In this installment of Study Hall, we hear about some news involving pool noodles and Devo, Janet Golden (Rutgers University) gives lessons from history as they relate to the current pandemic, and Michael Yudell (Drexel University) talks about the always interesting story of Jeremy Benthem, a man a head of his time.

ABOUT JANET GOLDEN: Janet Golden is a retired American history professor; political activist, writer. Golden specializes in the history of medicine, history of childhood, women’s history, and American social history. She is the author of several books, including Message in a Bottle: The Making of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (Harvard University Press, 2006).

ABOUT MICHAEL YUDELL: Michael Yudell, the steady lecturer of Study Hall, is the Chair of the Department of Community Health and Prevention at the Dornsife School of Public Health at Drexel University. Yudell is a researcher in the fields of ethics, genomics and the history of public health. His work focuses on the history, risk communication and ethics of autism spectrum disorders, as well as the history of the race concept in biology.

CAST: Fred Brown, Sarah Clemency, Keane Cobb, Brenden Manklang Kingston, James Knight, Lora Magaldi, Joe Moore, and Robert O’Neill.