The Ignorance Podcast
The Ignorance Podcast
Podcast Description
Each episode, Mayla will interview a researcher or scientist about what questions excite them, what questions they’re currently pondering or working on, and the broader impact of these questions. The guests’ specific job and field will not be revealed until the end of the episode, as the point is for listeners to get a picture of the guest based solely on the questions they are asking.
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Content Themes
The podcast explores themes around scientific inquiry, personal reflections, and the broader implications of research. Episodes focus on the guests' curiosity-driven questions, as seen in the debut episode featuring James Wilson discussing energy costs in computation and the importance of small victories in academia.
Each episode, Mayla will interview a researcher or scientist about what questions excite them, what questions they’re currently pondering or working on, and the broader impact of these questions. The guests’ specific job and field will not be revealed until the end of the episode, as the point is for listeners to get a picture of the guest based solely on the questions they are asking.
Join Mayla Boguslav as she interviews this episode’s guest Paul Lerner who is asking what did the world look like in different historical moments and how profoundly different the past was from the present but also how similar it was?
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Follow this episode’s guest Paul Lerner:
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Citations mentioned in this episode:
Plato. The Apology of Plato. The Clarendon press, 1867.
Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents (1929). Freud took the concept of “oceanic feeling” from his friend Romain Rolland who described it in a 1927 letter to Freud.
Re:Thinking with Adam Grant: https://adamgrant.net/podcasts/rethinking/
Definition of fascism disagreement: https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/what-was-the-fascism-debate/
Mayla R. Boguslav (2023). Revealing and Exploring the Literature’s Known Unknowns: Ignorance and How It Drives Science (Doctoral dissertation, University of Colorado Denver, Anschutz Medical Campus).
People:
Students
(Isadore) Jack Lerner (Paul’s Father), 1930-2024
Karl Joachim (Jock) Weintraub, 1924-2004. Thomas E. Donnelley Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in History at the University of Chicago, also taught in the Committee on Social Thought, the Committee on the History of Culture, the Humanities Division and the College
Socrates (ca. 470 BCE – 399 BCE), foundational Greek philosopher.
Leora Auslander, Arthur and Joann Rasmussen Professor in the Departments of Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity and History, The University of Chicago
Friedrich (Fred) Hacker (1914-1989), Vienna-born psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, who practiced mostly in Los Angeles and specialized in the psychology of violence and terror.
Michel Foucault (1926-1984), French Historian and Philosopher of Science
Bruno Latour (1947-2022), French Philosopher, Anthropologist, and Sociologist
Thomas Kuhn (1922-1996), Historian and Philosopher of Science
Transcript: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fQvIUHYR1d3sXf07j3gGEhfScvpvEuS4xnErnmGK_Mo/edit?usp=sharing
Producer & editor:
Joshua Mendel and Mayla Boguslav
Bluesky: @jbmendel.bsky.social
Questions, comments, want to get in touch?
Email theignoranceinstitute@gmail.com
Music:
Curious by Ron Gelinas Chill Beats | https://open.spotify.com/artist/03JYfsI9Ke7JFuxHD239m2
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