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First Aired - 10/08/2009 08:00PM
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Thursday October 8, 2009 - Curtis B. Wayne discusses Frank Lloyd Wright and the turn of the twentieth century with Oliver E. Allen, Debra Allen, & Jake Alspector. http://burningdownthehouse-radioarchitecture.blogspot.com & www.alspecorarchitecture.com
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The Climate of Architecture of Frank Lyod Wright in 1904 (17:00)
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Curtis B. Wayne, architecture, architect, design, Greatest Hits of 1904, Scott Joplin, Darwin D. Martin houses, easy winner, Buffalo, Lake Eerie, Eerie Canal, Larkin Soap Company, Oliver E. Allen, Debra Allen, Jake Alspector, Darwin D. Martin, Larkin Building, Robie house of Chicago, Hyde Park, Delaware Avenue, Miss Barton, Martin and Barton, University of Buffalo, 40 million dollar restoration, restore all buildings to 1907, prairie style, progressive thinking, Theodore Roosevelt, speech, Teddy Roosevelt, Edison cylinder, Sagamore, Pure Food and Drug act, we can do better, Zeitgeist, muckrakers, Frank Lloyd Wright, innovative design content,Theodore Roosevelt; a progressive thinker and an influence to the time of Wright (8:50)
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architecture, architect, design, Oliver E. Allen, Debra Allen, Jake Alspector, large library, cozy furniture, 1904, escape from summer sun, dark cave, nineteenth century, great eyebrow overhead, breaking the box, abstractions, Grey Cliff, shore of Lake Eerie, Derby, romantic houses, Gothic horror, Wright influenced by Germany and Austria, Viennese Work Studios, expressive mode, inspired by Orientalism, Mahler, Frank Lloyd Wright,Wright and the creation of "ism's"; and Times at the Turn of the Century (36:10)
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architecture, architect, design, Oliver E. Allen, Debra Allen, Jake Alspector, Wooded Victory, Henry Moore, 1094, conformist, gloomy 19th century, Shoenburgh, Red house, pre-Raphaelites, Hartley House of Oak Bark, Darwin G Martin house, Glestner house, Villa Laduc, Modernism, German Romanticism, end of Prairie school movement, manipulation of the landscape, glorify nature, natural is better, work with nature, linear act of design intervention, harrow discs of the great plains, Almstead, Martin house, relentless grid, no straight line vistas, centripetal composition, analog of the ego, Guggenheim, Orientalism, Louis Comfort Tiffany, grid allows for a vastness infinity, John Atlee Kouwenhoven, The Beer Can by the Highway, America is like jazz, physical manifestation of manifest destiny, Modern, era of streamlined expression, Mayan influenced houses, Johnson Wax, Gwathmey Siegal, Charlie Gwathmey, Eric Steel, adulterous love stories, Mrs. Cheney murdered, Wright attracted misery, German and Viennese, social-sexual movements, broadcast radio not until the twenties, era of benign and incremental change, Futurists, Dadaists, a great belief in progress, progress or good living, neologism, sustainability of life, ranch house is popularization of the prairie house, Falling Water house, not buildings but a sculpture, Mister Martin, Buffalo Hyatt Regency, Louis Sullivan building, total decoration, Simon and Garfunkel, Form follows function, Frank Llyod Wright, Stravinsky, Bauhaus, Wright-ian, mosaic, Pyrex tubes skylights, Buffalo pilgrimage, the cult of Frank Llyod Wright,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 01/11/2010 12:00PM
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This week on The Naturalist, Bernie Wides continues his discussion on evolution and Darwin with Saul Scheinbach.
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The Naturalist Introduction (10:00)
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Bernie Wides, The Naturalist, Saul Scheinbach, Tekserve, Darwin, Evolution, genes, embryo development, cells, genes are controlled, organism development, fruit flies, master control genes, the fins of a fish created the limbs of all four legged creatures we see today, we are all related, Darwin knew that, tree of life, The Voyage of the Beagle, British Navy, Galapagos, organisms on different island are slightly different from each other, finches, he thinks they are a different species of birds, he doesn't know what they are until he brings them back to England,Evolution: The Ground Finch (10:00)
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finches, they killed the bird and took the skin home to study it, finches were adapting to different island, Daphne Major, Robinson Crusoe, DNA, body measurements, ground finches, rainfall, Hawaii, most years they barely get 5 inches of rain, in an El Nino year they can get 50 inches of rain, ground finches eat seeds, walnuts, what drove the change in the finches beaks?, these birds are highly adaptable, survival of the fittest, the cactus finch, the birds with the biggest beaks could survive best, 99.9% of all species that ever existed on the planet are now extinct,Blind Creatures in Caves (20:00)
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blind cave fish, blind animals living in caves, natural selection, The Origin Of Species, why do men have nipples?, in evolution use it or lose it doesn't apply, all organisms that go into the caves lose their eyes, mutations, master control genes, eye loss is a byproduct of other changes, human genome project, corn has more genes than we do, we are egocentric as humans, our admiration of ourselves stop us from accepting Darwin's theory, religion, culture, astronomers thought the Earth was at the center of the universe, Milky Way galaxy,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 01/04/2010 12:00PM
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This week on the naturalist, Saul Scheinbach comes by to talk about Darwin's "theory" of natural selection and evolution.
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The Naturalist Introduction: Evolution (12:52)
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The Naturalist, Bernie Wides, Tekserve, molecular genetics, biology, evolution, Science Watch, www.hras.org, Charles Darwin was born on the same day as Abraham Lincoln, his book sold out the first day it was released, many people have trouble believing evolution, only 40% of Americans believe evolution is true, evolutionary science, a species is a freely interbreeding population that produces viable fertile young, a mule is not a species, a mule is a cross between a horse and a donkey, Darwin said that species form through a process called natural selection, there is a struggle in nature, the struggle for existence, resources are finite but organisms keep multiplying, adaptation, humans, milk, lactose intolerance, winter,Charles Darwin & Natural Selection (11:11)
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natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinizing the world, people don't have trouble with Newton's theory, gravity, these ideas don't hold up at the subatomic level, when we look at life around us we see evolution, common ancestors, everything we know in biology backs up Darwin's theory, nothing in biology works without evolution, The Museum Of Natural History, Extreme Mammals, religion, monkeys, how do new species form?, Darwin didn't know anything about genes, reproductive isolation, physical change in the genitals, often times its a change in behavior, extreme courtship behavior, new species are forming all the time, Stickleback fish,Genes & DNA (17:57)
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a gene is a stretch of DNA, DNA is genetic material, it can make exact copies of itself, every organism has DNA, there are four letters that make up DNA, A T C and G, a gene can be a thousand or more letters, proteins, controlling genes, melanin, sickle cell anemia, the genome project, humans have 23,000 genes, a chicken has the same amount, corn has 32,000, the tree of life, mutations, sex, mixing up genes, sexual reproduction, The Origin Of Species, blue eyes is a mutation that occurred 6,000 years ago, Darwin's family was very religious, he was nervous about publishing his works, he held off on publishing his papers, Alfred Russel Wallace, Darwin panicked when he found out Wallace was on the same track, he submitted the papers immediately,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
