{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/6a4cf5af7c0256f6394f5519/6a57d3dbcebd1afd44748478?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Ep. 1 - A Human Metamorphosis (with Oren Harman)","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/6a4cf5af7c0256f6394f5519/1786361035154-5c1de764-d649-4a6c-ab41-f97574c20e5d.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>Three quarters of animal species undergo metamorphosis. Why are we so sure humans don&#39;t? Historian of science Oren Harman takes us from butterflies to starfish in search of an answer, and toward a surprising way of thinking about what happens when a baby turns someone into a parent.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Shownotes:</strong></p><ul><li>Much of the conversation draws on Oren Harman&#39;s exploration of metamorphosis across the natural world in his book <em><a href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Metamorphosis-Natural-History-Oren-Harman/dp/1541607600\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Metamorphosis: A Natural and Human History</a></em>.</li><li>Long before founding psychoanalysis, a young Sigmund Freud spent weeks dissecting hundreds of eels in an unsuccessful <a href=\"https://www.freud.org.uk/schools/resources/freud-the-physician/the-young-anatomist/?utm\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">search</a> for their reproductive organs at the Zoological Station in Trieste.</li><li>Oren reflects on Ludwig Wittgenstein&#39;s famous proposition: &quot;Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent,&quot; from Wittgenstein&#39;s <em><a href=\"https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/wittgenstein/?utm\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus</a></em>.</li><li>This podcast is part of the <a href=\"https://earlychildhoodmatters.online/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Early Childhood Matters</a> platform by the Van Leer Foundation.</li></ul>","author_name":"Early Childhood Matters with Michael Feigelson"}