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Join Robert each week as he navigates the ever-changing landscape of data breaches, surveillance, and individual rights, offering expert insights and actionable advice to help you take control of your digital footprint. Join him for lively discussions, in-depth interviews, and practical tips to protect your privacy in today's connected world.
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Data Science Conversations

Damien Deighan and Philipp Diesinger

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Welcome to the Data Science Conversations Podcast hosted by Damien Deighan and Dr Philipp Diesinger. We bring you interesting conversations with the world’s leading Academics working on cutting edge topics with potential for real world impact. We explore how their latest research in Data Science and AI could scale into broader industry applications, so you can expand your knowledge and grow your career. Every 4 or 5 episodes we will feature an industry trailblazer from a strong academic back ...
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Tech Matters

Jim Fruchterman

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In a landscape where the tech industry's reputation often precedes it, veteran social entrepreneur and Tech for Good pioneer Jim Fruchterman, along with many extraordinary change-makers, have been rewriting the narrative by using their tech skills to build a better world and drive positive social change. Through in-depth interviews unveiling the workings of some of the most transformative social impact organizations, you'll discover how individuals have harnessed the power of technology to c ...
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Welcome to Catalyst, the Launch by NTT DATA Podcast. Catalyst is an ongoing discussion for digital leaders dissatisfied with the status quo and optimistic about what’s possible through smart technology and great people. In this studio we believe in shipping software over slideware, that fast will follow smooth, and aiming to create digital experiences that move millions is a worthy pursuit.
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Data Dialogues

Michelle Cheripka, Open Environmental Data Project, Madhuri Karak

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The Data Dialogues podcast brings together multiple perspectives to look at a single environmental data issue. Created by Open Environmental Data Project (OEDP), where we are building spaces to grow the global conversation on environmental data access and use.
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Attitudes!

Erin Gibson & Bryan Safi

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A pop culture comedy podcast hosted by Erin Gibson and Bryan Safi who cover LGBTQ+ and gender issues of the moment with both hilarity and healthy doses of absurdity. Sales and Distribution by Lemonada Media https://lemonadamedia.com/
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BimTube's Mission We aim to build everyone’s digital knowledge with content and conversations to inspire and instigate 'Better Information Management' to enable - better decisions, better infrastructure, better services, and better outcomes for our social, economic, and environmental infrastructure. Background The podcast's theme revolves around 'Better Information Management' - exploring how Digital, Data, and Technology enable other sectors, domains, activities, initiatives, and outcomes. ...
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This podcast is for aspiring and established business leaders. In short episodes, we focus on extracting insights from the data fundamental to your business. It's "Data are Sexy" - a show produced by the US-based Tara Kenyon Group. You can also find us in the Podfolio at tarakenyon.com where you'll find me and the work I do in data analytics, risk management, business strategy, and critical thinking. While these fields may not be as sexy or glamorous as Edris Elba or Gal Gadot, I'm deeply pa ...
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The Map Hackers

The Map Hackers

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Each episode our panel of International Map Hackers will dissect a buzzword from the world of GIS. We’ll give you concrete definitions, practical applications, and share where we hope the technology can go from here.
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Location Matters is a podcast devoted to the map and to the GIS industry. We discuss anything that has to do with data, mapping software, industry trends and best practices. Our aim is to give you something interesting to talk about when you get to the office or to spark some interest in how a map could help you make informed decisions.
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Billions of data points. Millions of sources. Hundreds of communities. 125+ million drivers have been supplied with our tech. Ever wondered how we develop our location technology with teams around the globe? The TomTom Engineering Podcast, The Magic Behind The Map, is a podcast made by the engineers of TomTom. Felix Faassen and Rijn Buve discuss topics on software engineering, devops, security, data science, machine learning, open-source, and software engineering culture.
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Dive deep into the dynamic marketing realm in the digital age with The Backstory on Marketing and AI, hosted by Guy Powell, the visionary President of ProRelevant Marketing Solutions. This enlightening podcast is your gateway to understanding the intricate interplay between data-driven marketing strategies and cutting-edge AI technologies. Each episode brings to the table candid and insightful conversations with some of the industry's most influential leaders and analytics experts. They shar ...
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Kado Muir is a cultural protocol custodian under Ngalia Aboriginal cultural ways. In this podcast series he shares insights, knowledge and stories to help create understanding and awareness that leads to opportunities for sharing and understanding across cultural spaces. Content is free, but you can also become a Paid Subscriber: for exclusive cultural learning and language content (https://anchor.fm/kado-muir/subscribe).
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Field Notes

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The Field Notes Podcast is focused on communicating and exploring all things Field Operations at Esri. We’ll explore a variety of topics that showcase the range and use of mobile GIS technology. The ability to take your data, forms, and maps into the field using a cellphone or tablet has changed the way organizations have approached field workflows—and we want to dive into as many as possible!
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XSENSOR’s Intelligent Dynamic Sensing platform enables precision measurements, highest quality visualizations, and rich data with AI-powered analysis.In each episode, you will learn from industry experts who share their insights and strategies on how to reveal hidden surface data to optimize the performance, comfort, and safety of surfaces.We discuss and present solutions that have worked for real-world applications across fields like Continuous Skin Monitoring, Human Performance, Sleep Impr ...
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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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Great technical leadership requires more than just great coding skills. It requires a variety of other skills that are not well-defined, and they are not something that we can fully learn in any school or book. Hear from experienced technical leaders sharing their journey and philosophy for building great technical teams and achieving technical excellence. Find out what makes them great and how to apply those lessons to your work and team.
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Directions Magazine has insights on location ready where you are – always online – always mobile ready. Through our articles, webinars, and social media, we engage our audience with information about the latest developments and inspire them to solve global challenges with geospatial technology.
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Data Chatter

Karthik Shashidhar

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Data Chatter is a podcast on all things data. It is a series of conversations with experts and industry leaders in data, and each week we aim to unpack a different compartment of the "data suitcase". The podcast is hosted by Karthik Shashidhar. He is a blogger, newspaper columnist, book author and a former data and strategy consultant. Karthik currently heads Analytics and Business Intelligence for Delhivery, one of India’s largest logistics companies. You can follow him on twitter at @karth ...
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Welcome to Ethical Data, Explained, where we delve into the world of data and data collection. In our podcast, we aim to debunk common myths surrounding web scraping and answer burning questions like: Is web scraping legal? Is it ethical to use proxies for data collection? Why do companies scrape data? etc. We invite tech entrepreneurs, data security experts, lawmakers, and hackers to look at data and public data collection from various points of view to unlock safe and ethical web scraping ...
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Former CIA Officer Bryan Dean Wright is back! The Wright Report is a morning news podcast, with updates from America and around the world. Bryan tracks down current events that others don't, and helps us understand why these developments are so important. Plus, he provides analysis based on his experiences as an Intelligence Officer, leaning on facts and data. As always, he leaves listeners with the ultimate decision of what to think about the issues -- and what we ought to do about them. Th ...
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The Mapable podcast promotes crowdfunding projects and puts your deal on the map! Learn all about equity crowdfunding, security token offerings, and blockchain technology on the only show of its kind! Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/mapable-usa--3164091/support.
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Listen to reel to reel audio from the Data Redundancy Project archives which are intended to keep the SCP Foundation files safe from deletion or corruption by outside agencies or SCPs both known and unknown.
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Welcome to "The Daily Threat" podcast, your daily dose of curated content around cybersecurity news, advice, and best practices. With the increasing frequency of cyber attacks and data breaches, it's more important than ever to stay informed and prepared. This podcast provides you with the latest updates on cybersecurity threats and trends, along with expert insights and practical advice to help you protect yourself and your organization. Our team of cybersecurity experts scours the latest n ...
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Cities and Memory remixes the world, one sound at a time - a global collaboration between artists and sound recordists all over the world. The project presents an amazingly-diverse array of field recordings from all over the world, but also reimagined, recomposed versions of those recordings as we go on a mission to remix the world. What you'll hear in the podcast are our latest sounds - either a field recording from somewhere in the world, or a remixed new composition based solely on those ...
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Podcast Maps by Graham Brown is your map to navigate through the increasingly competitive world of podcasting. According to latest data, there are 1 billion million people listening to Podcasts every week. The competition is getting fierce. Doing what you did last year won't work anymore. You need a guide. These are the topics I cover in Podcast Maps 1) Podcast Analytics 2) Podcast Market Data & Penetration 3) Podcast SEO 4) Podcast Rankings 5) Podcast Audience Numbers 6) Podcast Audience Gr ...
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How can we all help shape better policies for better lives? OECD Podcasts bring you insightful interviews with experts and well-known personalities on such pressing challenges as inequality and inclusive growth, the economy, jobs, the digital transformation, climate change, the environment, education, healthcare, tax, trade, international co-operation, and more. NOTE: The opinions expressed and arguments employed in the content displayed herein do not necessarily reflect the official views o ...
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The minimalist podcast of tech is a place to receive quick straight to the point news of today’s technologies from around the world 🌎. I bring to you straight forward information minus the fluff. Email: minimalisttechnews@gmail.com Podcast: Minimalisttech.news Mastodon: @ Zero@Allthingstech.social Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/minimalisttechnews/support
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Chuck Todd, Meet the Press

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Chuck Todd at his best – unscripted, informed and focused on what really matters in politics. Join Chuck as he talks with top reporters from the nation’s capital, plus exclusive sit-down interviews and on-the-ground dispatches from across the campaign trail.
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Does anyone know what they want to be when they grow up? Does anyone know what the options really are? I didn't but through trial and a lot of error I've carved a pretty good path. Destination Unknown sheds a light on all the possible career destinations out there to help map the way. What is it really like to be a medical doctor? a teaching assistant? a graphic designer? a data scientist? Let's find out together. The destination is always unknown until you get there.
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Inside the ICE House

Intercontinental Exchange

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Inside the ICE House, a podcast produced by Intercontinental Exchange, takes listeners behind the historic façade of the New York Stock Exchange and inside the global financial marketplace. The episodes, recorded in the Library of the NYSE, features conversations with leaders, entrepreneurs and visionaries who walk through our doors with a dream of building businesses and changing the world. Their stories have made the NYSE, now part of ICE’s ecosystem of markets, clearing houses, data provi ...
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Welcome to Episode 101 of The Daily Threat! In today’s episode, we dive deep into three major cybersecurity stories that you need to know about. First, we uncover the details of a critical Windows privilege escalation vulnerability that could give attackers full control over your system. Learn how this attack works and the best practices to protect…
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As Andrew M. Gardner explains in The Fragmentary City: Migration, Modernity, and Difference in the Urban Landscape of Doha, Qatar (Cornell UP, 2024) in Qatar and elsewhere on the Arabian Peninsula, nearly nine out of every ten residents are foreign noncitizens. Many of these foreigners reside in the cities that have arisen in Qatar and neighboring …
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Lessons of history are often referred to in public discourse, but seldom in scholarly discussions. Klas-Göran Karlsson's book Lessons of History: The Holocaust and Soviet Terror as Borderline Events (Academic Studies Press, 2024) seeks to change this by introducing an innovative scholarly, analytical model of historical lessons, starting from the b…
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With the rapid development of artificial intelligence and labor-saving technologies like self-checkouts and automated factories, the future of work has never been more uncertain, and even jobs requiring high levels of human interaction are no longer safe. The Last Human Job: The Work of Connecting in a Disconnected World (Princeton UP, 2024) explor…
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How do unequal societies function? In Holding It Together: How Women Became America's Safety Net (Portfolio, 2024), Jesscia Calarco, an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, examines how America’s DIY society depends on the labour of mothers and excludes the sorts of social supports present in other countries. Thi…
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Artist Eric Fischl was born in 1948 in New York City and grew up in the Long Island suburbs. His paintings first received critical attention for depicting the dark, disturbing undercurrents of mainstream American life. In 1972 he received a B.F.A. from the California Institute for the Arts. In February 2012, Fischl spoke to the Institute about his …
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Award winning author and short fiction writer, C. J. Spataro's debut novel, More Strange Than True (Sagging Meniscus Press, 2024) takes us in to a world of faeries and what happens when wishes do come true. After an epically shitty day, Jewell Jamieson unknowingly eats a magic-spiked meal and happens also to make a certain wish-and that's why she a…
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Pivoting from studies that emphasize the dominance of progressivism on American college campuses during the late sixties and early seventies, Lauren Lassabe Shepherd positions conservative critiques of, and agendas in, American colleges and universities as an essential dimension of a broader conversation of conservative backlash against liberal edu…
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In this interview, he discusses his new book The Land War in Ireland: Famine, Philanthropy and Moonlighting (Cork UP, 2023), a collection of interconnected essays on different aspects of agrarian agitation in 1870s and 1880s Ireland. The Land War in Ireland addresses perceived lacunae in the historiography of the Land War in late nineteenth-century…
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Serving Hispanic, Latine, and Latinx Students in Academic Libraries (Library Juice Press, 2024) is a collection of essays written by library workers that highlights academic library practices, programs, and services that support Hispanic, Latine, and Latinx students. As of 2020, there were over 500 federally designated Hispanic-Serving Institutions…
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Politicians in Southeast Asia, as in many other regions, win elections by distributing cash, goods, jobs, projects, and other benefits to supporters, but the ways in which they do this vary tremendously, both across and within countries. Mobilizing for Elections: Patronage and Political Machines in Southeast Asia (Cambridge UP, 2022) presents a new…
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With the rapid development of artificial intelligence and labor-saving technologies like self-checkouts and automated factories, the future of work has never been more uncertain, and even jobs requiring high levels of human interaction are no longer safe. The Last Human Job: The Work of Connecting in a Disconnected World (Princeton UP, 2024) explor…
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"The original recording has two distinct sections; the first features a violinist practicing whilst the second has more emphasis on people walking and talking. "I took a short section of the violin from the first part and slowed it down a little. I repeated this phrase whilst adding in other instruments as it repeats. The second half of the origina…
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"The Gellert bath complex was built between 1912 and 1918 in the (Secession) Art Nouveau style. It was damaged during World War II but then rebuilt. References to healing waters in this location are found from as early as the 13th century. A hospital was located on this site during the Middle Ages. During the reign of the Ottoman Empire, baths were…
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"The Gellért Bath complex in Budapest was built between 1912 and 1918 in the Successionist style, a movement seeking to break down historical traditions of 19th century architecture and art. During the same period Lajos Kassák a Hungarian Dada/Contructivist artist wrote and published the poem Mesteremberek (Craftsmen), a poem of the collective iden…
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An incredible scene captured in the centre of Paris one December evening. As we were walking back from dinner, we began to hear the roar first of several motorbikes, then of several dozen, then of hundreds all at once. More than 1,000 motorcyclists had gathered for a motorcycle parade through the centre of the city - and they were all dressed as Sa…
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"The airport recording offered a wealth of interesting abstract noises to play around with. I liked the mixture of natural and synthetic sounds - the hum of private conversations, the public announcements, the sounds of children contrasted with the pings and beeps of various devices against background noise. I'm fascinated by the way sound can be t…
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"Hearing the field recording of 1000 motorcyclists dressed as Santa Claus driving through Paris caught my attention right away. On its own, a near perfect composition. "I embellished it a little by processing the original sound and using a recording of me whistling, then feeding it through my Lyra-8. It became more of a soundscape than a song, but …
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"This raw material had elements which really appealed with its punctuation of the animals. I used Ableton Live to isolate these then with some heavy processing, played about with the pitch and timbres. The only VST used was Absynth FX which tends to pop up most of the time in my work and this treated the original sound file. My approach is more a w…
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We live in an interesting world. Because California had wanted everyone to convert to electric vehicles. But with electric vehicles, there’s a difference in how they’re being taxed. Specifically, tax at the pump with those same taxes that money goes to and bridges and infrastructure in general. Now that electric vehicles are predominantly Californi…
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Donate (no account necessary) | Subscribe (account required) Join Bryan Dean Wright, former CIA Operations Officer, on The Wright Report for an in-depth analysis of today's most critical news shaping America and the world. In this episode, Bryan dives into: Washington Politics: A closer look at Donald Trump’s strategic meeting with Republicans and …
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Discover the rich theology of Neo-Calvinism. Abraham Kuyper and Herman Bavinck sparked a theological tradition in the Netherlands that came to be known as Neo-Calvinism. While studies in Neo-Calvinism have focused primarily on its political and philosophical insights, its theology has received less attention. In Neo-Calvinism: A Theological Introdu…
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At Every Depth: Our Growing Knowledge of the Changing Oceans (Columbia UP, 2024) takes readers on a journey from California tidepools to Antarctic poles, showcasing myriad efforts to research and protect marine environments. Through insightful interviews, oceanographer Tessa Hill and science journalist Eric Simons offer a compelling exploration of …
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Henry George’s Progress and Poverty was one of the best-selling books of the 19th century, and his ideas were taken up by by powerful figures as diverse as Sun Yat-sen, Leo Tolstoy, and Theodor Herzl. Yet, in the 21st century, George is often reduced to a footnote in the history of the Gilded Age. In Land and Liberty: Henry George and the Crafting …
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Protracted economic crises, accelerating inequalities, and increased resource scarcity present significant challenges for the majority of Africa's urban population. Limited state capacity and widespread infrastructure deficiencies common in cities across the continent often require residents to draw on their own resources, knowledge, and expertise …
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Sidney Lu’s The Making of Japanese Settler Colonialism: Malthusianism and Trans-Pacific Migration, 1868-1961 (Cambridge 2019) places the concept of “Malthusian expansionism” at the center of Japanese settler colonialism around the Pacific. For Japan’s imperial apologists and the discursive architecture they disseminated, alleged overpopulation―or m…
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Today I talked to Benjamin Breen about his book Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science (Grand Central, 2024). The generation that survived the second World War emerged with a profoundly ambitious sense of social experimentation. In the '40s and '50s, transformative drugs rapidly entered mainst…
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Dr. Lydia Walker's deeply researched and carefully narrated debut monograph, States-in-Waiting: A Counter Narrative of Global Decolonization (Cambridge University Press, 2024) traces “the un-endings of decolonization” – the messy and improvised ways in which the 20th-century state-centric international order replaced empire as the default mode of p…
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It’s the UConn Popcast, and “Hit Man” is writer and director Richard Linklater’s latest film, available on Netflix after a brief theatrical run. We analyze the movie through Linklater’s classic themes: identity and its malleability, American sub-cultures, and American mythologies. “Hit Man” is a less challenging watch than much of Linklater’s canon…
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In Pure: The Sexual Revolutions of Marilyn Chambers (Headpress, 2024), Jared Stearns tells the untold story of the world's most famous X-rated star, who rose to fame as the face of Ivory Snow and the star of Behind the Green Door but struggled to find her true self in a world of sex, scandal, and shattered dreams. Marilyn Chambers was the embodimen…
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Ideas influence people. In particular, extremely well-developed sets of ideas shape individuals, groups, and societies in far-reaching ways. In Revolution and Witchcraft: The Code of Ideology in Unsettled Times (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023), Gordon Chang establishes these “idea systems” as an academic concept. Through three intense episodes of manipul…
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At Every Depth: Our Growing Knowledge of the Changing Oceans (Columbia UP, 2024) takes readers on a journey from California tidepools to Antarctic poles, showcasing myriad efforts to research and protect marine environments. Through insightful interviews, oceanographer Tessa Hill and science journalist Eric Simons offer a compelling exploration of …
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Outline 00:00 - Intro 01:00 - From Boeing to Planetary Resources 08:57 - The origin of control videos 17:07 - About teaching style 20:52 - The (unnecessary?) math behind controls 26:54 - On interdisciplinarity 31:35 - How to build knowledge fast 48:32 - Resourcium 01:00:49 - The map of control theory 01:11:09 - IFAC Cartoons 01:15:35 - Fundamentals…
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Welcome back to The Daily Threat! In today’s episode, we dive into three major cybersecurity stories that are shaking up the digital world: Massive Data Breach at UnitedHealth Group - Federal authorities have given UnitedHealth the green light to notify victims of a massive data breach, one of the largest in recent history. Learn how the attackers …
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Once again, we have another company that is also using your information to train itself. And on top of that you will not have the ability to opt out. As it is a terms and conditions change.--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/minimalisttechnews/messageSupport this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mini…
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Donate (no account necessary) | Subscribe (account required) Join Bryan Dean Wright, former CIA Operations Officer, on The Wright Report for an in-depth analysis of today's most critical news shaping America and the world. In this episode, Bryan dives into: Russian Navy in Cuba: Is it a sign of war? Bryan breaks down the facts and provides expert a…
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Bradford Morrow is an American novelist, editor, essayist, poet, and children’s book author. A professor of literature and Bard Center Fellow at Bard College, he is the founding editor of Conjunctions literary magazine. In 2020, he published The Forger’s Daughter, which the New York Times named a “Ten Best Crime Novels of 2020 selection.” His tenth…
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Tras la Guerra Civil, el campo experimentó en España transformaciones de gran calado. Su declive y decadencia fueron las principales conclusiones del análisis, aunque los historiadores debatieron durante tiempo cómo ocurrió el proceso. El impacto de los cambios en las grandes propiedades pareció un tema cerrado, subrayando el fin del rentismo como …
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Running and securing an empire can get expensive–especially one known for its opulence, like the Mughal Empire, which conquered much of northern India before rapidly declining in the eighteenth century. But how did the Mughals get their money? Often, it was through wealthy merchants, like the Jhaveri family, who willingly—and then not-so-willingly–…
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In this episode, we speak to Nivedita Menon about her new book, Secularism as Misdirection: Critical Thought from the Global South (Duke University Press, 2024; Permanent Black, 2023). Secularism as Misdirection is an ambitious and wide-ranging work, unravelling a term that is perhaps as contentious as it is ubiquitous in discourses of the Global S…
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This week, Modya and David dive into parshat Naso (Num. 4:21-7:89), the longest portion in the entire Torah -- 70 verses of which are identical! This parshah also features the Priestly Blessing (Num. 6:24-26), the laws of Sotah (Num. 5:1-31), and a host of lessons on the middah of Zerizut, or Diligence, for individuals and communities, in relation …
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Today’s book is: More Than A Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech (MIT Press, 2024), by Meredith Broussard. When technology reinforces inequality, it's not just a glitch—it's a signal that we need to redesign our systems to create a more equitable world. The word “glitch” implies an incidental error, as easy to patch up as it …
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Today’s book is: More Than A Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech (MIT Press, 2024), by Meredith Broussard. When technology reinforces inequality, it's not just a glitch—it's a signal that we need to redesign our systems to create a more equitable world. The word “glitch” implies an incidental error, as easy to patch up as it …
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