Best Rathjes Podcasts (2024)

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119: The Virtues of Being a Black Sheep, with Salomé Sibonex 1:26:19

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Salomé Sibonex is a writer, artist, and co-founder of The Black Sheep, a publication that frees people to take the path less traveled. She's given talks at FreedomFest and LibertyCon on how creative freedom allows us all to forge our own path—if we dare. The Black Sheep If You Liked This Conversation, You'll Probably Like These Episodes of Where We…

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118: Making Paleontology the Next TikTok Trend, with Harrison Duran 1:08:35

2d ago1:08:35

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Harrison Duran is a field paleontologist whose popular social media accounts document his preparation and excavation in the American West. His videography and storytelling convey the work and skill required by paleontology, as well as its significance to our understanding of the natural world. Species which he has excavated and prepared include Tri…

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Re-Release: Solving the Crisis of Boys and Men, with Richard Reeves 1:18:01

7d ago1:18:01

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Where We Go Next will be back to its regularly scheduled programming next week. Until then, enjoy this re-release of Episode 68, with the brilliant Richard Reeves. Reeves is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, and writes for a wide range of publications, including the New York Times, the Guardian, National Affairs, The Atlantic, Democracy…

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117: The Things We're Afraid to Talk About (But Should), with Sarah Hepola & Nancy Rommelmann 1:06:53

9d ago1:06:53

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Nancy Rommelmann is an investigative journalist, columnist, and author - most recently of To the Bridge: A True Story of Motherhood and Murder. Her work appears in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Reason Magazine, and her Substack, Make More Pie. Sarah Hepola is the author of the bestselling memoir, Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank …

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116: The Unintended Consequences of Great Design, with Carissa Carter & Scott Doorley 57:59

23d ago57:59

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Carissa Carter is a designer, geoscientist, and the academic director at the Stanford d.school. She's the author of The Secret Language of Maps: How to Tell Visual Stories with Data, and teaches design courses on emerging technologies, climate change, and data visualization. Her work on designing with machine learning and blockchain has earned mult…

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115: Spaceships, Silicon Valley, and Psilocybin, with Ashlee Vance 1:02:41

24d ago1:02:41

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Ashlee Vance is a feature writer at Bloomberg Businessweek, host of the innovator-focused travel show Hello World, and the New York Times bestselling author of two books: Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future, and most recently, When the Heavens Went on Sale: The Misfits and Geniuses Racing to Put Space Within Reach, which …

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114: Our Complicated Relationship with the First Amendment, with Jonathan Turley 1:11:12

1M ago1:11:12

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Jonathan Turley is a law professor, columnist, television analyst, and litigator. Since 1998, he has held the Shapiro Chair for Public Interest Law at George Washington University Law School. He has served as counsel in some of the most notable cases in the last two decades, representing members of Congress, judges, whistleblowers, five former Atto…

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113: Freethinkers Only, Please, with Meghan Daum 1:08:29

1M ago1:08:29

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Meghan Daum is the host of The Unspeakable Podcast, co-host of A Special Place in Hell, the author of six books, and the founder of The Unspeakeasy, a community for free-thinking women who crave honest conversations about subjects that don’t come with easy solutions. I Wasn’t Canceled. I Was Problematized. Who Killed Creative Writing? Was Alice Mun…

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112: 40% of Kids Don't Live with Married Parents and Why It Matters, with Melissa Kearney 1:02:33

2M ago1:02:33

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Melissa Kearney is the Neil Moskowitz Professor of Economics at the University of Maryland. She is also Director of the Aspen Economic Strategy Group, a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. The Two-Parent Privilege: How Americans Stopped Getting Married and St…

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111: The Hidden Forces Driving Our Online Behavior, with Steve Rathje 1:09:01

2M ago1:09:01

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Steve Rathje is a postdoctoral researcher in social psychology at New York University. Broadly, he studies the psychology of technology, and explores how polarization and intergroup conflict interact with social media and artificial intelligence. He is also a science communicator with over one million followers on his psychology TikTok channel. ste…

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110: The Mounting Evidence That COVID-19 Leaked from a Lab, with Alina Chan 1:21:34

2M ago1:21:34

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Alina Chan is a molecular biologist at the Broad Institute of M.I.T. and Harvard, and a co-author of Viral: The Search for the Origin of Covid-19. She was a member of the Pathogens Project, which the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists organized to generate new thinking on responsible, high-risk pathogen research. Why the Pandemic Probably Started in…

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109: Bringing the World’s First Solar-Powered EV to Market, with Steve Fambro 59:05

2M ago59:05

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Steve Fambro is the Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Aptera Motors, which is aiming to deliver the world’s first mass market solar-powered electric vehicle. Aptera Motors Ground News gathers news coverage from around the world, empowers free thinking, and makes media bias explicit. Subscribe through my link at https://check.ground.news/Next for 15% off you…

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108: Investigative Journalism Is in Jeopardy, with Nancy Rommelmann 1:08:35

3M ago1:08:35

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Nancy Rommelmann is an investigative journalist, columnist, and author. Her on-the-ground reporting includes covering the war in Ukraine, the fight over abortion rights in Kansas City, and Donald Trump’s New York trial. Her work appears in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Reason Magazine, and elsewhere, and she posts on her Substack - title…

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107: We're Getting "Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion" All Wrong, with Chloé Valdary 1:02:14

3M ago1:02:14

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Chloé Valdary is an American writer and entrepreneur whose company “Theory of Enchantment” teaches social and emotional learning in schools and diversity and inclusion in companies and government agencies. Theory of Enchantment Enchanted Dojo TED: How Love Can Help Repair Social Inequality, with Chloé Valdary If You Liked This Conversation, You'll …

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106: Making Media for the Middle Ground in an Era of Extremes, with Gen Kimura 54:59

4M ago54:59

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Gen Kimura is a YouTube creator and documentary filmmaker tackling controversial political topics via on-the-ground reporting with average citizens and inquisitive interviews with relevant experts. Gen's YouTube Channel Bridging the Bias newsletter Squatters Invaded America. Here's How. - YouTube If You Liked This Conversation, You'll Probably Like…

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105: Religious Cults, Fringe Science, and the Need for Belief, with Ross Blocher & Carrie Poppy 1:05:47

4M ago1:05:47

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Carrie Poppy and Ross Blocher are the hosts of Oh No, Ross and Carrie!, an investigative podcast with over half a million downloads monthly. Whether it's joining secretive religious cults, searching for the paranormal, or experimenting with alternative medicine, they bring a skeptical yet open-minded approach to uncovering the truth. Oh No, Ross an…

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104: The War for Critical Minerals and Our Electrified Future, with Ernest Scheyder 53:25

4M ago53:25

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Ernest Scheyder is a senior correspondent for Reuters and the author of The War Below: Lithium, Copper, and the Global Battle to Power Our Lives. The War Below: Lithium, Copper, and the Global Battle to Power Our Lives Ernest Scheyder at Reuters If You Liked This Conversation, You'll Probably Like These Episodes of Where We Go Next: 101: Uncovering…

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103: Making Movies is Hard (But Worth It), with Liz Manashil 54:50

4M ago54:50

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Liz Manashil is a feature film writer and director, a distribution consultant for independent films, and the co-host of Making Movies is Hard, a podcast about the trials and tribulations of independent filmmaking. Bread and Butter (2014) Speed of Life (2019) Making Movies is HARD!!! Podcast lizmanashil.com If You Liked This Conversation, You'll Pro…

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102: The Art and Technique of Directing Actors, with Judith Weston 1:12:38

5M ago1:12:38

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Judith Weston is a sought-after coach and teacher to first-class filmmakers and actors around the world, and has been supporting them with workshops, consultations and books for nearly 40 years. Her first book, Directing Actors, was originally published in 1996 and a 25th Anniversary Edition came out in 2021. Her second book, The Film Director’s In…

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101: Uncovering the Hidden Truths in Political Memoirs, with Carlos Lozada 55:19

5M ago55:19

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Carlos Lozada is an opinion columnist at The New York Times and co-host of the “Matter of Opinion” podcast. He has won the Pulitzer Prize for criticism, and is the author of What Were We Thinking: A Brief Intellectual History of the Trump Era. His new book, The Washington Book: How to Read Politics and Politicians, is out now. The Washington Book: …

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100: When Victimhood is Leveraged for Personal Gain, with Andrew Boryga 1:00:22

5M ago1:00:22

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Andrew Boryga is a writer whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, and The Atlantic. His debut novel Victim, from Doubleday Books, is out now. Victim andrewboryga.com If You Liked This Conversation, You'll Probably Like These Episodes of Where We Go Next: 44: The Unresolvable Tension of Overlapping Identities, with Tomiwa Owol…

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99: How to Reset and Retrain Our Brains, with Tali Sharot 54:10

5M ago54:10

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Dr. Tali Sharot is a professor of cognitive neuroscience at MIT and University College London, and the founder and director of the Affective Brain Lab, a cognitive neuroscience research laboratory dedicated to unraveling the mysteries of the human brain. She’s the author of The Optimism Bias: A Tour of the Irrationally Positive Brain, The Influenti…

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98: The Corrosive Costs of Vulture Capitalism, with Grace Blakeley 53:16

5M ago53:16

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Grace Blakeley is an economist, journalist, and political commentator. She is the author of Stolen: How to Save the World from Financialization, The Corona Crash: How the Pandemic will Change Capitalism, and her newest: Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts, and the Death of Freedom. Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor …

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97: Climate Change Comes for Small-Town America, with Jonathan Vigliotti 1:00:31

6M ago1:00:31

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Jonathan Vigliotti is an Emmy and Edward R. Murrow Award–winning CBS News national correspondent and the author of Before It's Gone: Stories from the Front Lines of Climate Change in Small-Town America. Before It's Gone: Stories from the Front Lines of Climate Change in Small-Town America If You Liked This Conversation, You'll Probably Like These E…

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A Very Special Crossover Episode with the Converging Dialogues Podcast 1:11:29

6M ago1:11:29

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This is a Very Special Crossover Episode with Xavier Bonilla, host of Converging Dialogues - a podcast focused on honest conversations about philosophy, psychology, politics, and important social issues. Listen to Converging Dialogues Where We Go Next will return as a weekly show on April 2nd! ---------- Email: michael@wherewegonext.com Instagram: …

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96: America's Broken Primaries are Tearing Us Apart, with Nick Troiano 39:45

7M ago39:45

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Nick Troiano is the founding executive director of Unite America, a philanthropic venture fund that invests in nonpartisan election reform to foster a more representative and functional government. Since 2019, Unite America has invested over $50 million to help win three major statewide ballot initiatives and over a dozen state legislative and muni…

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95: The Government Is Seizing Innocent People’s Property, with Billy Binion 52:09

7M ago52:09

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Billy Binion is an associate editor at Reason magazine, where he writes about criminal justice and government accountability. He has been published in Newsweek, the San Francisco Chronicle, HuffPost, The Saturday Evening Post, and the Washington Examiner, among other publications, and his work has been cited by The New York Times, The Atlantic, Nat…

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94: Helping Millennials Build Healthy, Loving Relationships, with Dre Smith 1:06:53

8M ago1:06:53

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Dre Smith is the founder and CEO of Relationship Restored, a podcast network that delves into all things related to establishing and maintaining healthy romantic relationships. He's also the Executive Podcast Producer & Head of Podcasting at Urban One and the Co-Founder of All About It Social Media & Branding. Relationship Restored Follow Dre on In…

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Guest Appearance: The Local Maximum 44:30

8M ago44:30

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On Episode 92 I had the pleasure of speaking with Max Sklar. He's a software engineer, with a focus on machine learning, content discovery, and Bayesian inference - all of which we talk about during his episode. He's also the host of The Local Maximum podcast. Max's podcast appeals to me because it touches on a wide array of complex topics in nuanc…

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93: Solving the Childhood Independence Crisis, with Lenore Skenazy 53:14

8M ago53:14

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Lenore Skenazy started the Free-Range Kids movement and wrote the book, “Free-Range Kids.” Now she is cofounder and president of Let Grow, the national nonprofit promoting childhood independence. Lenore says our kids are smarter, safer, and stronger than our culture gives them credit for. ‘Old Enough’ Generates Parenting Debate, Latest Netflix Sens…

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92: Bayesian Thinking and the Future of Artificial Intelligence, with Max Sklar 1:00:32

9M ago1:00:32

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Max Sklar is the creator of the Local Maximum, a weekly podcast exploring current topics in tech, math, and political philosophy. Over the past five years, he has hosted many discussions and debates with top engineers, authors, and entrepreneurs. While working at Foursquare he wrote their city guide rating system, and he's currently working on an o…

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A Very Special 2nd Annual Boxing Day Episode, with Jay Shapiro 50:33

9M ago50:33

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This is a Very Special 2nd Annual Boxing Day Episode of Where We Go Next, with longtime friend of the show Jay Shapiro. We discuss Jay's move to Madrid (hasta luego, Mexico City!), what Jay's been up to with the Dilemma Podcast, and we analyze The Green Knight, the 2021 film adaptation of the 14th century poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. whatj…

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91: Free Speech Isn't Just for People We Like, with Kat Rosenfield 1:11:16

9M ago1:11:16

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Kat Rosenfield is a culture writer, a columnist for Unherd, the co-host of the Feminine Chaos podcast, and the author of five novels. Her latest is called You Must Remember This, a Knives-out style whodunnit, which is now available in paperback. You Shouldn’t Be Fired for Being a Jerk, by Kat Rosenfield for The Washington Post katrosenfield.com Kat…

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90: In Defense of Free Speech, the Eternally Radical Idea, with Greg Lukianoff 52:19

10M ago52:19

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Greg Lukianoff is the President & CEO of The Foundation for Individual Rights & Expression. He is the author of Unlearning Liberty and Freedom from Speech and co-authored the 2018 New York Times bestseller, The Coddling of the American Mind with Jonathan Haidt. Most recently, he co-authored The Canceling of the American Mind: Cancel Culture Undermi…

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89: Harnessing the Revolutionary Power of Nuclear Energy, with Nick Touran 1:23:47

10M ago1:23:47

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Nick Touran is a Ph.D. nuclear engineer with expertise in new nuclear reactor development and old reactor history. He's worked on new reactors professionally for over 15 years, and has run the public education website, whatisnuclear.com since 2006. He believes that nuclear energy can help the world decarbonize rapidly, and enjoys discussing this wi…

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88: Pursuing Truth, Goodness, and Beauty in Education, with Daniel Scoggin 1:08:40

11M ago1:08:40

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Dr. Daniel Scoggin is the co-founder of Great Hearts Academies. Over twenty years ago, he started as the headmaster of a classical, liberal arts academy in Tempe, AZ. In 2004, Dan authored the original Great Hearts business plan. Great Hearts now serves 26,000 students at 42 schools in Phoenix, San Antonio, and North Texas, with immediate plans to …

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Final Final Comments! 1:02:24

11M ago1:02:24

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Super top secret bonus episode because Paul misses Rachel and because we can do what we want you're not the boss of us.By Paul Connor

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87: Mentoring Kids Without Fathers as "The Internet's Dad," with Rob Kenney 1:12:13

12M ago1:12:13

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Rob Kenney is the creator and host of the YouTube Channel, "Dad, How Do I?" offering technical, practical, and fatherly advice about all aspects of life. His channel has grown to 4.5 million subscribers since launching in April of 2020, and he has come to be known affectionally as "The Internet's Dad." Dad, How Do I? - YouTube Dad, How Do I?: Pract…

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86: How Civility Can Heal America, with Alexandra Hudson 48:21

12M ago48:21

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Alexandra Hudson is a writer, speaker, and the founder of Civic Renaissance, a publication and intellectual community dedicated to beauty, goodness and truth. She was named a 2020 Novak Journalism Fellow, and contributes to Fox News, CBS News, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, TIME Magazine, POLITICO Magazine, and Newsweek. Her new book - The Sou…

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85: Crafting Beer and Community in Small-Town America, with Gary Fish 53:21

1y ago53:21

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Gary Fish founded Deschutes Brewery in downtown Bend, Oregon in 1988. It began as a small pub that focused on handcrafted food, house-brewed beer and the purpose of bringing people together. Under Gary’s leadership, Deschutes Brewery has grown to become the 10th-largest craft brewery in the United States. Deschutes Brewery Old Mill District in Bend…

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69: Detecting Misinformation with Steve Rathje 56:53

1y ago56:53

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PATREON MY STUFF STEVE'S WEBSITE STEVE'S TIKTOK I’ve been sick for the past few months. Which is why there has been an episode of a Scamapalooza in a little while. Instead, I’ve been spending a lot of time in bed feeling sorry for myself while trawling tiktok. Among the craft videos, slime reviews and video game analysis, I came across a video of a…

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84: Understanding Testosterone: The Most Controversial Hormone, with Carole Hooven 58:58

1y ago58:58

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Carole Hooven is the author of T: The Story of Testosterone, the Hormone that Dominates and Divides Us. From 2002 until 2023 she was a Lecturer in the department of Human Evolutionary Biology, and served for many years as the department's Co-Director of Undergraduate Studies. Her "Hormones and Behavior" class was named one of Harvard Crimson's "top…

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83: Building Autonomous Vehicles to Clean Up Outer Space, with Trevor Bennett 1:20:57

1y ago1:20:57

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Trevor Bennett is the co-founder of Starfish Space, a fully autonomous satellite servicing company. He earned a PhD from the University of Colorado where he was a NASA Space Technology Research Fellow and one of Aviation Week’s 20 Twenties. Trevor has worked at both NASA Goddard and JPL on robotic missions and also at Blue Origin on New Glenn. He h…

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A Very Special Episode About Video Games and Growing Up in the '90s, with Dan Bulich & Pat Brennan 1:44:22

1y ago1:44:22

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Dan Bulich and Pat Brennan costar in Console Wars, a YouTube series that puts Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis games in head-to-head competition for 16-bit supremacy. Console Wars - YouTube Console Wars - TV Tropes 57: 16-Bit Video Games and the Lasting Power of Nostalgia, with Dan Bulich & Pat Brennan - Where We Go Next Console Wars' First Episode …

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82: Stand-Up Comedy is a Punk Rock Art Form, with Joel Jimenez 1:00:31

1y ago1:00:31

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Joel Jimenez is a standup comedian, musician and a native of Northeast Los Angeles. For years he was the drummer for the #1 live podcast in the world, Kill Tony. These days you can find him at the World Famous Comedy Store, in regular rotation on some of LA's top comedy podcasts, a co-host on both the Dogs of Brown Town and Lesser Known Characters …

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68: Collecting Magic with Kent Blackmore 48:26

1y ago48:26

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Support the podcast on Patreon! Magicians have secrets that you don’t see on stage. I’m not talking about HOW they do the tricks—the trapdoors and mirrors—but the mundane secrets that make the show happen. The tour schedules, the marketing plans, the box office reports and the horror stories of gigs that went off the rails. Kent Blackmore, digs up …

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81: Mining Universal Truths From Personal Stories, with Sarah Hepola 1:23:48

1y ago1:23:48

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Sarah Hepola is the author of the 2015 bestselling memoir, Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget. She's the host and creator of "America's Girls," a podcast about the history of the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders, and the co-conspirator of Smoke 'Em If You Got 'Em, a weekly podcast about what's burning through the culture right now. She's…

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67: Nobody's Fool with Daniel Simons and Christopher Chabris 53:19

1y ago53:19

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Support the podcast on Patreon! If I had an origin story as a magician/con artist/science communicator it would be me, in the early 2000s, hunching over my computer trying to count how many times a basketball is being thrown while completely missing the full-size gorilla walking right through the middle of the shot. The creation of psychologists Ch…

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80: The Black British Experience Is Not an American One, with Tomiwa Owolade 1:02:02

1y ago1:02:02

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Tomiwa Owolade is a journalist and critic based in London. He has written for publications that include the New Statesman, the Times, and the Sunday Times, and he is the author of This is Not America: Why Black Lives in Britain Matter. This is Not America, by Tomiwa Owolade 44: The Unresolvable Tension of Overlapping Identities, with Tomiwa Owolade…

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66: Snake Oils with Dr Jo Clyne 40:18

1y ago40:18

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Imagine it's 1850 and you live in a rural area, far away from doctors and the latest advances in medical technology. And then you get sick. What would you do? It's this fear that gave rise to The Snake Oil Salesmen, travelling hucksters who sold ointments, tinctures, tablets and the eponymous snake oil. In this episode, I talk to historian Dr Jo Cl…

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