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January 1, 2023
Introducing Ministry of Ideas
Zachary Davis
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December 27, 2022
An Introduction to Digital Nomads
Maggie Freeman
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Welcome to Digital Nomads! This episode introduces your host, Maggie, and gives a brief overview of the aims, future of, and inspiration behind this podcast. Music in this episode: Desert …
High Theory
April 1, 2022
Welcome to High Theory!
Kim Adams and Soronik Bosu
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Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
Welcome to High Theory! High Theory is a podcast in which we get high on the substance of theory. And we ask the three standard questions, to each other, and …
The Proust Questionnaire Podcast
June 24, 2020
The Proust Questionnaire Podcast
An Introduction
Uli Baer and Caroline Weber
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Uli Baer and Caroline Weber
What motivates creative people to do what they do, especially to change the world? The Proust Questionnaire is thought in action. It's a personality test that allows us a glimpse …
The Vault
September 21, 2018
An Introduction to NYIH Studios
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Academic Life
June 1, 2023
My What If Year
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Alisha Fernandez Miranda
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Christina Gessler
Did we miss a fork in the road somewhere? What if our lives are going just fine, but we still want to hunt for the pieces of ourselves we’ve dropped …
Disability Studies
June 1, 2023
Prenatal Genetic Testing, Abortion, and Disability Justice
Amber Knight and Joshua Miller
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Shu Wan
The routinization of non-invasive prenatal genetic testing (NIPT) raises urgent questions about disability rights and reproductive justice. Supporters defend NIPT on the grounds that genetic information about the fetus helps …
Novel Dialogue
June 1, 2023
They’re Not Metaphorical Demons
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Mariana Enriquez and Magalí Armillas-Tisyera
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Chris Holmes
Booker Prize shortlister Mariana Enriquez, author of Things We Lost in the Fire and The Dangers of Smoking in Bed, joins Penn State professor Magalí Armillas-Tisyera and host Chris Holmes …
Dan Hill's EQ Spotlight
June 1, 2023
Sparking Success
Why Every Leader Needs to Develop a Creative Mindset
Adam Kingl
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Dan Hill
Today I talked to Adam Kingl about his new book Sparking Success: Why Every Leader Needs to Develop a Creative Mindset (Kogan Page, 2023). Most or, indeed, basically all of us start …
Sociology
June 1, 2023
The Delusions of Crowds
Why People Go Mad in Groups
William J. Bernstein
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Gregory LaBlanc
What do financial bubbles and religious millenarianism have in common? They both involve collective delusion. When Charles Mackey wrote a book on the Madness of Crowds in the 19th century …
MIT Press Podcast
June 1, 2023
Teklife, Ghettoville, Eski
The Sonic Ecologies of Black Music in the Early 21st Century
Dhanveer Singh Brar
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MIT Press
Joy White, author of Terraformed, speaks with Dhanveer Singh Brar about his forthcoming book Teklife, Ghettoville, Eski, Teklife, Ghettoville, Eski argues that Black electronic dance music produces sonic ecologies of …
Madison's Notes
June 1, 2023
Beauty is Truth, Truth Beauty
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Margarita Mooney Clayton
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Is beauty objective, or merely a personal experience? Do we need beauty in our daily lives, or is it just icing on the cake? Is the sole purpose of art …
Asian Review of Books
June 1, 2023
Black Girl from Pyongyang
In Search of My Identity
Monica Macias
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Nicholas Gordon
Monica Macias, the youngest daughter of Equatorial Guinea’s first president at just seven years old, lands in Pyongyang, North Korea in 1979. Her father had sent her to the country …
Indian Religions
June 1, 2023
Pathways to Hindu-Christian Dialogue
Anantanand Rambachan
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Raj Balkaran
Hindus and Christians have a long history of interaction on the Indian subcontinent. Since the latter half of the twentieth century, with the increased possibilities for immigration, Hindus and Christians …
Almost Good Catholics
June 1, 2023
You Set a Table Before Me
The Teenage Witch Who Became a Dominican Sister
Sr. Maria Catherine, OP
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Sr Maria Catherine was looking for Truth in the wrong places when she started practicing witchcraft as girl. But she found her way out of the darkness and into the …
Recall This Book
June 1, 2023
Musical Collaboration
A Chat with Composer Francisco del Pino
Francisco del Pino
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Francisco del Pino is a widely celebrated composer from Buenos Aires, and currently a Ph.D. candidate in Music Composition at Princeton University. John fell in love with Francisco's music (during …
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Nick Enfield on Language, Influence, and Science Communications
Nick Enfield
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Anthropology
May 31, 2023
Friendship
Michael Jackson
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Latoya Johnson
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In Friendship (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023), renowned anthropologist Michael Jackson draws on philosophy, biography, ethnography, and literature to explore the meanings and affordances of friendship—a relationship just as significant …
Scholarly Communication
May 31, 2023
Efficient Academic Writing
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Mushtaq Bilal
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Avi Staiman
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Children's Literature
May 31, 2023
The Miracle Seed
Martin Lemelman
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Mel Rosenberg
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In our animated discussion, Martin Lemelman and I discuss his latest graphic novel, The Miracle Seed (Eerdmans Young Readers, 2023), which was published only two months ago. It is the …
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