Chris Nowinski is a former football player at Harvard University and professional wrestler with WWE, World Wrestling Entertainment. After enduring a career-ending head injury, Chris has dedicated his professional life to serving patients and families affected by brain trauma, particularly Chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, a progressive neurodegenerative disease that develops after repeated head injuries. Jay and Chris discuss the state of head injuries in American athletics, the difference between advocating for head safety at youth and professional levels, Chris’ newest research, and much more. Episode Chapters (00:00) Intro (00:50) changes in the culture around concussions in the past two decades (02:39) padded helmet technology (03:55) concussion reporting in the NFL (10:35) Chris’ career path and concussion history (14:52) connecting with activists who haven’t themselves suffered a traumatic brain injury (17:42) SHAAKE - a new sign to identify concussions (20:53) Unions can help players advocate for safety policies (23:10) final thoughts and goodbye For video episodes, watch on www.youtube.com/@therudermanfamilyfoundation Stay in touch: X: @JayRuderman | @RudermanFdn LinkedIn: Jay Ruderman | Ruderman Family Foundation Instagram: All About Change Podcast | Ruderman Family Foundation To learn more about the podcast, visit https://allaboutchangepodcast.com/…
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This 6-part podcast series immerses you in a tightly-knit working-class immigrant neighbourhood of a small Canadian city in the 1930s to the 70s. It's warm, touching, evocative, and finely crafted.
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13:31In this "extra" to the series, Lorraine Snider (1926-2018)remembers an ordinary life in a beautiful way.Door Stories of the Swamp Ward
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Episode 6: The Sixties Come to Kingston
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24:22Hear about youth and tenant activism in the late 60s and early 70s when Kingston like other places vibrated with anger, hope, and global awareness.Door Stories of the Swamp Ward
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Episode 5: Bennett's, Where Food Buying is Most Satisfactory
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20:52Bennett's Supermarket served residents of the Swamp Ward from the 1920s for eighty years. Hear about the family who ran it, and the lively world the store sustained.Door Stories of the Swamp Ward
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Episode 4: World War Two in the Swamp Ward
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24:37Hear about the proximity of World War 1 and World War 2; how women experienced the war; how it affected immigrants' sense of themselves; and its mixed aftereffects even on a place far from combat.Door Stories of the Swamp Ward
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Episode 3: The Inner Harbour, Then and Now
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28:53Experience Kingston's inner harbour as a place of play, labour, and reinvention, haunted by toxic waste and yet offering possibilities to the patient and observant.Door Stories of the Swamp Ward
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Noodle pudding, cigarettes, taffy apples, squid, Indian spices: shopkeepers sold all these in the Swamp Ward, and then there was the kosher butcher and the atheist shoemaker. Hear all about it!Door Stories of the Swamp Ward
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Episode 1: What's in a Name?
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19:55Episode 1: What's in a Name? by Stories of the Swamp WardDoor Stories of the Swamp Ward
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