearful of it, along with most other physical activity. I was so conscious and afraid of my physical frailties that I tucked my love for yoga away neatly on the outskirts of my

In the article from The Atlantic Magazine, entitled “Why One Neuroscientist Started Blasting His Core”, James Hamblin taps into the hot topic of stress relief methods; specifically through exercise, at the forefront of popular media today. To provide an avenue through which to do so, he tells the story of a neuroscientist by the name of Peter Strick. Due to the way Strick’s brain works, he was initially unable to accept the commonly made claim that activities, such as yoga, have a direct impact on an individual’s stress level without concrete facts and reasoning backing this up. While both directing his intriguing, informative material at the scientific community and the general population enveloped in the pull of the media, Hamblin leaves

The widely popular podcast, Stuff You Should Know, often abbreviated as SYSK, is a free, award winning podcast and video series published by the How Stuff Works website. The podcast has been a hit ever since its release and has been constantly ranking amongst the top of all podcast rankings. The premise of the podcast is essentially to inform the listeners about the further nuanced details about activities many people engage in on a daily basis. The podcast airs every Tuesday and Thursday, educating their listeners on a wide variety of topics with comedic value that helps to engage and enhance the audience 's experience while listening to the podcast. In terms of its history, the podcast was launched on April 17th, 2009, and since its

Radio Bigot still resides as a Radio Talk Show Host doesn’t have the decency to apologize to a women he called a slut But he represents millions of White Men who exhibit these same attitudes using racist epithets on Black People while treating women as sex objects When he lost over forty sponsors he refer to them as French Fries that dropped from the carton onto a food tray It’s the root of the problem they’re losing some of their control that they once had on Black People as well as on Women Then the ugliness comes out when they are unhappy so they resort to racist behavior to make them feel superior Few Republicans in both houses denounced this Radio Talk Host because they embraced his attitude when it comes to Black’s

Milarepa’s captivating life story depicts a man willing to commit sins on behalf of his mother’s command to one that decides to leave his family, in order to achieve enlightenment. This autobiography allows him to remain to be a beloved yogin because of his drastic and fulfilling spiritual transformation, thus encouraging Tibetans to seek a similar path to nirvana in their lifetime. However, Milarepa proves that one’s journey to liberation and enlightenment has to be earned and fought for spiritually and psychologically.

As everyone else mentioned, hearing the podcast really changed but yet helped my point of view on the topics of consumer surplus, demand curve, and overall seeing an economists perspective. Uber not only has a constant changing advantage and disadvantage with supply and demand but the market of consumers and businesses are constantly changing from the use of technology. Uber revolves itself around consumer surplus, wanting more customers who are willing to pay their price but thinking about other competitive businesses like Lyft or regular taxis, consumer surplus could be a huge problem for both parties depending on place and time. Steve Levitt himself mentions that he takes a taxi in New York City because it is more convenient. Now, lets say