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The Freakonomics Radio Book Club

Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher

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From the podcast that explores the hidden side of everything, hear authors like you’ve never heard them before. Stephen Dubner and a stable of Freakonomics friends talk with the writers of mind-bending books, and we hear the best excerpts as well. You’ll learn about skill versus chance, the American discomfort with death, the secret life of dogs, and much more. To get every show in our network without ads and a monthly bonus episode of Freakonomics Radio, sign up for SiriusXM Podcasts+ on Ap ...
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MahoganyBooks Front Row: The Podcast

MahoganyBooks, Derrick A. Young, Ramunda Lark Young

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MahoganyBooks Front Row: The Podcast is a thoughtfully curated series that offers a unique opportunity to listen to Black authors discussing their latest works. Each episode of the podcast features an in-depth conversation with an author, delving into their creative process, inspirations, and the themes explored in their book. The series is a re-cast of the live author talks hosted by MahoganyBooks, a Black-owned bookstore in Washington DC that is dedicated to promoting literature written fo ...
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The Written in Melanin Podcast is the space where you come for your weekly dose of melanated creativity. Hosted by C. M. Lockhart, an author of fantasy books featuring Black girls who aren't all that nice, and the owner of the Melanin Library, this podcast is a glimpse into the journey of Black authors. New episodes are released every other Wednesday! Purchase her latest book from her website https://CMLockhart.com 🤎
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Black History Matters 365

BHM365 is a weekly podcast series hosted by Jo Scaife a Marketplace Entrepreneur

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BHM365 is a weekly podcast series that explores the true account of African American History as American History. Hosted by author and marketplace entrepreneur Jo Anne Scaife, this podcast dives into the revolutionary research found in “Black History 365: An Inclusive Account of American History” a seminal work by Dr. Walter Milton, Jr. and Dr. Joel Freeman. Featuring weekly interviews with history makers and current influencers, special ‘round table’ talks and series, as well as community f ...
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Avon Lake Matters

Avon Lake Digital Media

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Welcome to Avon Lake Matters, a biweekly podcast, spotlighting the stories of our people, organizations, government and community happenings - everything that matters to and about Avon Lake.
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Are you a researcher or data scientist / analyst / ninja? Do you want to learn Bayesian inference, stay up to date or simply want to understand what Bayesian inference is? Then this podcast is for you! You'll hear from researchers and practitioners of all fields about how they use Bayesian statistics, and how in turn YOU can apply these methods in your modeling workflow. When I started learning Bayesian methods, I really wished there were a podcast out there that could introduce me to the me ...
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No Chingues

No Chingues Podcast Network

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Erika L. Sanchez and the No Chingues crew explore issues, questions, and assorted chingaderas. The Black and Latino coalition is solving the world’s problems one shit talking session at a time. No Chingues. We have no idea what we're doing... but let's keep it moving with the unearned confidence of a mediocre White man. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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The Black Multiverse Theory is a Podcast that analyzes global current events, answers Natural Hair questions, as well as music, books, and art from the perspective of Afro-Canadians. The Black Multiverse Theory is based on the theory that to be Black means that we are living multiple realities simultaneously.
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Season 2 of The Black Kitchen Series: Innovators brings us all over the country as we attempt to find the chefs, farmers, healers, artists, organizers, historians, writers, and other brilliant Black innovators changing the face of food as we know it. Hosted by Jade Verette (@JadeOfAllJades), we interview 11 guests across 6 episodes, and cover topics like Black veganism, farming as a tool for liberation, the planet-saving powers of an underrated West African grain, and so much more. This seas ...
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High & Low

Luke, Mitchell, and Vonn

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High & Low is a movie and film podcast that marries the upper crust with the leftover crumbs. Each episode, we discuss two movies connected by a theme of our choosing. One movie is "high brow" and the other is "low brow". The theme changes every week. It could be the same subject matter, director, writer, genre, politics, character name, on-site dentist, mother's maiden name or whatever it takes to make this concept work. Are you curious about the intersection of trashy cinema with A-list fi ...
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MyRelationshipThing

Henry and Victoria Doss

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Meet your new favorite podcast hosts! Compelling discussions about challenging topics, thought-provoking perspectives, and relationship advice from our 10+ years of helping couples. Our episodes tackle need-to-discuss issues that affects every single marriage. We are giving it to you real, raw, and unscripted, and share our own marital struggles in the process. Henry Doss and Victoria Doss are Authors, Relationship Coaches, and Speakers. Visit https://henryandvictoriadoss.com/ to book them t ...
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Conversations in Atlantic Theory

Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy

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These conversations explore the cultural, political, and philosophical traditions of the Atlantic world, ranging from European critical theory to the black Atlantic to sites of indigenous resistance and self-articulation, as well as the complex geography of thinking between traditions, inside traditions, and from positions of insurgency, critique, and counternarrative.
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Occultmagick

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I am going to explore the deepest parts of gnosis and the occult, no matter who it offends or who it collides with, this is my declaration of intent for the world to know, who I am what I stand for and what I am willing to do, for the greater good.
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Radicals in Conversation is a monthly podcast from Pluto Press, one of the world’s leading independent, radical publishers. Every month we sit down with leading campaigners, authors and academics to bring you in-depth conversations and radical perspectives on the issues that matter the most.
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Pamp & Circumstance

Pamp & Circumstance

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Two DFW-based lawyers reunite after 20 years with a common goal - create a space to have meaningful conversations about events and issues that matter, that make us think about ourselves and our worlds, and that motivate us to tap into our power potential! From local politics to the global stage, monthly Books of Mass Instruction Book Club discussions, weekly progress/report cards for local, state, and national individuals and events, to Pamp Unfiltered and unleashed, co-hosts, Lesa Pamplin & ...
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Book Bae Escape is a podcast book club celebrating Black authors, Black Books, black characters, and black readers. The Host Tierra Michelle invites you to join every month as we dissect some of our favorite Black Books new and old. We will have open discussions where we dig deep into our BBE book of the month. We will explore plot twist, storylines, characters, Cliffhangers, the characters you love and the ones you can't stand. Urban fiction, nonfiction, biographies, erotica, it doesn't eve ...
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Random Observations on Art, Photography, and the Creative Process. These talks focus on the creative process in fine art photography. LensWork editor Brooks Jensen side-steps techno-talk and artspeak to offer a stimulating mix of ideas, experience, and observations from his 50 years as a fine art photographer, writer, and publisher. Topics include a wide range of subjects from finding subject matter to presenting your work, and building an audience. Included in this RSS Feed are the LensWork ...
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Untriggered Parenting

Paula Sampson Lawrence

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We provide parenting tips, expert insight and inspiring conversations designed to empower you in your parenting journey and beyond! Host: Paula Sampson Lawrence (Mama and Certified Parent Coach) Connect with me: https://www.facebook.com/paulalsampson https://www.instagram.com/untriggered_parenting Email me: paula@accelerateempowerment.com https://www.accelerateempowerment.com/parentcoaching Book a free 30 minute session with me here - https://calendly.com/paula_accelerate/parent_coaching
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We're Higgins and Snoop. We read plenty of comics week to week. Instead of just talking about them amongst ourselves, we figured we could record our opinions and share them with people. So if you're into comics, specifically DC Rebirth ones, and you like listening to a couple of idiots rant about them, then this is the show for you!
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Writer and founder of the Well-Read Black Girl book club Glory Edim is a book lover who brings readers and writers together to celebrate the written word. Expanding on the community she built in 2015, Well-Read Black Girl is the literary kickback you never knew you needed. Each week, Glory sits in deep, honest and close conversation with authors like Tarana Burke, Min Jin Lee, Anita Hill, Gabrielle Union, Elizabeth Acevedo and more. You’ll also meet WRBG Book Club members, literacy advocates ...
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Faith. Race. Politics. Education. Global Issues. No topic goes untouched when it comes to Pastor Lorenzo Neal. Lorenzo Neal is pastor of New Bethel AME Church of Jackson, MS. author, educator, and political commentator. Launched in June of 2010, Zera Today provides a fresh insight from the perspective of pastor and commentator. The show has played host to prominent guests in its short time and it is receiving good ratings from the online broadcasting community. Pastor Neal is also a highly s ...
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It is time for all of us to grow, expand and feel the metamorphosis that we call go through as a result of successfully navigating and negotiating the toughest times and the narcissists in our lives. Divorce, death, breakups, rejection in any form, mean people and narcissists are all just a small part of the hard knocks of life that we all experience. Maybe even more toxic than the external debris flying at us constantly is our own internal “head trash”. As humans, none of us are immune. We ...
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FROM OPEN AIR TO ON THE AIR! Join WNYC and The Public Theater as we bring Free Shakespeare in the Park to the airwaves with William Shakespeare’s RICHARD II. Brought to you in a serialized radio broadcast over four nights, listen as the last of the divinely anointed monarchs descends and loses it all. When King Richard banishes his cousin Henry Bolingbroke and deprives him of his inheritance, he unwittingly creates an enemy who will ultimately force him from the throne. One of the Bard’s onl ...
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Dr. Jae’s Office Hours is a podcast hosted by Jae Williams Ed.D, an educator, social justice advocate, and book lover, that highlights the intersection of business, creativity, and social justice. Dive into exclusive class lectures, insightful essays, and interviews with industry leaders, all curated to provide a multidimensional understanding of topics like hip-hop culture, the creative economy, social justice, and leadership. If you are a college student, young professional, or lifelong le ...
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Stories Between Us

Dante Stewart and Hemadri Modi

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Stories Matter. Not just any story, but our stories. Stories connect us to ourselves, one another, and to the rest of the world. Stories don’t just connect us, it is these narratives that possess the power to create a more loving and just world. As we tell our stories with candor and courage, imagination, and joy, we create better stories together. And maybe one day, a better story can be told.
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Welcome to the TrueEarth® Podcast! Its goals and aims are simple: to bring you all the latest news from the TrueEarth world found on the other side of our reality, as described in the TrueEarth books. Discover a wide range of sci-fi, audiobooks, fiction and fantasy stories and events! Enter the vast reality of universes, galaxies and worlds as built by the TrueEarth authors.
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Alicia Sullivan has over 12 years of experience. 6 years in Computing and Information Technology, over 3 years of experience in Business, and over 3 years in Creating Content. Aside from her eCommerce stores, Alicia has a YouTube Channel by the name “Keeping it Real Alicia Sullivan. During the Black Lives Matter Movement, the channel has raised 1 Million Dollars toward The Center for Policing Equity. This assisted in policing equity in the United States. Support this podcast: https://podcast ...
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Bound For Justice

Charlotte Wilson, Rachel Roszman

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Your weekly podcast that explores Race, Reconciliation, and Social Justice ...one book at time. Joins us for a candid discussion about taking steps to create change in our lives and the communities we live in.
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Rich Dad Guide To Investing

Indian Finance Podcast

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How can we invest our money properly and why it is important to build a business..Financial freedom. It can sound like a nice theory. But the truth is, it’s possible for anyone to achieve. And I mean anyone – even someone who once had tens of thousands in student loan debt like yours truly. No matter what financial troubles you have today, there’s always a way to get back to black. In this video, we’ll dive into the importance of financial freedom and share some financial freedom tips and ad ...
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Rising Elements

Kayla Jackson

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Hi Gen Z! Welcome to Rising Elements with Kayla Jackson. I'm 16 years old and this is our podcast. I say our as I address issues within our world today that affects the mind of Gen Z. Derived from the rising organization, Elements News created by CEO Mfoniso Andrews, I bring you Rising Elements. Speaking out on issues like Black Lives Matter, LGBTQ+ Community, Body Positivity, Anxiety and Depression, etc; I'm going to hit it all. It is our time Gen Z. Stay tune to Rising Elements and don't f ...
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The Camp Constitution Report is sponsored by Camp Constitution, a charitable trust, that runs a week long family camp, a YouTube Channel, a publishing arm, a speaker's bureau, hosts the Sam Blumenfeld Archives, and engages in year round outreach activity. Our website is http//www.campconstitution.net. Donations are always welcomed and can be made via our PayPal account accessed from our website's homepage.
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Truth Still Matters (From the Heart of a Catholic)

Hubert Sanders, Jr. M.A.: Theology Instructor, Catholic

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Welcome to the Catholic podcast "Truth Still Matters" The human person is made for truth despite this "dictatorship of relativism" (Pope Benedict XVI) we breathe every day. This podcast exists in the stream of the New Evangelization championed by Pope John Paul the Great and continued with Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI and Pope Francis. We will have the opportunity to learn and reflect on the timeless truths revealed by God and deposited in the Church. If you're looking for apologetics or theol ...
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Lifestyle ,Book reviews ,Growth I post new podcast every two weeks on saturday , Let’s take one step together to the most beautiful destination. You can be my guest if you have a story to share , send me an email on klarnaluna@gmail.com Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/withlovenadiah/support
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She's The B.O.S.S. Radio connects women in home, business or entrepreneurship interested in empowering and improving themselves as well as their community through personal and professional development. Sharing information and discussing ideas on strategies of how to move forward in a better way of life. We are more than just talk radio. The show features buzz sessions with its listeners about current news, political, spiritual, health, business, and family issues that are likely to evoke cre ...
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Heroine may cause a man to feel invincible. Cocaine may make a man feel like he can run past the speed of light. Ecstasy may make a man feel like every nerve in his body is coming alive. Still, no matter how potent those substances may be, it's a fact, love is the most potent drug of all. This fact is especially true when Juan awakens from a two-month coma, unsure of what his life had been. The only time he feels he is close to the truth is in the presence of women with specific characterist ...
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Other Planes explores all things Afro/Futurism in cosmic and conscious cultures worldwide, from music to art, science to politics—and beyond. Join host tobias c. van Veen as we undertake audio journeys and interviews with world-class visionaries, creatives, and futurists, from emcees and philosophers to scribes and scholars, programmers and poets. Other Planes covers radical diversity in the speculative arts, including science fiction, film, and comix; cosplay, performance, poetry and posthu ...
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Call It Like I See It

James Keys, Tunde Ogunlana

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Call It Like I See It proves that news and social commentary does not have to be manipulative or sensationalist to be interesting, so join hosts James Keys and Tunde Ogunlana as they take a weekly look at notable news stories, opinion pieces, or products of our culture and break down what they see.
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Looking Up

Fine Music Radio

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Five minutes at the end of each week explores the big and the small questions in astronomy, cosmology, and space science. Hosted by Kechil Kirkham, no subject is too big or too small, and experts are regularly brought on board to illuminate and excite. Cape Town is the place to be for astronomy, with some of the largest telescopes in the world housed or being built not too far away. Looking Up takes advantage of the shoals of scientists and engineers working on the planet’s most advanced ast ...
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What is the right way to live? This is an old question in Western moral philosophy, but in recent years anthropologists have turned their attention to this question in what has been called, a “moral turn”. In this original ethnographic study, Pursuing Morality: Buddhism and Everyday Ethics in Southeastern Myanmar (NUS Press, 2024), Justine Chambers…
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Schuyler Bailar didn’t set out to be an activist, but his very public transition to the Harvard men’s swim team put him in the spotlight. His choice to be open about his journey and share his experience has evolved into tireless advocacy for inclusion and collective liberation. Today’s book is: He/She/They: How We Talk About Gender and Why it Matte…
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Modya and David are joined this week by Ruth Schapira (about whose work you can learn more at innerjudaism.com) to look at the role of grace and calmness within this week's Torah portion. Together, they focus on the value of gentle words in Moses' plea to be allowed to enter the land, and how a calm orientation is necessary to navigate difficult co…
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Does Hindu astrology work? If so, why? When does it not work? Why? Where and how did Hindu astrology arise and develop? What are its similarities with other astrological systems? These are among the unusual and fascinating questions tackled by an Oxford mathematician, Dr. A. P. Stone, who learned Sanskrit specifically for the purpose. Analyzing var…
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What would you do in the place of Austrian farmer Franz Jägerstätter in 1943? Mumble your loyalty oath to Hitler like everyone else—or refuse and pay with your life? This martyr is a blessed in the Catholic Church and on the way to being canonized. He is also the subject of a transcendentally beautiful movie A Hidden life by Terrence Mallick in 201…
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Elite colleges are boasting unprecedented numbers with respect to diversity, with some schools admitting their first majority-minority classes. But when the twin pandemics of COVID-19 and racial unrest gripped the world, schools scrambled to figure out what to do with the diversity they so fervently recruited. And disadvantaged students suffered. C…
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What is money? Why are trillions of dollars, euros, pounds, and yen being printed, but not spent, and what does this reveal about the state of our society? Money, as we know it, was born in 1971 when currencies unlinked from gold. During its adolescence, money was hyperactive, causing rampant inflation. Three decades of mature growth followed. But …
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This June 2020 episode, originally part of a Global Policing series, was Recall this Book's first exploration of police brutality, systemic and personal racism and Black Lives Matter. Elizabeth and John were lucky to be joined by Daniel Kryder and David Cunningham, two scholars who have worked on these questions for decades. Many of the mechanisms …
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Rabbi Meir Kahane came of age amid the radical politics of the counterculture, becoming a militant voice of protest against Jewish liberalism. Kahane founded the Jewish Defense League in 1968, declaring that Jews must protect themselves by any means necessary. He immigrated to Israel in 1971, where he founded KACH, an ultranationalist and racist po…
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This episode is the third one this series where we look back over the first principles of the ReOrient project. In previous episodes we have discussed post-orientalism and post-positivism, here we turn to decoloniality. Discussions of decoloniality have become increasingly mainstream since the ‘Decolonise the Curriculum’ and ‘Rhodes Must Fall’ move…
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Over the past fifteen years in Mexico, more than 450,000 people have been murdered and 110,000 more have been disappeared. In Sovereignty and Extortion: A New State Form in Mexico (Duke UP, 2024), Claudio Lomnitz examines the Mexican state in relation to this extreme violence, uncovering a reality that challenges the familiar narratives of “a war o…
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How is it that you could never cheat on a person, but you can cheat the relationship? We discuss how we cheat our relationships mentally, physically, financially and emotionally. We also discuss how it can be a factor in us feeling like a burden in relationships. Thrive With Leo Coaching: If you want to improve in the areas of health, wealth and/or…
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HT1985 - Toning B-W Images Because we are liberated from the limitations of chemistry when we work in the digital darkroom, it's now easily possible for us to do any kind of monochromatic toning we might imagine. Even exotic split-toning and tri-toning are easily accomplished. What does this new grammar of expression mean for us black and white pho…
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What is dark matter and what is dark energy? Do they exist? Well, we've sent up a spacecraft which has left a space telescope, Euclid, to map billions of galaxies and detect their movement. To tell us more about this mysterious and fascinating endeavor is Sandor Kruk of the European Space Agency, here at the International Astronomical Union's Gener…
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Narcissists are masters of manipulation, and they often exit relationships in the most damaging ways possible, leaving you feeling confused and blindsided. But what if you could see it coming? What if you could recognize the signs before the storm hits? Join Rebecca as she helps you understand how these signs can empower you to take control of the …
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Listen to Erika L. Sanchez and the No Chingues crew talk about all of the day's chingaderas: · Rowdy Loves OJ Simpson and His Whole Vibe · Goldfish Footwear · People Give Jorge the Willies · Succession · Pretentious Erika Talks About Pretentiousness · “Shut the Fuck Up” · JD Vance · Right Wing Weirdos Are Gonna Weird · Hairlines · BBL Emergency at …
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Shanghailanders (Spiegel & Grau: 2024), the debut novel from Juli Min, starts at the end: Leo, a wealthy Shanghai businessman, sees his wife and daughters off at the airport as they travel to Boston. Everyone, it seems, is unhappy. The novel then travels backwards through time, giving answers to questions revealed in later chapters, jumping from pe…
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Film critic Alonso Duralde and I talk his new book, Hollywood Pride: A Celebration of LGBTQ+ Representation and Perseverance in Film (Running Press, 2024), including some fascinating anecdotes, case studies, and watershed moments in queer cinematic history, not to mention its creators, its stars, its detractors, and its various ebbs and flows -- fr…
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After India gained independence in 1947, Britain reinvented its role in the global economy through nongovernmental aid organisations. Utilising existing imperial networks and colonial bureaucracy, the nonprofit sector sought an ethical capitalism, one that would equalise relationships between British consumers and Third World producers as the age o…
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In Deep Time: A Literary History (Princeton UP, 2023), Noah Heringman, Curators’ Professor of English at the University of Missouri, presents a “counter-history” of deep time. This counter-history acknowledges and investigates the literary and imaginary origins of the idea of deep time, from eighteen-century narratives of voyages around the world t…
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Who was James Madison? Why were his Notes on Government so valuable to the American founding? Did James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and George Washington all achieve what Sheehan calls “Civic Friendship”? Colleen Sheehan joins Madison’s Notes to discuss her seminal works on James Madison: The Mind of James Madison: The Legacy of Classical Republic…
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When General Porfirio Díaz assumed power in 1876, he ushered in Mexico's first prolonged period of political stability and national economic growth--though "progress" came at the cost of democracy. Indigenous Autocracy presents a new story about how regional actors negotiated between national authoritarian rule and local circumstances by explaining…
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Poet Laureate of Kentucky Crystal Wilkinson’s food memoir, Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts: Stories and Recipes from Five Generations of Black Country Cooks (Clarkson Potter, 2023), honors her kitchen ghosts, five generations of Black Appalachian women. She contends, “The concept of the kitchen ghost came to me years ago, when I realized that my …
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The Second Epistle to Timothy is, by any standard, a remarkable document. Even as the apostle urges his friend and coworker hasten to Rome for a final meeting, the intimacy and urgency of Paul's words make clear his awareness that Timothy might not arrive in time to say goodbye. This makes the epistle deeply personal. But Paul has a much larger pur…
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White Supremacy and Racism in Progressive America: Race, Place, and Space (Policy Press, 2024) examines the connections between race, place, and space, and sheds light on how they contribute and maintain racial hierarchies. Dr. Miguel Montalva Barba focuses on the White residents of Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, which, according to the Cooks Politi…
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An interview with Salman Sayyid in which he addresses some of the criticisms of the recent definition of Islamophobia as “a type of racism that targets Muslimness or perceived Muslimness.” To read more about the incident of Islamophobia mentioned in this podcast, please visit this link. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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Listen to this interview of Anthony Anjorin, a lead software architect at Zühlke Engineering, Germany; and also, Hsiang-Shang Ko, assistant research fellow, Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taiwan. We talk about their paper Benchmarking bidirectional transformations: Theory, implementation, application, and assessment (Software an…
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James Keys and Tunde Ogunlana discuss X Corp.’s recently filed lawsuit against advertisers for what it calls an illegal boycott relative to what its owner, Elon Musk, says he’s about (1:04). The guys also discuss Ice Cube’s flirtation with figures like Donald Trump and Tucker Carlson, particularly in light of his particular legacy in hip hop music …
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In the 1970s, the Mexican government acted to alleviate rural unemployment by supporting the migration of able-bodied men. Millions crossed into the United States to find work that would help them survive as well as sustain their families in Mexico. They took low-level positions that few Americans wanted and sent money back to communities that depe…
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Perpetrators of mass atrocities have used displacement to transport victims to killing sites or extermination camps to transfer victims to sites of forced labor and attrition, to ethnically homogenize regions by moving victims out of their homes and lands, and to destroy populations by depriving them of vital daily needs. Displacement has been trea…
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Today I talked to Dianne Elise about her book Creativity and the Erotic Dimensions of the Analytic Field (Routledge, 2019). To be in the presence of a person—a woman in fact, and Dianne Elise in particular—who follows her instincts, someone who builds theory from the ground up, and whose theories keep evolving, enlivens the interlocutor. I almost h…
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The New Testament and the Theology of Trust (Oxford UP, 2022) argues for the recovery of trust as a central theme in Christian theology, and offers the first theology of trust in the New Testament. 'Trust' is the root meaning of Christian 'faith' (pistis, fides), and trusting in God and Christ is still fundamental to Christians. But unlike faith, a…
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The Brink: President Reagan and the Nuclear War Scare of 1983 (Simon & Schuster, 2018), by Marc Ambinder, is a history of US-Soviet Relations under Ronald Reagan and an exploration of nuclear command and control operations. Ambender weaves together accounts of military exercises, false alarms, and espionage to tell the story of how close the U.S. a…
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Jehovah’s Witnesses are one of the most successful “new religious movements” to have emerged from the prophetic ferment within later nineteenth-century Protestantism. Always controversial, often persecuted, and well-known for their proselytising efforts, they have made a substantial contribution in terms of human rights, and they count numerous fam…
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Asylum Ways of Seeing: Psychiatric Patients, American Thought and Culture (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021) by Dr. Heather Murray is a cultural and intellectual history of people with mental illnesses in the twentieth-century United States. While acknowledging the fraught, and often violent, histories of American psychiatric hospitals, Heath…
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Movies under the Influence (University of Minnesota Press, 2024) by Dr. Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece charts the entangled histories of moviegoing and mind-altering substances from early cinema through the psychedelic 1970s. Dr. Szczepaniak-Gillece examines how the parallel trajectories of these two enduring aspects of American culture, linked by the…
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Graham Cochrane is a TEDx and keynote speaker, 7 figure entrepreneur, and bestselling author of How To Get Paid For What You Know and Rebel: Find Yourself by Not Following The Crowd (2024). He speaks to over 80,000 people each month on his top .5% globally ranked podcast The Graham Cochrane Show, where each week he helps people create more money, m…
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Have you ever wondered how deep the roots of African American history and literature go? We are also privileged to have Nicole Hannah-Jones, Pulitzer Prize-winning creator of the 1619 Project, share her journey and personal connection to Black history. She also reads an impactful excerpt from her work and stresses preserving Black history. Moderate…
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The Medieval Scriptorium: Making Books in the Middle Ages (Reaktion, 2024) by Sara J. Charles takes the reader on an immersive journey through mediaeval manuscript production in the Latin Christian world. Each chapter opens with a lively vignette by a mediaeval narrator – including a parchment-maker, scribe and illuminator – introducing various asp…
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Why do certain musical sounds move us while others leave us cold? Are musical trends simply that—or do they contain insights into the culture at large? Our guest is a musicologist who studies pop and electronic dance music. She’s fascinated by the way EDM privileges timbral and rhythmic complexity over the chord changes and harmonic complexities of…
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Tracing women’s experiences of miscarriage and termination for foetal anomaly in the second trimester, before legal viability, shows how such events are positioned as less ‘real’ or significant when the foetal being does not, or will not, survive. Invisible Labour: The Reproductive Politics of Second Trimester Pregnancy Loss in England (Berghahn, 2…
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Toward the end of the twentieth century, an unprecedented surge of writing altered the Israeli literary scene in profound ways. As fresh creative voices and multiple languages vied for recognition, diversity replaced consensus. Genres once accorded lower status—such as the graphic novel and science fiction—gained readership and positive critical no…
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