You Are A Weirdo (with Historian Doug Sofer, Ph.D.)
Doug Sofer
20 episodes
4 months ago
This episode was revised with a brand-new tell-all confession and correction in late July, 2025. How does history help us come to grips with the strangeness of now? Find out as the scholars of the Southeast World History Association tackle that very question! This special session of SEWHA's annual meeting was recorded live in November 2024 at Southeast Missouri State University. Join us as we cover issues of technology, science, religion, spirituality, big yellow school busses, getting folks ...
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This episode was revised with a brand-new tell-all confession and correction in late July, 2025. How does history help us come to grips with the strangeness of now? Find out as the scholars of the Southeast World History Association tackle that very question! This special session of SEWHA's annual meeting was recorded live in November 2024 at Southeast Missouri State University. Join us as we cover issues of technology, science, religion, spirituality, big yellow school busses, getting folks ...
You Are A Weirdo (with Historian Doug Sofer, Ph.D.)
31 minutes
2 years ago
You're Amped Up
You’re presumably reading this description because you like to listen to podcasts. And you can listen to podcasts because clever people invented loudspeakers a century-and-change ago. And loudspeakers were not possible without the invention of electronic amplifiers. Which were not possible without vacuum tubes. Which are a lot like light bulbs.What was it like to experience electronically amplified sound for the first time? Did it set crowds of people into hysterical panic? Why or why not? Wh...
You Are A Weirdo (with Historian Doug Sofer, Ph.D.)
This episode was revised with a brand-new tell-all confession and correction in late July, 2025. How does history help us come to grips with the strangeness of now? Find out as the scholars of the Southeast World History Association tackle that very question! This special session of SEWHA's annual meeting was recorded live in November 2024 at Southeast Missouri State University. Join us as we cover issues of technology, science, religion, spirituality, big yellow school busses, getting folks ...
