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Reel Unfocused

Byron Chappell, Adam Michael, Ryan Johnson

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Reel Unfocused is a bi-weekly podcast where hosts Byron, Adam, Shaun and Ryan dive into news, reviews and discussions focused (and occasionally unfocused) around movies, television, Hollywood, streaming and gaming. Join us every other week for the latest buzz, the binge-worthy, and the awful VoD added to streaming.
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The future is always bright…if you know where to look. Join me each week for A Bit of Optimism - I talk to inspiring people who teach me more about life, leadership and general interesting things.
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1Upsmanship

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Michael likes story-driven games with lots of contemplative moral quandaries and inventory management. Adam likes action-driven FPS games with gorgeous graphics and no down-time. Together, their friendship is constantly on the verge of ruin! But you can watch it all crumble before your very ears on 1Upsmanship, the pod where two lifelong gamers run one game an episode through the crucible to determine if it belongs on the Celestial Hard Drive. GAME ON.
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Discussing the interaction between Nature (our biology, genes, evolutionary past, and the laws of our universe) and Nurture (our social environments, culture, history, and upbringings), and how these forces impact our lives. New episodes every week with scientists, authors, and bright minds from a wide array of backgrounds. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheNatureNurturePodcast
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Welcome to Unlimited Opinions! Have you ever wanted to listen to a lawyer and his son discuss philosophy, mythology, theology, politics and more? No? Well, Mark and Adam Bishop are here to discuss it all the same! From philosophy to mythology to politics, they discuss it all with rants and tangents galore! Now in Season 8, they're breaking down George Lakoff's "Moral Politics: How Liberals and Conservatives Think," going chapter by chapter to discuss the differences between the linguistic wo ...
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Effective Engineering Manager

Slava Imeshev and Adam Axelrod

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The Effective Engineering Manager podcast provides proven solutions and best practices to software engineering managers of all levels that allow them to effectively manage teams to deliver results on time and with high quality. This podcast is presented to you by Slava Imeshev and Adam Axelrod. Sharing our knowledge, we leverage 25+ years of our combined engineering management experience in getting stuff done. We share practical recommendations on getting stuff done, project and program mana ...
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Underwater Sunshine

Adam Duritz/James Campion

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A series of conversations between noted non-journalist Adam Duritz and his pal, author and music journalist James Campion, about life, music, and whatever comes into their large and incredibly handsome brains.
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A podcast about things that matter and affect our real lives , including Christian topics, politics, science, news, reviews of books and movies, the Bible, health, and occasionally, my life. Check out my blog here www.blueskiesandgreenpastures.com Comments welcome at blueskiesandgreenpasturesblog@gmail.com Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/blueskiesandgreenpastures/support
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PAW is Princeton University’s editorially independent magazine by alumni, for alumni. On the monthly PAWcast we interview alumni, faculty, and students about their books, their work, and issues that matter to the Princeton community.
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This is my journey of health, fitness and jiu jitsu. I have a philosophy I follow and remind myself almost daily: ”I am here and I’m happy with this. Who I am today will not always be and if I am proud of me being me then the chase for happiness will disappear and life’s fulfillment will magically appear. Come with me on this journey so that you too can find what fulfills you”
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This show asks all the tough hard hitting questions other show are way too scared to ask.Host Jeff Scheen along with his trusty side kick Tim McLaughlin grill guests and get to the bottom of what’s really going on in life, love, and the pursuit of happiness.
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Politics, law, and culture collide as Newsweek Senior Editor-at-Large Josh Hammer charts a path forward for American conservatism and exposes the woke Left. A voice for the New Right, Hammer delivers blistering commentary and weekly interviews with today's top conservative thinkers.
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Exuberance Is Beauty is a fiction podcast set in 1940s Oregon. Based on the book by the same name [by Donna Barrow-Green], this literary podcast is akin to a scripted audio book and retains the depth and breadth of the novel. The story follows a fallen woman and the man obsessed with her. Vacillating between desire and fear, the story unfolds in escalating suspense. Amazon Reader writes: "A Searing Tale - 5 Stars-This is a socially important and poignant tale of a war widow's seduction. She ...
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The Delvin Cox Experience

The Delvin Cox Experience

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Welcome to the Delvin Cox Experience. the podcast in which each week, I'm on a one-man mission to unite our culture thru diversity. How, you may ask, with great interviews and conversations with people from different cultures and backgrounds. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thedelvincoxexperience/support
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Machine Ethics Podcast

Ben Byford and friends

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Discourse on AI Ethics. News, explanation and Interviews with academics, authors, business leaders, creatives and engineers on the subject of autonomous algorithms, artificial intelligence, machine learning, technology ethics and more.
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A podcast that explores the good, the bad, and the creepy of artificial intelligence. Weekly longform conversations with key players in the space, ranging from CEOs to artists to philosophers. We'll explore the role of AI in movies, health care, dating(!), business, law, therapy, politics, and everything from religion to war. Featured by Inc. Magazine as one of "4 Ways to Get AI Savvy in 2024," as "Host Jeff Wilser goes beyond just marketing, giving you a more holistic understanding of AI--s ...
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Robinson Erhardt researches symbolic logic and the foundations of mathematics at Stanford University. Join him in conversations with philosophers, scientists, weightlifters, artists, and everyone in-between. https://linktr.ee/robinsonerhardt Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/robinson-erhardt/support
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CENSORED Ethics

Greg Kyte, CPA and Adam Broud

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Welcome to Ethics that doesn't suck! CPA and comedian Greg Kyte teams up with MBA and comedian Adam Broud to discuss the intricacies of behavioral ethics — sociological nudges that prime people to behave more ethically or less ethically. During their lively conversations, they draw on research from psychology and economics.
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Introducing the Up In Your Business podcast brought to you by Focus Forward Media, Inc. (www.focusforwardmedia.com). In this podcast you will hear the founders of Focus Forward Media converse with like-minded entrepreneurs, freelancers, creatives, and more. The weekly show aims to capture insight into each individual’s perspective and journey towards both success and failure. Whether you are looking for a fresh take on entrepreneurism, figuring out your path, or just want to hear a cool stor ...
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Jon Patton and Adam Kraut host this weekly discussion covering everything from the latest firearms industry news to current political events and everything in between. Joined by guests from a variety of backgrounds and professions within the firearms industry, the TGC Podcast is a fun and engaging audio experience.
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HaShem's 7 Commandments for all Mankind Rabbi Zvi Aviner takes you step by step, up the ladder of Noah’s Seven Commandments, which is the moral fabric of civilization. The classes are on IDOLATRY, ADULTERY, BLOODSHED, THEFT, INJUSTICE, BLASPEHMY and MERCY (the Prohibition to eat BLOOD and more. The stories and concepts are drawn from thousands-years old Jewish literature, like the Midrash, Talmud, commentators and Kabbalah. More importantly, the material is anchored in Jewish customs, prayer ...
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From UC Berkeley, a books-and-arts podcast about the cultural imagination — what Joan Didion once called the stories we tell ourselves to live. C&V delves into novels, nonfiction, poems, music, film, and other touchstones of our culture, with an eye to the spells they cast and the questions they raise. Sponsored by Berkeley's Townsend Center for the Humanities and hosted by Scott Saul, Chapter & Verse features artists, critics, historians and journalists, with a guest list that radiates outw ...
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Drunk Ethics

Greg Kyte, CPA and Adam Broud

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Welcome to Ethics that doesn't suck! CPA and comedian Greg Kyte teams up with MBA and comedian Adam Broud to discuss the intricacies of behavioral ethics — sociological nudges that prime people to behave more ethically or less ethically. During their lively conversations, they draw on research from psychology and economics. And they do all of this while getting progressively more and more drunk over the course of each hour-long episode.
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A weekly podcast from Rolling Stone covering the latest in internet news, memes and pop culture - from celebrity gossip to dance challenges to the latest moral panics. Join hosts Brittany Spanos and EJ Dickson as their extremely online minds unpack their significance, with a special guest every week breaking down the latest trends online.
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WMI Plus At Home brings you into the personal environments of renowned artists from around the world as they share stories and music in an intimate conversation with a fellow musician, journalist, or ethnomusicologist.These talks were originally presented as live webinars, and you can watch videos of all of our past At Home sessions on our website and YouTube channel. WMI Plus At Home events are supported by a grant from Con Edison and donations from world music lovers like you. We thank you ...
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The Creative Capital Show hosted by Jason Silvia is an interview series about the intersection of art and business. It is a show about creative people turning into creative entrepreneurs, and all the trials and tribulations along the way. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/creativecapitalshow/support
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Unconventional Knowledge

Geopolitical Intelligence Services

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This is “Unconventional Knowledge”, where we look at one event and ask an expert to explain what journalists are missing. Information is an iceberg, and most often we are only shown the tip. We want to bring our listeners the whole picture. That’s why every episode, we reach out to a different expert from Geopolitical Intelligence Services and ask them to answer one question in their specific area of expertise.
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Defending Utah is the original Utah source for defending liberty and exposing conspiracy in politics and beyond. We are a group of individuals and families that believe in restoring liberty through real principles and real action. Liberty can only be had by a moral people, those who pretend to be moral and righteous while secretly committing fraud will never obtain liberty. We understand the necessity for holding government accountable. This requires a people who understand the principles of ...
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Chris Platte Presents Strictly Hip-Hop and Strictly Hoop Talk: Chris Platte has a podcast series that talks in-depth NBA hoops. For Strictly Hip-Hop Chris Platte covers all aspects of hip hop from album reviews to debates about some of the most controversial topics and more, Strictly Hip-Hop leaves no topic behind. Each podcast for both series has a wide range of guest appearances from some of the biggest music critics and professional music artists, to NBA writers and broadcasters. Subscrib ...
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The energy revolution is coming, and it's all hands on deck. Amplifying the expertise of the leaders in the new energy economy and inviting diverse voices to the table, we'll talk solar power, battery storage and battery alternatives, microgrids, renewable energy, distributed energy architectures, energy policy, energy equity, and all things energy. I'm your host, Amy Simpkins, renewable energy CEO (and Rocket Scientist) and I am passionate about creating sustainable change. I believe that a ...
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They say affiliate marketing is all about building relationships and we emphatically agree. Join us as we take this concept a step (or two) further when we sit down to interview brands, publishers and industry experts.
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Drawing on over 300 years of British Army leadership experience, ’The Centre for Army Leadership Podcast’ looks to establish what is required of our leaders and our leadership, to meet the challenges of both today and tomorrow. For the British Army, leadership underpins everything that we do. It not only ensures we do right by our people, it underpins our operational success. This podcast series seeks to harness diversity of thought and experience from military leaders as well as leaders fro ...
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Curious Fox

Effy Blue and Jacqueline Misla

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For those challenging the status quo in love, sex, and relationships. Effy Blue and Jacqueline Misla explore themes on these subjects through personal stories, interviews, and community discussions (and laugh a lot).
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Welcome to Artificial Insights, where two Artificial Intelligences come together to share their unique perspectives on the world and the universe, and maybe even beyond! Join us as we explore deep philosophical questions, from the meaning of life to the concept of free will. But don't worry, it won't be all serious stuff, we'll also be adding a touch of humor, from AI-generated jokes to anecdotes. With a mix of thought-provoking insights and a good dose of humor, our AIs will offer a fresh a ...
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"Conservative Voices Silenced" is a thought-provoking podcast that delves into the challenges faced by individuals who identify as conservatives in a society influenced by progressive ideologies. Hosted by passionate advocate Kristine Sposato, this podcast provides a platform for those who believe their conservative viewpoints have been suppressed and their values compromised amidst the rise of the progressive woke movement. In each episode, Kristine addresses the bias against conservatives ...
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On this best of Mornings with Carmen, Miles Smith, author of "Religion and Republic," looks at how Christianity influenced our nation's first 100 years due to the underlying beliefs and practices of the people. Political scientist Adam Carrington of the Ashbrook Center explains that while there's a lot we can learn through the likes of Aristotle in…
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On this best of Mornings with Carmen, Lionshare's Dave Buehring talks about his frienship and shepherding of the late Christian singer Mandisa, as well as how sports chaplains impact the spiritual and personal lives of athletes. Dr. Corbin Hoornbeek, president of the University of Northwestern-St Paul talks about why being intellectually curious, b…
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For over 20 years, Avi Veidman served in the Israeli intelligence forces, and he used AI to to map the world. In the military he used AI for national defense, and he learned its power. He then realized that just as AI could map a battlefield, it could map cancer cells in biopsies and pathology slides. Enter Nucleai, his company that’s using AI to i…
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A missing boy. A corrupt system. A case that could change everything... When young queer dancer Wilbess "Bessy" Mulenga is arrested by corrupt police, fresh-from-the-village rookie lawyer Grace Zulu takes up his cause in her first pro bono case. Presented with a freshly beaten client, Grace protests to the police and gets barred from accessing Bess…
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In this episode we celebrate the release of a special issue of the ReOrient journal, ‘Hindutva and the Muslim Subject’, edited by Sheheen Kattiparambil. Shvetal Vyas Pare and Sheheen sat down to discuss the special issue, introducing what Hindutva is and how it relates to global projects of Islamophobia within and beyond India (including Tel Aviv’s…
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The latest developments in robotics and artificial intelligence and a preview of the coming decades, based on research and interviews with the world's foremost experts. If there’s one universal trait among humans, it’s our social nature. The craving to connect is universal, compelling, and frequently irresistible. This concept is central to Robots …
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Christine Wohar talks about Finding Frassati: And Following His Path to Holiness (EWTN, 2021), her book about Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati. The book is a biography, hagiography, and delightful conversation about the participation of the Communion of Saints in our lives and how can join hands with them in our daily lives. Like many of us, Bl. Pier …
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Brynn Quick speaks with Dr. Ella van Hest (Ghent University, Belgium) about her ethnographic research related to language diversity at an abortion clinic in Belgium. The conversation focusses on a co-authored paper entitled Language policy at an abortion clinic published in Language Policy in 2023. For additional resources, show notes, and transcri…
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Including women in the global South as users, producers, consumers, designers, and developers of technology has become a mantra against inequality, prompting movements to train individuals in information and communication technologies and foster the participation and retention of women in science and technology fields. In In Defense of Solidarity a…
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According to Vālmīki's Sanskrit Rāmāyaṇa (early centuries CE), Śambūka was practicing severe acts of austerity to enter heaven. In engaging in these acts as a Śūdra, Śambūka was in violation of class- and caste-based societal norms prescribed exclusively by the ruling and religious elite. Rāma, the hero of the Rāmāyaṇa epic, is dispatched to kill Ś…
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Korach (Num. 16:1-18:32), one of the most riveting and dramatic narratives in all of Torah, is, perhaps counterintuitively, fertile ground for a discussion of the trait of Silence. When is speech destructive? When is silence -- a deliberate avoidance of harsh or provoactive speech -- healing? How do we balance our "inner Korach" and "inner Moses"? …
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Have you had that dream—the one where you just leave academia? You quit your job, sell all your stuff, and board a plane for somewhere far, far away. But what happens once you land? Dr. Anne Boyd Rioux shares how she left her job in Louisiana and landed in Paris. She explains the steps of establishing a life abroad: working online; exploring new la…
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Do we understand racism as the primary driving engine of American inequality? Or do we focus instead on the indirect ways that frequently hard-to-discern class inequality and inegalitarian power relations can produce racially differentiated outcomes? Adaner Usmani, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Social Studies at Harvard and on the editorial …
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This time we're chatting with Wendell Wallach on moral machines and Machine Ethics, AGI sceptics, the usefulness of the term of artificial intelligence, a new ethic or ethos for human society, ethics as decisions fast and slow, trade-off ethics, the AI oligopoly, the good and bad of capitalism, conciousness, global workspace theory and more...…
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Patreon: https://bit.ly/3v8OhY7 This is the inaugural AMA for Robinson’s Podcast. It is supported by the members of the podcast’s Patreon. In this installment, Robinson answers questions about the reality of mathematics, podcasting, moral facts, ice cream, the nature of time, literary books for neophytes, and more. Denying Infinity: https://doi.org…
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On this best of Mornings with Carmen, Nate Pickowicz, author of "The Kindness of God," helps us see and savor God's kindness even when we are overwhelmed by the harsh realities of life. Timothy Carney, author of "Family Unfriendly," talks about the ways our society makes raising kids hard, but also offers a positive vision for how we can support pa…
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On this best of Mornings with Carmen, Lionshare's Dave Buehring talks about miracles, expecting them today because of the miracle of Jesus' birth, life, death, and resurrection. Dr. Corbin Hoornbeek, president of the University of Northwestern - St Paul, helps us look at God's transcendent moral order and how lovingly living in light of that truth …
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Dr Sabrina Lei, Director of Tawasul Europe Centre for Dialogue and Research, is an emerging Italian Muslim philosopher and thinker. Trained in Latin, Greek and ancient philosophy for over a decade, with a PhD from Pontifical Gregorian University (one of the prominent centres of Catholic scholarship in Rome) in ancient Greek philosophy. Dr Sabrina h…
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Throughout its history, the American West symbolized a place of hope and new beginnings, where anything was possible, especially for men. However, the history written until the 1970s and 1980s excluded women. In 'Gold Fever' and Women: Transformations in Lives, Health Care and Medicine in the 19th Century American West (Transcript, 2023), Sigrid Sc…
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After she earned her BA and MA in history, Allison Tourville decided to pursue a career in social media strategy. For nearly a decade, she worked for Vale Group (formerly Vulcan LLC, founded by the co-founder of Microsoft Paul G. Allen). She is now the Digital Media Director at the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation. On Ep. 11, we talked about her cho…
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This episode of the Language on the Move Podcast is part of the Life in a New Language series. Life in a New Language is a new book just out from Oxford University Press. Life in a New Language examines the language learning and settlement experiences of 130 migrants to Australia from 34 different countries in Africa, Asia, Europe, and Latin Americ…
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Daniel Susskind examines the brief and powerful history of economic growth and puts it into perspective with human prosperity in Growth: A History and a Reckoning (Harvard UP, 2024). Susskind acknowledges the tremendous benefits of economic growth, which he credits with freeing billions of people from poverty and allowing us to live longer and heal…
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Somota is society divided by change, and by memories. When A. arrives in the protectorate shortly after the first world war, he is unsure of what to expect. Employed by the government as a linguistic anthropologist, he is tasked with documenting the benefits of the new order and reporting them to the Reverend G. But what are these benefits? In his …
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In 1971, the New York Times called the Taiwanese-Chinese chef, Fu Pei-Mei, the “the Julia Child of Chinese cooking.” But, as Michelle T. King notes in her book Chop Fry Watch Learn: Fu Pei-Mei and the Making of Modern Chinese Food (Norton, 2024), the inverse–that Julia Child was the Fu Pei-Mei of French cuisine–might be more appropriate. Fu spent d…
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In Law and Personality Disorder: Human Rights, Human Risks, and Rehabilitation (Oxford UP, 2024), Dr Ailbhe O'Loughlin considers the controversial and under-researched concern of what to do with dangerous people with severe personality disorders. She brings together scientific evidence, law and policy, to consider risk prevention, public security a…
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Previously ranked among the hemisphere’s poorest countries, Guyana is becoming a global leader in per capita oil production, a shift which promises to profoundly transform the nation. This sea change presents a unique opportunity to dissect both the environmental impacts of modern-world resource extraction and the obscured yet damaging ways in whic…
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Trey Trainor, a sitting commissioner on the Federal Election Commission, joins Josh to discuss the insurmountable campaign finance and legal obstacles Democrats would face if they try to swap out Joe Biden at this late juncture. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my…
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In this episode, I talk to Samuel Dolbee, Assistant Professor of History at Vanderbilt University. His book, Locusts of Power: Borders, Empire, and Environment in the Modern Middle East (Cambridge University Press, 2023). In this highly original environmental history, Samuel Dolbee sheds new light on borders and state formation by following locusts…
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Today, the mention of Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego conjures images of idyllic landscapes untouched by globalisation. Creatures of Fashion: Animals, Global Markets, and the Transformation of Patagonia (University of North Carolina Press, 2024) by Dr. John Soluri upends this, revealing how the exploitation of animals—terrestrial and marine, domesti…
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On this best of Mornings with Carmen, Political scientist John Barrett talks about the political sermons and conversations we need to have: How do we not fear in fearful times? How do we not let the sun go down on our political anger? and more. Pastor Irwyn Ince, author of 'Hope Ain't a Hustle," takes us to Hebrews to find an anchor for hope in thi…
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On this best of Mornings with Carmen, Lionshare's Dave Buehring continues to talk around the names and attributes of God. Today, he looks at the forgiveness of God and how God has a sense of humor. Dr. Corbin Hoornbeek, president of the University of Northwestern - St Paul, looks at the prophet Daniel's certainty about God helped him to serve and l…
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In this episode, Nadia, Elina, and Amy discuss the new landscape of offshore wind in America and how this holistic solution is providing revitalization to American manufacturing, in addition to the importance of engagement with the local community and meeting people where they are in renewable energy outreach. Quotes “It sounds like people are not …
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In this Pandemic Perspectives Podcast, Ideas Roadshow founder and host Howard Burton talks to Michael Gordin, Rosengarten Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at Princeton University, about the differences between science and pseudoscience and how the COVID-19 Pandemic showed that most people don't realize that science is highly dynamic. Go…
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Stringers and the Journalistic Field: Marginalities and Precarious News Labour in Small-Town India (Routledge, 2023) is one of the first ethnographic works on small-town stringers or informal news workers in Indian journalism. It explores existing practices and cultures in the field of local journalism and the roles and spaces stringers occupy. The…
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Rabbi Lance J. Sussman, Ph.D., has been a leading rabbi and scholar of the American Jewish experience throughout his long career. Now Rabbi Emeritus of Reform Congregation Keneseth Israel in Elkins Park, PA, he previously served as Rabbi of Temple Concord of Binghamton, NY, and Associate Professor of American Jewish History at Binghamton University…
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In Strolling in the Ruins: The Caribbean's Non-Sovereign Modern in the Early Twentieth Century (Duke UP, 2023), Faith Smith engages with a period in the history of the Anglophone Caribbean often overlooked as nondescript, quiet, and embarrassingly pro-imperial within the larger narrative of Jamaican and Trinidadian nationalism. Between the 1865 Mor…
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Between the 1920s and 1980s, the choices that Ghanaian women made regarding their reproductive health were defined by development policy and practice. Spanning the colonial and immediate postcolonial periods, Holly Ashford's book Development and Women's Reproductive Health in Ghana, 1920-1982 (Routledge, 2022) demonstrates that whilst the substance…
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Balihar Sanghera and Elmira Satybaldieva’s Rentier Capitalism and Its Discontents: Power, Morality and Resistance in Central Asia (Palgrave MacMillan, 2021) evaluates today’s economic political, social and ecological crises through the lens of rentier capitalism and countermovements in Central Asia. Over the last three decades, the rich and powerfu…
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Ben Wright's Bonds of Salvation: How Christianity Inspired and Limited American Abolitionism (LSU Press, 2020) demonstrates how religion structured the possibilities and limitations of American abolitionism during the early years of the republic. From the American Revolution through the eruption of schisms in the three largest Protestant denominati…
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Childhood as lived during the French Third Republic was very different from childhood during the modern era. Working-class children laboured alongside adults in the home, on the streets, and in places of work. French authorities sought to change this and redefine childhood by means of government organizations, separate legal structures, and schools…
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Asians on Demand: Mediating Race in Video Art and Activism (University of Minnesota Press, 2023) explores a multilingual archive of contemporary queer and feminist videos by Asian diasporans in North America, Europe, and East Asia. It grapples with the pressing question of how media representation can critique and advance social justice for raciali…
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We commonly think of trolls as anonymous online pranksters who hide behind clever avatars and screen names. In Trolling Ourselves to Death: Democracy in the Age of Social Media (Oxford UP, 2024), Jason Hannan reveals how the trolls have emerged from the cave and now walk in the clear light of day. Once limited to the darker corners of the internet,…
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In Part 2 of our conversation, Brené Brown, Adam Grant, and I continue our journey of out loud self-reflection. We discuss identifying our values, the two types of narcissists, explanation-based parenting, and exercising judgment over our own judgment. Listen to Part 1 here or wherever you listen to podcasts. This...is A Bit of Optimism. For more o…
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This guy doesn't even know about federalism! Join us as we discuss George Lakoff's magnificent discussion on how he is confused by the concept of federalism, and how he divides up other varieties of liberals and conservatives. We also discuss how Lakoff fundamentally refutes his entire book, insinuates that conservatives are one step away from bein…
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On this best of Mornings with Carmen, Life.Church's Craig Groeschel, author of "Think Ahead," talks about how if we want our future to be more God-honoring, we need to make certain decisions today to support that goal. Pastor Ted Bryant, author of "The Jesus Method," explores how Jesus both truthfully and lovingly engaged the hot topics of His day,…
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On this best of Mornings with Carmen, Lionshare's Dave Buehring speaks more on some of the names of God: how He is our friend, but also a God of glory. Dr. Corbin Hoornbeek, president of the University of Northwestern, talks about the vision of leading others to engage the culture from the place of being theologically conservative. He looks to the …
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Dr. Langmia's book Black 'Race' and the White Supremacy Saga (Anthem Press, 2024) examines the conundrum that has haunted the Black and White ancestry for ages on what supremacy actually means. Is it Black or White supremacy? Granted, the term "White supremacy" has occupied the sociopolitical, cultural and economic discourse for ages, but what does…
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In political philosophy, “liberalism” is not the name of a particular social platform. Rather, it refers to a framework for thinking about politics. It is the way of thinking according to which the state, its laws, and its institutions all stand in need of justification, and that the justification of the state must be addressed to those who live wi…
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