Best Adrian Lopez Podcasts (2025)

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Shlomo Pereira, "Monuments de Papel E Pergaminho: Hebrew Printing in Portugal at the End of the 15th Century" (Chabad Portugal Press, 2025) 51:39

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Rabbi Professor Shomo Pereira discussed his book "Monuments of Paper and Parchment: Hebrew Printing in Portugal in the Late 15th Century." He explained that while Portugal lacks physical Jewish monuments due to natural disasters, earthquakes, and persecution, the book highlights the country's rich Jewish history through its manuscript and printing …

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Solange Baptiste, Charles Holmes, and Kenneth Ngure on sustainable HIV prevention in Africa 43:18

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Controlling the HIV epidemic depends on shifting from fragmented, donor-led programmes to nationally led, integrated health systems. To accompany a new joint Series of six papers, Peter Hayward, Editor-in-chief of The Lancet HIV, and Gavin Cleaver, Senior Editor at The Lancet Global Health, are joined in conversation by Solange Baptiste, Kenneth Ng…

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Luxena Sukumaran and Alan Winston on disordered sleep in people living with HIV 21:04

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Why do some people living with HIV struggle with sleep? Luxena Sukuraman and Alan Winston help us understand the challenges of disordered sleep in HIV, what clinicians can do to help, and practical sleep hygiene tips for people living with HIV experiencing sleep disturbances. Click here to read the full article: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/l…

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Yolanda Aixelà-Cabré, "African Women’s Histories in European Narratives: The Afropolitan Krio Fernandino Diaspora (1850-1996)" (Leuven UP, 2025) 44:01

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Little is known about the African women who came to Europe from the 1870s onwards, nor do we dare to imagine them as wealthy, elegantly dressed individuals with refined tastes and fluent in several languages. The Krio Fernandino represented a multisited, multilocal, transnational, transcontinental and Afropolitan community that lived between Africa…

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Tim Seiter, "Wrangling Pelicans: Military Life in Texas Presidios" (U Texas Press, 2025) 39:50

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A richly detailed history of daily life for colonial Spanish soldiers surviving on the eighteenth-century Texas Gulf Coast. In 1775, Spanish King Carlos III ordered the capture of American pelicans for his wildlife park in Madrid. The command went to the only Spanish fort on the Texas coast—Presidio Nuestra Señora de Loreto de la Bahía in present-d…

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Vanesa Rodríguez-Galindo, "Madrid on the Move: Feeling Modern and Visually Aware in the Nineteenth Century" (Manchester UP, 2021) 55:01

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In her new book Madrid on the Move: Feeling Modern and Visually Aware in the Nineteenth Century (Manchester UP, 2021), Vanesa Rodríguez-Galindo explains how the modernization of this great city shaped and was shaped by print media and mass culture. A growing population, industrial immigration, mass connection with the wider world (making it both sm…

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Deborah Persaud on the possibility of HIV remission in neonates 35:39

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In the ongoing search for an HIV cure, promising evidence suggests that early treatment of infants might help achieve lasting HIV remission: the IMPAACT P1115 study is designed to investigate that potential. We talk to a lead investigator about what we know so far. Read the full article: www.thelancet.com/journals/lanhiv/article/PIIS2352-3018(25)00…

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Rick A López, "Rooted in Place: Botany, Indigeneity, and Art in the Construction of Mexican Nature, 1570-1914" (U Arizona Press, 2025) 50:26

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Since the first moment of conquest, colonizers and the colonized alike in Mexico confronted questions about what it meant to be from this place, what natural resources it offered, and who had the right to control those resources and on what basis. Focusing on the ways people, environment, and policies have been affected by political boundaries, in …

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Ada Ferrer, "Cuba: An American History" (Scribner, 2021) 53:27

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“No country is ever just one thing.” In her new book Cuba: An American History (Scribner, 2021), NYU historian Ada Ferrer shows this again and again. In clear and engaging prose, Ferrer narrates five centuries of history from a decidedly different angle than previous one-volume studies; the main drivers of history in this book are not just familiar…

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Kelley Helmstutler Di Dio, "Shipping Sculptures from Early Modern Italy: The Mechanics, Costs, Risks, and Rewards" (Brepols, 2025) 54:54

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Shipping Sculptures from Early Modern Italy: The Mechanics, Costs, Risks, and Rewards (Brepols, 2025) by Dr. Kelley Helmstutler Di Dio focuses on enormous amounts of sculptures moved from Italy to Spain from ca. 1500-1750. An analysis of an important body of unpublished archival documentation regarding the practical issues involved in making and tr…

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Jayne Ellis on cytomegalovirus and Epstein–Barr virus in people with HIV-associated cryptococcal meningitis 17:25

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Despite advances in treatment, HIV-associated cryptococcal meningitis continues to carry a high risk of death in Africa. In this episode, Jayne Ellis from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine discusses new research showing why targeting cytomegalovirus could be key to improving outcomes for people living with advanced HIV. Read the fu…

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About the Authors 13:18

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In this episode, we delve into the diverse backgrounds and creative journeys of several authors who have contributed to the world of Bitcoin literature. From John Champagne, a software developer turned author, to Decent Money, a computational biologist and Bitcoin enthusiast, each writer brings a unique perspective to the table. We explore their mo…

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21. The Galactic Playbook 10:56

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About the author: Reed — The Galactic Playbook Reed is a Christian, father of three, husband, bitcoiner, mechanical engineer in the nuclear power industry, science nerd, and passionate about the pursuit of truth. Reed also organized the Western Mass Bitcoin Meetup and is active on bitcoin X and Nostr. @FreedomMoney21 | nostrplebs.com/s/reed…

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20. The Journal's Alchemists 24:55

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About the author: Gonzalo Coelho — The Journal’s Alchemists Gonzalo Coelho, a software engineer living in Argentina, has witnessed socialism and inflation firsthand. With a deep appreciation for freedom and a penchant for the Austrian School of Economics, he now spends his free time educating others about bitcoin. His contributions include translat…

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19. Diamond Hands 24:27

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About the author: Mirio Mella — Diamond Hands Mirio Mella has been writing bitcoin explainers for several years, but his contribution to 21 Futures is his first experiment using fiction and a bit of humour to demystify and explore concepts like custody and privacy. His journey down the Bitcoin rabbit hole has inspired a broader interest in monetary…

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18. Are We, or Are We Not? 11:54

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About the author: Alex Gurevich — Are We, or Are We Not? Alex Gurevich is the Founder of HonTe Investments. He previously ran Global Macro Portfolio at J.P. Morgan Chase. Alex is an author of investment books and articles, as well as speculative fiction stories. He frequently appears in financial media, discussing global asset classes, including di…

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17. Panama One 20:26

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About the author: Carl Andrews — Panama One Carl Andrews has previously worked in various clerical, admin, and IT roles. Presently, he is delivering chess coaching in schools for a national charity. His rekindled interest in writing has coincided with his recent personal ‘discovery’ of bitcoin. He is currently writing an introductory guide to bitco…

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16. Shiro 18:39

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About the author: Anonymous — Shiro This anonymous author is one half of the design team that created the sat symbol used in this story. They are forever grateful to Satoshi Nakamoto for freely giving bitcoin to the world and for his brilliant ability to “move on to other things” without the need to be known personally — a discipline this author ho…

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15. Who Let the Bitcoin Dogs Out? 24:38

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About the author: Will Schoellkopf — Who Let the Bitcoin Dogs Out? Will Schoellkopf is the author of the narrative nonfiction book The Bitcoin Dog: Following the Scent to The Bitcoin C++ Source Code, and the fiction novel Bitcoin Girl: Save the World. He is published in print at Bitcoin Magazine and Citadel21 and online at Satoshi’s Journal. Follow…

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14. Eye in the Sky 24:38

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About the author: Eduardo Próspero — Eye in the Sky Eduardo Próspero is a pseudonym, but rest assured, he’s a bitcoiner through and through. Sure, as a journalist, he wrote for some questionable publications. If you ask Próspero, however, he’ll tell you that he infiltrated crypto news sites to spread the bitcoin ethos. If you don’t believe him, the…

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13. Digital Gold 32:09

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About the author: Luciano Rocha — Digital Gold Luciano Rocha is a writer and content editor with training in content production and digital marketing. He currently writes for the news portal CriptoFácil, one of the largest cryptocurrency portals in Portuguese, and is the author of the books Bitcoin, Criptoativos e Blockchain: um Guia para a Nova Ec…

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12. The Fable of the Tyrant Alchemist 40:49

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About the author: Ioni Appelberg — The Fable of the Tyrant Alchemist Ioni Appelberg (pronounced Yo-Ni Apple-Burg) is a bitcoin philosopher, futurist, author, and content creator. His content centers around science fiction, human history and it often takes the form of swashbuckling journeys to the frontiers of technology, space, and the human mind. …

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11. Transit 20:25

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About the author: TechnologieKultur — Transit TechnologieKultur is a German native speaker and linguist by training. He has always been into science fiction because it explores the human condition in light of the mutual push and pull that happens between – you guessed it – technology and culture. In the bitcoin protocol and its network participants…

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10. The Bitcoin Overlay 11:00

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About the author: Satillionaire — The Bitcoin Overlay Satillionaire is an Oscar-winning producer and a refugee from the entertainment industry. His body of work includes producing TV shows for multiple networks and selling films to various streaming platforms. A transformative moment came in 2017 when he discovered bitcoin and its potential to resh…

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09. The Baked Goods and Bitcoin of Skiophoria 12:33

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About the author: Angelique Fawns — The Baked Goods and Bitcoin of Skirophoria Angelique Fawns is a Canadian journalist and speculative fiction writer. She began her career writing articles about naked cave dwellers in Tenerife, Canary Islands. When she returned to civilization, she worked at Global TV in Toronto and has been cutting primetime prom…

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08. Legacy 23:35

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About the author: Philip Charter — Legacy Philip Charter is a writing coach who swapped the UK for Spain. He is the author of two collections of short fiction and Fifteen Brief Moments in Time, a novella-in-flash. He likes crisps. philipcharter.comBy Adrian M Lopez

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07. Jo Buys a Planet 18:40

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About the author: Daniel Crow — Jo Buys a Planet Daniel Crow is a PR professional, publicist, and former journalist based in Germany. Having grown up on Tolkien and Stephen King, he has long been in love with writing, drawing inspiration from myths and folk tales of the past. His other passions include high-tech, history, and old comedy movies. His…

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06. Bitter Fly 15:36

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About the author: Fanis Michalakis — Bitter Fly Fanis is a developer and a Bitcoin and Lightning Network educator, as well as a huge science-fiction lover. He’s currently working at LN Markets, a bitcoin derivatives platform built on the Lightning Network, and enjoys writing stories in his spare time. @FanisMichalakis…

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05. The Construct 13:58

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About the author: Knut Svanholm — The Construct Knut Svanholm is an international village idiot whose biggest claim to fame is the infamous bitcoin meme “Everything divided by 21 million,” which is also the title of his best-selling book. Currently, he spends his days hosting the Freedom Footprint Show and advising a handful of bitcoin companies an…

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04. Lowery Station Terminal 17:42

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About the author: KT Morley — Lowery Station Terminal KT Morley is an Eastern Pennsylvanian author. He spent twenty years conspiring to teach the youth of America about algebra and the plight of a hopelessly lost X before advancing to manage his school’s humanities department. He has published in several anthologies, Rogue Blades Entertainment’s Cr…

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03. The Noderoid Saga 19:51

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About the author: Niko Laamanen — The Noderoid Saga: Dreamers Niko left a career as a construction engineer to go all-in bitcoin education. Publisher by day, minced meat maximalist by dinner. Sauna puritanist forever. Ice baths before they were cool. Traveled in 40 countries, now more intrigued by trips and tricks of the mind. Watched Kill Bill on …

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02. Behemoth 22:57

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About the author: SF — Behemoth SF is a self-proclaimed pseudo-intellectual. A hedonist cum laude, looking to improve life for each and every one of us. As a professional dabbler, he has had his hand in a lot of various escapades, doing odd jobs around the bitcoin verse. If he’s not busy creating or animating logos and illustrations, or — quite lit…

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01. Hello World 29:19

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About the author: Decent Money — Hello World Decent Money is a husband, father, computational biologist, data analyst, and a bitcoin maxi who came for the profits but stayed for the revolution to separate money from the state… one story at a time. @decentmoney2009By Adrian M Lopez

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00. The Last Mugging 2:44

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About the author: John Champaign — The Last Mugging John Champaign grew up in Northern Ontario, Canada. He’s worked as a software developer and computer science professor and lives with his beloved wife, frequently moving. johnchampaign.comBy Adrian M Lopez

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Inception 3:14

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You are not prepared. https://konsensusnetwork.com/ https://21futures.com/By Adrian M Lopez

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Adrian Pole, "Making Antifascist War: The International Brigades' Transnational Encounters with Civil-War Spain, 1936-1939" (Cambridge UP, 2025) 55:06

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Making Antifascist War: The International Brigades' Transnational Encounters with Civil-War Spain, 1936-1939 (Cambridge UP, 2025) is a study of the 35,000 antifascists who joined the International Brigades in order to defend the Second Spanish Republic and of their encounters with civil-war Spain. Dr. Adrian Pole offers the first in-depth history o…

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Martin Austin Nesvig, "The Women Who Threw Corn: Witchcraft and Inquisition in Sixteenth-Century Mexico" (Cambridge UP, 2025) 1:04:49

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The Women Who Threw Corn: Witchcraft and Inquisition in Sixteenth-Century Mexico (Cambridge UP, 2025) by Dr. Martin Austin Nesvig tells the stories of women from Spain, North Africa, Senegambia, and Canaries accused of sorcery in sixteenth-century Mexico for adapting native magic and healing practices. These non-native women – the mulata of Seville…

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Brian A. Stauffer, "Victory on Earth or in Heaven: Mexico’s Religionero Rebellion" (U New Mexico Press, 2019) 1:02:15

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In Victory on Earth or in Heaven: Mexico’s Religionero Rebellion (University of New Mexico Press, 2019), Brian A. Stauffer reconstructs the history of Mexico's forgotten "Religionero" rebellion of 1873-1877, an armed Catholic challenge to the government of Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada. An essentially grassroots movement--organized by indigenous, Afro-…

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Maggie Walters and Michelle Bulterys on the probability of vertical transmission of HIV 18:33

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Although some countries are making great headway in eliminating vertical transmission of HIV, more than 100 000 infants acquire HIV each year. Maggie Walters and Michelle Bulterys talk us through their research into factors that affect the probability of vertical transmission and what it says about efforts to end new infant acquisitions. Read the f…

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Raymond Jonas, "Habsburgs on the Rio Grande: The Rise and Fall of the Second Mexican Empire" (Harvard UP, 2024) 1:05:12

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For a few years in the middle of the nineteenth century, Mexico was ruled by an Austrian and defended by a French army. This often neglected story is more than just historical trivia - it's a way of understanding 19th century imperial politics, and global insurgencies today. In Habsburgs on the Rio Grande: The Rise and Fall of the Second Mexican Em…

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Giles Tremlett, "The International Brigades: Fascism, Freedom and the Spanish Civil War" (Bloomsbury, 2021) 53:27

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When civil war broke out in Spain in 1936, tens of thousands of young men and women from across the world flocked there to fight against the Nationalist uprising. Though their history has been told before, Giles Tremlett’s The International Brigades: Fascism, Freedom and the Spanish Civil War (Bloomsbury, 2021) draws upon previously unavailable mat…

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Sasha D. Pack, "The Deepest Border: The Strait of Gibraltar and the Making of the Hispano-African Border" (Stanford UP, 2019) 1:00:54

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In his new book, The Deepest Border: The Strait of Gibraltar and the Making of the Hispano-African Border(Stanford, 2019), Sasha D. Pack considers the Strait of Gibraltar as an untamed in-between space—from “shatter zone” to borderland. Far from the centers of authority of contending empires, the North African and Southern Iberian coast was a place…

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Mansoor Farahani, Wafaa El-Sadr, and Wilford Kirungi on the progress in the HIV response in Uganda 25:16

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Uganda is closer than ever to achieving HIV epidemic control, thanks to remarkable progress in its national response. In this episode, experts Mansoor Farahani, Wafaa El-Sadr, and Wilford L. Kirungi discuss the strategies behind Uganda’s success, the challenges that still lie ahead, and how a current global funding crisis could impact the fight aga…

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Richard Wu on a phase 1 trial of a broadly neutralising antibody for HIV 16:23

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In HIV prevention and treatment, broadly neutralising antibodies have so far failed failed to deliver on their potential; could N6LS buck the trend? Richard Wu talks about a phase 1 study with some promising results. Read the full article: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanhiv/article/PIIS2352-3018(25)00041-4/fulltext?dgcid=buzzsprout_icw_podca…

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Christopher Clarey, "The Warrior: Rafael Nadal and His Kingdom of Clay" (Grand Central Publishing, 2025) 1:11:22

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In The Warrior: Rafael Nadal and His Kingdom of Clay (Grand Central Publishing, 2025) Christopher Clarey illuminates the skill and determination it took to accomplish Rafael Nadal’s most mind-blowing achievement: 14 French Open titles. Nadal has won big on tennis's many surfaces en route to becoming one of the greatest players of all time: securing…

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Basma Al Dajani, "The Arab Andalusian Love Poetry: A Study of the Interaction Between Place and Man Through Time" (AU Cairo Press, 1994) 34:12

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In this episode of Unlocking Academia, host Raja Aderdor speaks with Dr. Basma A. S. Dajani, Professor of Arabic Language and Literature, in a sweeping conversation on Arab-Andalusian love poetry and the cultural, linguistic, and emotional legacies it continues to inspire. Rooted in her 1994 book The Arab Andalusian Love Poetry: A Study of the Inte…

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Grace Lui and Vincent Wong on lifestyle modifications to address MASLD in people with HIV 13:50

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Metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) is a major cause of chronic liver disease and has become the second leading cause of non-AIDS-related mortality in people living HIV. Join Adrian Gonzalez in conversation with Grace Lui and Vincent Wong (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) as they discuss whether a dietary and exerci…

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Julia McClure, "Empire of Poverty: The Moral-Political Economy of the Spanish Empire" (Oxford UP, 2025) 41:51

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Empire of Poverty: The Moral-Political Economy of the Spanish Empire (Oxford University Press, 2024) by Dr. Julia McClure examines how changing concepts of poverty in the long-sixteenth century helped shape the deep structures of states and empires and the contours of imperial inequalities. While poverty is often understood to have become a politic…

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Emily Colbert Cairns and Nieves Romero-Diaz, "Early Modern Maternities in the Iberian Atlantic" (Amsterdam UP, 2024) 46:49

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Emily Colbert Cairns of Salve Regina University and Nieves Romero-Díaz of Mount Holyoke join Jana Byars to talk about Early Modern Maternities in the Iberian Atlantic (Amsterdam University Press, 2024). It is the first volume to emphasize women's personal experiences and their life trajectories as mothers within the Peninsula and across the Atlanti…

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Rochelle Rojas, "Bad Christians and Hanging Toads: Witch Crafting in Northern Spain, 1525–1675" (Cornell UP, 2025) 43:09

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Bad Christians and Hanging Toads: Witch Crafting in Northern Spain, 1525–1675 (Cornell University Press, 2025) by Dr. Rochelle Rojas tells riveting stories of witchcraft in everyday life in early modern Navarra. Belief in witchcraft not only emerged in moments of mass panic but was woven into the fabric of village life. Some villagers believed witc…