Schauer Thoughts

Happy Women’s History Month! This week we’re discussing the wonderful women of STEAM (yes, we include the arts here) that have had their work stolen, co-opted, or overlooked by men and the dominant culture. Thank you to all the women in academia, research, creative fields, business, politics, etc. who persist, push back, and put men in check - I absolutely cannot wait to read your stories and studies, I know they’ll be *chefs kiss.*

I know I mispronounced a lot in this episode, as always feel free to shoot me a DM or comment with correct pronunciation, I really do appreciate the help.

Also yes, I meant to say “retrograde menstruation” not “reverse menstruation” - the world simply escaped me.

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Resources:

Music as a scientific metaphor for mind and brain

 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0149763426001004

Prescriptive and Descriptive Grammar: Functions, Distinctions, and Pedagogical Relevance 

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/400585909_Prescriptive_and_Descriptive_Grammar_Functions_Distinctions_and_Pedagogical_Relevance 

Women’s History Month: Celebrating Trailblazing Women in Science and Advancing Women’s Representation in STEM

https://ssp.org/news/womens-history-month/ 

Matilda effect

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matilda_effect 

Woman As An Inventor 

https://www.jstor.org/stable/25118273?seq=7

Read this if you want true catharsis.

19 Groundbreaking Discoveries by Women That Were Credited to Men

https://www.marieclaire.com/culture/g5026/female-discoveries-credited-to-men/

The patent system is failing women when over 90 percent of patents are held by men 

https://newrepublic.com/article/132327/patent-system-failing-women-90-percent-patents-held-men

The theft of women’s art

https://www.varsity.co.uk/arts/29055#google_vignette

These discoveries saved billions of lives

https://www.weforum.org/stories/2018/03/the-50-most-important-life-saving-breakthroughs-in-history/

Why Storytelling Is a Leadership Superpower, According To Neuroscientists 

https://www.forbes.com/sites/carminegallo/2026/03/22/why-storytelling-is-a-leadership-superpower-according-to-neuroscientists/ 

The women who made modern vaccines work

https://www.gavi.org/vaccineswork/the-women-who-made-modern-vaccines-work

Repeatedly occurring retrograde menstruation intensifies central sensitization driven by neuroinflammation in endometriosis models

https://www.jci.org/articles/view/194136 

Books:

Reading in the Brain: The New Science of How We Read - Stanislas Dehaene 

Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst - Robert M. Sapolsky

A Philosophy of Shame - Frederic Gros

Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America - Laila Lalami
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We’ve arrived at the fourth and final installment of the creating your own self-curriculum series, this week we’re getting into reframing our concept of time to enable us to effectively and efficiently manage it. I hope you’ve enjoyed all these Schauer Thoughts and I hope you feel inspired or at least just a little bit better about pursuing self-education, I believe in you.

Here comes a barrage of books and resources, can’t wait to chat next week!

Learn for Fun or Free or Fun & Free Substack:

https://substack.com/@sarahschauer/note/p-175242020 

Use these sites for a free syllabus if you want structure guidance on a specific topic.

Resources:

Decisionscape: How Thinking Like an Artist Can Improve Our Decision-Making - Elspeth Kirkman 

Future Tense: Why Anxiety is Good for You (Even Though It Feels Bad) - Tracy Dennis-Tiwary, PhD

The Secret Lives of Color - Kassia St. Clair 

This Is Your Brain on Birth Control: How the Pill Changes Everything - Sarah E. Hill, PhD

The Menopause Brain - Lisa Mosconi, PhD

The Cancer Journals - Audre Lorde 

The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis - Maria Smilios

Hate: The Uses of A Powerful Emotion - Seyda Kurt

A Philosophy of Shame - Frederic Gros 

Uncommon Measure: A Journey Through Music, Performance, and the Science of Time by Natalie Hodges

Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience - Mihaly Csikszemtmihalyi 

Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst - Robert M. Sapolsky

The Order of Time - Carlo Rovelli

The Emotional Calendar - John R. Sharp, MD

Freedom is a Constant Struggle - Angela Davis

The Denial of Death - Ernest Becker

Attention: Beyond Mindfulness - Gay Watson

The Hoarders - Scott Herring

Why Every Power Player Uses Military Time (and You Should Too)

https://sociallifemagazine.com/the-archive/military-time-power-players-precision/#:~:text=The%20Cognitive%20Rewiring%20That%20Creates,that%20capacity%20toward%20strategic%20thinking.

Zimbardo Time Perspective Inventory - https://www.thetimeparadox.com/zimbardo-time-perspective-inventory/ 


His book: The Time Paradox: The New Psychology of Time That Will Change Your Life - Philip Zimbardo

Websites for Studying with Others:

StudyStream - https://www.studystream.live/ 

Study Together -https://www.studytogether.com/

Flow Club - https://www.flow.club/vs-focusmate?utm_medium=cpc&utm_source=google-ads&utm_campaign=Kaya%20Competitors&utm_term=focusmate%20adhd&utm_content=&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=21294453254&gbraid=0AAAAAon1RgHarc25k-ISGhCvY-DiMpHv2&gclid=Cj0KCQjw9-PNBhDfARIsABHN6-1FzBTKoNGfimPRsQqzvMy9IinNjZmghxFAESMlE9fKJ79PD_194ecaAjciEALw_wcB 

Cool App for Binaural Beats: Moongate
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We’ve discussed healthy habits, desire and interception, but now is the time to focus our artist eyes! This week on Schauer Thoughts we’re going over an abridged understanding of design elements and factors to consider when creating your own course curriculum. I strongly encourage mood boarding this episode but taking notes or just listening are fine as well. Enough chit chat - to the communal Schauer we go!

My Substack Post: How To Start Researching as a Hobby

https://substack.com/home/post/p-168506463 

Resources to Learn for Fun & Free (or Fun & Free)

https://substack.com/home/post/p-175242020 

I also give tips on how to create your own “syllabus” with these resources. 

Resources:

Ruth Asawa and the Artist-Mother at Midcentury - Jordan Troeller

To Photograph Is To Learn How To Die - Tim Carpenter

Sin and Syntax: How to Craft Wickedly Effective Prose - Constance Hale

The Story Grid: What Good Editors Know  - Shawn Coyne

Bargaining for Advantage: Negotiation Strategies for Reasonable People - G. Richard Shell

This Is What It Sounds Like - Susan Rogers and Ogi Ogas

The Psychology of Fashion - Carolyn Mair

Your Brain on Art - Susan Magsamen and Ivy Ross

Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art - James Nestor

This is the book on breathing I was talking about.

Decisionscape: How Thinking Like an Artist Can Improve Our Decision-Making - Elspeth Kirkman

I also wanted to recommend this book for understanding the importance of “word tense” when it comes to internal thoughts and rumination - I cannot stress this enough. She goes through first person, third, active, passive - language really does shape a lot of our decisions and life. 

Visual Thinking: The Hidden Gifts of People Who Think In Pictures, Patterns, and Abstractions - Temple Grandin 

The Activism of Art: A Decentered Anthology - Dipti Desai and Stephen Duncombe

The Knowledge Illusion: Why We Never Think Alone - Steven Sloman and Philip Fernbach 

The 7 Principles of Design and How To Use Them (w/ Infographic) 

https://www.vistaprint.com/hub/principles-of-design#:~:text=The%20principles%20of%20design%20are,Proportion%2C%20Movement%20and%20White%20Space

Not sponsored by Vistaprint lol



Chronic Back Pain Makes the World Sound Harsher

https://neurosciencenews.com/chronic-pain-sound-sensitivity-30237/ 

Scientists have found a fascinating link between breathing and memory

https://www.psypost.org/scientists-have-found-a-fascinating-link-between-breathing-and-memory/

Nature Exposure Triggers Brain Reset 

 https://neurosciencenews.com/nature-brain-reset-30204/
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Strap in guys, we’re taking a deep dive into the realm of want, desire, and interoception. This week on Schauer Thoughts the mind is taking a back seat to the bodies inner-workings and process - we’ll be giving a voice to the beautiful being that gives us a voice. I hope you enjoy listening to me or at least yourself. 

Link to my Substack post:

How To Be The Type of Person Who Loves Reading and Learning Substack Post - https://substack.com/home/post/p-179871707 

Make sure to check out the wonderful researcher who inspired this episode:

Dr. Nai’a on Tiktok

https://www.tiktok.com/@naia_papaia/video/7611265785910103310?_r=1&_t=ZT-94GFOua6P4X 

Resources:

Visual Thinking: The Hidden Gifts of People Who Think in Pictures, Patterns, and Abstractions - Temple Grandin

Enshitification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It - Cory Doctorow

This Is What It Sounds Like - Susan Rogers and Ogi Ogas

Companies Are Desperately Seeking ‘Storytellers’ 

https://www.wsj.com/articles/companies-are-desperately-seeking-storytellers-7b79f54e?gaa_at=eafs&gaa_n=AWEtsqemQvxYgchwXwkzI9btEgTEnCSu86tEActGU6LXgOMv_Hmjc9gknGlTvT3KbvI%3D&gaa_ts=69a75f83&gaa_sig=k0Vp1rLUO3Z7LSgPcCMAOXqD3Xwkwt6oGQR-mZgHdTaYRvYA6SwJR71JTTOmOpyQN3FLt-RNuAiAtTU1_snLAQ%3D%3D 

Why the Polyvagal Theory is Untenable

https://www.clinicalneuropsychiatry.org/download/why-the-polyvagal-theory-is-untenable-an-international-expert-evaluation-of-the-polyvagal-theory-and-commentary-upon-porges-s-w-2025-polyvagal-theory-current-status-clinical-applications-and/ 

A Clinician’s Perspective on the Polyvagal Controversy

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/well-connected/202602/a-clinicians-perspective-on-the-polyvagal-controversy 

When Looking ‘Hot’ Means Not Feeling Cold: Evidence that Self-Objectification Inhibits Feelings of Being Cold

https://bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bjso.12489 

Objects Do Not Suffer: An Impact on Mechanistic Dehumanization on Perceptions of Women’s Suffering and Lack of Justice in Domestic Assault

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37815050/ 

The psychological mechanism of self-objectification: the interaction between sociocultural pressures and self-esteem

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12517067/ 

Body image disturbance, interoceptive sensibility and the body schema across female adulthood: a pre-registered study

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1285216/full 

Interoception: A Multi-Sensory Foundation of Participation in Daily Life

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9220286/

Why You Do the Things You Do 

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/thinking-more-affectively/202512/why-you-do-the-things-you-do

The Affective Side of Interoception 

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/thinking-more-affectively/202512/the-affective-side-of-interoception

The Affective Side of Certainty

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/thinking-more-affectively/202512/the-affective-side-of-certainty/amp
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The time is now! This week we’re discussing how to create your own individual curriculum, an endeavor I happen to have extensive experience with. We will be breaking this series into parts as I want to readjust some understanding, reframe some concepts, and give insight into best practices to maintain longevity. Please have your notebooks out and your listening ears on or just relax tbh (we value personal choice in the communal Schauer) because this refresher will be heavy. 

Don’t worry, next week will be on creative execution! Make sure to like, subscribe, rate me 5 stars, and follow along, you may learn something new. 

Please follow Elizabeth! —> https://www.tiktok.com/@xparmesanprincessx 

Resources:

Visual Thinking: The Hidden Gifts of People Who Think In Pictures, Patterns, and Abstractions - Temple Grandin 

The Data Detective: Ten Easy Rules to Make Sense of Statistics - Tim Harford 

This Is What It Sounds Like - Susan Rogers and Ogi Ogas

Decisionscape: How Thinking Like an Artist Can Improve Our Decision-Making - Elspeth Kirkman

Connections Over Compliance: Rewiring Our Perceptions of Discipline - Lori L. Desautels, PhD

Below this is the online powerpoint

Slideshow for “Applied Educational Neuroscience/Brain, Adversity and Resiliency

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ceee1ee9cd4360001a1cfca/t/5d8e307c5a5a131029422a4d/1569599618600/Desautels+PowerPoint.pdf

Struggling to Find a Hobby That Sticks? Try a “Personal Curriculum”

https://theeverygirl.com/personal-curriculum-tiktok-trend/

How to Start Researching as a Hobby

https://substack.com/home/post/p-168506463 

How to Be The Type of Person Who Loves Reading and Learning

https://substack.com/home/post/p-179871707

How Words Shape Consciousness: New Research Reveals The Deep Link Between Language and Awareness

https://thedebrief.org/how-words-shape-consciousness-new-research-reveals-the-deep-link-between-language-and-awareness/ 

No brain, no gain: Neuronal activity enhances benefits of exercise

https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/no-brain-no-gain-neuronal-activity-enhances-benefits-exercise

No Child Left Behind: What Worked, What Didn’t

https://www.nhpr.org/education/2015-10-27/no-child-left-behind-what-worked-what-didnt 
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