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Rapping: Picture a zombie version of a hip-hop head, not flesh-eating from The Walking Dead, this zombie listens to Nas and dead prez — Dude is old school like Busta Rhymes with dreads.
Christina: Thursday through Sunday saw the "Zombie Apocalypse Medicine Meeting" at ASU's Tempe campus. Speakers discussed survival tactics, diseases, and more relating to the hypothetical rise of zombification. In his talk, "The Rap Guide to Consciousness (and Zombies)," rap artist Baba Brinkman discussed the role of consciousness in determining whether or not someone is a zombie.
Brinkman: The idea is, could you imagine a person that was behaving like any other person but was completely unconscious on the inside, and that would be a zombie. But they wouldn't be flesh-rotting or trying to bite you...
Christina: Brinkman says one key aspect of consciousness is its correlation with the ability to suffer. According to Brinkman, as consciousness expands, it's likely empathy will too. Though the consciousness is almost always present in humans, scientists are still trying to explain it. For Blaze Radio Online, I'm Christina V.O.
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Christina: October 13 marked the 22nd annual "Earth and Space Exploration Day" at ASU. The event, hosted by ASU's School of Earth and Space Exploration, or SE-SE for short, saw 24 exhibitors ranging from student clubs and researchers to interactive displays showing their finds. Coordinator Meg Hufford says the event aimed to showcase ASU's research to those outside of SE-SE.
Hufford: Scientists see this stuff all the time, our students see this stuff all the time, but to get it out to the community so they can also share and be engaged, hopefully inspires what it's really all about.
Christina: Even with the multitude of exhibits competing for your attention, Hufford sees the event as a great way to spotlight ASU's current research.
Hufford: I like everything about it. I think it's a beautiful reflection of so many of the things that are going on in the school, and I think that it's — an event like this is a way to just show so many things going on at once, it's very hard to encapsulate it, but an event like this does exactly that.
Christina: A similar event is planned for the spring during ASU's Open Door event, when all colleges display their studies. For Blaze Radio Online, I'm Christina V.O.
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Christina: Hi, I’m Christina Van Otterloo, and you’re listening to another episode of Phoenix On-the-Go. This week I’ll be talking to Nina Muscat —
Nina: Hello!
Christina: — And we’re gonna be discussing the relationships between ethnic restaurants and the cultures that they convey. So, just so you guys know, Nina is a junior at ASU, she’s a health sciences major, and in high school she spent two weeks in Morocco with a host family. Now that she’s back in the United States, she still continues to enjoy learning about different cultures. She does this by often visiting ethnic restaurants, specifically Thai restaurants, three or four times a month with her friend. So Nina, can you tell us a bit about your experiences with Thai restaurants and how they convey culture?
Nina: I feel that all my experiences in Thai restaurants have been very positive. It’s never like too overwhelming of the culture nor is it underwhelming. They always represent their culture very well.
Christina: I see. So how exactly do they go about this positive representation of Thai culture?
Nina: They typically have a lot of Thai elements incorporated into the restaurant such as paintings, like on the walls of like, a lot of nature scenes or like Thai villages. There’s sometimes music like zen music in the background. And even, they’ll have silverware that’s representational of what they would use in their region.
Christina: That sounds really useful for you to get to know about Thai culture. So do you think, with your positive experience in mind, do you think that other ethnic restaurants should be using techniques like this?
Nina: I do, I really enjoy going into the restaurant and feeling like I am in that country. I feel that when you go to ethnic restaurants you go to experience that culture and see their dining practices, their cuisine. And so that’s why I like going ‘cuz I feel like I get to be in a different culture for a little bit. It’s fun.
Christina: OK, so you go to ethnic restaurants, specifically Thai restaurants, so that you can experience the culture.
Nina: Yes.
Christina: So, seeing icons or seeing images that are related to the culture, that’s not weird to you, that’s a useful experience even.
Nina: Yes, definitely.
Christina: Alright, so you guys heard it here. Nina explained that she goes to Thai restaurants to be immersed in the culture. And so thank you everyone for joining us for another episode of Phoenix On-the-Go. Again, I’m Christina —
Nina: I’m Nina!
Christina: — And we’ll be seeing you next time. Tune in for what we have!