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"Life in the Time of Corona" is a tribute to the novel "Life in the Time of Cholera" by Gabriel Garcia Marcia Marquez. In this Podcast, our Cambridge AS level students in Gokkusagi Koleji, put their time, effort and love to gather documents published during history on pandemics. They have gathered documents in the forms of novel, short story, diary, poems, journals, autobiographies and even musical pieces. It means a lot to us if you listen to this worthy podcast which shares a lot with our ...
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Host and newsblogger at outbreaknewstoday.substack.com, Robert Herriman interviews expert guests on topics of infectious diseases, research, medicine and health. In addition, I do frequent news reports on the global outbreaks.
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It's late at night. What better way than to have great company and lounge with your favorite whiskey and your host AZY. I interview drunk creative folks about their journey and their craft. Unfiltered like cholera water. Explicit Content Please Drink Responsibly. Watch it LIVE Friday Nights on Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/azy.chyr/ NEW EPISODES EVERY SUNDAY: Live Premiers at 8:30PM Sundays, come chat with me https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiQIx4MEr_sf6xmoesQspRA Support this podca ...
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Western Elgin County, Southwestern Ontario, Canada history. Produced by Tyrconnell Heritage Society, operators of Backus-Page House Museum. Host - Angela Foreman-Bobier, Executive Director Music - Jack Witmer Producer - Katlyn Reintsma We acknowledge the land we are on today as the traditional territory of Indigenous People. As settlers at a settler focused museum, we value both the significant historic and contemporary contributions of all Original Peoples and ask how we can be supportive i ...
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Sitting Bull to Phil Jackson, cattle to prairie dogs, knoefla to lefse. North Dakota's legacy includes many strange stories of eccentric towns, war heroes, and various colorful characters. Hear all about them on Dakota Datebook, your daily dose of North Dakota history. Dakota Datebook is made in partnership with the State Historical Society of North Dakota, and funded by Humanities North Dakota, a nonprofit, independent state partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views, f ...
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Welcome to Sisipelebe Podcast, your Yoruba destination for lively discussions, valuable insights, and moments of personal growth. Join us as we explore the various aspects of life and engage in meaningful conversations.
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Four true stories of pioneering investigations in the field of pathology, dramatised by Michael Butt from `The Ghost Disease and Other Stories' by Michael Howell and Peter Ford. �Now, if you like nothing more than sitting down to your lunch and thinking about death and diseases, then you�re in luck. This week there�s the chance to hear The Medical Detectives - it�s one of those programme titles that really does what it says on the tin. It�s a series of dramas based on real cases: there�s a C ...
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The afikra Podcast is our flagship series featuring experts from academia, art, media, urban planning and beyond, who are helping document and shape the histories and cultures of the Arab world through their ‎work. Our hope is that by having the guest share their expertise and story, the community walks away with a new‎found curiosity, and recommendations about new nerdy rabbit holes to dive into head first. ‎ ABOUT AFIKRA afikra | عفكرة is a movement to convert passive interest in the Arab ...
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Grave History

Teddy and Catriona

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Interested in the darker parts of history? Join your hosts Teddy and Catriona and delve into the morbid, strange and downright horrible. From body snatching to the Fair Folk, Grave History is your one stop shop for the macabre.
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Whale Vomit

Amber A’Lee Frost, Sam Kriss

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WHALE VOMIT is an entertaining yet cutting state of the union delivered by writers Amber A’Lee Frost and Sam Kriss, hosted by The Baffler magazine.
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Viral Load

Brett Bayles (a professor) / Andy Pupa (not a professor)

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The disease podcast for a diseased world! Hosts: Brett Bayles (a professor) & Andy Pupa (not a professor) gleefully explore the weird and wacky world of diseases on a changing planet.
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Rescuer MBS is a podcast dedicated to exploring the issue of stress injuries in first responder communities, with an emphasis on wilderness responders. The Podcast is hosted by Laura McGladrey and Marcel Rodriguez of the Responder Alliance. Why Rescuer MBS? As rescuers/responders, all of our life safety equipment carries an MBS (Minimum Breaking Strength) rating. Knowing the MBS allows us to know the limits of our equipment and allows us to keep safe. Our goal is to help the most important e ...
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In this episode of “What's Crap on WhatsApp?”, we look at four claims doing the rounds: No, don’t use a mixture of salt, sugar and dry gin as a remedy for cholera. Seek medical attention instead. https://bit.ly/mixture_cholera Has Bill Gates hasn’t launched maggot milk? Thankfully, this claim is false. https://bit.ly/maggot_milk Do not use tomato l…
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In 1912, political fervor and interest swept the country over the presidential election. President Taft sought the Republican nomination, challenged by former President Theodore Roosevelt, who unexpectedly entered the race. Senator Robert LaFollette was yet another contender for the nomination.By Sarah Walker
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As the 19th century turned into the twentieth, German immigrants found a promising home in the United States. Many of them moved to the Great Plains where they broke ground and established farms. They found a comfortable and stable home where opportunities abounded. Many German Americans rose to positions of influence. Others became successful busi…
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Tracy Chahwan's bold and vibrant posters have become a common fixture of Beirut's walls, and her colorful illustrations are known and loved by people across the Arab world and beyond. For this episode of the afikra podcast, she joined us in our Beirut-studio to reminisce on the early days of her career, and discuss key influences and what it means …
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According to LaMoure County officials, the murder of Hans Bjone was one of the strangest crimes in the county’s history. Bjone was a bank official. On the afternoon of February 28, 1927, someone came into the bank, murdered Bjone, emptied the vault, and disappeared. Over three thousand dollars had gone missing. The killer left no clues, and the aut…
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Oh were the days when the Winter edition of the Sears catalogue arrived in the mail, its pages smelling of ink and paper. The immense joy it brought to many of us while circling the newest toys or clothing items we wanted for Christmas. In today's episode, learn all about mail order catalogues from the 1800's! Show Notes: https://backuspagehouse.ca…
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In western movies and TV shows, traveling by horseback across the plains seems romantic. In reality, it was not all that pleasant. The average horse travels about five miles an hour. Travel by horse and buggy or buckboard wagon was even slower at about three miles an hour. At that rate, going from the homestead into town for supplies could be an al…
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On today’s podcast, we’re going to look at a parasite that is relatively common in people, however, and fortunately, actual disease is rare. And that parasite is Toxoplasma gondii. Joining me today for a Toxoplasmosis 101 is Fatima Khan. Fatima is a parasitologist who hails from Islamabad , Pakistan and she has written about parasites for several m…
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Oropouche fever is piercing the sphere of mainstream media this year as thousands of cases of the vector borne disease have been reported in the Caribbean and South America. Joining me today for a Q&A on Oropouche fever is Karina Mondragon-Shem, PhD. Dr Mondragon-Shem is a vector biologist who specializes in the ecoepidemiology and social impact of…
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In this episode of “What's Crap on WhatsApp?”, we look at four claims doing the rounds: Does this screenshot show a post about “digital and medical IDs” by Western Cape premier Alan Winde? Nope, it’s a parody account. https://bit.ly/winde_post There’s no proof that South Africa’s new home affairs minister Leon Schreiber is ‘a Zimbabwean foreigner’.…
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John Conrad Berkey is probably the best-known science fiction artist on the planet. His artwork appears on the covers of books, calendars and movie posters. His bold vision defined science fiction art. Berkey was born in Edgeley, North Dakota on this date in 1932. His family moved around, and as a child he lived in South Dakota, Montana, and Minnes…
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What is the difference between being an artist and an entertainer? What are the nuances of conveying humour and comedy through art? In this conversation, multi-creative Raed Yassin gives us his take. From growing up in Beirut during the civil war and how this has impacted his work through to the story behind his "The Best of Sammy Clark" project fr…
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In 1917, there were still North Dakota veterans who remembered serving in the Civil War. Their sons had stepped up in 1898 when the 1st North Dakota Volunteer Infantry set off to serve in the Philippines during the Spanish American War. Now, with America’s entrance into World War I, it was again time for North Dakotans to serve their country. A num…
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What does it mean to decolonize our thinking? In this episode of the afikra podcast, we chat with Idriss Jebari, assistant professor at Trinity College Dublin, and discuss language, colonialism and 20th century North Africa. Tracking the transformation of North African countries through colonialism and independence, we learn about the ways that thi…
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Over 250,000 Native Americans lived on the Great Plains in the 19th Century. While white settlers focused on taming the frontier, the indigenous inhabitants sought to maintain their hold on land they had lived on for centuries. In the 1868 Treaty of Fort Laramie, the United States recognized the Black Hills as the Great Sioux Reservation, promising…
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@nigeriasbest and @phoenix_agenda were joined by @texthelaw They discussed: 1. Follow up on Supreme Court ruling on Local Government funding. 2. The controversy about petroleum products into Nigeria from Malta. 3. The panic in government circles around the announced 1st August protests. 4. Kenneth Okonkwo leaves Labour Party and Peter Obi, calling …
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Twenty years after the Civil War, concerns were growing about the welfare of aging veterans. In 1887, Congress set aside land in states and territories for the construction of homes that would care for Union veterans. And in 1891, the North Dakota legislature authorized the construction of such a home. The facility opened on this date in 1893.…
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On today's podcast the topic is meningococcal meningitis. A new article by Drs. Andrea Prinzi and Rodney Rohde published on the American Society for Microbiology website discusses several aspects of the dangerous bacterial disease, plus it is chock full of interesting history. Joining me today to talk about meningococcal meningitis is Rodney Rohde,…
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On today's podcast I am joined by Scott O'Neill, PhD, scientist and CEO of the World Mosquito Program. In this interview, Dr. O'Neill discusses the ins and outs of the Wolbachia Method and the work of the World Mosquito Program in the battle against mosquito-borne diseases. World Mosquito Program
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Today we will be discussing the history of the Dutton Flour Mills. Since its start in 1874, the mills grew rapidly and remained an important business for the Dutton and surrounding area till its close in 1967. Show Notes- https://backuspagehouse.ca/2024/07/24/podcast-episode-59-the-history-of-the-dutton-flour-mills/…
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@nigeriasbest and @phoenix_agenda were joined by @keneike They discussed: 1. Dangote responds to NMDPRA chief's claims. 2. Supreme Court issues landmark judgement affirming Local Government fiscal autonomy. 3. Tinubu asks NASS to increase 2024 budget by N6.2 Trillion. 4. Protests planned across Nigeria from 1st August.…
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Venetia Porter is an Honorary Research Fellow at the British Museum. Formerly Curator of Islamic and Contemporary Middle Eastern Art at the British Museum, her published titles include "Reflections: Contemporary Art of the Middle East and North Africa", "The Islamic World: A History in Objects", "Hajj: Journey to the Heart of Islam" and "Word Into …
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On this episode of *“What's Crap on WhatsApp?”* we take a deep dive into post-election misinformation: Quick debunks of widely-shared myths. Harmful effects of election misinformation & tips to avoid it. What's next for South Africa? Your friends and family can sign up for our show! Tell them to save our number (+27 82 709 3527) and send us a Whats…
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