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Welcome to DataFramed, a weekly podcast exploring how artificial intelligence and data are changing the world around us. On this show, we invite data & AI leaders at the forefront of the data revolution to share their insights and experiences into how they lead the charge in this era of AI. Whether you're a beginner looking to gain insights into a career in data & AI, a practitioner needing to stay up-to-date on the latest tools and trends, or a leader looking to transform how your organizat ...
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EDVIEW360

Voyager Sopris Learning

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Hosted by Pam Austin and Greg Hullett, these discussions will feature dialogues with experienced educators, inspiring thought leaders, social media influencers, and leading education innovators.
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Parenting is full of decisions — starting the moment you learn you’re pregnant (sometimes before) and continuing indefinitely. For the past decade, Emily Oster has been a guide through the challenges of pregnancy and parenthood using data. She translates the latest scientific research into answers to the questions people have in their day-to-day lives. ParentData brings Emily together with other experts in areas of pregnancy and parenting to talk about some of the most complicated of these i ...
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Brought to you by Alteryx, Alter Everything is a data science and analytics culture podcast featuring industry experts. With topics like machine learning applications, analytics career paths, and everything in between, Alter Everything is a testament to the importance of data literacy in a world powered by data. community.alteryx.com/podcast
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The Data Mix

Brian Booden, George Beaton

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Brian Booden and George Beaton are very excited to introduce The Data Mix - a new show focusing on some of the leading individuals in the Data and Analytics space! Our aim is to bring you our guests in a relaxed and conversational format, where you can ask questions and we can all learn more about some of the topical items in today's Business Intelligence and Data driven world.
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An informative and storytelling podcast that captures the purpose, use, benefits, and thoughts around small data in healthcare. We interview experts on the use of big data and create a community around how to use small data for informed business decisions.
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A podcast on data science: Exploratory data analysis. Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA) empowers data analysts to uncover insights hidden in datasets, like detectives gathering clues. Central to EDA is Visualization Literacy - effectively creating and interpreting data visualizations to understand dataset characteristics, spot anomalies, and identify variable relationships. EDA involves analyzing datasets through visuals and statistics to gain deep data understanding - uncovering patterns, ano ...
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Unlock the power of data and dive into the world of technology with our podcast, Talk Tech with Data Dave! Join us as we embark on an exciting journey, exploring the endless possibilities of data and its impact on our lives. From cutting-edge innovations to practical applications, we’ll demystify the complexities and make it accessible to all. Together, we’ll uncover fascinating stories and unveil the secrets hidden within the digital realm. Get ready for engaging conversations, mind-blowing ...
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David Yakobovitch explores AI for consumers through fireside conversations with industry thought leaders on HumAIn. From Chief Data Scientists and AI Advisors, to Leaders who advance AI for All, the HumAIn Podcast is the channel to release new AI products, to learn about industry trends, and to bridge the gap between humans and machines in the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
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Data Hurdles

Michael Burke and Chris Detzel

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Data Hurdles is a captivating podcast that takes listeners on an enthralling journey through the multifaceted world of data, where technology and information intersect in intriguing and unanticipated ways. Hosted by Michael Burke and Chris Detzel, this podcast delves into an array of data-centric topics, such as data quality, data security, the revolutionary ChatGPT, data literacy, data pipelines, and the role of reinforcement learning data in machine learning. In addition to exploring AI, b ...
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Welcome to FuseBytes, where we explore expanding business horizons and empowering success through AI and data. Dive into the impact of AI on business and ensure data readiness with industry leaders. Through engaging conversations and insightful interviews, gain actionable insights that drive innovation and keep you ahead in the competitive landscape. Subscribe now and join us on the journey towards an AI-driven future!
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Improving health literacy — the ability to understand and act on health information — is key to improving health outcomes and lowering costs. Welcome to 'The Health Literacy 2.0 Podcast'; the podcast series from EdLogics where we talk with business, HR, health, and community leaders and explore unique, data-driven, and effective behavior-changing solutions that can help improve people’s health literacy and increase their engagement with health and wellness programs. For show notes and bonus ...
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Reading Teachers Lounge

Shannon Betts and Mary Saghafi

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This is the Reading Teachers Lounge where listeners can eavesdrop on professional conversations between elementary reading teachers. We are passionate about literacy and strive to find strategies to reach all learners. Shannon and Mary are neighbors who realized that they were “literacy soul sisters” at a dinner in their Atlanta neighborhood. Once they started chatting about reading they haven’t really stopped. Come join the conversation.
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Leaders of Analytics is a podcast about data-driven decision-making, modern business leadership and the use of data and artificial intelligence in business and society. Each episode investigates the strategies, tools, techniques and leadership required to succeed in a world increasingly driven by data and analytics. The show’s guests share their stories and experiences in a way that helps listeners understand the big concepts and small details that make all the difference in today’s world of ...
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This podcast helps instructional coaches, teacher leaders, and school leaders improve their educators’ effectiveness and resilience, especially the ones who need it most by focusing on the mindsets and motivations that are at the source of unproductive behaviors. Each week, we’ll cover quick tips, strategies and coaching mindsets so that you can be on top of your coaching game.
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Data Reveal

Mark Fedeli, Courtney Hastings and Andrew Churchill

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Data Reveal is a podcast about why data is remaking our world in its digital image. It explores data literacy and perceptions about data, unique use cases of data analytics across market sectors, and the role of next-level alliances to protect the free world from autocratic regimes.
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Have you ever wondered if the news you are getting is correct? In this podcast, a group of young journalists tackle how their generation consumes and reads news, as well as the future of journalism. In three episodes, they explore the avenues of news sharing on social media, how data is skewed and understood, and how to tackle the issue for the future of journalism.
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Teaching Python

Sean Tibor and Kelly Paredes

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Welcome to "Teaching Python Podcast,” the go-to podcast for anyone interested in the intersection of education and coding. Hosted by Kelly Paredes and Sean Tibor, this podcast dives into the thrills and challenges of teaching middle school computer science through the engaging and versatile Python programming language. About the Hosts: Kelly Paredes brings a wealth of global experience in curriculum design and currently inspires sixth and eighth graders at Pine Crest School in Fort Lauderdal ...
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Your AI Roadmap

Dr. Joan Palmiter Bajorek

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Your AI Roadmap the podcast is on a mission to decrease fluffy HYPE and talk to the people actually building AI. Anyone can build in AI. Including you. Whether you’re terrified or excited, there’s been no better time than today to dive in! Now is the time to be curious and future-proof your career and ... ultimately your income. This podcast isn't about white dudes patting themselves on the back, this is about you and me and ALL the paths into cool projects around the world! What's next on y ...
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Unlocking the Power of Data: A Guide for Leaders and Executives" As a leader or executive, you know the importance of data in driving business decisions and staying ahead of the competition. But, with the increasing amount of data generated daily, it can be overwhelming to know where to start and how to utilize this valuable asset effectively. This blog, with multiple topics, addresses the technical terminology in data engineering and analytics on the cloud.
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Data Puzzle

Pan Canadian Data Practice

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This is “Data Puzzle.” The podcast which looks at the data puzzle and how data is the fuel which propels organizations along a continuous journey into the future. We explore a variety of contemporary topics covering the subjects of data management and governance. So, tune-in for new episodes airing the fourth Wednesday of each month at 4:00pm PDT. See you then.
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too long didn’t read

The Alan Turing Institute

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Too long didn’t read, brought to you by The Alan Turing Institute, the national institute for data science and AI. The monthly podcast that reads the week’s big AI stories so you don’t have to. With new developments in artificial intelligence happening at lightning speed, it can be hard to keep up. That’s where too long didn’t read comes in. We know you’re busy, so we’ll get right to the main points on how breakthroughs in machine learning, neural networks, and other AI systems could impact ...
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A podcast about data innovation, regulations and data privacy. We will bring you exciting and inspiring stories from the frontiers of data and privacy management. Think AI, fairness, privacy-compliance, synthetic data, data literacy, and more. Hosted by Alexandra Ebert, MOSTLY AI's Chief Trust Officer. If you have any suggestions or questions, send a voice recording or an email to podcast@mostly.ai!
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The Present Beyond Measure Show: Data Storytelling, Presentation & Visualization

Lea Pica | Data Storytelling Advocate, Speaker + Educator

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Your one-stop-shop for essential data storytelling, data visualization, and presentation skills for data analysts, digital marketers, data science, and data practitioners. With regular original content and luminary guest appearances from Nancy Duarte, Rand Fishkin, Alberto Cairo, Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic, Jim Sterne, Dustin Mathews, Garr Reynolds, and more. This is the toolset you need to present your insights, inform business decisions, inspire action, and become INDISPENSABLE.
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Digital Ninjas

Opening Bell Ventures Digital Ninjas

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Welcome to the Digital Ninjas podcast for the people in the ecosystem of digitization who are inter-connected by data and technology initiatives, creating, using and improving informational assets to deliver value. We discuss digital components and data topics, share best practices, and professional development all of which are filled with inspiration and fun. Joining you on your data journey! Take a listen. Share a listen (repost or share a link). Like this podcast. Leave us a comment. Subs ...
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Find Out Why is a Digital Fluency Lab for innovation and civic engagement. Here we discuss contemporary issues: the new culture on the Internet, digital literacy, high quality journalism, critical thinking on social media, evidence based content, mis(dis)information online, AI, data, data governance and other topics of relevant interest.
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StockOdds was created in response to traders need for accurate data and actionable trade ideas, most people are probability blind, our goal is to educate in probability literacy. In this podcast, we focus on interviewing stock traders to find what it took to get consistent trading success in various stock markets.
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My aim is to spread Financial Literacy by communicating the important facts and delivering them, wrapped in an understandable jargon. This podcast will help you see things the way they are. This podcast represents my views, backed by data and research. I hope you find it useful and profitable in your investing journey. Connect on YouTube as well with the channel: https://www.youtube.com/thebullofdalalstreet/ Visit the website: https://www.thebullofdalalstreet.com/
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FICO® Score Industry Insights covers the intricacies, evolution, and developments across credit scoring, lending, economic inclusion, financial literacy and, as matters emerge in this fast-paced environment, a host of other relevant topics.
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The Kulturata Podcast

Adaptably Sound Productions, LLC

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The Kulturata Podcast is about understanding the profound impact of data culture on our companies and on our lives. We'll dive into the stories behind the data, the inspirations that drive culture and the cultural context that drive human resources. Through these conversations, we'll gain a deeper appreciation for the power of creativity to transcend boundaries and connect us all. So whether you're a human resource aficionado, a curious habitual learner, or simply someone who appreciates the ...
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Find Out Why is a Digital Fluency Lab for innovation and civic engagement. Here we discuss contemporary issues: the new culture on the Internet, digital literacy, high quality journalism, critical thinking on social media, evidence based content, mis(dis)information online, AI, data, data governance and other topics of relevant interest.
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This is a show for anyone who cares about using digital approaches in the public sector to deliver better outcomes. We explore stories from around the world, where public servants have been successful at driving change. We meet the people behind the stories, to hear their first-hand experiences and lessons learned. Throughout the series we discuss technology and trends, as well as the cultural aspects of making change happen.
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Understanding IP Matters

The Center For Intellectual Property Understanding

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‘Understanding IP Matters’ is a podcast series in its third season that enables successful entrepreneurs, creators and experts to share their IP story. The series is brought to you by the Center for Intellectual Property Understanding, an independent non-profit established in 2016. CIPU provides outreach within an educational framework to improve IP literacy, enhance value and promote sharing. www.understandingip.org
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Welcome to Emerald Podcast Series. Join our hosts as they talk to experts using their research to create real impact in society. In each episode we explore the role research plays in our modern world, and ask how it can contribute to solving the complex environmental, economic, social and political challenges facing our planet.
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Digital Rights Explored: Local Fights, Global Perspectives

Media and Information Literacy Expert Network (MILEN)

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In this podcast we explore the relevant digital rights violations of our time and provide possible solutions. From internet shutdowns, fake news, hate speech, violation of personal data, intrusive surveillance systems to cybercrime and others - in particular since the onset of Covid-19 - we are witnessing an unprecedented amount of digital rights’ violations. We will talk at grassroots level with people from all across the globe who have been the victim of such violations. In addition to the ...
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Let's Talk IP

Income Protection Task Force

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Introducing "Let's Talk IP," presented by Matthew Chapman, The Protection Coach, proudly brought to you by the Income Protection Task Force (IPTF). Join us as we look beyond financial advice, focusing on income protection, a subject often overlooked but undeniably vital for financial resilience. In each episode, Matthew Chapman, renowned as The Protection Coach, along with industry experts brings his expertise to the forefront, shining a spotlight on income protection. Whether you're a seaso ...
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The Groove

Peggy Anne Salz

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The Groove brought to you by author, analyst and content marketing strategist Peggy Anne Salz, founder and owner of MobileGroove. Spotlighting the companies and cool people at the intersection of content, community and commerce. Connecting the dots in the Now to frame the future. MobileGroove: https://mobilegroove.com/
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Welcome to The Literacy Lounge! This is a podcast designed for elementary school teachers and homeschool parents on a mission to master the art of literacy instruction and cultivate a love of reading in students. Join your host, Ciera Harris, as she opens the door to a world of transformative teaching strategies that will make you a literacy champion in your classroom. Ciera and her guests will dive into topics such as The Science of Reading, the 5 components of reading (phonemic awareness, ...
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Accredited Income Property Investment Specialist (AIPIS)

Jason Hartman with Scott Sharp & Daniel Miller

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The mission of AIPIS is to properly educate real estate specialists and investors in the proven methods of income property investments as a road to building wealth. AIPIS Education Program Jason Hartman, internationally known investment property guru, had a vision. He wanted to share his 25+ years of real estate experience with a wider audience, so that they could benefit from everything he had learned. The idea for the Accredited Income Property Investment Specialist program grew out of Jas ...
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Howdy! Too Busy For Crypto is a podcast for fans of Cryptocurrency who want to learn and articulate ideas, but who don’t have time to be watching hours of Youtube videos, where most of the best Crypto education currently exists. People also don’t have time to sort through a mountain of indiscriminate shilling of trash in order to find useful content. Please listen to my first four episodes on Risks, Warnings and Disclaimers, if you have not already. Those episodes on Negatives are meant to a ...
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Ima Okonny is the Chief Data Officer at Employment and Social Development Canada. Ima leads work across the department of 40,000 people to better understand and use data to deliver services to Canadians. In this episode she joins host Olivia Neal to discuss foundational data platform approaches, responsible use of AI, and how she’s building data li…
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This autobiography--Hindu and Catholic, Priest and Scholar: A Love Story (Bloomsbury, 2024)--traces Francis X. Clooney's intellectual and spiritual journey from middle-class American Catholicism to a lifelong study of Hinduism. Clooney sheds fresh and realistic light on the idea and ideal of scholar-practitioner, since his wide learning, Christian …
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Persevering with our literary theme this season, in this episode Claudia Radiven and Chella Ward chat to A. M. Dassu about her books for young readers. Az is a children’s author of fiction and non-fiction, whose books include Fight Back (Tu Books, 2022) and Boy, Everywhere (Tu Books, 2021). Her books engage young readers with themes of migration, a…
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It’s the 1930s. Amarendra Chandra Pandey, the youngest son of an Indian prince, is about to board a train when a man bumps into him. Amarendra feels a prick; he then boards the train, worried about what it portends. Just over a week later, Amarendra is dead—of plague. India had not had a case of plague in a dozen years: Was Amarendra’s death natura…
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In The Puppet Masters: How MI6 Masterminded Ireland's Deepest State Crisis (Mercier Press, 2024), David Burke uncovers the clandestine activities of Patrick Crinnion, a Garda intelligence officer who secretly served MI6 during the early years of the Troubles. As the Garda Síochána launched a manhunt for the Chief-of-Staff of the IRA, Crinnion found…
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Departing from the conventional association of modernism with the city, Hannah Freed-Thall's Modernism at the Beach: Queer Ecologies and the Coastal Commons (Columbia University Press, 2023) makes a case for the coastal zone as a surprisingly generative setting for twentieth-century literature and art. An unruly and elusive confluence of human and …
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Love Me Fierce In Danger: The Life of James Ellroy (Bloomsbury, 2023) is the story of James Ellroy, one of the most provocative and singular figures in American literature. The so-called “Demon Dog of Crime Fiction,” Ellroy enjoys a celebrity status and notoriety that few authors can match. However, traumas from the past have shadowed his literary …
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Ronald Spatz is the editor-in-chief and co-founding editor of Alaska Quarterly Review. A formal National Endowment for the Arts Fellow, Mr. Spatz has been recognized with Alaska State Governor’s Awards in Humanities and the Arts. He is currently a full professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Alaska, Anchorage, where he also s…
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How do you turn a dissertation into a book? Today’s book is: The Dissertation-to-Book Workbook: Exercises for Developing and Revising Your Book Manuscript (U Chicago Press, 2023), by Dr. Katelyn E. Knox and Dr. Allison Van Deventer, which offers a series of manageable, concrete steps and exercises to help you revise your academic manuscript into a …
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It’s the UConn Popcast, and Purple Rain, Prince’s semi-autobiographical, semi-concert film, hit cinemas 40 years ago this week. The movie followed the album of the same name by a few short weeks. While the album is considered a defining musical achievement, the movie met a mixed reception at the time, and later critics have been both troubled by it…
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Anxiety may have been abounding in the old Cold War West that progress - whether political or economic - has been reversed, but for citizens of former-socialist countries, murky temporal trajectories are nothing new. Grounded in the multiethnic frontier town of Hunchun at the triple border of China, Russia, and North Korea, Ed Pulford traces how se…
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Are you interested in learning how you can create a system that supports reading instruction and intervention in your school or district to ensure every student has the best chance at literacy success? This discussion is for you! This enlightening discussion will focus on the successful Reading by Grade 3 initiative in the Bethlehem Area School Dis…
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Beth Bauer discusses her journey from aspiring psychiatrist to data enthusiast, emphasizing the importance of using data to solve real-world problems. Beth works at the intersection of big data, business, and people, with over 35 years of experience in advanced analytics. She shares her experience in healthcare data and the pharmaceutical industry,…
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The nature and reliability of the ancient sources are among the most important issues in the scholarship on the Dead Sea Scrolls. It is noteworthy, therefore, that scholars have grown increasingly skeptical about the value of these materials for reconstructing the life of the Teacher of Righteousness. Travis B. Williams' book History and Memory in …
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Distributed to millions of people annually across Africa and the global south, insecticide-treated bed nets have become a cornerstone of malaria control and twenty-first-century global health initiatives. Despite their seemingly obvious public health utility, however, these chemically infused nets and their rise to prominence were anything but inev…
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Violent Affections: Queer Sexuality, Techniques of Power, and Law in Russia (UCL Press, 2022) by Alexander Sasha Kondakov uncovers techniques of power that work to translate emotions into violence against queer people. Based on analysis of over 300 criminal cases of anti-queer violence in Russia before and after the introduction of ‘gay propaganda’…
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Today I talked to Ben Kaplan about his new book (co-authored with Danny Parkins) Pipeline to the Pros: How D3 Small-College Nobodies Rose to Rule the NBA (Triumph Books, 2024). Jeff Van Gundy. Brad Stevens. Frank Vogel. Mike Budenholzer. Tom Thibodeau. Sam Presti. Leon Rose. Before you knew his name, before he drafted your favorite player, before h…
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Early pollsters thought they had the psychological tools to quantify American mind, thereby enabling a truly democratic polity that would be governed by a rational public opinion. Today, we malign the misinformed public and dismiss the deluge of frivolous polls. How did the rational public become the phantom public? We tell the story of George Gall…
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In Theater As Data: Computational Journeys Into Theater Research (U Michigan Press, 2021), Miguel Escobar Varela explores the use of computational methods and digital data in theater research. He considers the implications of these new approaches, and explains the roles that statistics and visualizations play. Reflecting on recent debates in the hu…
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China’s modern history has been marked by deep spatial inequalities between regions, between cities, and between rural and urban areas. Contemporary observers and historians alike have attributed these inequalities to distinct stages of China's political economy: the dualistic economy of semicolonialism, rural-urban divisions in the socialist perio…
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The war on the Eastern front remains relatively less well explored as compared to the western front of World War II. Yet some of the most titanic battles in modern military history occurred on the steppes of eastern Europe. Stalingrad and Moscow are names known to most but less well-known are the vast battles that occurred in Byelorussia. By June 1…
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Displaced Comrades: Politics and Surveillance in the Lives of Soviet Refugees in the West (Bloomsbury, 2023) by Dr. Ebony Nilsson explores the lives of left-wing Soviet refugees who fled the Cold War to settle in Australia, and uncovers how they adjusted to life under surveillance in the West. As Cold War tensions built in the postwar years, many o…
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In this episode of FuseBytes, host Nate Rackiewicz and Scott Taylor, The Data Whisperer, discuss data trustworthiness and integration. They address evaluating third-party data, ensuring data quality, and linking data initiatives to business outcomes. Scott offers insights on data governance, strategic alignment, and evolving data leadership roles, …
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In this episode of "Data Dave Dives Deeper," Alexis and Data Dave sit down with Paula Reece, a distinguished expert in data management with a fascinating journey from healthcare credentialing to becoming a leader in the pharmaceutical data landscape. Paula shares her unique experiences, starting in healthcare registration, moving through legal and …
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Bobak Tavangar, CEO of Brilliant Labs, shares his journey of building a company at the cutting edge of artificial intelligence (AI) and augmented reality (AR). Brilliant Labs focuses on developing AI agents and smart glasses that merge AR and AI into a lightweight, user-friendly device. Bobak discusses the challenges and surprises encountered along…
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Send us a Text Message. Do you, as school leaders and instructional coaches, find yourselves struggling to bridge the gap between our well-intentioned educational goals and the realities of student learning and teacher development that hinder achieving those goals? This disconnect can stem from a clash between two different types of commitments: st…
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"Everyone assumed that in a more open, interconnected world, democracy and liberal ideas would spread to the autocratic states. Nobody imagined that autocracy and illiberalism would spread to the democratic world instead". So writes Anne Applebaum in Autocracy, Inc: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World (Double Day Books, 2024). Applebaum's new b…
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In 1967, the US government funded the National Theatre of the Deaf, a groundbreaking rehabilitation initiative employing deaf actors. This project aligned with the postwar belief that transforming bodies, minds, aesthetics, and institutions could liberate disabled Americans from economic reliance on the state, and demonstrated the growing belief th…
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Suddenly, the Sight of War: Violence and Nationalism in Hebrew Poetry in the 1940s (Stanford UP, 2016) is a genealogy of Hebrew poetry written in pre-state Israel between the beginning of World War II and the War of Independence in 1948. In it, renowned literary scholar Hannan Hever sheds light on how the views and poetic practices of poets changed…
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Bombarded with the equivalent of one Hiroshima bomb a day for half a century, Pacific people have long been subjected to man-made cataclysm. Well before climate change became a global concern, nuclear testing brought about untimely death, widespread diseases, forced migration, and irreparable destruction to the shores of Oceania. In The Ocean on Fi…
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Tazin Abdullah speaks with Dr Ibrar Bhatt about heritage literacies, particularly as they are practiced by Chinese Muslims. Bhatt is the author of A Semiotics of Muslimness in China (Cambridge UP, 2023). About the book: A Semiotics of Muslimness in China examines the semiotics of Sino-Muslim heritage literacy in a way that integrates its Perso-Arab…
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Cinema has had a hugely influential role on global culture in the 20th century at multiple levels: social, political, and educational. The part of British cinema in this has been controversial–often derided as a whole, but also vigorously celebrated, especially in terms of specific films and film-makers. In British Cinema: A Very Short Introduction…
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Throughout the 1920s Mexico was rocked by attempted coups, assassinations, and popular revolts. Yet by the mid-1930s, the country boasted one of the most stable and durable political systems in Latin America. In the first book on party formation conducted at the regional level after the Mexican Revolution, Sarah Osten examines processes of politica…
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In January 1945, the final year of the Pacific War, Japanese-held Hong Kong became the site of coordinated attacks by the U.S. Navy on Japanese warships and aircraft. Target Hong Kong: A True Story of U.S. Navy Pilots at War (Osprey, 2024) by Steven K. Bailey tells the story of what those air raids were like for the men who lived through them. Targ…
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Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen (Vintage, 2024) is a critical memoir about women, reading, and mental illness. When Suzanne Scanlon was a student at Barnard in the 90s, grieving the loss of her mother—feeling untethered and swimming through inarticulable pain—she made a suicide attempt that landed her in the New York State Psychiatric Institute.…
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In this elegantly written study Rival Wisdoms: Reading Proverbs in the Canterbury Tales (Penn State University Press, 2024), Dr. Nancy Mason Bradbury situates Chaucer’s last and most ambitious work in the context of a zeal for proverbs that was still rising in his day. Rival Wisdoms demonstrates that for Chaucer’s contemporaries, these tiny embedde…
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In this episode of The Health Literacy 2.0 Podcast, Seth Serxner is joined by Philip Swayze, MS, CWPD, Vice President & East Region Practice Leader, Health & Performance at HUB International, to talk about workforce well-being initiatives that drive engagement and boost productivity. In his role, Philip provides strategic well-being consulting supp…
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In this episode, BCBA Kathryn Karpinski breaks down a strategy for effective de-escalation. Modeling calm models the desired behavior, gently redirects unsafe behaviors, and gives the child self-regulating tools. Kathryn offers this as an alternative to planned ignoring which can lead to often dangerous extinction bursts. More from Kathryn: www.the…
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Excel often gets unfair criticism from data practitioners, many of us will remember a time when Excel was looked down upon—why would anyone use Excel when we have powerful tools like Python, R, SQL, or BI tools? However, like it or not, Excel is here to stay, and there’s a meme, bordering on reality, that Excel is carrying a large chunk of the worl…
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A new book reveals an incredible slice of Cuban-American history that’s been all but forgotten until now. Lisandro Perez‘s Sugar, Cigars and Revolution: The Making of Cuban New York (NYU Press, 2018) tells the story of a vibrant Cuban émigré community in 19th-century New York that ranged from wealthy sugar plantation owners investing their fortunes…
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The Christianization of Knowledge in Late Antiquity: Intellectual and Material Transformations (Cambridge UP, 2023) traces the beginning of Late Antiquity from a new angle. Shifting the focus away from the Christianization of people or the transformation of institutions, Mark Letteney interrogates the creation of novel and durable structures of kno…
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“Ladies and gentlemen, we are about to begin our descent into Los Angeles.” So begins The Graduate (1967), which everyone loves but which many of us loved for one reason when we were younger and one when we became a little more seasoned. “Plastics” is a great joke when you’re 20; how does it sound decades later? The movie hasn’t changed, but we hav…
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In an unusual episode, we listen back to field recordings that co-host cris cheek made in 1987 and 1993 on the island of Madagascar. It’s a rich sonic travelogue, with incredible musicians appearing at seemingly every stop along the way. Mack interviews cris, who discusses the strangeness and surprises of listening back to the sounds of that other …
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There are some topics that historians know not to touch. They are just too hot (or too cold). The assassination of JFK is one of them. Most scholars would say either: (a) the topic has been done to death so nothing new can be said or (b) it’s been so thoroughly co-opted by nutty theorists that no sane discussion is possible. Thank goodness David Ka…
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By combining chronological coverage, analytical breadth, and interdisciplinary approaches, these two volumes—Histories of Solitude: Colombia, 1820s-1970s (Routledge, 2024) and Histories of Perplexity: Colombia, 1970s-2010s (Routledge, 2024)—study the histories of Colombia over the last two centuries as illustrations of the histories of democracy ac…
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Has fascism arrived in America? In Fascism in America: Past and Present (Cambridge UP, 2023), Gavriel D. Rosenfeld and Janet Ward have gathered experts to survey the history of fascism in the United States. Although the US established a staunch anti-fascist reputation by defeating the Axis powers in World War II, the unsettling truth is that fascis…
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In Christian Collier's debut poetry collection, Greater Ghost (Four Way Books, 2024), this extraordinary Black Southern poet precisely stitches the sutures of grief and gratitude together over our wounds. These pages move between elegies for private hauntings and public ones, the visceral bereavement of a miscarriage alongside the murder of a famil…
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Over the past 300 years, The Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce has tried to improve British life in every way imaginable. It has sought to influence education, commerce, music, art, architecture, communications, food, and every other corner of society. Arts and Minds: How the Royal Society of Arts Changed a Nati…
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On Task: How Our Brain Gets Things Done (Princeton UP, 2020) is a look at the extraordinary ways the brain turns thoughts into actions—and how this shapes our everyday lives. Why is it hard to text and drive at the same time? How do you resist eating that extra piece of cake? Why does staring at a tax form feel mentally exhausting? Why can your chi…
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