On Podcasting with Dr. Jim Tonkowich

The After Dinner Scholar by Wyoming Catholic College

May 1, 20249:30Education

The first After-Dinner Scholar podcast on February 1, 2017 began: The 16th century English philosopher, statesman and scientist Francis Bacon famously stated, “Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and som...

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