Delving In with Stuart Kelter

By Stuart Kelter

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Knowledge-seeker and psychologist Stuart Kelter shares his joy of learning and “delving in.” Ready? Let’s delve... Join Chris Churchill on the possible reasons why the search for intelligent life in the universe is coming up empty. Let’s hear from Israeli psychiatrist Pesach Lichtenberg about a promising approach to schizophrenia—going mainstream in Israel—that uses minimal drugs and maximal support through the crisis, rejecting the presumption of life-long disability. Find out what Pulitzer Prize winning historian, David Kertzer learned from recently opened Vatican records about Pius XII, the Pope During WWII. We explore the fascinating and intriguing... What did journalist Eve Fairbanks learn about race relations in post-Apartheid South Africa? Did you realize there were dozens and dozens of early women scientists? Let’s find out about them through a sampling of poems with poet Jessy Randall. How shall we grapple with the complexities of the placebo effect in drug development and medical practice? Harvard researcher Kathryn Hall confirms just how complicated it really is! But beware: increasing one’s knowledge leads to more and more questions. If that appeals to you, join us on “Delving In”! The interviews of the Delving In podcast were first broadcast on KTAL-LP, the community radio station of Las Cruces, New Mexico. The full archive of well over 100 interviews can be found at https://www.lccommunityradio.org/archives/category/delving-in. Please send questions and comments to stuartkelter@protonmail.com.

Episode Date
161. How Women Runners Refuted the Myth of Female Fragility
Aug 04, 2025
#160. The Concept of Race in Latin America
Aug 03, 2025
#159. The History of "Rule By Law" and How Autocratic Rulers Co-opt the Concept to Consolidate Power
Jul 28, 2025
#158. Black Entrepreneurship with a Social Conscience
Jul 21, 2025
#157. Racial and Other Biases in Scientific Research, Medical Practices, and Everyday Attitudes
Jul 07, 2025
#156. An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence
Jun 29, 2025
#155. Generating a Love for Math and Math History
Jun 09, 2025
#154. The Hazards and History of Forever Chemicals
Jun 08, 2025
#153. Jessy Randall's New Poems on Women in Science, The Path of Most Resistance
Jun 02, 2025
#152. How Games and Game Theory Shape Our Social World
May 25, 2025
#151. The Successful Struggle to Organize the First Union at Starbucks
Apr 27, 2025
#150. Out of My Skull: The Psychology of Boredom
Apr 21, 2025
#149. A Mother and Five Children, Upwardly Striving and Homeless
Apr 07, 2025
#148. Nearly Dying While Giving Birth, Followed by Seven Years of Recovery
Mar 31, 2025
#147. Fraud in Alzheimer's Research that Underpins the Dominant Model of the Disease
Mar 24, 2025
#146. The History of Antisemitism in the Arab World
Mar 16, 2025
#145. The Case for Government Supported Housing
Mar 02, 2025
#144. Native Alaskan Resistance to Russian Expansion into North America
Feb 10, 2025
#143. How American Capitalists Harnessed the American Work Ethic
Feb 03, 2025
#142. The South's Long War on Black Literacy
Jan 28, 2025
#141, Whether Dictatorship, Democracy, or Corporation: What It Takes to Stay in Power
Jan 20, 2025
#140. Malcolm Before X: Family Background, Childhood, and Incarceration
Jan 06, 2025
#139. The Amazing New Science of Smell
Dec 31, 2024
#138. The History and Enduring Effects of the 2022 Uprising in Iran
Dec 30, 2024
#137. Science, Pseudoscience, and the Co-opting of Quantum Physics by the New Age Movement
Dec 15, 2024
#136. The Complicated History of Native American Identity
Dec 09, 2024
#135. Where Does Economic Inequality Come From?
Dec 04, 2024
#134. Reflecting on (an Unusally) Long Career as a Child Protective Worker
Nov 29, 2024
#133. Benjamin Franklin's Scientific Dimension Underpinned Everthing Else
Nov 20, 2024
#132. A Religious Movement that is Reshaping American Politics and is Threatening Our Democracy
Nov 03, 2024
#131. A Daughter of Holocaust Survivors Reflects on Intergenerational Trauma, Memory, and Listening
Oct 27, 2024
#130. State Laws that Promote Vigilante Intimidation
Oct 21, 2024
#129. An Evangelical Mega-Church that Fights Racism
Oct 06, 2024
#128. Space, Time, and the Universe
Oct 06, 2024
#127. White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy
Sep 23, 2024
#126. The Paranoia and Drama of the McCarthy Era
Sep 16, 2024
#125. Immigrant Workers Take on America's Largest Meatpacking Company
Sep 10, 2024
#124. Hypochondria: A Personal Story and Historical Exploration
Sep 01, 2024
#123. Space Archaeology: Preserving Artifacts on the Moon
Aug 25, 2024
#122. The Life, Times, and Philosophy of Baruch Spinoza, a Founding Thinker of the Enlightenment
Aug 25, 2024
#121. Doing Philosophy with Children
Aug 18, 2024
#120. A Muslim Scholar, Who Converted to Islam, Promotes Interfaith Dialogue
Aug 13, 2024
#119. A History of American Inequality.
Aug 13, 2024
#118. Unjust Inequities in Bankruptcy Law
Aug 12, 2024
#117. A Cause Fraught with Peril: Exposing Abusive Medical Research
Aug 06, 2024
#116. What is the Universe Made of and What is its Destiny?
Jul 28, 2024
#115. Women and War
Jul 26, 2024
#114. Real World Harms Created by Advances in Artificial Intelligence
Jul 14, 2024
#113. A Renaissance Man Reflects on the Creative Process and the Honing of Artistic Skills
Jun 30, 2024
#112. Reclaiming the Vietnamese Heritage Her Refugee Father Never Shared
Jun 30, 2024
#111. The National Park Service, Its Mission, and How it was Co-opted by the South to Celebrate the Confederacy
Jun 29, 2024
#110. Research that Proved the Toxic Effects of Lead in Our Gasoline and in Our Drinking Water
Jun 22, 2024
#109. Finding Meaning After Catastrophic Illness or Injury
Jun 21, 2024
#108. The Amazing Auditory World of Sea Creatures
Jun 16, 2024
#107. Teaching Social Justice Issues to White Students in a Wealthy Suburb of Boston
Jun 15, 2024
#106. The Incredible Potential and Daunting Risks of Stem Cell Therapy
Jun 15, 2024
#105. How Mandela Averted Civil War in South Africa
Jun 12, 2024
#104. The Promise and Shortcomings of Massive Open Online Courses
Jun 02, 2024
#103. Cognitive Biases that are Amplified by Social Media
Jun 02, 2024
#102. How Bayesian Statistics Underpins Both Scientific Prediction and Everyday Functioning
May 27, 2024
#101. Schadenfreude (Pleasure From Someone Else's Misfortune)
May 22, 2024
#100. What Life Was Like in the Prehistoric Past
May 19, 2024
#99. Ethical Dilemmas of Non-Invasive Prenatal Testing
May 03, 2024
#98. Re-examining the Evidence for the Genetic Basis of Mental Illness
May 03, 2024
#97. How to Best Help the Most Vulnerable Children? Start Before They're Even Born!
Apr 25, 2024
#96. Compassionate Care for a Devastating Disease
Apr 24, 2024
#95. The Amazing Grit and Determination of the First Women Doctors
Apr 16, 2024
#94. Can Trauma Be Inherited?
Apr 09, 2024
#93. An Evolutionary Perspective on Mental Illness and Human Suffering
Apr 08, 2024
#92. The Trailblazers of the Dance Theatre of Harlem
Mar 31, 2024
#91. The Corporatization of American Health Care
Mar 26, 2024
#90. Symbiotic Relationships with Bacteria
Mar 26, 2024
#89. The History and Continued Threats of White Supremacist Terrorism
Mar 24, 2024
#88. The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America
Mar 17, 2024
#87. Hard Choices that the Green Revolution Poses
Mar 11, 2024
86. How Religious Practice Creates Faith, Rather than the Other Way Around
Mar 05, 2024
#85. The History of Myanmar (Burma)
Feb 24, 2024
#84. Reflections of a Human Rights Leader
Feb 24, 2024
#83. Unseen, Unheard, Yet a Clear Sense of Another’s Presence
Feb 18, 2024
#82. Why Is It So Difficult to Promote Social Mobility and Equality of Opportunity?
Feb 13, 2024
#81. The Neurology of Memory in the Continuity of Experience and Personal Identity
Feb 08, 2024
#80. Political Dynamics of the Drug Cartels of Mexico
Jan 31, 2024
#79. A Long-Neglected Form of Government with the Potential to Revitalize Democracy
Jan 28, 2024
#78. Life-Affirming Ritual and Poetry for Believers and Skeptics Alike
Jan 21, 2024
#77. The Challenges of Facilitating Conflict Resolution
Jan 14, 2024
#76. The History of the Theory of Evolution
Jan 14, 2024
#75. Antisemitism, Clear and Not-So-Clear
Jan 14, 2024
#74. The Historical and Intellectual Roots of our Current Political Crisis
Jan 08, 2024
#73. Media Literacy for Older Children
Dec 31, 2023
#72. Media Literacy for Young Children
Dec 24, 2023
#71. Disgust, the Emotion of Aversion
Dec 21, 2023
#70. A Close Look at the Brief History of East Germany
Dec 17, 2023
#69. Genes Are Only One Part of the Story
Dec 10, 2023
#68. The Communal Nature of Knowledge
Dec 10, 2023
#67. Ecologist Carl Safina on his Relationship with an Owl
Nov 27, 2023
#66. A Window into the History of U.S.-Latin American Relations
Nov 24, 2023
#65. How Evolution Gave Us Free Will (the Real Thing, Not an Illusion)
Nov 19, 2023
#64. How Terrorism Ends
Nov 12, 2023
#63. Period. End of Sentence: A New Chapter in the Fight for Menstrual Justice
Nov 10, 2023
#62. A Photographer and Poet of Volcanoes
Nov 10, 2023
#61. Emerging Uses of A.I. for Social Control and Weapon Systems
Oct 23, 2023
#60. How Powerful People Get Away With It
Oct 16, 2023
#59. The Neuroscience of Time
Oct 09, 2023
#58. The Science and Meaning of Touch
Oct 09, 2023
#57. The Neurology of Individual Differences
Sep 24, 2023
#56. Philosophical Examination of Concepts in Psychology and Psychiatry
Sep 20, 2023
#55. How to Best Encourage Individual Action on Climate Change
Sep 20, 2023
#54. Speaking Truth to Power: Physicians for Human Rights
Sep 13, 2023
#55. Creative Approaches to Asynchronous Online Learning
Sep 13, 2023
#53. The Assumptions Upon Which Science Rests
Sep 03, 2023
#52. The Spanish Conquest of Mexico
Aug 29, 2023
#51. An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom
Aug 29, 2023
#50. Culture and Justice Among the Maasai of Tanzania
Aug 21, 2023
#49. How the Brain Processes Pain... and its Relief
Aug 17, 2023
#48. The Challenges of Being a Single Woman in India
Aug 13, 2023
#47. A Child of Holocaust Survivors
Aug 13, 2023
#46. Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Making of Gender Equality Law
Aug 06, 2023
#45. Bizarre, Counter-Intuitive, and Seemingly Impossible, Yet True: Quantum Physics
Jul 31, 2023
#44. Breaking Out of the Underclass in India
Jul 28, 2023
#43. The Complexity of Gender Differences
Jul 24, 2023
#42. The History and Science of Dreaming
Jul 09, 2023
#41. The Philosopher Who Tried to Save (Secular) Morality
Jul 09, 2023
#40. Alabama Sues the New York Times for Reporting on Racism and Civil Rights Protests in the Early 1960s
Jul 02, 2023
#39. A Successful Recovery from Dissociative Identity Disorder (D.I.D.)
Jun 19, 2023
#38. Black Holes, the Big Bang, and Intriguing New Data from the James Webb Space Telescope
Jun 18, 2023
#37. A V.A. Surgeon Channels His Richly Varied Life Experiences Into Community Activism
Jun 11, 2023
#36. The People’s Hospital: Better and Less Costly Medical Care, Putting Patients’ Needs Above Profit
Jun 11, 2023
#35. Past Cataclysmic Changes in Climate Across the World Since its Beginning, with Lessons for Today
Jun 04, 2023
#34. The Hidden Wonders of Human Anatomy
May 29, 2023
#33. On Climbing Everest and Denali
May 29, 2023
#32. Values in Science? You Bet!
May 23, 2023
#31. The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism
May 14, 2023
#30. The History of the Right to Privacy
May 14, 2023
#29. The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market
May 14, 2023
#28. On the Receiving End of (Six!) Psychiatric Misdiagnoses
May 09, 2023
#27. Womb: The Inside Story of Where We All Began
May 01, 2023
#26. Sixty-Six Years of Figuring Out How the Brain Makes a Mind
Apr 25, 2023
#25. How Did Life Originate on Earth?
Apr 02, 2023
#24. The Demands of Classical Violin, Time Distortion within Performance Anxiety, and the Wonder of Musical Improvisation
Apr 02, 2023
#23. Aztec History and Culture Before the Spanish Conquest
Mar 19, 2023
#22. Common Misconceptions About the Relationship Between Sleep and Mental Health
Mar 19, 2023
#21. Two Identities: A Physicist-Administrator at Los Alamos and Also a Rabbi
Mar 07, 2023
#20. The Awesome Benefits and Potential Dangers of Recent Advances in Gene-Editing Technology
Mar 05, 2023
#19. The High-Stakes Work of a Pediatric Neurosurgeon
Feb 26, 2023
#18. Land Conservancy in the Private Sector: Values and Process
Feb 26, 2023
#17. Human Waste: Underappreciated Treasure for Energy Production, Water Reclamation, Medical Interventions, and the Tracking of Epidemics
Feb 19, 2023
#16. The Transition of Hong Kong to Chinese Rule
Feb 12, 2023
#15. Ethical Complexities in Assisted Dying
Feb 06, 2023
#14. A Neuroscientist Challenges the Prevailing Model of Physiological Regulation
Jan 29, 2023
#13. Human-Wildlife Conflict: Ill-Fated Attempts at Control vs. Cultivating an Attitude of Coexistence
Dec 25, 2022
#12. Congressman Jamie Raskin’s Inspiring Response to Two Unthinkable, Juxtaposed Traumas: The Insurrection of January 6th, the Day after Burying His Beloved Son
Dec 24, 2022
#11. How Does the Brain Enable Us To Perceive, Make Sense Of, and Learn From Sound?
Dec 21, 2022
#10. Coming Soon(ish): Human Hibernation!
Dec 18, 2022
#9. An Audacious Vehicle for Fostering Math Appreciation and Fascination
Dec 16, 2022
#8. The Momentous Lawsuit that Determined Who Owns Your DNA
Dec 04, 2022
#7. Civilization and Water
Dec 03, 2022
#6. How Placebo Effects Complicate Medicine
Nov 26, 2022
#2. A Promising Approach to Schizophrenia
Nov 25, 2022
#3. Recently Disclosed Vatican Records about Pius XII, the Pope During WWII
Nov 25, 2022
#4. Race Relations in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Nov 25, 2022
#5. Early Women Scientists: Their History and a Poem for Each
Nov 25, 2022
#1. The Search for Intelligent Life in the Universe
Nov 24, 2022