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Big Brains

University of Chicago Podcast Network

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Translating groundbreaking research into digestible brain food. Big Brains, little bites. Produced by the University of Chicago Podcast Network & Winner of CASE "Grand Gold" award in 2022, Gold award in 2021, and named Adweek's "Best Branded Podcast" in 2020.
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Capitalisn't

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Is capitalism the engine of destruction or the engine of prosperity? On this podcast we talk about the ways capitalism is—or more often isn’t—working in our world today. Hosted by Vanity Fair contributing editor, Bethany McLean and world renowned economics professor Luigi Zingales, we explain how capitalism can go wrong, and what we can do to fix it. Cover photo attributions: https://www.chicagobooth.edu/research/stigler/about/capitalisnt. If you would like to send us feedback, suggestions f ...
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Why This Universe?

Dan Hooper, Shalma Wegsman

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The biggest ideas in physics, broken down. Join theoretical physicist Dan Hooper and co-host Shalma Wegsman as they answer your questions about dark matter, black holes, quantum mechanics, and more. Part of The University of Chicago Podcast Network.
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Not Another Politics Podcast

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With all the noise created by a 24/7 news cycle, it can be hard to really grasp what's going on in politics today. We provide a fresh perspective on the biggest political stories not through opinion and anecdotes, but rigorous scholarship, massive data sets and a deep knowledge of theory. Understand the political science beyond the headlines with Harris School of Public Policy Professors William Howell, Anthony Fowler and Wioletta Dziuda. Our show is part of the University of Chicago Podcast ...
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Entitled

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Rights matter, but conversations about rights can be polarizing, confusing and frustrating. Lawyers and law professors Claudia Flores and Tom Ginsburg have traveled the world getting into the weeds of global human rights debates. On Entitled, they use that expertise to explore the stories and thorny questions around why rights matter and what’s the matter with rights. Entitled is produced with the support of University of Chicago Law School and Yale Law School, and is part of the award winni ...
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CareerCast by the University of Chicago Booth School of Business

The University of Chicago Booth School of Business

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Chicago Booth believes in life-long career development to help you maintain your professional edge. Through CareerCast, an online, audio recording series, we give alumni and students the chance to hear experts discuss topics such as crafting your story, making an industry or function change, managing employees, taking the entrepreneurial plunge and more. Because these talks are available online, you can access them anytime, anywhere and as often as you want. You will have the opportunity to ...
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No Chingues

No Chingues Podcast Network

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Erika L. Sanchez and the No Chingues crew explore issues, questions, and assorted chingaderas. The Black and Latino coalition is solving the world’s problems one shit talking session at a time. No Chingues. We have no idea what we're doing... but let's keep it moving with the unearned confidence of a mediocre White man. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Welcome to The Rocket Networker Podcast! You're in the right place if you're interested in building and managing your relationship network. As an entrepreneur, executive, advisor, and technologist I've had the privilege of living across the United States and working around the world. Over four decades, I've engaged with people from all walks of life - - all day, every day. It's what I love to do. So, in every episode of The Rocket Networker, I interview incredible people that I've met along ...
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The Quantum Divide is a podcast focussing on quantum technology, with a slant towards networking. Do you work in the IT industry, want to learn about quantum technologies, and are daunted by the extraordinarily high bar for deep comprehension? Yeah, me too. Join our podcast to hear interesting talks about quantum technology concepts, and fascinating interviews from individuals in the industry. (Opinions expressed by Steve & Dan belong only to them, and not their employer)
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UC3P is a student-run podcast network based at the University of Chicago's Harris School of Public Policy. Our main page hosts current events, politics, research, debates, and more from across the University of Chicago.
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Off The Charts Energy Podcast

Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago & UChicago Podcast Network

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At the Energy Policy Institute, we love our charts. That’s why we’re bringing you analysis of today’s top trends and policies grounded in the latest evidence off the charts.
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Join Wolfie as he dives into the history of the events, actions, and stories that shaped LA sports. Alexander “Wolfie” Tash is a sports journalist from Los Angeles. Wolfie was drafted out of High School in the 39th round of the 2013 MLB amateur draft to the Chicago White Sox. After deciding to forgo the minor leagues, he attended college at Chapman University, earning a bachelor's degree in broadcast journalism in 2017. Wolfie has spent the past five years working in the sports world for com ...
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Join DePaul University sports journalism student Adeyemi Sosina, as he discusses the latest in pop-culture and sports. Occasionally, he brings guest to chill and chat about their life and sports.
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The Think Outside the Beltway podcast

Stephan Cox, Chad Levinson, David Gershwin

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Each week, your hosts--public radio veteran Stephan Cox, political science PhD candidate Chad Levinson, and Democratic strategist David Gershwin--unpack the week in politics and attempt to drill down through the chatter and into something that quite possibly resembles the truth. Born during the 16-month long national nightmare that is the 2016 Presidential election, the show continues to evolve, examining greater and deeper themes and threads across the political and cultural landscape. Step ...
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The Sports Gal Pal

The Sports Gal Pal

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Ramona Rice was a very casual fan of football, basketball, and baseball growing up. Her father watched sports, and her hometown of Hampton Roads is known for its high school football - but she didn't fall in love with sports until she fell in love with a guy, James, who loved to watch sports - any sport. When they became engaged Ramona decided to learn more about his favorite sport, football, and checked out Football For Dummies by Howie Long. She also started to listen to sports radio, watc ...
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Listen to this interview of Istvan David, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Department of Computing and Software, Faculty of Engineering, McMaster University, Canada. We talk about his coauthored paper "Collaborative Model-Driven Software Engineering – A Systematic Survey of Practices and Needs in Industry" (JSS 2023). Istvan David : "When I…
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In the near future, birth defects, traumatic injuries, limb loss and perhaps even cancer could be cured through bioelectricity—electrical signals that communicate to our cells how to rebuild themselves. This innovative idea has been tested on flatworms and frogs by biologist Michael Levin, whose research investigates how bioelectricity provides the…
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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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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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Since Biden’s debate performance, America’s political elite have been engaged in a debate. How much does a President really matter for effective government? If his administration seems to work fine, how much of an affect can a President have? At the same time, we important Supreme Court decisions that seem to be giving more power to Presidents whic…
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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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Listen to Erika L. Sanchez and the NoChingues crew talk about all of the day's chingaderas: · America’s #1 Song: Hillbilly Eulogy · Without White Supremacy, We’d AllPercolate and Twerk All Day Every Day · With Kamala, MAGA Gets to Channel TheirExtra Ultra Special Misogyny AND Racism · “You Can’t Be Good At Everything.” · Webster and Different Strok…
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In this episode of the Quantum Divide podcast, Dan welcomes Natalia Herrera Valencia, a postdoctoral researcher at Heriot Watt University, to discuss various aspects of quantum technologies and their practical applications. Natalia, a physicist from Colombia, shares her academic journey, highlighting her experiences in experimental quantum optics a…
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Ready to take the leap and start your venture? Or, maybe you want to join an early-stage company. Yet, how exactly do you do that? Every successful entrepreneur has a unique story, and Julie Cropp Gareleck, CEO, Entrepreneur, and Author of Dare to Become, brings a fresh perspective to guide you on your entrepreneurial path. In this next episode of …
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In one of this year's bestselling books, "The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing An Epidemic of Mental Illness," New York University social psychologist Jonathan Haidt argues that today's childhoods spent under the influence of smartphones and overprotective parenting has led to the reported explosion in cases of tee…
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In this episode of The Quantum Divide, host Dan welcomes Can Knaut from Harvard University, a doctoral researcher working in the lab of Mikhail Lukin, a prominent figure in the field of neutral atoms. Can shares insights into his academic journey, which took a unique turn from business and economics in Switzerland to experimental quantum physics at…
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What would it be like if scholars presented their research in sound rather than in print? Better yet, what if we could hear them in the act of their research and analysis, pulling different historical sounds from the archives and rubbing them against one another in an audio editor? In today’s episode, we get to find out what such an innovative scho…
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Listen to this interview of Istvan David, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Department of Computing and Software, Faculty of Engineering, McMaster University, Canada; and, Houari Sahraoui, Full Professor, Department of Computer Science and Operations Research, University of Montreal, Canada. We talk about their coauthored paper "Digital Twin…
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Listen to this interview of Görkem Giray, IT executive and part-time educator in the domain of computer science. We talk about his paper A software engineering perspective on engineering machine learning systems: "A software engineering perspective on engineering machine learning systems: State of the art and challenges" (JSS 2021). Görkem Giray : …
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Israeli universities have long enjoyed a reputation as liberal bastions of freedom and democracy. Drawing on extensive research and making Hebrew sources accessible to the international community, Maya Wind shatters this myth by documenting how Israeli universities are directly complicit in the violation of Palestinian rights. In Towers of Ivory an…
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Can you heal faster just by tricking your brain? Could you lose weight with only a change of mindset? Could you think yourself into being younger? If you think the answer to all these questions is no, you haven’t read the research from renowned Harvard University psychologist Ellen Langer. Our podcast is taking a quick summer break, but we wanted t…
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Have you ever made a 311 call? This is a service provided by many cities that allows citizens to call in things like potholes, graffiti, fallen trees, ect. There is an assumption that many people have that requests made by white and more affluent neighborhoods probably get responded to faster. But is that accurate? In a recent paper, “Unequal Respo…
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Welcome to another episode of The Quantum Divide. Today, we have the pleasure of hosting Piotr Roztocki, CTO and co-founder of Ki3 Photonics in Montreal, Canada. In this episode, we explore some aspects of quantum photonics, focusing on quantum networking and entanglement generation. Piotr discusses his academic background and his journey into the …
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Building on the success and impact of Library 2020: Today’s Leading Visionaries Describe Tomorrow’s Library by Joseph Janes, Library 2035: Imagining the Next Generation of Libraries (Rowman & Littlefield, 2024) edited by Sandra Hirshupdates, expands upon, and broadens the discussions on the future of libraries and the ways in which they transform i…
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Despite a mass expansion of the higher education sector in the UK since the 1960s, young people from socio-economically disadvantaged backgrounds remain less likely to enter university than their advantaged counterparts. Drawing on unique new research gathered from three contrasting secondary schools in England, including interviews with children f…
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If democracy is a social contract, why don’t we allow everybody who is willing to sign it? Why don’t we have open borders for immigration? In their book "Streets of Gold: America's Untold Story of Immigrant Success," Princeton University’s Leah Boustan and Stanford University’s Ran Abramitzky provide insights from big data to explore how immigratio…
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Listen to Erika L. Sanchez and the No Chingues crew talk about all of the day's chingaderas: · AI Didn’t Like Roddy’s Cousin’s Joke At All · The Lost Episode · You Can’t Trust Gabe · Erika Talks About Her Birfday (Again) and Ponders 40 · The Many Things The Washed Say: “That’s a cool bird.” · Erika Spews Things · Roddy Transforms into the “This is …
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Listen to this interview of Redowan Mahmud, Lecturer in the School of Electrical Engineering, Computing and Mathematical Sciences, Curtin University, Australia; and, Mohammad Goudarzi, Lecturer at Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University, Australia. We talk about their paper iFogSim simulator for mobility, clustering, and microservice m…
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Listen to this interview of Darja Smite, Professor of Software Engineering at Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden, and also research scientist at SINTEF; and, Jarle Hildrum, Director, Deloitte Consulting, Norway; and also, Daniel Mendez, Professor of Software Engineering at Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden, and as well, Senior Scientis…
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Tune in now to meet Bill Yosses, Executive Chief in New York City. Bill has owned and operated restaurants in NYC and served as Executive Pastry Chief at The White under Presidents Bush and Obama. Join us to celebrate Bill's life journey and learn about the power of using The Threads of Connectivity to build your relationship network. Thank you Bil…
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We've all been stuck at some point in our lives — whether we've been stuck at a job and wanting to make a career change, stuck in a location and wanting to move somewhere new, or stuck in relationships or friendships. But the method to getting “unstuck” and achieving a breakthrough might be easier than you think. Using research-backed tools, New Yo…
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In 2009, Fudan University launched China’s first MFA program in creative writing, spurring a wave of such programs in Chinese universities. Many of these programs’ founding members point to the Iowa Writers Workshop and, specifically, its International Writers Program, which invited dozens of Mainland Chinese writers to take part between 1979 and 2…
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Hello Not Another Politics Podcast listeners. We’re taking some much needed time off as the school year comes to a close; but with the elections right around the corner we still wanted to share some incredibly relevant and important political science research. Every Presidential election, we talk about “getting out the vote”. But what really works …
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Episode Summary: In this episode, host Dan sits down with Simon and Robin from OpenQuantum to discuss the cutting-edge advancements and collaborative efforts in the quantum computing industry. They explore the fusion of traditional IT practices with quantum development, the importance of open-source contributions, and the exciting potential for fut…
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When it comes to discussion about the conflict in Gaza, there is an endless parade of commentators on both sides telling us what is right or wrong, legitimate or illegal, a crime or a justified attack, but in all that debate and discussion the actual international laws of war often get pushed to the sidelines. We’re planning to do a series of episo…
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The CareerCast at Chicago Booth presents an insightful discussion on "Strategies for Overcoming Unexpected Career Challenges," featuring Gary McClain, psychotherapist, relationship coach, and educator, specializing in working with adults in transition. He is the author of "The Power of Closure." This episode delves into the various obstacles that p…
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In the last 60 years, few economists have contributed more to exposing the failures of capitalism than Joseph Stiglitz. Formerly the chief economist of the World Bank and chair of the U.S. Council of Economic Advisers under President Bill Clinton, Stiglitz won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2001 for his work showing that the possibility of having …
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In the fourth episode of Publish My Book, Avi breaks down the core components of a winning book proposal and identifies key questions you should be able to answer to effectively convey to your publisher why they should consider your manuscript. Avi shares why it is worth your time to introduce yourself to your target acquisitions editor in advance.…
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An increasing number of students worldwide attend graduate school while simultaneously navigating a variety of competing responsibilities in their personal lives. For many students, this includes both parenting and working full-time, while maintaining a rigorous graduate course-load. Because academia overwhelmingly defaults to assuming all graduate…
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Tune in now to meet Al Thigpen, Lead Operating Partner for Nautic Partners in Chicago. He also serves as Chair of The Board of Directors for EmpiRX Health and is a board member of multiple other pharmaceutical and healthcare companies. Join us to celebrate Al's life journey and learn about the power of using The Threads of Connectivity to build you…
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In the third episode of Publish My Book, Avi dives into one of the most important stages of the publishing journey: writing the book proposal. Avi poses a fundamental first step you should take before putting pen to paper - conducting a thorough market analysis of your research. By identifying key criteria in your market analysis, you will be equip…
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In the second episode of Publish My Book, Avi Staiman explores how to determine if your research is best suited for a commercial or university press and why the distinction between the two categories is key to increasing your chances of publication success. Avi shares some important differences between these two publishing types by posing a series …
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In this episode, we take a slight tangent from our usual discussions on quantum networking to have a fascinating conversation with Amber Sheppard, a PhD student at the University of Sussex in the UK. Amber shares insights into her intriguing experiments involving quantum clocks, which she uses to measure potential shifts in the fundamental constant…
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Today's episode is all about the star in our front yard - the sun. Learn how it came to be, how it has changed, and how will it change in the future.For ad free episodes and other exclusives, join us for just $3 a month on Patreon: https://patreon.com/whythisuniverseOur merch is available here: https://www.shalmawegsman.com/why-this-universe…
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In the first episode of Publish My Book, Avi Staiman offers strategic tips for identifying your target publisher, including: understanding where other titles in your research field have been published and how your research angle fits into existing series, using platforms such as the Association of University Presses and New Books Network to your ad…
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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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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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