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Slow Burn

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In 1978, state Sen. John Briggs put a bold proposition on the California ballot. If it passed, the Briggs Initiative would ban gays and lesbians from working in public schools—and fuel a growing backlash against LGBTQ+ people in all corners of American life. In the ninth season of Slate’s Slow Burn, host Christina Cauterucci explores one of the most consequential civil rights battles in American history: the first-ever statewide vote on gay rights. With that fight looming, young gay activist ...
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Return to Performance Podcast

Return to Performance Podcast

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Welcome to the official podcast of Precision Performance Therapy. Here our therapists discuss current topics in fitness focused and performance-based physical therapy, interview like-minded and game changing fitness/rehab professionals and where we showcase our patient journeys to help guide, motivate and inspire.
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Behind The Athletes

Mark Hartmann & Moritz Gessl

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Behind the Athletes unites sports, business, and technology. We break down how top performers in sports, business & technology tick, how to apply athletic principles to your daily life, and deconstruct the business of sports.
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If you're into road cycling, triathlon, gravel cycling, or mountain biking, this podcast will help make you faster. We find industry experts on a wide range of topics to educate you on getting faster.
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You've got Detroit questions, we've got answers. CuriosiD is a podcast from WDET, Detroit's NPR Station. Our reporters answer your questions about the region, like "Who invented the Boston Cooler?" or "Are there really salt mines underneath Detroit?" Something puzzling you about Detroit? Ask about it at http://wdet.org/curious and we might answer your question in a future episode!
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In Season 3, we are focusing on interviews with C-Suite executives, subject matter experts, authors and thought leaders in the Sales and Marketing arenas. A rapidly shifting landscape and uncertain economy is forcing everyone to raise the bar and weeding out some of the mediocre to low performers. Join our Sales Is King Boardroom Community here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/457366486708505/
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Unlock your endurance potential. The Training Babble Podcast takes a deep dive into the strategy and science behind training for off-road cycling and gravel racing. Host Dave Schell brings over 20 years of coaching and racing experience, including as former Director of Education at TrainingPeaks. Each episode features interviews with experts and insiders to inform your training on topics like physiology, nutrition, mental toughness, equipment selection, and race tactics. Expect an informativ ...
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The JP Emerson Show

Doug Sandler, JP Emerson, Turnkey Podcast Productions

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Nothing says nostalgia like a classic car and no one tells those stories better than the people who lived them. Each episode we ride shotgun through the backroads of our memories talking road trips, music, humor and what may lie ahead for the hobby. We'll meet new folks from across the country, industry insiders and celebrities with amazing tales to tell and a few secrets too! If you're all about horsepower, chrome, reliving the glory days or creating new automotive memories of your own, joi ...
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Speaking of Service uncovers practical ways to grow service revenue, control costs, and improve customer satisfaction. If you’re looking to innovate, gain a competitive edge, or just learn about the latest service trends, you’ve come to the right place! Also check: www.ptc.com/speakingofservice
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The Magic Performance Report Podcast, brought to you by Conjuror Community. Every week, we're diving into the world of magic gigs with our members, sharing the ins and outs, the highs, and yeah, even the occasional lows. From the nitty-gritty behind-the-scenes practice sessions to the electric buzz of audience reactions, come along for the ride as we unravel the mysteries of magic together. Let's get this show on the road! Email us your Magic Questions to podcast@conjuror.community
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The Beautifully Broken Podcast, hosted by Freddie Kimmel, is a one-stop destination for people looking to incorporate wellness technology, a positive mindset, and good energy into their lives. With a mission of helping people become their most authentic selves, it covers a wide variety of topics, from biohacking and functional medicine to mental health, providing practical advice and resources. As a survivor of metastatic cancer, chronic Lyme disease, and mold toxicity, Freddie brings his un ...
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A Toast to The Arts

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Celebrate The Arts with Big Blend Radio’s podcast conversations and expert interviews focusing on Music and Entertainment, Books and Poetry, Fine Art and Photography, Theater, Film and the Performing Arts.
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Welcome to the This Happened Once Before, a conversation between generational Phish fans. I'm your host, Bill, a Phish fan for 30 years, and I started this podcast to have conversations with younger fans new to the band. We discuss how they found Phish, and what excites them most about the group and then we have a conversation about a show from the band's era from 1988-1996. Let's get the show on the road!
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OnAllCylinders

Summit Racing Equipment

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Immerse yourself in all-things automotive performance! OnAllCylinders brings you news, trends, and tech from automotive aftermarket insiders; exclusive interviews with motorsports personalities and automotive celebrities; stories from the world of hot rodding and off-roading; vehicle features and trivia; and much more!
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Welcome to the road to professional performer where I speak on topics considering theater acting and dance hoping to expand the knowledge of people who hope to go into the field and just gIve general knowledge about theater Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/RoadtoproPreformer/support
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Enjoying Life OTR honors truckers and shares their stories. We celebrate the many ways they are enjoying life over the road. We are a community that champions adventure, innovation and well-being.
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Health care podcast exploring different types of treatments to help people function better. With a strong emphasis on structural integrity and proper exercises, people can perform better as well as feel better. Increasing mobility through better biomechanics. Core Health Darien offers chiropractic care, physical therapy, exercise instructions, and massage to get you back on track as fast as possible. Listen and Learn. Core Health Darien 551 Post Road Darien CT 06820203-656-3636 https://www.d ...
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Join four old mates on a cinematic journey like no other in "Born to Watch," the podcast where movies aren't just watched, they're experienced. Each week, dive into the films that reshaped their lives and, perhaps, even the world. With many thousands of hours of movie-watching under their belts, these friends bring a unique, seasoned perspective where they don't take themselves or the movies too seriously.
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Welcome to the CASTELLI podcast, your exclusive access to the iconic brand that has revolutionized how pro-riders dress and pushed the boundaries of cycling clothing performance for decades. This is the pod you never knew you needed, whether you're a roadie, triathlete, mountain biker, graveler, track rider, or someone who simply loves commuting on your city bike. In each episode, we are joined by people from the world of cycling to learn the best practices for peak performance, how to dress ...
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The Coach Glass Podcast will help you take your coaching skills, fitness, personal brand and life to the next level. Every week you will enjoy Jason Glass's unique brand of Edutainment (Education through Entertainment). Join the community and get inspired! Maximize your potential and those around you! Dream Big & Over Deliver!
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The Road to Success is a motivational destination for conversations with some of the brightest minds in business, sports, health and psychology. Host Matty Lovell uncovers thought provoking insights from world class performers and experts that will inspire, motivate and ultimately empower you on your Road to Success
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Welcome to the Pinnacle Success podcast, the podcast that takes you on a journey into the minds and experiences of some of the world's most elite performers. To reveal their secrets, I've lined up interviews with some of the most ambitious entrepreneurs, business owners and athletes from around the world, bringing them direct to you and your smartphone so that you too can be inspired to reach your peak level of performance. I'm your host, Marc Dinardo, and I'm here to shine a light on some o ...
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Road Rap w/Viazeen83

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Short intriguing conversations w/regular people & artists; Hip Hop, Professors, actors, athletes, etc. & entrepreneurs on the road on the go! Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/raphael-xavier/support
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Mi Tourcast

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Mi Tourco: 4 improvisors travel the country in a van performing comedy to the masses. They recently decided to record themselves while on the road. Listen to them slowly go crazy.
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The Insight Interviews - Powered by Rewire

Rewire Inc, Steve Scanlon, Jason Abell

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Here’s the deal. You have it in you to grow yourself and your business to even greater heights than you’ve already reached. We’re gathering a collection of some amazingly insightful people to help you do just that. Each week with The Insight Interviews, we’ll unpack the experiences of unique business leaders, high capacity sales professionals and standout thought leaders to explore what they have learned along their road to success in order to open the door to insights you can use to achieve ...
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Join West End theatre stars Lizzie Bea and Alfie Parker on the road as they tour the country- and the world- performing in shows and exploring the local arts along the way! *** Sister Act: the Musical 2023-24 UK/Ireland Tour Tickets: https://www.sisteractthemusical.co.uk/ Show Socials: https://twitter.com/80Playspodcast -- https://www.instagram.com/thrashntreasurepodcast/ -- https://www.tumblr.com/aroundtheworldin80playspod E-mail suggestions/questions: 80playspodcast@gmail.com Lizzie on Soc ...
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Ready to take your Real Estate business to the next level? Learn the best-kept secrets from the nation's top-performing Realtors about how they are succeeding on a massive level. Each week Shawn Kunkler, the founder of the Homeward Associates team in San Francisco, discovers their best-kept secret strategies to help you take your career to the next level. Each week we dive into fresh marketing ideas, business strategies, and sales techniques with a healthy dose of inspiration to grow your bu ...
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"Welcome to the Maximum Mileage Running Podcast – 'Real Chat for Real Runners.' Join your hosts, Nick Hancock, a UESCA and UK Athletics certified running coach, and Faye Johnson, a UK Athletics running coach and Level 4 PT, on an epic journey into the world of marathon and ultramarathon running. We're not just about the road here - we're hitting the trails and conquering mountains too. Our mission? To deliver professional insights, training tips, and inspiring stories to everyday runners. Wh ...
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Reggy Radio

Eliot Jackson, Brianna McShane

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Reggy is the best place to discover the when, where, how and why of cycling. On Reggy Radio, we take a deep dive into world-class athletes and performers in the world of cycling. Follow us on Instagram @goreggy
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Free spirited, old school podcasts on all things enterprise with Jon Reed of diginomica.com, along with troublemakers and/or special guests. This feed includes live recordings from the road, as well as interviews for diginomica.com and debates on the future of the enterprise. Frequent topics include the impact of cloud, mobile, in-memory (including HANA), and analytics on the enterprise - but with an eye towards customer realities and genuine skills needs. Guests are free to call BS on Jon, ...
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This podcast is designed to help you improve your knowledge and awareness around training , health and overall wellbeing. We touch on a wide variety of different subjects and interview different guests from around the world. I also share my own first hand experiences as well as clients too. If you find this Podcast useful feel free to share it with a friend, on your socials, rate it and subscribe as it would mean a lot. For coaching or if you have any questions, you can reach me personally a ...
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Hi, this is Hot Jazz guitarist recording artist George Cole. I’m super excited to announce my new podcast “The Hot Jazz Network”. With my 40 years of experience in the music business, we are going to get to the bottom of what Hot Jazz is and just as important, what it is not. Join me as we take an in person backstage look into all things Hot Jazz. I’ll be speaking with legendary performers, such as: big band leader, Vince Giordano; acoustic music legend, David Grisman; and great American son ...
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I’m Rebecca Smith, your podcast host, and High Performance Coach. I’m Director of Complete Performance Coaching and founder of The #PerformHappy Community.Maybe you’re a gymnast with a fear of going backwards. A swimmer who can’t seem to go any faster. Or a parent who is clueless about how to help your child succeed. You might be stepping up to tougher competition and looking to raise your game. Whether you're struggling with a mental block, or you just had the best season of your life, this ...
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Speed Street

Dirty Mo Media, SiriusXM

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Speed Street is a weekly show featuring IndyCar driver Conor Daly & motorsport content creator Chase Holden talking about the latest the auto racing world, IndyCar, and life on and off the track.
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Sports & Music/World News Radio History/Documentary/ Positivity, Hip Hop, NFL, NBA, Comedy Society & Kulture Twitter: Benjibae4 $Benjibae4 Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/benjibae/support
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CarCast

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CarCast is twice weekly automotive podcast hosted by Matt “The Motorator” D’Andria, former NFL and WWE superstar, Bill Goldberg, and Vice President Editorial & Editor-in-Chief at Edmunds.com, Alistair Weaver. CarCast explores all aspects of the automotive space from the performance aftermarket to new car buying and the future of the automotive industry. The guys answer your questions, offer advice and feature guests from the automotive industry and celebrity car enthusiasts.
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Step into ”The Payback Pod,” where e-commerce execs like you come to get the lowdown on scaling up and cashing in. This is where the rubber meets the road in performance advertising, and where we turn challenges into checkmates. Join the conversation as we pull back the curtain on maximizing returns and pushing your digital empire to its limits. With our lineup of industry pros, marketing magicians, and e-commerce experts, you’re in for a treat. From data deep-dives to conversion tricks, thi ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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This episode of Big Blend Radio features photographer Steve Piacente, a reporter turned speechwriter, university professor, author, and life coach. You'll rarely find him without a camera is always at his side. Hear about his photography, what and who inspires him, his world travels, and more, plus, check out his editorial Q&A with us here: https:/…
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In this week’s episode, Shawn Kunkler and Charlie Cameron discuss his secrets for marketing on social media and reveal his systems for creating content consistently. Charlie also goes in-depth about the importance of finding your ideal sub-niche and how to scale up your business using social media. Connect with Us: Follow us on Instagram @shawn_kun…
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Continuing his recent trend of racing anything anywhere, Conor Daly is back with another weekend adventure on this episode of Speed Street. He joins co-host Chase Holden to chat about his flight troubles while trying to get to and from Charlotte for some Toyota sim time in preparation for his race weekend as well a test in a GT3 sports car at Virgi…
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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n this episode, Dr. Ian welcomes Lily, a former lacrosse player from Old Dominion University, to share her journey through ACL reconstruction and rehabilitation. Lily discusses the challenges she faced, including the mental and physical toll of recovery, learning how to efficiently perform basic movements, and the importance of setting small goals …
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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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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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Welcome back to Born to Watch, where we dive deep into the movies that have shaped our lives and the world of cinema. This week, we continue our Demi Moore Double Shot with a look at the 1990 supernatural romantic thriller, "Ghost." Directed by Jerry Zucker, "Ghost" has left an indelible mark on pop culture and remains a beloved classic. So, let's …
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+++ Feedback-Umfrage zum Behind the Athletes Podcast +++ Spezialfolge für alle Hockey Fans! In diesem Format begleiten wir die Hockey-Nationalspielerin Charlotte Stapenhorst bei ihrer Vorbereitung auf die Olympischen Spiele 2024 in Paris. Die mehrfache Deutsche Meisterin und Olympia-Dritte gibt uns spannende Einblicke hinter die Kulissen der Olympi…
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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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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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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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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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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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"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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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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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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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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Episode 9: Sunderland – Ahoy there! We've sailed into Sunderland for the 9th stop of the Sister Act: the Musical UK/Ireland tour! This week, Lizzie goes off on her own exciting adventure whilst Alfie takes Dolly down to Beamish to check out the historical villages and museum. Plus, we discuss the ins and outs of touring with such a massive set. ***…
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On today's PerformHappy podcast episode, I'm thrilled to have Olympian Aagje Vanwalleghem join us. Not only is she an amazing athlete, but she's also a dedicated gymnastics mom and a passionate advocate for positive change in the sport of gymnastics. Our conversation left me feeling hopeful about the future of gymnastics, and I'm excited to share h…
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This episode tackles a groundbreaking technology that has been proven to improve the chances of curing cancerous tumors. Join host Freddie Kimmel and dive deep into the world of hyperthermia therapy with Dr. Joseph Pinzone, Chief Medical Officer of the Hyperthermia Cancer Institute. Hyperthermia is a non-invasive therapy that utilizes targeted heat…
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Summary The conversation between Dan Sixsmith and Leandra Fishman explores the challenges and changes in B2B sales and marketing. They discuss the importance of productivity and efficiency, the role of AI in sales, and the need for thoughtful solutions that provide value and ROI. They also touch on the difficulties of selling and buying in today's …
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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