You Are A Weirdo (with Historian Doug Sofer, Ph.D.)
Doug Sofer
20 episodes
3 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.)
39 minutes
1 year ago
Your Water's More Valuable Than Diamonds
Which is more valuable: diamonds or water? The seems obvious, but splash some holy water into the mix and you’ll see that this answer is a lot messier than you might at first think. Join your new favorite historian-podcaster guy on a journey through time and around the world to better understand why holy water defies most economic logic. Along the way you’ll discover about why people in the diamond industry have mangled the English language. You’ll have an epiphany about how the laws of suppl...
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 ...
