Mobile Petri Dishes

GPM # 70 Guess what? Mobile phones are covered in germs. Duhh … You talk into them. You spit on them. You touch them with hands you just sneezed or coughed into! You take them into the toilet! The GPM spoke about the dark, dirty side of smart phones with Lotti Tajouri, Associate Professor of Molecular Genetics at Bond University, in Robina, Australia. Listen to our conversation in today’s podcast, or go here. The US anti-abortion movement portrays itself as ‘pro-life’, ‘pro-family’, and conventionally conservative – whatever that may mean. Close to the surface, something darker bubbles: a wellspring of misogyny, racism, hatred toward immigrants and antipathy for personal freedom of all sorts. Among these, the freedom of a woman to control her own body. The GPM spoke about the history of women’s reproductive rights with Lauren MacIvor Thompson, Assistant Professor of History at Kennesaw State University, in Kennesaw, Georgia, and a historian of early-twentieth-century women’s rights and public health at Georgia State University College of Law’s Center for Law, Health & Society. Listen to our conversation in today’s podcast, or go here.