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Media Melanie TV'Poker Face' Season 2 Episode 7 Review: Ode to Cinephiles | "One Last Job"Watch my latest Poker Face Season 2 review as I dive into episode 7, "One Last Job." This one is a true nod to movies and cinephiles and a lot of fun to watch. Plus, our girl Charlie GOT SOME! Subscribe to MediaMelanieTV.com for more TV Talk.From Peacock: "Poker Face" is a mystery-of-the-week series following Natasha Lyonne’s Charlie, who has an extraordinary ability to determine when someone is lying. She hits the road with her Plymouth Barracuda and with every stop encounters a new cast of characters and strange crimes she can’t help but s...2025-06-0719 min
Media Melanie TV'Poker Face' Season 2 Episode 6 Review: A Demon in Pigtails 😈Watch my reaction and review of "Poker Face" Season 2 Episode 6, "Sloppy Joseph." Be sure to stick around for the end of the video for my weekly guest star and Season 2 episode rankings! Drop all of your thoughts in the comments! Subscribe to MediaMelanieTV.com for more TV talk.From Peacock: "Poker Face" is a mystery-of-the-week series following Natasha Lyonne’s Charlie, who has an extraordinary ability to determine when someone is lying. She hits the road with her Plymouth Barracuda and with every stop encounters a new cast of characters and strange crimes she can’t help but solve...2025-05-2915 min
Media Melanie TV'Poker Face' Season 2 Episode 5 Review with Craig Elsten: Hometown HeroJoin me for this #PokerFace Season 2 Episode 5 review of "Hometown Hero" with special guest Craig Elsten! We dive into the lore behind the Dock Ellis story that inspired this episode, including a tie to the San Diego Padres , some insider baseball info., and discuss Craig's podcast partner who is a writer for "Poker Face" Season 2. Lots of sports, fun facts, and banter! Drop a comment with your thoughts, and stick around for our guest star and episode rankings at the end of the video. Watch on YouTubeFollow Craig: https://www.instagram.com/619sportsandlife & https://bsky.app/profile/619s...2025-05-221h 01
Media Melanie TV'Poker Face' Season 2 Episode 4 Review: Gator Joe got DONELet's dive into "Poker Face" on Peacock Season 2 Episode 4, "The Taste of Human Blood" guest starring Gaby Hoffmann as Fran and Kumail Nanjiani as Gator Joe as I explore the absolute absurdity and Florida of it all. Stick around for my episode and guest star rankings at the end of each video this season and drop your thoughts in the comments. SUBSCRIBE AND WATCH ON YOUTUBEEpisodes 1-3 Review: • 'Poker Face' Season 2 Episodes 1, 2, ... Season 2 Preview: • 'Poker Face' Season 2 Trailer Preview... From Peacock: "Poker Face" is a mystery-of-the-week series following Natasha Lyonne’s Charlie, who has an extraordinary ability to determine when someone is lying. She hits the...2025-05-1522 min
Media Melanie TV'Poker Face' Season 2 Episodes 1, 2, 3 Review: Give Cynthia Erivo an Emmy!Here's my review of "Poker Face" Season 2 episodes 1, 2, and 3. Ring my bell, because it's a strong start to the season with "The Game is a Foot," "Last Looks," and "Whack-a-Mole" with notable guest stars Cynthia Erivo from "Wicked," Katie Holmes, Giancarlo Esposito, John Mulaney, and more! Plus, Natasha Lyonne kills it again as Charlie Cale.Holy Butt Munch, hog up a posse and be sure to stick around for my episode and guest star rankings at the end of each video this season and drop your thoughts in the comments. Watch my Season 2 Preview: https://youtu.be/cL3THmuF2...2025-05-0929 min
Media Melanie TV'Poker Face' on Peacock Season 2 PreviewLet's dive into a #PokerFace Season 2 trailer preview, guest star highlights (the roster is 🔥STACKED🔥), and more as we anxiously await the first three episodes streaming to #Peacock on May 8. If you're not already watching this Natasha Lyonne gem, you should be! Stream season 1 now on Peacock to catch up ahead of the 12-episode sophomore season.🎥Watch and subscribe on YouTubeFrom Peacock: "Poker Face" is a mystery-of-the-week series following Natasha Lyonne’s Charlie, who has an extraordinary ability to determine when someone is lying. She hits the road with her Plymouth Barracuda and with every stop encounters a new cast of charact...2025-04-2212 min
Up ArrowUp Arrow Podcast | Your Mind Is Hindering Your Growth: How To Unlock It With Optimism & Bravery With Melanie MarshallMelanie Marshall is a speaker, coach, and filmmaker who guides individuals through their personal journeys. As an internationally acclaimed journalist, she spent over 20 years with BBC News, reporting from high-risk regions like Ukraine, Afghanistan, and China. Recognized for crafting human-centric narratives, Melanie’s work has received various awards and was nominated for multiple Emmys.
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When the stakes are high and uncertainty is everywhere, how can you make clear decisions without getting paralyzed by fear? Whether you’re navigating a supply chain crisis or a major acquisition, the mental weight can feel overwhelming — like you’r...2025-04-081h 24
Up Arrow PodcastYour Mind Is Hindering Your Growth: How To Unlock It With Optimism & Bravery With Melanie MarshallMelanie Marshall is a speaker, coach, and filmmaker who guides individuals through their personal journeys. As an internationally acclaimed journalist, she spent over 20 years with BBC News, reporting from high-risk regions like Ukraine, Afghanistan, and China. Recognized for crafting human-centric narratives, Melanie’s work has received various awards and was nominated for multiple Emmys. In this episode… When the stakes are high and uncertainty is everywhere, how can you make clear decisions without getting paralyzed by fear? Whether you're navigating a supply chain crisis or a major acquisition, the mental weight can feel overwhelming — like you're s...2025-04-081h 24
HeartTalk42: Accidental Bravery with Melanie MarshallFor over 20 years, as a BBC foreign journalist, Melanie Marshall explored fascinating and often high-risk places around the globe. Whether in the Middle East, Ukraine, Afghanistan, or China, she's known for her ability to craft uniquely human and accessible narratives that build understanding and evoke change. Her work has earned international acclaim including multiple Emmy nominations. She has connected with people from across the spectrum of human experience—often witnessing the hardest days of their lives. Despite this, she's optimistic about the future. The 'accidental bravery' of the people I've met is a li...2025-02-1853 min
b Cause Work Doesn't Have to Suck276: Why Former BBC Foreign Journalist Melanie Marshall is Optimistic About the World Despite Seeing its WorstThis episode is one for the books. Melanie Marshall, a former BBC foreign journalist turned filmmaker, speaker, and coach, joins us with jaw-dropping stories from the world’s most challenging places. She’s witnessed humanity at its worst—and yet, she’s still relentlessly hopeful. Some of the things you'll hear are: 1.)How radicalized followers of Osama Bin Laden made her feel welcome in an interview just shortly after his death 2.) What anyone can do to create connection, despite differences 3.) How she defied her boss' (on multiple occasions) to do a story they thought was both dangerou...2025-02-181h 14b Cause Work Doesn't Have to Suck276: Why Former BBC Foreign Journalist Melanie Marshall is Optimistic About the World Despite Seeing its WorstThis episode is one for the books. Melanie Marshall, a former BBC foreign journalist turned filmmaker, speaker, and coach, joins us with jaw-dropping stories from the world’s most challenging places. She’s witnessed humanity at its worst—and yet, she’s still relentlessly hopeful. Some of the things you'll hear are: 1.)How radicalized followers of Osama Bin Laden made her feel welcome in an interview just shortly after his death 2.) What anyone can do to create connection, despite differences 3.) How she defied her boss' (on multiple occasions) to do a story they thought was both dangerou...2025-02-181h 14
The Winston Marshall ShowMelanie Phillips - The West Must Do This To Survive The FutureMelanie Phillips is back to discuss her new book “The Builder’s Stone: How Jews and Christians Built the West—and Why Only They Can Save It”The prolific journalist and author of ‘Londonistan’, ‘The Ascent of Woman’ and ‘The Sex-change Society: Feminised Britain and the Neutered Male’ is back with a new book discussing the key principles of the West, and how we are losing grip of them.We discuss the role of Judaism and Christianity in Western civilisation and their potential to revive the West. Phillips emphasises the importance of cultur...2025-02-061h 12
New Books in Environmental StudiesMelanie Dennis Unrau, "The Rough Poets: Reading Oil-Worker Poetry" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2024)Oil workers are often typecast as rough: embodying the toxic masculinity, racism, consumerist excess, and willful ignorance of the extractive industries and petrostates they work for. But their poetry troubles these assumptions, revealing the fear, confusion, betrayal, and indignation hidden beneath tough personas.The Rough Poets: Reading Oil-Worker Poetry (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2024) by Dr. Melanie Dennis Unrau presents poetry by workers in the Canadian oil and gas industry, collecting and closely reading texts published between 1938 and 2019: S.C. Ells’s Northland Trails, Peter Christensen’s Rig Talk, Dymphny Dronyk’s Contrary Infatuations, Mathew Henderson’s The Lease, Naden Par...2025-01-1952 min
C3 Church WatsonGoing Deeper | Ps Mel MarshallThis week, Ps Mel Marshall continues our study of 1 John by exploring Chapter 3. She unpacks the incredible depth of God's love for us, what it means to be His children, and how this love transforms the way we live.2025-01-1200 min
You Are GoodThe Witch (2015) w. Melanie ZanettiWouldst thou like to live deliciously? We talk folk horror, Black Philip, girlhood and The Witch with Melanie Zanetti! Find Melanie online here!This episode was made possible by your support! Thanks to everybody who supports us on Patreon and Apple Plus.We LOVE Magpie Cinema Club! You can find their rendition of Season of the Witch on Bandcamp!You can pre-order Carolyn Kendrick's forthcoming record Each Machine and stream her songs here.You...2024-10-231h 26
It Might Get Weird: Journeys in Veterinary MedicineS1 : E17 - That First Anatomy Test AfterglowClick here to text us your questions & comments.Episode 16 was a bit subdued, but not Episode 17! Sara came straight from her first anatomy exam (Probably the most anticipated exam of Vet School other than National Boards), to recording this week's episode. It is so great to hear Sara on such a high from getting that test into her rear-view mirror. Enjoy! Thanks for listening!Shout outs in this episode:Dr. Sonja Olson = @drsonjaolsonEric Garcia = @ericgarciaflDr. Melanie Bowden = @ervet4lifeNaomi McDonald = @naomi_mcdonaldAmerican Veterinary Medical A...2024-09-2427 min
Tactical ScrubsCreating Adaptive Teams For High-Value Outcomes with Melanie MarshallMelanie joins Dean and Mel from Australia to discuss organisational and team culture, leadership, and transformation.
Melanie is an advisor, coach, trainer, and speaker:
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That'll DoEp. 44 If You Want Something Done Right, Do It YourselfSometimes you just gotta do it yourself. Stories of three fab fellas who decided to take matters into their own hands. They said ‘F it, I’ll do it myself”Dr. Barry Marshall, Australian Gastroenterologist who infected himself with an ulcer causing bacteria to prove he knew the cureAlmon Brown Strowger, inventor of the automatic switchboard after his own employee was directing calls from his business to the competitionLeonid Rogozov, Russian surgeon performed an appendectomy on him...2024-09-0549 minYou Are GoodThe Secret Garden (1993) w. Melanie ZanettiWe learn to laugh and we learn to cry in The Secret Garden with our great pal Melanie Zanetti. Find Melanie online here!This episode was made possible by your support! Thanks to everybody who supports us on Patreon and Apple Plus.We LOVE Magpie Cinema Club! You can find their songs / Bandcamp HERE!You can buy a You Are Good logo shirt DESIGNED BY THE GREAT LIZ CLIMO here. (Liz Climo designed our logo!)2024-08-071h 13
The Enoughness with Melanie RickeyJodie Cariss: Good Enoughness, core beliefs and Gucci bagsHow do we find our good enough? Psychotherapist Jodie Cariss is co-founder of the world’s first on-demand mental health service, The Self Space, and understands this subject so well she has the tattoo to prove it. In this conversation Melanie and Jodie discuss where feelings of not good enough come from – hello core beliefs! - and go there with their own too. They also talk about the importance of creating a space between wanting and having, and why little everyday actions help us find, and stay, in our sweet spot for pleasur...2024-06-1741 min
The Vine TimeThe Vine Time S2 E24 Whitley Nabintu MarshallMelanie Bolduc, Founder & Host of Vine Time TV, www.vinetimetv.com welcomes Whitley Navintu Marshall, Founder & Editor of Art, Love, Lifestyle Magazine in Portland, Maine.
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The Winston Marshall ShowMelanie Phillips - Abolish The United NationsProlific author and Times columnist Melanie Philip joined me to discuss the ongoing war in Gaza, the failure of Human Rights, the moral corruption of international organisations and the endless stupidity of the British Conservative party.Melanie has been a prophetic voice on many issues, best evidenced by publishing the book 'Londonistan' as early as 2006 and 'The Sex-Change Society' back in 1999.She is as fearless with her opinions today as ever... -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Linktree: https://linktr.ee/winstonmarshall-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------SUBSCRIBE: If you're liking...2024-06-051h 38
PAMELA - Die zwei Blonden, die niemand kennt.#55 After Maimarkt Deep TalkEs gibt Dinge, die müssen auch mal gesagt werden! Und es müssen Dinge verarbeitet werden... vom Maimarkt. Dramatische Geschichten... lebt eigentlich Tony Marshall noch?
Folgt uns auf Instagram: @patriciakain / @melanie.haag.official2024-05-0935 min
The Unbecoming PodcastEp 13: All Things Taylor Swift ft MelanieIt's episode 13...so you know I HAD to make it all things Taylor Swift. For today's episode, we have a special guest—the #1 Swiftie, the amazing Melanie Marshall. Join us as we hear how Melanie started listening to and loving Taylor's music, how she's grown with the music, her experience at the Eras tour. Next, we dive into each album one by one, from Debut to Midnights, to hear Melanie's thoughts and favorite songs. At the end, we have a lightening round of Taylor Trivia to see how well Melanie really knows TSwift. Whether you're a Swiftie or not, th...2024-04-0846 min
NBN Book of the DayMelanie Joy, "How to End Injustice Everywhere" (Lantern, 2023)In this eye-opening and compelling work, psychologist Melanie Joy reveals the common denominator driving all forms of injustice. The mentality that drives us to oppress and abuse humans is the same mentality that drives us to oppress and abuse nonhumans and the environment, as well as those in our own groups working for justice.How to End Injustice Everywhere: Understanding the Common Denominator Driving All Injustices, to Create a Better World for Humans, Animals, and the Planet (Lantern Publishing & Media, 2023) offers a fascinating examination of the psychology and structure of unjust systems and behaviors. It also offers p...2024-01-081h 14
New Books in Animal StudiesMelanie Joy, "How to End Injustice Everywhere" (Lantern, 2023)In this eye-opening and compelling work, psychologist Melanie Joy reveals the common denominator driving all forms of injustice. The mentality that drives us to oppress and abuse humans is the same mentality that drives us to oppress and abuse nonhumans and the environment, as well as those in our own groups working for justice.How to End Injustice Everywhere: Understanding the Common Denominator Driving All Injustices, to Create a Better World for Humans, Animals, and the Planet (Lantern Publishing & Media, 2023) offers a fascinating examination of the psychology and structure of unjust systems and behaviors. It also offers p...2024-01-081h 14
New Books in Politics and PolemicsMelanie Joy, "How to End Injustice Everywhere" (Lantern, 2023)In this eye-opening and compelling work, psychologist Melanie Joy reveals the common denominator driving all forms of injustice. The mentality that drives us to oppress and abuse humans is the same mentality that drives us to oppress and abuse nonhumans and the environment, as well as those in our own groups working for justice.How to End Injustice Everywhere: Understanding the Common Denominator Driving All Injustices, to Create a Better World for Humans, Animals, and the Planet (Lantern Publishing & Media, 2023) offers a fascinating examination of the psychology and structure of unjust systems and behaviors. It also offers p...2024-01-081h 14
New Books in Big IdeasMelanie Joy, "How to End Injustice Everywhere" (Lantern, 2023)In this eye-opening and compelling work, psychologist Melanie Joy reveals the common denominator driving all forms of injustice. The mentality that drives us to oppress and abuse humans is the same mentality that drives us to oppress and abuse nonhumans and the environment, as well as those in our own groups working for justice.How to End Injustice Everywhere: Understanding the Common Denominator Driving All Injustices, to Create a Better World for Humans, Animals, and the Planet (Lantern Publishing & Media, 2023) offers a fascinating examination of the psychology and structure of unjust systems and behaviors. It also offers p...2024-01-081h 14New Books in Environmental StudiesMelanie Joy, "How to End Injustice Everywhere" (Lantern, 2023)In this eye-opening and compelling work, psychologist Melanie Joy reveals the common denominator driving all forms of injustice. The mentality that drives us to oppress and abuse humans is the same mentality that drives us to oppress and abuse nonhumans and the environment, as well as those in our own groups working for justice.How to End Injustice Everywhere: Understanding the Common Denominator Driving All Injustices, to Create a Better World for Humans, Animals, and the Planet (Lantern Publishing & Media, 2023) offers a fascinating examination of the psychology and structure of unjust systems and behaviors. It also offers p...2024-01-081h 14
New Books in Critical TheoryMelanie Joy, "How to End Injustice Everywhere" (Lantern, 2023)In this eye-opening and compelling work, psychologist Melanie Joy reveals the common denominator driving all forms of injustice. The mentality that drives us to oppress and abuse humans is the same mentality that drives us to oppress and abuse nonhumans and the environment, as well as those in our own groups working for justice.How to End Injustice Everywhere: Understanding the Common Denominator Driving All Injustices, to Create a Better World for Humans, Animals, and the Planet (Lantern Publishing & Media, 2023) offers a fascinating examination of the psychology and structure of unjust systems and behaviors. It also offers p...2024-01-081h 14
New Books in PsychologyMelanie Joy, "How to End Injustice Everywhere" (Lantern, 2023)In this eye-opening and compelling work, psychologist Melanie Joy reveals the common denominator driving all forms of injustice. The mentality that drives us to oppress and abuse humans is the same mentality that drives us to oppress and abuse nonhumans and the environment, as well as those in our own groups working for justice.How to End Injustice Everywhere: Understanding the Common Denominator Driving All Injustices, to Create a Better World for Humans, Animals, and the Planet (Lantern Publishing & Media, 2023) offers a fascinating examination of the psychology and structure of unjust systems and behaviors. It also offers p...2024-01-081h 14
Deliberate Freelancer#179: My Best Books of 2023As we wrap up 2023, please consider donating $25 to this podcast. With more than 175 episodes and almost five years of content, I’m sure you’ve received at least one nugget of information or tactic that has helped your business. If so, please consider donating at Buy Me a Coffee. It really helps offset the costs of producing this show. In today’s episode, I’m counting down my top 10 books of the year — 8 were published in 2023. I’ll start with a few of my reading statistics, share my top 10 and a few superlatives, and give you a heads-up abo...2023-12-2735 minDeliberate Freelancer#178: My 2023 Recap and 2024 GoalsIt’s the end of the year! On today’s show, I give a recap of my fourth quarter (hint: things are looking up!) and then a recap of my entire 2023. What goals are you setting for yourself? Do you set an annual income goal or a word of the year? What are you most excited about for 2024 in your business? And what do you need to work on? Join me and fellow listeners in the Deliberate Freelancer Facebook group to share your plans and ideas with each other! This is the last business-focused episode of 202...2023-12-2125 min
Jane Anderson Show PodcastEpisode 87 - Leadership and Organisational Culture Expert, Melanie MarshallIn this episode of The Jane Anderson Show, I am excited to have the opportunity to interview Melanie Marshal, one of the remarkable women I know personally. Melanie is a leadership and organisational culture expert with a mission to create adaptive workplaces and develop leaders at every level. As a Royal Australian Air Force veteran and previous public servant with experience in hospitals, councils, IT, and multiple state and federal government departments, Melanie understands complex service organisations where demand always exceeds capacity. Multi-disciplined by nature, Melanie offers over 20 years of expertise in...2023-12-0550 min
New Books in Performing ArtsMelanie Williams, "A Taste of Honey" (Bloomsbury, 2023)What makes a film a classic? In A Taste of Honey (Bloomsbury, 2023), published as part of the BFI Film Classics series, Melanie Williams, a Professor of Film and Television Studies in the School of Art, Media and American Studies at the University of East Anglia, tells the story of the films production and reception. The book explores the key themes of the film situating ideas of class, gender, race, and sexuality in both a historical context as well as thinking through the contemporary and continuing relevance of the film. Adding new insights to an overview of the existing critical resp...2023-10-0138 min
New Books in British StudiesMelanie Williams, "A Taste of Honey" (Bloomsbury, 2023)What makes a film a classic? In A Taste of Honey (Bloomsbury, 2023), published as part of the BFI Film Classics series, Melanie Williams, a Professor of Film and Television Studies in the School of Art, Media and American Studies at the University of East Anglia, tells the story of the films production and reception. The book explores the key themes of the film situating ideas of class, gender, race, and sexuality in both a historical context as well as thinking through the contemporary and continuing relevance of the film. Adding new insights to an overview of the existing critical resp...2023-10-0138 minNew Books in Critical TheoryMelanie Williams, "A Taste of Honey" (Bloomsbury, 2023)What makes a film a classic? In A Taste of Honey (Bloomsbury, 2023), published as part of the BFI Film Classics series, Melanie Williams, a Professor of Film and Television Studies in the School of Art, Media and American Studies at the University of East Anglia, tells the story of the films production and reception. The book explores the key themes of the film situating ideas of class, gender, race, and sexuality in both a historical context as well as thinking through the contemporary and continuing relevance of the film. Adding new insights to an overview of the existing critical resp...2023-10-0138 min
New Books in FilmMelanie Williams, "A Taste of Honey" (Bloomsbury, 2023)What makes a film a classic? In A Taste of Honey (Bloomsbury, 2023), published as part of the BFI Film Classics series, Melanie Williams, a Professor of Film and Television Studies in the School of Art, Media and American Studies at the University of East Anglia, tells the story of the films production and reception. The book explores the key themes of the film situating ideas of class, gender, race, and sexuality in both a historical context as well as thinking through the contemporary and continuing relevance of the film. Adding new insights to an overview of the existing critical resp...2023-10-0138 minYou Are GoodRomeo + Juliet (1996) w. Melanie ZanettiThese violent delights have violent ends, friends, so join us and the delightful Melanie Zanetti in conversation about young love, the 1990s and Romeo + Juliet.Melanie is on Instagram!Check out You Are Good LIVE in Los Angeles (Road House!) on September 7th.Check out You Are Good LIVE in Los Angeles (Single White Female!) on September 8th.You Are Good is a feelings podcast about movies.You can buy a You Are Good logo shirt DESIGNED...2023-09-061h 06
The Pediatric Speech Sister Show Podcast: Building Culturally Responsive Practice with Melanie Y. Evans, MS CCC-SLPEp. 31 - Black Wall Street and Juneteenth - A Fascinating Journey through African American History | Implications for Speech Pathologists and Special Educators w/ Dr. MarshallWanna know more about the Tulsa Race Massacre and Juneteenth as an #SLP and #specialeducator?
On this LIVE replay of the Pediatric Speech Saturdays LIVE, I speak with stroke survivor and my former AP US History teacher Dr. Anthony L. Marshall, JD, PhD!
About Dr. Marshall
Dr. Marshall is a stroke survivor and experiences dysarthric speech. However, he is so excited to share his knowledge with passionate clinicians and educators!
Dr. Marshall is a Howard University and Tulsa Booker T. Washington LEGEND and helps us explore the untold...2023-06-1826 min
Aesthetically DispleasingEpisode 28: Brandon SwansonEpisode Description: Brandon Swanson called his parents in the middle of the night after a minor car crash. While on the phone, Brandon suddenly vanishes without a trace. Join us this week as we attempt to unpack what may have happened.Sources: https://thecrimewire.com/true-crime/Missing-Since-2008-Brandon-Swansonhttps://uncovered.com/cases/brandon-victor-swanson-marshall-mnhttps://allthatsinteresting.com/brandon-swansonSocials: Email: aestheticallydispleasingpod@gmail.comFacebook: Aesthetically DispleasingInstagram: AestheticallyDispleasingPodTikTok:Aesthetically_DispleasedTwitter: AesDis_PodMusic: Womp by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com2023-04-2739 min
Made You Watch... (a podcast)Ep. 50 Overboard (1987) (Director: Garry Marshall. Starring Goldie Hawn, Kurt Russell, Edward Herrmann, Roddy McDowall, Katherine Helmond, Mike Hagerty)This week on the show Melanie and Adam are celebrating their BIG 50th Episode by watching a film they both hold dear, the Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn comedy Overboard (1987).
This Garry Marshall-helmed film is as charmingly hysterical as it is mildly disturbing in premise, leave it to the perfect Hollywood couple to smooth out the wrinkles. So, sit back, hit play, and join in the fun.
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You can also check out our back catalog, which includes discussions about Office Space, Legally Blonde, S...2023-04-121h 39C3 Church WatsonResurrection Sunday: Ps Mel MarshallLet’s celebrate Easter Sunday and the victory we have because of Christ. Ps
Mel Marshall talks about a number of people who met with Jesus, Mary
Magdalene, Nicodemus, Thomas and Peter. We hope their stories stir your
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New Books in French StudiesMelanie Heath, "Forbidden Intimacies: Polygamies at the Limits of Western Tolerance" (Stanford UP, 2023)In the past thirty years, polygamy has become a flashpoint of conflict as Western governments attempt to regulate certain cultural and religious practices that challenge seemingly central principles of family and justice. In Forbidden Intimacies: Polygamies at the Limits of Western Tolerance (Stanford UP, 2023), Melanie Heath comparatively investigates the regulation of polygamy in the United States, Canada, France, and Mayotte. Drawing on a wealth of ethnographic and archival sources, Heath uncovers the ways in which intimacies framed as "other" and "offensive" serve to define the very limits of Western tolerance.These regulation efforts, counterintuitively, allow the flourishing of...2023-03-2145 min
New Books in Genocide StudiesMelanie 0'Brien, "From Discrimination to Death: Genocide Process Through a Human Rights Lens" (Routledge, 2022)Melanie 0'Brien's book From Discrimination to Death: Genocide Process Through a Human Rights Lens (Routledge, 2022) studies the process of genocide through the human rights violations that occur during genocide. Using individual testimonies and in-depth field research from the Armenian Genocide, Holocaust and Cambodian Genocide, this book demonstrates that a pattern of specific escalating human rights abuses takes place in genocide. Offering an analysis of all these particular human rights as they are violated in genocide, the author intricately brings together genocide studies and human rights, demonstrating how the ‘crime of crimes’ and the human rights law regime correlate. The book a...2023-03-201h 07
On Mission with Proclaim CubaMelanie Marshall | God at Work Around the WorldMelanie Marshall shares about the power of God at work around the world. She discusses the impact that mission trips have made in her spiritual development. To learn more about the work being done through organizations like her church home, Bent Tree Bible. Listen to episodes 9 and 15 from Season One.Raynier Sanchez Memorial Golf TournamentRegistration: https://www.proclaimcuba.org/golf2023Sponsorship: https://www.proclaimcuba.org/sponsorshipBent Tree Bible Fellowshiphttps://benttree.orgTo get information about our mission trip opportunitieshttps://www.proclaimcuba.org...2023-02-0320 min
New Books in FoodMelanie Joy, "The Vegan Matrix: Understanding and Discussing Privilege Among Vegans to Build a More Inclusive and Empowered Movement" (Lantern, 2020)A short guidebook to understanding and discussing privilege among vegans and vegan organizations in the wake of #metoo, including how to establish accountability while honoring dignity and ways to communicate effectively.In The Vegan Matrix: Understanding and Discussing Privilege Among Vegans to Build a More Inclusive and Empowered Movement (Lantern Publishing & Media, 2020), psychologist, longtime vegan advocate, and organizational head Dr. Melanie Joy explores a serious problem in the vegan movement—unexamined privilege—and looks at the struggle to communicate effectively about this problem in a way that helps offset it. Using simple, straightforward language and a compassionate tone...2022-12-021h 07New Books in Politics and PolemicsMelanie Joy, "The Vegan Matrix: Understanding and Discussing Privilege Among Vegans to Build a More Inclusive and Empowered Movement" (Lantern, 2020)A short guidebook to understanding and discussing privilege among vegans and vegan organizations in the wake of #metoo, including how to establish accountability while honoring dignity and ways to communicate effectively.In The Vegan Matrix: Understanding and Discussing Privilege Among Vegans to Build a More Inclusive and Empowered Movement (Lantern Publishing & Media, 2020), psychologist, longtime vegan advocate, and organizational head Dr. Melanie Joy explores a serious problem in the vegan movement—unexamined privilege—and looks at the struggle to communicate effectively about this problem in a way that helps offset it. Using simple, straightforward language and a compassionate tone...2022-12-021h 08New Books in Animal StudiesMelanie Joy, "The Vegan Matrix: Understanding and Discussing Privilege Among Vegans to Build a More Inclusive and Empowered Movement" (Lantern, 2020)A short guidebook to understanding and discussing privilege among vegans and vegan organizations in the wake of #metoo, including how to establish accountability while honoring dignity and ways to communicate effectively.In The Vegan Matrix: Understanding and Discussing Privilege Among Vegans to Build a More Inclusive and Empowered Movement (Lantern Publishing & Media, 2020), psychologist, longtime vegan advocate, and organizational head Dr. Melanie Joy explores a serious problem in the vegan movement—unexamined privilege—and looks at the struggle to communicate effectively about this problem in a way that helps offset it. Using simple, straightforward language and a compassionate tone...2022-12-021h 07
The Port Charles Update - A General Hospital PodcastAdult Sleepover - A General Hospital PodcastOn episode 210 of the PC Update, Marshall sings at Ava. Curtis' next move will be to teach Trina how to ride a bike. Nina remembers Nelle. This episode covers GH episodes from September 26th - 30th, 2022. *Music provided by Scott Holmes (song name - Electronic Vibes).2022-10-011h 11New Books in Performing ArtsMelanie Bell, "Movie Workers: The Women Who Made British Cinema" (U Illinois Press, 2021)Where are the women in the history of British cinema? In Movie Workers: The Women Who Made British Cinema (U Illinois Press, 2021), Melanie Bell, a Professor of Film History at the University of Leeds, answers this question with a fascinating and compelling narrative telling the forgotten history of women as workers in the film industry. Drawing on union records and oral histories, as well as a wealth of historical knowledge and analysis, the book highlights women’s key contributions from the 1930s to the end of the 1980s, demonstrating the ongoing importance of women’s struggles, and their triumphs, to the f...2022-07-1938 minNew Books in British StudiesMelanie Bell, "Movie Workers: The Women Who Made British Cinema" (U Illinois Press, 2021)Where are the women in the history of British cinema? In Movie Workers: The Women Who Made British Cinema (U Illinois Press, 2021), Melanie Bell, a Professor of Film History at the University of Leeds, answers this question with a fascinating and compelling narrative telling the forgotten history of women as workers in the film industry. Drawing on union records and oral histories, as well as a wealth of historical knowledge and analysis, the book highlights women’s key contributions from the 1930s to the end of the 1980s, demonstrating the ongoing importance of women’s struggles, and their triumphs, to the f...2022-07-1938 min
The New WayHow To Build Trust When Leading Change with Melanie Marshall People won’t follow you if they don’t trust you. Trust has an enormous impact on organisations and our effectiveness as change leaders. My guest this week is the spectacular Melanie Marshall. Melanie is an author, speaker and coach who specialises in helping organisations build high performing cultures and trust transformations. Melanie has extensive public sector experience in complex, large-scale organisations, and private industry experience. In this episode, Melanie is here to talk about how to build trust when leading change. She defines trust in organisations as a personal decision that you make...2022-06-0826 min
Candour Communication PodcastMelanie Marshall on the heart and soul of trust (#47)2:43 - no fear of public speaking after doing a body building competition.8:38 - focus on who you want to be, not what you want to be.15:33 - people are not trusted to do the job they were hired for.16:26 - being trusted is not up to you to decide, its up to the other person.17:36 - why Melanie wrote the book, Trust.20:37 - respect comes from feeling trusted.21:41 - the core of communication and leadership.22:52 - what do organisations look like when there is no...2022-05-221h 35
The Profit Lovers PodcastEssential Upgrades You Need to Make to Grow Your BusinessRunning your business the same way you did when you started out? Wishing your business would scale but not sure what to change up, invest in or ditch to get you to your next set of goals? The good old saying is “what got you here won’t get you there” which is both true and false. Totally true if your business has stalled, and totally false if what you’re doing right now is working for you. If you’re hitting goals, increasing profits and feeling more confident and in control of your business then keep do...2022-05-0327 min
Ask The 8 BallAsk The 8 Ball Season 4 Episode 20 - Melanie MackeyYour new favorite podcast is coming out of the state of Iowa featuring Eric Marshall and Cody King. Our guest this week, is the hilarious host of open mic night at Tee Hee's Comedy Club and one of the top comedians from the state of Iowa, Melanie Mackey! Thanks to BBops, Lolas Fine Hot Sauce, The Mullin Team at Remax, and The Irish in West Des Moines for the support!2022-04-2058 min
The Port Charles Update - A General Hospital PodcastA Return To The Dead - A General Hospital PodcastOn episode 169 of the PC Update, as a previously deceased individual, and the return of Victor, Drew, Jason once, Taggert, Marshall and many others, Sonny tells Carly Jason can't be alive. Olivia is thrilled Dante helped Sam "sort through" her feelings. The Cassadine's domesticated Thanksgiving is giving the Quartermaine's a run for their money. This episode covers GH episodes from November 29th - December 3rd, 2021. *Music provided by Scott Holmes (song name - Electronic Vibes).2021-12-041h 04
Make work a better place - Wie Du Dein Unternehmen zum besten Arbeitsplatz der Welt gestaltest#012 GEWALTFREIE KOMMUNIKATION (Interview mit Dr. Karoline Bitschnau-Dellamaria)Gewaltfreie Kommunikation (nach Marshall Rosenberg) ist nicht nur eine wirkungsvolle Methode, es ist vor allem eine innere Haltung. GfK-Expertin Dr. Karoline Bitschnau-Dellamaria erläutert im Interview die vier Komponenten der GfK, erklärt anhand von zahlreichen Beispielen, wie sie funktioniert und grenzt Gefühle von sogenannten Pseudogefühlen ab.Von ihrer größten Lebenskrise angetrieben fängt Dr. Karoline Bitschnau-Dellamaria an, sich mit gewaltfreier Kommunikation zu beschäftigen. Ihr Ziel: In ihre eigene Kraft zu kommen, andere zu stärken und ihre damaligen Probleme zu bewältigen.Sie war und ist so begeistert von der Wirksamkei...2021-10-2637 min
Ask The 8 BallAsk The 8 Ball Season 4 Episode 3 - Melanie MackeyThe best Podcast from the state of Iowa, allegedly. Host Eric Marshall and Cody King are 2 Des Moines guys, talking about whatever they want in an entertaining and comical way. Thanks to BBops, and Lola's Fine Hot Sauces, this week we record from Des Moines newest hot spot, Coa Cantina. Episode 3 of Season 4 features a hilarious up and coming comedian, and the new host of TeeHee's Comedy Clubs open mic night, Melanie Mackey!2021-08-281h 06
Her Spirit 50:50 What is Possible PodcastLouise and Annie talk to former swimmer and coach to Adam Peaty and 8 Olympic medals Mel Marshall MBE. They talk about the road to the Tokyo Olympics and the journey to becoming a coach.In the twenty fourth episode of season three of the Her Spirit podcast BBC Breakfast Louise Minchin and BBC Triathlon presenter Annie Emmerson talk to former swimmer and coach to Adam Peaty and 8 Olympic medals.Melanie Marshall’s extraordinary international career as a British swimmer started over two decades ago, at the 1995 European Youth Olympics in Bath, where she achieved four gold medals aged only 13. In 2000, her journey with us at Loughborough began when she came here to study Applied Sport Science, and has remained part of our fabric ever since.Melanie’s list of sport...2021-08-171h 02
Safety FM with Jay AllenMelanie MarshallToday on The Jay Allen Show, Jay speaks with Melanie Marshall. Melanie is the author of the book Trust- The Foundation of Healthy Organizations and Teams. Melanie in the past and present had/have positions based in trust, listen to a few - military veteran, personal trainer, public servant, service delivery executive, coach, and leadership advisor.
Enjoy this conversation with Melanie Marshall, today on The Jay Allen Show.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy2021-07-2051 min
People-Powered Planet PodcastJoanne DufourJune 9th, 2021
Joanne Dufour, an anti-nuclear weapons educator, brings us a message of hope as we face humanity's greatest challenge.
She is a trainer in International Humanitarian law for the Red Cross and has the Disarming Our Planet blog.
Today China, Russia and the US are rattling the sabers of new arms races - yielding big profits for corporate bomb makers but threatening the very life of humanity.
Instead of U.S. government policies protecting the people, they've protected the corporations that have led us down a disastrous path that is alr...2021-07-101h 00
The Oxford Review PodcastTrust in Organisations with Melanie MarshallIn this episode David talks with Melanie Marshall the author of Trust: The foundation for healthy organisations and teams.
For the full podcast notes, links and transcript go to: https://www.oxford-review.com/organisational-team-trust/
2021-06-101h 08
Creative BlockMelanie Bahniuk | short documentary OMAMelanie Bahniuk originally thought that soccer stardom was in her future. But then she got sucked into the world of acting. Now she's also helping to produce the short documentary OMA. In this episode she lets Kyle know how that happened and why Alberta is becoming a better place for theatre and film.You can watch the pitch video for OMA here: https://www.storyhive.com/projects/6214You can follow Melanie on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/melbahniuk/Creative Block is a proud member of The Alberta Podcast Network: Locally grown. Community supported...2021-05-1138 min
Never Found Never ForgottenBrandon SwansonA 19 year old young man disappears into the night after driving his car off the road, and calling his parents his for help. His parents were searching for him, and find his car in a different location than Brandon had described he was in. Brandon Victor Swanson – The Charley ProjectSwanson case still unsolved | News, Sports, Jobs - Marshall IndependentVanished in the Dark: Where is Brandon Swanson? | by Jenn Baxter | Medium2021-05-0913 min
Conversations at The WELL6. Cancel Culture & Conflict Resolution w/ Lori and Melanie MarshallWATCH HERE - https://youtu.be/ac7BlBDTzGgIn this podcast, Kim Pino and her daughter, Caroline, discuss life's issues from a multi-generational, biblical worldview. In this episode, mother/daughter duo, Lori and Melanie Marshall join the conversation to discuss conflict resolution and the importance of forgiveness. We also discuss how to survive in a "cancel" culture, and Lori gives great advice and encouragement to young moms. If you are looking for a place to be refreshed in a world that seems to be running dry of truth, come be a part of the...2021-02-2326 min
Motivate to MoveTackle Football , CrossFit and so much more with Melanie Marshall #11Very busy Mom and pretty much everything enthusiast Melanie Marshall keeps herself and her family motivated to move . It wasn't always that way though . Listen to her story and find out how she started playing tackle Football and CrossFit just to name a couple things she does .Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/motivate-to-move--4528736/support.2020-10-1044 minC3 Church WatsonGet Stoked: Week 3Ps Melanie encourages us that staying white hot for Jesus happens in our lives when we are living in community. As we are devoted to Christ our loyalty and steadfastness will shine through. Our reason for living ought to be to become more and more like Christ.2020-07-1920 minNever Found Never ForgottenMaria Elizalde & Brent Acomb15 year old Maria Elizalde disappeared from Dallas, TX on November 25, 2015.54 year old Brent Acomb disappeared from Houston, TX on January 24, 2014. In this special episode, I share both stories with you. https://www.oxygen.com/crime-time/maria-elizalde-thanksgiving-disappearance-haunts-kathleen-rodriguezhttp://charleyproject.org/case/maria-isabel-elizaldehttps://people.com/crime/dallas-teenage-girl-missing-thanksgiving-mom-searches/https://dfw.cbslocal.com/2018/05/25/digital-billboard-missing-dallas-teen-maria-elizalde/https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/These-missing-people-were-last-seen-in-Houston-14798266.php#photo-15791813http://charleyproject.org/case/brent-marshall-acombhttps://www.facebook.com/missingerson/2020-07-1409 minC3 Church WatsonGet Stoked: Week 2When the coals in a fire go out, they are no longer fit for purpose. So it is true with believers - we need to stoke the flames. Ps Melanie shares that the christian life cannot be lived in isolation and if we try, the fire slowly dies. However, fellowship with other believers can fire us up!2020-07-1219 minC3 Church WatsonContact Lens: Week 4Ps Melanie and Paul share their wisdom about marriage as they answer questions sent in by church members.2020-05-3127 minC3 Church WatsonMother's DayPs Melanie talks about the role of mothers. They know everything about their children as God knows everything about us. He has a particular plan for us, but are we prepared to say yes to Him?2020-05-1017 minC3 Church WatsonContact Lens: Week 1Ps Melanie shares on the importance of forgiveness as a dynamic in our lives, as it frees us to live a life forgiven. Forgiveness of our sins and forgiveness of others who have wronged us in our past is crucial, otherwise we are stuck in bondage.2020-05-0318 minC3 Church WatsonPerspective: Week 2Ps Melanie shares about the importance of our mental health during this current period. The voices of accusation, mocking and ‘you can’t do this’ may be what we need to be fighting against right now.2020-04-2618 minC3 Church WatsonEaster SundayHe is risen! Ps Melanie shows us how our hope is found in Jesus’ death and resurrection.2020-04-1213 minC3 Church WatsonIn Him: Week 2Ps Melanie continues our series into the book of Colossians, empowering us with the message that in Him are wisdom and knowledge, power and authority, and through these things in Him we live.2020-01-1225 minC3 Church WatsonGod With Us: Week 3Ps Melanie explains that a vital part of God with us is knowing his peace. As we learn to trust in Him and stop relying on our own strength, His peace works its way through our lives.2019-12-1526 minC3 Church WatsonTell Your Story: Week 3Ps Melanie spoke about how God purposes and then helps us to share our story with others, to bring them to Him.2019-11-1723 minC3 Church WatsonFundamental: Week 4Ps Melanie teaches about the impacts of our inner thoughts on our physical and mental wellbeing. How do we respond to the negative words of others? These are thoughts generated from outside. The there are the ones generated from the inside, sometimes by our flesh and sometimes by unwanted spirits.2019-10-2730 minC3 Church WatsonFundamental: Week 3Many mental health issues, such as anxiety and depression, are caused by a lack of connection with other people. Ps Melanie explores ways that we can keep connected and be mentally healthy.2019-10-2024 minC3 Church WatsonFundamental: Week 2Ps Melanie brings an encouraging message on gratitude and mental health, as gratitude is our greatest antidote against offence. We are encouraged to praise Him in the promise and in the suffering.2019-10-1327 min
Her Spirit 50:50 What is Possible PodcastMelanie Marshall - Olympic Swimmer and Coach to Adam Peaty on why female coaches bring a different and important dynamic.Melanie Marshall is the UK's most decorated female athlete at the Commonwealth Games, Double Olympian and coach of Olympic, World, European and Commonwealth swimming champion Adam Peaty. As a coach Mel believes female coaches bring a different dynamic, she talks about that men and women see some things differently, and she think's that’s important. With anything in sport, the more dynamics you have, the more equipped you are to move forward.She talks about her journey through life as a swimmer growing up in Lincolnshire and her Olympic disappointment, her relationship with Olympic champion Adam Peaty an...2019-09-1931 minC3 Church WatsonNo Offence: Week 1Ps Melanie shares about how we need to take up God’s help to overcome offence. When we give God access to the places of hurt in us, He turns our brokenness in to life.2019-09-0825 min
St Paul's CathedralSermon by The Revd Dr Melanie Marshall at Sung Eucharist on The Eighth Sunday after Trinity (2019)Sermon by The Revd Dr Melanie Marshall, Chaplain, Lincoln College, Oxford, at Sung Eucharist on The Eight Sunday after Trinity, Sunday 11 August 2019.2019-08-1215 minC3 Church WatsonIn Decision: Week 2Ps Melanie explains how we can make the right decisions by using wisdom, the principals in His word and leaning in to the Spirit of God, as God shows us the right way to go.2019-08-1130 minC3 Church WatsonNow Faith: Week 2Ps Melanie challenges us to listen to God’s voice, to obey it and not to doubt it.2019-07-1427 minC3 Church WatsonVision Builders: Week 4Ps Melanie encourages us to excel in our gracious act of giving, as she wraps up our Vision Builders series.2019-06-3022 min
New Books in Latin American StudiesMelanie A. Medeiros, "Marriage, Divorce, and Distress in Northeast Brazil: Black Women’s Perspectives on Love, Respect, and Kinship" (Rutgers UP, 2018)On this episode, Dr. Lee Pierce (she/they)--Asst. Prof. of Rhetoric at SUNY Geneseo--interviews Dr. Melanie Medeiros (she/hers)--Asst. Prof. of Cultural Anthropology at SUNY Geneseo--on the cutting-edge research presented in Marriage, Divorce, and Distress in Northeast Brazil: Black Women’s Perspectives on Love, Respect, and Kinship from Rutgers University Press (2018). We are joined as well by a third colleague, linguistic anthropologist Dr. Jennifer Guzman (she/hers), for a fascinating discussion of modernismo, nervos, conviver, and telenovelas in Brogodo, Bahia, Brazil as told by the women with whom Dr. Medeiros has built relationships over the past decade. Us...2019-06-181h 00
The Actors LoungeDaVida Chanel- Talent Manager Of Etcetera and Company Talks About What Makes Actors Marketable & Best Ways To Seek RepresentationAfter assisting her employers manage the careers Halle Berry, Taraji P. Henson, Mariah Carey, Usher, David E. Talbert, and others at some of the most notable talent management companies in the entertainment industry, DaVida Chanel Smith decided to follow her heart. “I’ve been fortunate to always work for people with strong entrepreneurial energy and that was not lost on me because I’ve always wanted to be my own boss,” Smith explains. “In this powerful time of women taking risks in the name of their career, I felt it was time to bet on myself. I took the efforts that I had...2019-05-1554 min
MCTV Network's Community VoicesThe Spark with Junia Doan | Melanie Marshall Welcome to MCTV's Community Voices Podcast. This episode of The Spark with Junia Doan is presented by Sandy O'Keefe. Junia's guest for this episode is Melanie Marshall. For more information about Midland Community Television or how you can make your own program, visit us at cityofmidlandmi.gov/mctv or call us at 989-837-3474. The views expressed in this program don't necessarily reflect those of Midland Community Television or City of Midland. 2019-03-1928 min
History RocksThe Marshall PlanPresented to you by HistoryRocks.co.uk, today we are looking at the Marshall Plan. What is it? Was it an unselfish act? How did the soviet Union respond to it? Some thoughts about its effectiveness too. Feel free to send in any jokes or shout-outs to hello@historyrocks.co.uk
2019-02-2112 min
The Drew Marshall ShowMelanie WoodDrawing on experience from previous films, and her own family experience with mental illness, Melanie felt ready to take on this film in four parts: Living in HOpe.2018-11-0300 min
Marshall Middle SchoolGary Paulsen Comparison Group 4, Period 1Latest episode of Marshall Middle School2018-10-2504 minMarshall Middle SchoolIntroductionThe very first episode of Marshall Middle School!2018-09-1000 min
New Books in PsychoanalysisJan Abram and R. D. Hinshelwood, “The Clinical Paradigms of Melanie Klein and Donald Winnicott: Comparisons and Dialogues” (Routledge, 2018)Can one integrate Klein and Winnicott? Or does one have to choose between them when practicing psychoanalysis? These are questions for Abram and Hinshelwood in this podcast interview of two scholars known for their reference books on Klein and Winnicott. Bob Hinshelwood is the author of The Dictionary of Kleinian Thought and Jan Abram is the author of The Language of Winnicott.
Most psychodynamic clinicians practicing today are heavily influenced by Object Relations theory, but many of them do not distinguish between the various kinds of OR theories. This book will give them an excellent opportunity to...2018-07-1249 min
New Books in Environmental StudiesMelanie A. Kiechle, “Smell Detectives: An Olfactory History of Nineteenth-Century Urban America” (U Washington Press, 2017)Melanie Kiechle‘s Smell Detectives: An Olfactory History of Nineteenth-Century Urban America (University of Washington Press, 2017) takes us into the cellars, rivers, gutters and similar smelly recesses of American cities in the 19th century. In the decades on either side of the fulcrum between “miasma theory” and the modern germ theory of disease, Americans typically linked smell with healthfulness, or lack thereof. In places like Chicago, New York and Boston, as industrializing businesses generated ever-greater amounts of noxious fumes, medical professionals, policymakers and ordinary people employed various techniques to follow stenches to their source–not always accurately. In a fascinat...2018-06-1157 min
New Books in MedicineMelanie A. Kiechle, “Smell Detectives: An Olfactory History of Nineteenth-Century Urban America” (U Washington Press, 2017)Melanie Kiechle‘s Smell Detectives: An Olfactory History of Nineteenth-Century Urban America (University of Washington Press, 2017) takes us into the cellars, rivers, gutters and similar smelly recesses of American cities in the 19th century. In the decades on either side of the fulcrum between “miasma theory” and the modern germ theory of disease, Americans typically linked smell with healthfulness, or lack thereof. In places like Chicago, New York and Boston, as industrializing businesses generated ever-greater amounts of noxious fumes, medical professionals, policymakers and ordinary people employed various techniques to follow stenches to their source–not always accurately. In a fascinat...2018-06-1157 min
Design Details149: Melayoncé (feat. Melanie Araujo)Today we had the opportunity to talk with Melanie Araujo, an independent designer and the creator of Front and Center. She shares her story with us, and we dig into complex topics like self-awareness, identity, personal growth, inclusion and diversity, and so much more.
Come chat with us in our Slack team! Over 5,000 designers and developers have already joined our team, chatting about the latest tools and news in the design world. Each week we also host a community critique with a special guest host. To join our team visit our Slack invite page and we'll send...2016-07-201h 14New Books in French StudiesMelanie C. Hawthorne, "Finding the Woman Who Didn't Exist: The Curious Life of Gisele d'Estoc" (U Nebraska Press, 2014)"Why write the biography of a nobody?" That is the question with which Melanie C. Hawthorne begins Finding the Woman Who Didn't Exist: The Curious Life of Gisele d'Estoc (University of Nebraska Press, 2014) but in justifying the writing of such a life and then, in turn, excavating its contours, Hawthorne winds up exploring a number of issues fundamental to the genre of biography. In particular, the biographer's inability fill all gaps, the frequent encounters with dead ends and his/her reliance, at times almost wholly, upon sheer luck. Also, the legacies of the biographers who have gone before us. In d...2014-08-1129 min
Notebook on Cities and CultureS4E21: This Is Home Now with Melanie HaynesColin Marshall sits down in Copenhagen's Frederiksberg with Melanie Haynes, author of the blog Dejlige Days. They discuss the Danish national virtue of hygge (and the also important quality of dejlige); how she came to leave her native England for Denmark; the Copenhagen system of smiley-face food sanitation ratings; the Danish habit of both asking "Why are you here in my country?" and personally receiving her praise for the country; why she writes about festivals, eating, design, and "the relaxed life"; how the British operate in fifth gear at all times, and the Danish in third; her popular post on...2014-01-2800 min