This podcast is a channel on the New Books Network. The New Books Network is an academic audio library dedicated to public education. In each episode you will hear scholars discuss their recently published research with another expert in their field. Discover our 150+ channels and browse our 28,000+ episodes on our website: newbooksnetwork.com Subscribe to our free weekly Substack newsletter to get informative, engaging content straight to your inbox: https://newbooksnetwork.substack.com/ ...
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The Gyaan Project (formerly Audiogyan) is a podcast exploring creative wisdom. Since 2016, it has chronicled ideas, philosophies, and stories of Indian luminaries—bridging the past with the present to inspire the future. www.thegyaanproject.com
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Hello and welcome to Good for Construction – a podcast dedicated to architects and architecture in India. Season 1: we collect stories from architecture graduates across India, sharing their journey from architecture school to architecture entrepreneurship. Season 2: We chat with professionals who have explored alternate careers after studying architecture.
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We help founders make something people want. The Y Combinator Podcast is where builders talk about building. From the earliest days of an idea to scaling a company that changes the world, YC partners and founders share real stories, lessons, and tactics from the frontlines.
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Book-a-Week is a weekly podcast in an author-interview format featuring new books on architecture and cities published in the last five years. Every week young scholars from the fields of architecture, urbanism and design research will interview authors of recent books on diverse topics from architectural history, design theory, and ecological thinking to urban studies and anthropology. Each episode is imagined as a reflective, genial conversation on the book, its context, significance and r ...
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Archgyan is a podcast that brings a selection of original interviews with architects, planners and designers from across India in the field of architecture. By an architect, for architects in India, the podcast aims to serve as a well-stocked cellar of information for reference and inspiration that will help them stay informed, get creative new ideas and engage with the architecture community. Tune in for a weekly dose of interesting information, innovation and original research that comment ...
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The American Institute of Indian Studies (AIIS) was founded nearly sixty years ago to further the knowledge of India in the United States by supporting American scholarship on India. The programs of AIIS foster the production of and engagement with scholarship on India, and promote and advance mutual understanding between the citizens of the United States and of India. AIIS seeks to provide access to scholarship about India to a wide and diverse audience.Through this podcast series, we hope ...
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WinBizSolutionsIndia is a business process outsourcing company based out of Bangalore, India. We provide support to global clientele in the areas of call center, photo editing, graphic designing and eBook conversion services.
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Archgyan Podcast is India's very own Architecture podcast where you get to listen to conversations with leading architects, urban designers, planners, and futurists who are playing a big role in the development of India. Whether you're an architect, architecture student, or just interested in architecture, this podcast is the place to be. So tune in every week as we release a brand new episode of the Archgyan Podcast which will be packed with valuable information that you will not get anywhe ...
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Dive into the real-life history that inspires the locations, characters, and storylines of the legendary world of Assassin’s Creed. ‘Echoes of History’ is the official Assassin's Creed history podcast. We’ll head down the narrow side streets of Medici-ruled Florence, cross sand dunes in the shadow of ancient pyramids, climb the rigging of 18th century brigs sailing across the Caribbean and meet the most powerful warlords in Feudal Japan - all before hearing from the developers themselves to ...
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This is a self-guided architectural walking or biking tour from Walk Indianapolis. It includes many of the key major civic buildings, monuments, and memorials downtown. Indianapolis devotes more acreage than any other U.S. city to honoring our nation’s fallen, and is second only to Washington, DC, in the number of war memorials. This tour takes you from Monument Circle north to explore these impressive structures that pay homage to those who fought for our freedom. You'll also see buildings ...
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Welcome to Concrete Conversations - the Indian Real Estate Podcast, where we converse with some of the brightest minds in Indian Real Estate to demystify the industry. Each episode features a different guest and will touch upon a different topic, ensuring that there’s something in it for everyone! You can catch us streaming on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube and a bunch of other platforms. So Stay Tuned for more Concrete Conversations!
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अखंड भारत - स्टोरीज ऑफ ए ग्रेटर इंडिया हा मराठी आणि इंग्रजी भाषांमधील पॉडकास्ट आहे. ह्या आपल्या पॉडकास्ट मध्ये आपण करणार आहोत यात्रा अश्या एका पुरातन सभ्यतेची, जिच्या अवशेषांना आज आपण भारत म्हणून ओळखतो. ह्या पॉडकास्ट च्या प्रत्येक भागात आपण उजाळा देणार आहोत, वेद- कालीन भारताच्या इतिहासाला आणि शोधणार आहोत पुराणिक कथा आणि मान्यतांमागची खरी कारणे! Akhanda Bharat - Stories of a Greater India is a podcast in Marathi and English languages. This podcast takes you on a journey to a misknown land, of ...
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Vastu is the ancient 10,000 year old ‘science of architecture’ which originated in India. It is based on specific geometric principles of design and construction which are used to create the most powerful & harmonious living environments on earth. utilizing the Vastu Tools and Techniques you could change your internal and external Worlds. Radiant health, unlimited success and universal prosperity! described by many has “Feng Shui” on steroids. Outrageous future potential does awaits you. Com ...
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There have been talks of architecture since times. But there is a dire need for talk of architecture now and after, especially in India. This podcast brings Architects and solutions for the budding architects and students. The idea is to build a better-informed community. You guys can message us to https://www.facebook.com/architectsquarearch/ for your doubts, questions, and architects u want on board! #Indianarchitects #architecturecommunityindia #architecture students facebook@architectsqu ...
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Macro Matters is a podcast where global experts share candid insights on pressing issues in international economics. Each episode, host and BWC Executive Director Emily Slater sits down with guests from BWC’s own global membership to offer clear-eyed analysis on global economic policy. In a noisy media landscape, these conversations are designed to offer clarity. Guests will go beyond the headlines to explore not just what’s happening in the global economy—but why it’s happening, what it mea ...
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"No Idea Whatsoever" is a podcast offering insights into global education and career journeys. Featuring conversations with high-profile guests, it blends knowledge with engaging stories for parents and young minds.
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A show that deconstructs the Indian and international design world with leading industry experts. We aim to promote thoughtful and incisive conversations on design, art, and architecture. Hosted by Esha Gupta, founder of Design Pataki. www.designpataki.com
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The series, Discover Design presents varied aspects of Interior, space, products, communication, and service design to inform the participants of the what, the how, and why of Design. They may be case studies of earlier projects, trends that may be visualized, or issues concerning the subject area. The webinars are attended by young Design aspirants, Design professionals, and those interested to understand influences, future impacts, material and products, crafts, human & technology interven ...
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In a society that tells women to sit, talk, walk & live in a manner it defines as ‘ladylike’- (Un)like a Lady is a podcast celebrating the journey of Indian women for who they are beyond these countless expectations. Through first-hand experiences of empowering women from all walks of life, we wish to understand feminism in India in its true sense & seek inspiration from how women continue to defy the existing gender norms of Indian society. Follow us on social media to reach out or leave a ...
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Far East Travels-Inspired by Rick Steves, Lonely Planet, Anthony Bourdain and National Geographic.-Informative, enlightening, entertaining. Let John Saboe take you on journeys filled with spiritual celebrations and rituals, ancient festivals thrilling wildlife safaris, trekking and climbing quests and a vast array of food cultures. Learn about cultural differences, village life, urban exploration, street food, history and architecture in places like Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Nepal, India, Kor ...
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Creative Spark-plug is a show about design for emerging design professionals. We talk to leading architects, designers, and creative thinkers from all fields about their work and ideas. We dive deep into their thought process, introducing you to the creative and innovative minds that shape iconic products, buildings, and cities around the world. Hosted by Rajesh Sharma and Baashobe Majumdar both designers and entrepreneurs themselves, who are curious about bringing design to reality. Creativ ...
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"Ram Mandir - Mahanirman," explores the construction of the magnificent Ram Mandir Temple in Ayodhya. Renowned architect Chandrakant Sompura's vision combines ancient Vedic principles with modern engineering, showcasing pink sandstone and intricately carved marble. This audio offers exclusive insights into the grandeur and significance of the temple, covering its historical context, the groundbreaking ceremony led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and the participation of artisans from across ...
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Post Scientist features about the latest discoveries in science, health, the environment, technology, and more from leading universities, big tech giants companies, scientific journals, and research organization.
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Nestled into the side of Lighthouse Hill, the Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art is a uniquely peaceful retreat. The museum presents the art and culture of Tibet and the Himalayas to a world audience in order to educate about and to inspire others in the value of this significant cultural heritage. Established in 1945, the Museum was founded by the pioneering American woman Jacques Marchais (1887-1948), an important collector and respected expert on Tibetan art. Designed by Marchais, the ...
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The Aga Khan Foundation (AKF) seeks to improve the quality of life, promote pluralism, and enhance self-reliance in poor and marginalised communities in Africa, Asia and the Middle East. AKF strives to enhance agriculture and food security, promote early childhood development and access to quality education, improve health and nutrition, advance economic inclusion, and strengthen civil society. Working in partnership with communities, governments and others, for over 50 years, AKF’s long-ter ...
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Established in 2022, Coffee with the Council is an ongoing podcast series produced by the PCI Security Standards Council, a global forum that brings together payments industry stakeholders to develop and drive adoption of data security standards and resources for safe payments worldwide. The podcast series seeks to engage the payment card industry by communicating Council news and updates; sharing interviews, panel discussions or case studies from third-parties; offering coverage from Counci ...
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The City College of New York President Vincent Boudreau hosts the latest episode of From City to the World, spotlighting lifelong learning and its power to transform lives. He's joined by Donna Ramer, president of Quest Lifelong Learning, a peer-led,…
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Hi Guys, This is Aadith@Podcast. I appreciate your support that reached me to new heights. We hit 5k listeners and I am thankful to you all for that. You all can check out my new website: https://aadithpodcast.wordpress.com/ You can contact me at [email protected] You Can Buy Me A Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/aadithpodcast YOU GUYS CAN NOW SUPPORT ME ON PATREON: https://patreon.com/user?u=89835817&utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=creatorshare_creato ...
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Andrea Gevurtz Arai ed., "Spaces of Creative Resistance: Social Change Projects in Twenty-First-Century East Asia" (Rutgers UP, 2025)
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An exciting collection of stories of change that most people don’t usually hear from the bottom up, from the grassroots, about what’s happening in East Asia. Spaces of Creative Resistance: Social Change Projects in Twenty-First-Century East Asia (Rutgers UP, 2025) brings together an exciting cross-regional interdisciplinary group of scholars, schol…
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Nicholas L. Caverly, "Demolishing Detroit: How Structural Racism Endures" (Stanford UP, 2025)
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In this episode, Nick Caverly talks about his new book, Demolishing Detroit: How Structural Racism Endures (Stanford UP, 2025). For decades, Detroit residents, politicians, planners, and advocacy organizations have campaigned for the elimination of empty buildings from city neighborhoods. Leveling these structures, many argue, is essential to makin…
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Suvi Rautio, "The Invention of Tradition in China: Story of a Village and a Nation Remade" (Springer Nature, 2024)
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Today, anthropologist Professor Anru Lee is joining NBN as a guest host to interview me, Suvi Rautio, on my new book, The Invention of Tradition in China: Story of a Village and a Nation Remade published by Palgrave in 2024. In China, heritage projects are sprouting across the countryside carrying the promise of Xi Jinping’s “Chinese dream” as a ca…
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9th Anniversary Soup - 9 bites from 9 conversations.
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Today, The Gyaan Project turns 9. And honestly, it feels surreal. Since 27th December 2016, I have been documenting Indian creative wisdom across disciplines and ways of thinking. After 318 episodes, I found myself wondering how to mark this moment and the answer came naturally. So here it is. A small celebration. A warm offering. 9th Anniversary S…
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Karma F. Frierson, "Local Color: Reckoning with Blackness in the Port City of Veracruz" (U California Press, 2025)
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The Caribbean port city of Veracruz is many things. It is where the Spanish first settled and last left the colony that would go on to become Mexico. It is a destination boasting the “happiest Carnival in the world,” nightly live music, and public dancing. It is also where Blackness is an integral and celebrated part of local culture and history, b…
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2025 was the year AI stopped feeling chaotic and started feeling buildable. In this Lightcone episode, the YC partners break down the surprises of the year, from shifting model dominance to why the real opportunity is moving back to the application layer, and why the next wave of AI startups may be just getting started.…
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Intrapreneurship & Insight into India’s Architecture Industry | Siddhartha Rao | EP- 42
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In this episode, Architect Siddhartha Rao, gives us an insider’s POV on how architecture works in India and shares his personal experiences of being at, and at the helm of it. In his own efficient style, his narrative is easy to listen to, comprehend and soak in. There’s context, insight & real life example or factual data! He makes it sound that s…
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The Ancient Open-Air Library of Jabal Ikmah
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Assassin's Creed Mirage: Valley of Memory transports players to the medieval Abbasid caliphate. One place in particular that is recreated in the game is the remarkable Jabal Ikmah, the ancient Open-Air Library. Here, on the mountains surrounding AlUla, archaeologists have found a treasure trove of texts that stretch across centuries in multiple lan…
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Leila Hudson, "Lines of Flight, Assemblages of Home: Syrian Women Displaced" (Syracuse UP, 2025)
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While humanitarian organizations and media outlets often reduce Syrian refugees to statistics or brief anecdotes, the real story of displacement unfolds in the intimate spaces of family life. Through the interwoven narratives of five middle-aged sisters from Damascus, Lines of Flight, Assemblages of Home reveals how Syrian women navigate war, exile…
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Sharon Sliwinski, "An Alphabet for Dreamers: How to See the World with Eyes Closed" (MIT Press, 2025)
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Borrowing from the traditional alphabet book genre for children, An Alphabet for Dreamers: How to See the World with Eyes Closed (MIT Press, 2025) by Dr. Sharon Sliwinski provides adult readers with a new grammar for dreams, or what neuroscientist Sidarta Ribeiro calls “oracles of the night.” In this book, Dr. Sliwinski restores dreaming to its pro…
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ARC-AGI is redefining how to measure progress on the path to AGI - focusing on reasoning, generalization, and adaptability instead of memorization or scale. During this month's NeurIPS 2025 conference, YC's Diana Hu sat down with ARC Prize Foundation President Greg Kamradt to find out why most AI benchmarks fail, how ARC-AGI reveals the limits of t…
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Luis Felipe Murillo, "Common Circuits: Hacking Alternative Technological Futures" (Stanford UP, 2025)
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A digital world in relentless movement—from artificial intelligence to ubiquitous computing—has been captured and reinvented as a monoculture by Silicon Valley "big tech" and venture capital firms. Yet very little is discussed in the public sphere about existing alternatives. Based on long-term field research across San Francisco, Tokyo, and Shenzh…
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Megan Tobias Neely, "Hedged Out: Inequality and Insecurity on Wall Street" (U California Press, 2022)
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In Hedged Out: Inequality and Insecurity on Wall Street (U California Press, 2022) Megan Tobias Neely, a former hedge fund worker takes an ethnographic approach to hedge funds. Manager? A greedy fraudster, a visionary entrepreneur, a wolf of Wall Street? She gives readers an insider perspective on the phenomenon. Facing an unpredictable and risky s…
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Yasmin Cho, "Politics of Tranquility: The Material and Mundane Lives of Buddhist Nuns in Post-Mao Tibet" (Cornell UP, 2025)
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Politics of Tranquility: The Material and Mundane Lives of Buddhist Nuns in Post-Mao Tibet (Cornell University Press, 2025) concerns the Tibetan Buddhist revival in China, illustrating the lives of Tibetan Buddhist nuns and exploring the political effects that arise from their nonpolitical daily engagements in the remote, mega-sized Tibetan Buddhis…
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Ancient Civilisations of Arabia in Assassin's Creed Mirage: Valley of Memory
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Assassin’s Creed Mirage: Valley of Memory recreates life in the AlUla oasis as it was over a millennium ago. Players can climb the battlements of a Muslim fortress, wander through an ancient city carved into the mountainside, and experience the vibrant sights and sounds of a medieval spice market. In this episode, Creative Director Olivier Leonardi…
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Jerry Moore, "Cat Tales: A History" (Thames & Hudson, 2025)
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For as long as cats have coexisted with humans, they have been feared, revered and respected. They appear as dynamic hunters in Palaeolithic carvings and cave paintings; were venerated as gods in ancient Egypt; and still have the power to fascinate and frighten us, as the popularity of Joe Exotic, the self-styled Tiger King, shows. How did we go fr…
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Head of Design Ryo Lu helped transform Cursor from a feature-layer on top of VS Code into one of the world's leading AI code editors.He joins YC's Aaron Epstein on Design Review to talk about the path that brought him to Cursor, how rapid prototyping reshaped the core product and how he's breaking down the barriers that once separated designers and…
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In just a few years, James Hawkins took PostHog from an idea hacked together right before YC's W20 deadline to a unicorn powering product analytics for thousands of teams. He joins YC's Brad Flora to talk about surviving six months of "pivot hell," why open-source analytics was the breakthrough, and how PostHog grew from fighting for its first user…
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What If Homeopathy Works More Than You Think Ft. Dr. Kushal Banerjee
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In this episode, Devvaki Aggarwal speaks with Dr. Kushal Banerjee, a globally trained homeopathic doctor with decades of clinical experience, known for his evidence-informed approach and commitment to patient-centred healing. Having trained at premier institutions in the UK and worked extensively in chronic and complex cases, Dr. Banerjee brings bo…
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James Sears, "Queering Rehoboth Beach: Beyond the Boardwalk" (Temple UP, 2024)
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“Create A More Positive Rehoboth” was a decades-long goal for progress and inclusiveness in a charming beach town in southern Delaware. Rehoboth, which was established in the 19th century as a Methodist Church meeting camp, has, over time, become a thriving mecca for the LGBTQ+ community. In Queering Rehoboth Beach: Beyond the Boardwalk (Temple UP,…
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“Rurality 2.0”: How City Migrants are Reshaping Norway’s Rural Regions with Tom Bratrud
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In today’s episode, we talk to Tom Bratrud about his ongoing, long-term work with city-dwellers who migrate to rural parts of Norway. This research forms the basis of Tom’s forthcoming book project, which has the working title Rurality 2.0: Redefining Urban-Rural Divides in the Mountains of Norway. Tom Bratrud is Associate Professor in Social Anthr…
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The Boston Tea Party: Did The Sons of Liberty Really Disguise As Mohawks?
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Assassin’s Creed III recreates many key events from the American Revolution, including the Boston Tea Party, when colonists resisted British taxes by dumping tea into Boston Harbor. But the game challenges the popular perception of the protest as a pure and noble defiance of tyranny. In fact, the legend of the Party started to develop nearly half a…
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Shilla Lee , "Crafting Rural Japan: Traditional Potters and Rural Creativity in Regional Revitalization" (Routledge, 2024)
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Centering collaborations and frictions around a Japanese town’s pottery industry, Crafting Rural Japan: Traditional Potters and Rural Creativity in Regional Revitalization (Routledge, 2024)n discusses the place of creative village policy in the revitalization of rural Japan, highlighting how rural Japan is moving from a state of regional extinction…
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Anna Zhelnina, "Private Life, Public Action: How Housing Politics Mobilized Citizens in Moscow" (Temple UP, 2025)
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Renovation, an urban renewal plan in Moscow that was announced in the spring of 2017, proposed to demolish thousands of socialist-era apartment buildings. In a country where it is rare under an authoritarian government, residents supported or opposed the redevelopment by mobilizing and organizing into local alliances. They were often shocked by the…
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Anna Shadrina, "The Babushka Phenomenon: Older Women and the Political Sociology of Ageing in Russia" (UCL Press, 2025)
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The Babushka Phenomenon: Older Women and the Political Sociology of Ageing in Russia (UCL Press, 2025) by Dr. Anna Shadrina examines the social production of ageing in post-Soviet Russia, highlighting the role of grandmothers as primary caregivers due to men’s traditional estrangement from family life. This expectation places grandmothers, or babus…
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Theresa Delgadillo, "Geographies of Relation: Diasporas and Borderlands in the Americas" (U Michigan Press, 2024)
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Geographies of Relation: Diasporas and Borderlands in the Americas (U Michigan Press, 2024) offers a new lens for examining diaspora and borderlands texts and performances that considers the inseparability of race, ethnicity, and gender in imagining and enacting social change. Theresa Delgadillo crosses interdisciplinary and canonical borders to in…
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Is a River Alive?: A Conversation with Robert Macfarlane
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Hailed in the New York Times as "a naturalist who can unfurl a sentence with the breathless ease of a master angler," Robert Macfarlane brings his glittering style to a profound work of travel writing, reportage, and natural history. Is a River Alive? (W.W. Norton, 2025) is a joyful, mind-expanding exploration of an ancient, urgent idea: that river…
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Life as a Greek Philosopher: Socrates, Hippocrates & Herodotus
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One of the most profoundly influential periods in history is the 5th century BCE, when when a collection of great minds in Ancient Greece formed the foundations of Western philosophy, medicine and history itself. How did ancient doctors heal the sick? How did historians share their research with a society that didn't read? What influence did female…
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Paulette F. C. Steeves, "The Indigenous Paleolithic of the Western Hemisphere" (U Nebraska Press, 2021)
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The Indigenous Paleolithic of the Western Hemisphere (U Nebraska Press, 2021) is a reclaimed history of the deep past of Indigenous people in North and South America during the Paleolithic. Paulette F. C. Steeves mines evidence from archaeology sites and Paleolithic environments, landscapes, and mammalian and human migrations to make the case that …
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Marc Sommers, "We the Young Fighters: Pop Culture, Terror, and War in Sierra Leone" (U Georgia Press, 2023)
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We the Young Fighters: Pop Culture, Terror, and War in Sierra Leone (U Georgia Press, 2023) by Dr. Marc Sommers is at once a history of a nation, the story of a war, and the saga of downtrodden young people and three pop culture superstars. Reggae idol Bob Marley, rap legend Tupac Shakur, and the John Rambo movie character all portrayed an upside-d…
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Mukul Goyal on Crafting Smile Quotient in Design | Rajesh Sharma | Baashobe Majumdar | EP-41 | Creative Spark-plug
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Mukul Goyal is one of India’s most iconic product designers — known for turning everyday objects into playful, sculptural experiences. In this episode of Creative Spark-plug, we dive into his unique design philosophy rooted in Indian identity and an unwavering commitment to making things with joy and sincerity. From his early days experimenting wit…
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The Best Consumer Startup Ideas Were "Impossible" Until Now
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Every major shift in consumer tech has a moment when it suddenly becomes accessible to millions. Michael Mignano helped spark one of those moments with Anchor, making podcast creation something anyone could do with a tap. Now at Lightspeed, he sees AI bringing a similar leap to music, media, and everyday apps.In this conversation, he and Garry trac…
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Allison Christine Meier, "Grave" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
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Grave (Bloomsbury, 2023) by Allison C. Meier takes a ground-level view of how burial sites have transformed over time and how they continue to change. As a cemetery tour guide, Meier has spent more time walking among tombstones than most. Even for her, the grave has largely been invisible, an out of the way and unobtrusive marker of death. However,…
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Elizabeth Anne Davis, "The Time of the Cannibals: On Conspiracy Theory and Context" (Fordham UP, 2024)
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In 2009, the body of a former president of the Republic of Cyprus, Tassos Papadopoulos, was stolen from his grave. The Time of the Cannibals reconsiders this history and the public discourse on it to reconsider how we think about conspiracy theory, and specifically, what it means to understand conspiracy theories “in context.” The months after Papa…
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Assassin’s Creed Mirage: Valley of Memory takes our hero Basim ibn Ishaq from the glory of Baghdad in the Abbasid era to the remote oasis at Al-Ula. There, he discovers mysteries hidden in the mountains and ancient dwellings of civilisations that fell long ago. Even though the oasis at AlUla has provided sustenance to people living there throughout…
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Sarah Hoiland, "Righteous Sisterhood: The Politics and Power of an All-Women's Motorcycle Club" (Temple UP, 2025)
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A righteous sister identifies herself as a biker. She might wrench, or maintain, her own bike, and she prefers to ride with other righteous sisters. Righteous Sisterhood: The Politics and Power of an All-Women's Motorcycle Club (Temple UP, 2025) is Dr. Sarah Hoiland’s insightful ethnography about an all-women motorcycle club (MC). She recounts stor…
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Lyric Hughes Hale speaks with David Marsh, the founder of OMFIF about Europe’s fractured landscape: Germany’s struggles, Russia’s war, US- China rivalry, regulation, the euro—and what must change for the continent to endure.
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Cursor Head of Design Reviews Startup Websites
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Cursor Head of Design Ryo Lu has spent his career at the intersection of design and engineering—from building fan sites as a kid to designing products at Stripe, Asana, and Notion. Now he's rethinking how software itself gets made. On this episode of Design Review, Ryo joins YC's Aaron Epstein to break down how great product websites communicate wh…
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Christina Jerne, "Opposition by Imitation: The Economics of Italian Anti-Mafia Activism" (U Minnesota Press, 2025)
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For more than 150 years, Italy has been home to a resilient and evolving resistance against the pervasive influence of mafias. While these criminal organizations are renowned for their vast international business enterprises, the collective actions taken to oppose them are less known. In Opposition by Imitation: The Economics of Italian Anti-Mafia …
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Heath Pearson, "Life Beside Bars: Confinement and Capital in an American Prison Town" (Duke UP, 2024)
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In Life Beside Bars: Confinement and Capital in an American Prison Town (Duke UP, 2024), Heath Pearson showcases dynamic, interdependent community as the best hope for undoing the systems of confinement that reproduce capital in Cumberland County, New Jersey—a place that is home to three state prisons, one federal prison, and the regional jail. Pea…
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Assassin's Creed Mirage: Valley of Memory takes players to the haunting tomb city of Hegra, a remarkable memento of the Nabataeans. Hewn from the hard rock of the mountainside are spectacular, seemingly countless tombs that contain inscriptions, artefacts and echoes of this lost civilisation… Who were the Nabataeans? Where did they come from? And w…
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Nayma Qayum, "Village Ties: Women, NGOs, and Informal Institutions in Rural Bangladesh" (Rutgers UP, 2021)
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Across the global South, poor women’s lives are embedded in their social relationships and governed not just by formal institutions – rules that exist on paper – but by informal norms and practices. Village Ties: Women, NGOs, and Informal Institutions in Rural Bangladesh (Rutgers UP, 2021) takes the reader to Bangladesh, a country that has risen fr…
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Curiosity Confluence and Creative Chaos w/ Samrat Som Pt-2 | Creative Spark-plug | EP- 40
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What happens when curiosity becomes a lifelong practice?In Part 2 of this Creative Spark-plug conversation, hosts Rajesh Sharma and Baashobe Majumdar continue their deep dive with designer and storyteller Samrat Som—this time moving further into the ideas and influences that shape his creative worldview.Samrat reflects on how travel, culture, and l…
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What’s Driving India’s Rise as a Global Economic Power?
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India’s economic momentum is reshaping the global landscape. From rapid growth and expanding trade ties to digital innovation and a multi-alignment foreign policy, India is emerging as a central player in the world economy. In this episode, Udaibir S. Das joins host Emily Slater to unpack what’s fueling India’s rise, how its strategic choices are l…
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Inside The Startup Launching AI Into Space
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Starcloud recently made history by launching a satellite with an NVIDIA H100 into orbit — the first time a GPU that powerful has ever operated in space. It's the first step toward building AI data centers in orbit, powered by continuous sunlight and cooled by radiating heat into deep space.Their approach could one day rival the world's biggest data…
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Anno 117: Pax Romana puts you in the place of a new Roman Governor at a crucial point in the history of the Roman Empire. Rome has never been more powerful but the mighty Emperor Trajan has died. You must choose how to keep the peace in your new province, whether in the Celtic wilds of Albion or on the Mediterranean coastlines of Latium. In this sp…
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Karine Gagné, "Caring for Glaciers: Land, Animals, and Humanity in the Himalayas" (U Washington Press, 2019)
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In her new book, Caring for Glaciers: Land, Animals, and Humanity in the Himalayas (University of Washington Press, 2019), Karine Gagné explores how relations of reciprocity between land, humans, animals, and glaciers foster an ethics of care in the Himalayan communities of Ladakh. She explores the way these relations are changing due to climate ch…
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Vania Smith-Oka, "Becoming Gods: Medical Training in Mexican Hospitals" (Rutgers UP, 2021)
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In Becoming Gods: Medical Training in Mexican Hospitals (Rutgers University Press, 2021), Vania Smith-Oka follows a cohort of interns throughout their year of medical training in hospitals to understand how medical students become medical doctors. She ethnographically tracks their engagements with one another, interactions with patients, experience…
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How To Recruit The Best Engineers And Sales Reps
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Most founders think hiring is about interviewing. But it's actually about selling.For Startup School, Juicebox co-founder & CEO David Paffenholz joins YC's Harj Taggar to share how early-stage founders can find, pitch, and close top engineering and sales talent— from crafting better outreach to winning great hires from Big Tech— even when you're an…
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