# Francis Galton

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Eugenics, Part 1: The Fear of Human Decline

Become a member of Wrong Side of History Get the complete End Notes at the end of each series, occasional essays and Q&As, and help support the research behind the show. Join here Why did eugenics become mainstream among some of the most educated, scientifically minded and socially conscious people…

Ep 199: Akshay Joshi : How to read people by their face | BYOB Podcast Part 2

Does your forehead hold the secrets to your career success, personality, and hidden challenges? In this insightful continuation of the Be Your Own Boss podcast, professional face reader Mr. Akshay Joshi breaks down the detailed science of forehead analysis (माथा और भाग्य) in Samudrik Shastra. Lear…

Part Two: Francis Galton: Inventor of Eugenics

In part 2, we follow Galton during his youthful rampage through the middle east and then Africa, and how his 'gap years' created the racism we all live with today. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

AI & Colonial Logic: Christian “ZacaTechO” Ortiz & Thema Monroe-White

Part of SAND’s The Great AI Unraveling Series Artificial intelligence is often framed as a leap forward, a technical revolution, or an inevitable stage in human progress. But what if AI is also asking us to confront something older: the colonial logic embedded in how we define intelligence, progre…

Eugenics, Part 2: The Promise of Human Betterment

Become a member of Wrong Side of History Get the complete End Notes at the end of each series, occasional essays and Q&As, and help support the research behind the show. Join here What kind of future did the eugenicists believe they were building? Eugenics did not only promise to prevent human decl…

Part Three: Francis Galton: Inventor of Eugenics

Robert explains how Francis Galton helped invent modern forensic science while looking for ways to be more racist, as well as continuing his weird fetish of 'measuring' attractive women.   Sources: https://www.historyofdatascience.com/francis-galton-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly-of-19th-century-…

Part Four: Francis Galton: Inventor of Eugenics

We conclude the story of Francis Galton and explore all the hideous ways his ideas helped inspire eugenic laws around the world, and ultimately the Holocaust. Sources:  https://www.historyofdatascience.com/francis-galton-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly-of-19th-century-science/ https://www.ucl.ac.u…

Stalin's Statues – Monuments, Memory, and the Theme Parking of History

In this episode of the Explaining History Podcast, we explore Keith Lowe's *Prisoners of History* and the contested world of memorialisation – focusing on one of the strangest and most controversial memorial sites in Europe. Monuments occupy public space, and they impose meaning on it. Walk throug…

Stop Hiring The Person Who Wins The Room

A candidate lights up the room in the debrief, and a year later the company is searching again. Here's why. I open this episode with a scene that will feel familiar to anyone who has sat in a hiring debrief. The candidate walks out, the folder full of scorecards and reference notes sits untouched o…

Are Smart People Actually Happier? - Adam Mastroianni - #585

Adam Mastroianni is a postdoctoral research scholar at Columbia Business School and a writer whose research focuses on how people perceive and misperceive their social worlds. Does being smart make you happy? Does being dumb make you miserable? Why did the guy who created eugenics also get publish…