Ep. 42 Wackiest Legal Defenses

Ep. 45 Curiosity

In the forty fifth episode of Jackie On:, Jackie discusses her thoughts on the types of curiosity, how they influence the ways people act in society today, and maybe what to do about it. Sources: Heidegger, Martin. 1962. Being and Time. San Francisco: Harper And Row. Jackie’s thoughts and her experiences as a human being.

Ep. 44 Objectivity

In the forty fourth episode of Jackie On:, Jackie discusses her thoughts on objectivity as a practice in the scientific and journalistic fields alongside the belief that shapes it. Sources: Bahlai, Christie, Lewis J. Bartlett, Kevin R. Burgio, Auriel M. V. Fournier, Carl N. Keiser, Timothée Poisot, and Kaitlin Stack Whitney. 2019. “Open Science Isn’t Always Open to All Scientists.” American Scientist. January 30, 2019. https://www.americanscientist.org/article/open-science-isnt-always-open-to-all-scientists#. Clark, Stuart. 2018. “A Brief History of Stephen Hawking: A Legacy of Paradox.” New Scientist. March 14, 2018. https://www.newscientist.com/article/2053929-a-brief-history-of-stephen-hawking-a-legacy-of-paradox/. Crow, Michael M, and Greg Tananbaum. 2020. “We Must Tear down the Barriers That Impede Scientific Progress.” Scientific American. December 18, 2020. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/we-must-tear-down-the-barriers-that-impede-scientific-progress. Douglas, Heather. 2023. “The Importance of Values for Science.” Interdisciplinary Science Reviews 48 (2): 251–63. https://doi.org/10.1080/03080188.2023.2191559. Meyer, Will. 2020. “The Abuses of Objectivity.” The New Republic. February 6, 2020. https://newrepublic.com/article/156486/abuses-objectivity. Radsken, Jill . 2019. “In ‘Why Trust Science?’ Naomi Oreskes Explains Why the Process of Proof Is Worth Trusting.” Harvard Gazette. October 22, 2019. https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2019/10/in-why-trust-science-naomi-oreskes-explains-why-the-process-of-proof-is-worth-trusting/. Reiss, Julian, and Jan Sprenger. 2020. “Scientific Objectivity.” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. October 30, 2020. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/scientific-objectivity. Singh, Ajay. 2019. “Objective Journalism Doesn’t Exist | Opinion | the Harvard Crimson.” Www.thecrimson.com. October 22, 2019. https://www.thecrimson.com/column/little-nuances/article/2019/10/22/singh-objective-journalism/.

Ep. 43 Cop Shows

In the forty third episode of Jackie On:, Jackie categorizes the five different types of cop shows she's experienced as: positive, scientific, specialized, gritty, and fake. The only sources were Jackie's thoughts and her consumption of cop and police shows.

Ep. 42 Wackiest Legal Defenses

In the forty second episode of Jackie On:, Jackie explores a variety of wacky legal defenses and some of the ways they have been used in the court of law. Sources: Pogash, Carol. 2003. “Myth of the ‘Twinkie Defense’ / the Verdict in the Dan White Case Wasn’t Based on His Ingestion of Junk Food.” Archive.org. November 23, 2003. https://web.archive.org/web/20031202025625/http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/11/23/INGRE343501.DTL. Price, Chris. 2009. “Identical Twin Escapes Hanging in Malaysia after Judge Fails to Tell Brothers Apart.” The Telegraph. February 8, 2009. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/malaysia/4559065/Identical-twin-escapes-hanging-in-Malaysia-after-judge-fails-to-tell-brothers-apart.html. Schone, Mark. 2003. “Boston.com / News / Boston Globe / Ideas / the Matrix Defense.” Web.archive.org. November 9, 2003. https://web.archive.org/web/20120324091019/http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2003/11/09/the_matrix_defense/. Wallin, Paul. 2014. “7 Unusual Criminal Defenses That Actually Worked | WK Law.” Wallin & Klarich. November 17, 2014. https://www.wklaw.com/7-unusual-criminal-defenses-actually-worked/. Additional sources were the Wikipedia entries for each legal defense.

Ep. 41 University Majors

In the forty first episode of Jackie On:, Jackie explains some of the cool and wacky majors offered at her university and society's propensity for defining people by them. The only sources were Jackie's thoughts and her university's website cataloguing all possible majors.