Conversation #29  Gorillas, Unicorns, and Bats January 28, 2018
Channel: The Grace and Paul Pottscast
Date: 29/01/2018

his week: we took a walk at Rolling Hills Park, and watched a movie about a gorilla named Sylvio. No, he’s not that kind of gorilla. We discuss three articles. First, a piece from Slate by Darby Saxbe about a woman who tried to get help for postpartum depression, and what happened next. Then, a fascinating piece from Ars Technica about archaeobotanist Natalie Mueller at Cornell University and her work studying the plants that indigenous people cultivated in North America thousands of years ago. And finally, we take a look at a long blog post from members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Josh and Lolly Weed. In 2012 Josh and Lolly explained to the world that they had chosen to stay married despite the revelation that Josh is gay. They just told the world that they are divorcing. We do our best to take on this tricky subject and some of the political and cultural context, and why despite the circumstances we feel saddened to hear about the end of a marriage.

The blog post for this show, with a link to the MP3 file, a link to the podcast feed, and any additional show notes, can be found here: http://pottscast.blogspot.com/2018/01/conversation-29-gorillas-unicorns-and.html