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January 1, 2023
Introducing Ministry of Ideas
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Nomads, Past and Present
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!
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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 …
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June 24, 2020
The Proust Questionnaire Podcast
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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 …
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September 21, 2018
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June 7, 2023
Sit Write Share
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Kathryn Britton
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Elizabeth Cronin
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June 7, 2023
Catastrophes, Confrontations, and Constraints
How Disasters Shape the Dynamics of Armed Conflicts
Tobias Ide
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Sidney Michelini
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Armed conflict and natural disasters have plagued the twenty-first century. Not since the end of World War II has the number of armed conflicts been higher. At the same time …
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June 7, 2023
Not Just for the Boys
Why We Need More Women in Science
Athene Donald
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Morteza Hajizadeh
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Why are girls discouraged from doing science? Why do so many promising women leave science in early and mid-career? Why do women not prosper in the scientific workforce? Not Just …
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June 7, 2023
Mallparks
Baseball Stadiums and the Culture of Consumption
Michael T. Friedman
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Emilio Weber
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In Mallparks: Baseball Stadiums and the Culture of Consumption (Cornell UP, 2023), Michael T. Friedman observes that as cathedrals represented power relations in medieval towns and skyscrapers epitomized those within …
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June 7, 2023
The Future of Rock and Roll
97X WOXY and the Fight for True Independence
Robin James
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Bradley Morgan
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In 1983, an Ohio radio station called WOXY launched a sonic disruption to both corporate rock and to its conservative home region, programming an omnivorous range of genres and artists …
Education
June 7, 2023
Willful Defiance
The Movement to Dismantle the School-to-Prison Pipeline
Mark R. Warren
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Laura Kelly
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The story of how Black and Brown parents, students and members of low-income communities of color organized to dismantle the school-to-prison pipeline in their local schools and built a movement …
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June 7, 2023
Money and Love
An Intelligent Roadmap for Life's Biggest Decisions
Myra Strober and Abby Davisson
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Gregory LaBlanc
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Should we separate decisions related to love and money, approaching finance and career-related decisions solely in a rational way while relying more on our emotions in the personal domain? Perhaps …
Scholarly Communication
June 7, 2023
Reading, Writing, Research
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Mathias Payer
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Daniel Shea
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Listen to this interview of Mathias Payer, a security researcher and associate professor at the EPFL School of Computer and Communication Science, leading the HexHive group. We talk about research …
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June 7, 2023
Activist Affordances
How Disabled People Improvise More Habitable Worlds
Arseli Dokumaci
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Clayton Jarrard
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Nomads, Past and Present
June 7, 2023
Hiking Trails, Sustainable Tourism, and Bedouin Heritage
An Discussion with Ben Hoffler
Ben Hoffler
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Ben Hoffler is the co-founder of several hiking trails in the Middle East, including the Sinai Trail, the Red Sea Mountain Trail, the Wadi Rum Trail, and the Bedouin Trail …
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June 7, 2023
World History and National Identity in China
The Twentieth Century
Xin Fan
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Shu Wan
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Nationalism is pervasive in China today. Yet nationalism is not entrenched in China's intellectual tradition. Over the course of the twentieth century, the combined forces of cultural, social, and political …
MIT Press Podcast
June 7, 2023
Drone
Remote Control Warfare
Hugh Gusterson
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Drone Warfare is the first comprehensive analysis of one of the fastest growing--and most secretive--fronts in global conflict: the rise of robot warfare. In 2000, the Pentagon had fewer than …
Environmental Studies
June 6, 2023
Ice
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Amy Brady
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Brian Hamilton
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Ice is everywhere: in gas stations, in restaurants, in hospitals, in our homes. Americans think nothing of dropping a few ice cubes into tall glasses of tea to ward off …
MIT Press Podcast
June 6, 2023
How are Sports Teams Using Data Science?
Liberty Vittert, Xiao-Li Meng, Brian Macdonald, and Kirk Goldsberry
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In this episode, the journal’s Features Editor Liberty Vittert and Editor in Chief Xiao-Li Meng dig into the data behind sports with two experts: Brian Macdonald, sports analytics at Yale …
Poetry
June 6, 2023
Naming the Ghost
Emily Hockaday
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Megan Wildhood
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Emily Hockaday is a poet from Queens who writes about ecology, astronomy, and the city landscape, alongside more personal subjects. Her first collection Naming the Ghost (Cornerstone Press, 2022) tackles the …
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