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We believe that when people think historically, they are engaging in a disciplined way of thinking about the world and its past. We believe it gives thinkers a knack for recognizing nonsense; and that it cultivates not only intellectual curiosity and rigor, but also intellectual humility. Join Al Zambone, author of Daniel Morgan: A Revolutionary Life, as he talks with historians and other professionals who cultivate the craft of historical thinking.
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Join neuroscientist, philosopher, and five-time New York Times best-selling author Sam Harris as he explores important and controversial questions about the mind, society, current events, moral philosophy, religion, and rationality—with an overarching focus on how a growing understanding of ourselves and the world is changing our sense of how we should live. Sam is also the creator of the Waking Up app. Combining Sam’s decades of mindfulness practice, profound wisdom from varied philosophica ...
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Professor Adnan Husain, historian and scholar of religion, hosts a show spanning history, politics, global affairs, intellectual culture, as well as religion and spirituality. The format ranges from scholarly guest interviews, panel discussions, recorded lectures, and his own readings and commentary.
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Brand & New is a podcast produced by the International Trademark Association (INTA) and focused on innovation. Published monthly, each episode consists of an open dialogue with experts, visionaries, and influential people from all over the world in order to learn more about the evolution of the legal and intellectual property ecosystem, its concepts, and all actual or potential consequences. Because we consider innovation as a pillar of INTA’s Strategic Plan, and because it is key to “walk t ...
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History of the Middle East

History of the Middle East

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The History of the Middle East Podcast is where we dive into the rich history of the Middle East and its influence on the world. We'll explore the intellectual and cultural landscape, explore the lives of influential leaders, and uncover the cultural achievements that have shaped our modern world. https://instagram.com/historyofthemiddleeast https://www.tiktok.com/@orientalismhistory Sponsored by Native Threads Collective: https://nativethreads.co/
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Decoding the Gurus

Christopher Kavanagh and Matthew Browne

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An exiled Northern Irish anthropologist and a hitchhiking Australian psychologist take a close look at the contemporary crop of 'secular gurus', iconoclasts, and other exiles from the mainstream, offering their own brands of unique takes and special insights. Leveraging two of the most diverse accents in modern podcasting, Chris and Matt dig deep into the claims, peek behind the psychological curtains, and try to figure out once and for all... What's it all About? Join us, as we try to puzzl ...
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IP Goes Pop

Volpe Koenig Intellectual Property Law

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IP Goes Pop explores the interface between intellectual property(IP) and popular culture. Patents, trademarks, and copyrights are often referenced in popular movies, television and songs, but who owns the rights to creative expression? How long does a patent last? What makes a trade secret truly secret? Is the media getting it right when reporting on intellectual property issues? Hosted by intellectual property attorney Michael Snyder, with guest colleagues, inventors, writers, and creators, ...
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What do intellectual historians currently investigate? And why is this relevant for us today? These are some of the questions our podcast series, led by graduate students at the University of Cambridge, seeks to explore. It aims to introduce intellectual historians and their work to everyone with an interest in history and politics. Do join in on our conversations! (The theme song of "Interventions | The Intellectual History Podcast" was created at jukedeck.com)
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Firing Lane

Croaky Caiman

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Croaky Caiman is natures humble janitor just here to take out the trash through political discourse. Listen to Croaky Caiman, a conservative intellectual cartoon gator, have conversations with people from all backgrounds about current events, history, the U.S. political system, and law through sharing his extensive knowledge with a bit of humor and intermittent swear words. Not recommended for listeners under age 18.
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Ordain and Establish

The Center for the Constitution and the Catholic Intellectual Tradition

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Ordain and Establish is a podcast of The Center for the Constitution and the Catholic Intellectual Tradition (CIT). CIT promotes scholarship that explores the relationship between the Catholic intellectual tradition and American constitutionalism. That tradition is deep and rich, including philosophical and theological accounts of law and politics by such figures as St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas. CIT’s primary focus is on theories of constitutional law, such as originalism, although i ...
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Intellectually Curious is a podcast by Mike Breault featuring over 1,200 AI-powered explorations across science, mathematics, philosophy, and personal growth. Each short-form episode is generated, refined, and published with the help of large language models—turning curiosity into an ongoing audio encyclopedia. Designed for anyone who loves learning, it offers quick dives into everything from combinatorics and cryptography to systems thinking and psychology. Inspiration for this podcast: "Mu ...
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Intellectual

Intellectual

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Curating and Commenting on World News, History, and Literature. Youtube Channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYtm2tFMvmCoePRJTH5yUxA Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/Intellectual.Timeout
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What’s My Thesis?

Javier Proenza

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What’s My Thesis? is a podcast that examines art, philosophy, and culture through longform, unfiltered conversations. Hosted by artist Javier Proenza, each episode challenges assumptions and invites listeners to engage deeply with creative and intellectual ideas beyond surface-level discourse.
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Free Food for Thought is a student-run, student focused podcast that seeks to feed intellectual curiosity. We interview renowned speakers, thought leaders, and anyone else we think has an idea worth hearing!
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Off the Menu

Vincent Frankini

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Crazy, Classy, and Countercultural. This is a podcast with author and historian Charles Coulombe and his interlocutor Vincent Frankini who talk about a variety of topics on history, philosophy, and culture, offering opinions that you won't dare find in mainstream media.
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In Theory is the podcast of the Journal of the History of Ideas blog. The hosts of the JHI Blog team interview intellectual scholars in the fields of philosophy, literature, art history, natural and social sciences, religion, and political thought about their latest books and works. The aim of the JHI podcast is to highlight the huge diversity of intellectual history at university departments across the world.
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Bayley Babble

Bayley House

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The Bayley Babble Podcast keeps you in the loop with everything happening at Bayley House, a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to providing exceptional support for people with intellectual disability. Overseen by instructors Matt and Daniel, the podcast is co-hosted by a group of individuals who meet every week to plan, record, and produce each episode. Tune in for insightful conversations, special guests and a closer look at the people connected to Bayley House.
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Walter Russell Mead, a historian, pundit, and popular author, is encyclopedic about politics, culture, and history. On What Really Matters, Mead and Tablet deputy editor Jeremy Stern help you understand the news, decide what news matters and what doesn’t, and enjoy following the story of America and the world more than you do now. Check out Walter Russell Mead’s Tablet column at https://www.tabletmag.com/columns/via-meadia.
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The Outlaw History Podcast

Trae Wisecarver

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The Outlaw History podcast is dedicated to intellectual passion. It's a place for historians and other scholars to come together and share their love of knowledge. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/outlawhistorian/support
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LATTER-DAY SAINT CULTURE & THEOLOGY Cwic Show articulates the current cultural, political, and Church-related trends that affect our lives and the Church. Also, Cwic Media offers a new approach to the scriptures through its Cwic Interpreters. Theology, History, No fluff. LDS, Mormon. Unscripted! 'I have been looking for an LDS podcast like this! Not like anything else out there!' Latter-Day Saints, Christian Book of Mormon New Testament Old Testament The products (services) and content offer ...
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Book Spider

Xi Draconis Books

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Book Spider (previously known as The God Setebos) is a book-of-the-week podcast primarily covering novels, with the occasional detour into nonfiction, literary criticism, poetry, and music. We pride ourselves in running a smart podcast for the discerning listener, and we strive for the highest level of intellectual rigor. Our mascot, the book spider, sits in its cold corner, gathering its web of text, looking at the world with its calm, chilly eyes.
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The Weimar Spectacle

Bremner Fletcher Duthie

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Exploring the extraordinary and astonishing social, political and cultural life of the Weimar Republic. Produced by Bremner Fletcher, singer, actor and kabarett artist and obsessive lover of Weimar culture and history: http://www.bremnersings.com
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Welcome to Beyond the Text, a podcast series dedicated to delving into intellectual history with depth and context. In a world saturated with quick takes, Beyond the Text goes the extra mile. Paying homage to Skinner's insights on the importance of context, this podcast unveils overlooked aspects of historical and intellectual narratives. Co-hosted by Samuel Woodall and Jack Thomson, Beyond the Text explores the profound impact of thought and ideas throughout human history—forces that have d ...
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Formerly - PG Radio Now, The Prakhar Gupta Xperience (PGX) – The Most Entertaining and Intellectual Conversations. My mission is simple: To create a raw, thought-provoking dialogue that brings deeper meaning to everyday conversation & to explore ideas that expand mind, challenge assumptions and push boundaries. No scripts. No agendas. Just genuine exploration of ideas. Join a community of thinkers, dreamers, and builders who refuse to settle for surface-level conversations. The journey conti ...
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Arts & Ideas

BBC Radio 4

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Leading thinkers discuss the ideas shaping our lives – looking back at the news and making links between past and present. Broadcast as Free Thinking, Fridays at 9pm on BBC Radio 4. Presented by Matthew Sweet, Shahidha Bari and Anne McElvoy.
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How did “the West” come to be used as a collective self-designation signaling political and cultural commonality? When did “Westerners” begin to refer to themselves in this way? Was the idea handed down from the ancient Greeks, or coined by nineteenth-century imperialists? Neither, writes Georgios Varouxakis in The West: The History of an Idea (Pri…
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Send us a text In this episode of the History of Ideas Club, Jack Thomson (MA Philosophy, University of Buckingham) leads a discussion on St Augustine’s The City of God. We explore Augustine’s response to the fall of Rome, his vision of the earthly and heavenly cities, and the influence of his thought on theology, politics, and philosophy. The Hist…
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A deep dive into the enigmatic Picts—Brittonic-speaking peoples of northern and eastern Scotland—and how their rise, language, and symbols laid the groundwork for the kingdom of Alba. We trace Fortriu’s power, the pivotal battles at Dun Nechtain, the Viking-age upheavals, and Kenneth MacAlpin’s dynastic shift, exploring the gradual Gaelic integrati…
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After the founding of the American Republic, African-American Intellectuals never accepted passively the narratives of racial difference maintained by the defenders of slavery and segregation. At a time when the belief in human equality was under attack from religious reactionaries and scientific innovators alike, Black thinkers succeeded in vindic…
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Discover how the bearded vulture survives on bones alone. We explore its bone-breaking drop technique, ultra-acid digestion, and iron-dyed plumage, and see how myth and modern conservation intertwine to keep this remarkable specialist thriving. Note: This podcast was AI-generated, and sometimes AI can make mistakes. Please double-check any critical…
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We explore A000375, the maximum number of topswaps needed to bring the card 1 to the top in any n-card deck under Conway's Topswaps. We explain the simple rules, the termination proof via the Wilf number, and the sharp Fibonacci upper bound φ(n) ≤ F_{n+1} proved by Murray Klamkin. We also cover the Morales–Sudborough quadratic lower bound, the open…
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What does living a good life involve? Michael Rosen's new book is called Good Days and offers suggestions to brighten our daily lives. Dr Sophie Scott-Brown is a research fellow at St Andrews' Institute of Intellectual History. The Rev'd Fergus Butler-Gallie has spent time working in the Czech republic and South Africa and ministering in parishes i…
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Sam Harris speaks with Michael Osterholm about his new book, The Big One: How We Must Prepare for Future Deadly Pandemics. They discuss the lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic, the major mistakes made in the public health response—including lockdowns, school closures, and border policies—the science of airborne versus droplet transmission, t…
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This episode is a little off-brand for me, but I'm not going to put up with this any longer. Pastor Mark Driscoll has taken the tragedy in Michigan as an opportunity to bash Mormons. Despite the online outcry, Driscoll has doubled down and produced an anti-Mormon eBook, "Are Mormons Christian?" Driscoll specifically states that Mormons do not belie…
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What if the concrete that holds up our cities could also store energy? MIT's ECO carbon concrete embeds a fractal network of carbon at the nanoscale that turns cement into a supercapacitor. In this episode we explain how hydration wires the network together, how researchers mapped it with FIB-SEM tomography, and how electrolyte choice—from organic …
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In episode 136 of The Prakhar Gupta Xperience, Jigna Vora, former crime journalist and author, joins the conversation to revisit her experiences covering Mumbai’s underworld. She talks about the city in the 80s, the split between Dawood Ibrahim and Chhota Rajan, and her interactions with gangsters and their world. Jigna also opens up about her arre…
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We trace the birth of black hole thermodynamics: Bekenstein’s area-entropy conjecture, Hawking’s discovery of black hole radiation, and the four laws of black hole mechanics. We’ll unpack the generalized second law, the deep link between surface gravity and temperature, area and entropy, and how these insights underlie the holographic principle and…
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Sam Harris introduces the first episode of The Last Invention, a new podcast series on the hype and fear about the AI revolution, reported by Gregory Warner and Andy Mills. Gregory Warner was a foreign correspondent in Russia and Afghanistan, and the East Africa bureau chief for NPR. He created and hosted the podcast Rough Translation. He also publ…
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We explore A000373, the conjectured dimensions of a module tied to the free commutative Moufang loop (CML) with exponent 3. From Yuminin’s question about the free CML’s order to Smith’s early formula, and from Grishkov–Shestakov’s 2011 counterexamples to the triple-argument hypothesis, the landscape shifted: higher-term values aren’t fixed by a sin…
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We trace how driving a huge electric current through plasma creates its own magnetic squeeze, leading from early Z-pinch experiments and the stabilized pinch to the rise of the tokamak. Then we dive into the modern revival—sheared-flow stabilization, ZAP Energy’s progress, and the prospects for pulsed fusion and even space propulsion. A concise, ac…
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Between the First and Second World Wars, activists across the British Empire began to think about what their homes might look like as independent nations, rather than colonies subject to the control of London. Sometimes, these thinkers found refuge and common cause in others elsewhere in the Empire–such as between India and Egypt, , as Erin O’Hallo…
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We explore Dedekind numbers, also known as M2, and their surprising equivalences to monotone Boolean functions, antichains and Sperner families. We'll trace the history of exact values (known up to n = 9), the computational hurdles that make n = 10 intractable, and the sharp asymptotic picture in which most antichains cluster around the middle laye…
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We explore the core ideas of order theory—total vs partial orders, posets, Hasse diagrams, and the language of least/greatest versus minimal/maximal elements. Through simple examples like subset containment and divisibility, we see how infima, suprema, and lattices organize mathematics and intuition alike. We’ll also unpack the ubiquitous idea of d…
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Katharine Jenkins offers an introduction to feminist philosophy, giving the reader an idea of what it is, why it is important, and how to think about it. She explores key topics such as gender oppression, beauty, objectification, and sexuality. Moreover, she considers questions about the relation between the personal and the political, what it is t…
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In this episode of Historically Thinking, host Al Zambone speaks with historian Peter Fritzsche about his book "1942: When World War II Engulfed the Globe." The conversation explores how 1942 marked the transformation of regional conflicts into a truly global war, examining the unprecedented scale and movement of the conflict, the suffering and dis…
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In this episode, Christine Porath, professor at UNC’s Kenan-Flagler Business School and author of Mastering Civility, Mastering Community, and co-author of The Cost of Bad Behavior, explores the hidden toll of incivility on performance, mental health, and overall well-being. She shares insights from her research and consulting with organizations an…
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From Herodotus’s phrase about the Nile as a gift, through the river’s predictable floods that renewed soils and shaped calendars and beliefs, to the modern era of dams and diplomacy, this episode traces the Nile’s deep history and contemporary complexities. We explore the river’s geologic and geographic shifts—from eonile and the Khufu branch to th…
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NPN equivalence groups functions that can be turned into one another by flipping inputs, permuting inputs, and possibly inverting the output. A000370 counts how many such equivalence classes remain for each n: 1 for n=0, 2 for n=1, 4 for n=2, 14 for n=3, 222 for n=4, and 616,126 for n=5, illustrating the dramatic compression. In practice, each clas…
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In this episode, Croaky takes aim at JD Vance’s latest fairy tale — the claim that Republicans had the “foresight” to handle ACA subsidies expiring. Spoiler: they didn’t. The so-called Big Beautiful Bill hospital fund wasn’t prophecy. It was a payoff to nervous Republican senators after Medicaid cuts nearly collapsed rural hospitals. Now Vance want…
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The Revival of Platonism in Cicero's Late Philosophy: Platonis Aemulus and the Invention of Cicero (Lexington Books, 2016) argues that Cicero deserves to be spoken of with more respect and to be studied with greater care. Using Plato's influence on Cicero's life and writings as a clue, Altman reveals the ineffable combination of qualities that enab…
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The European left seemed to be in rude health during the 1970s. Never had so many political parties committed to representing the working class been in power simultaneously across the continent. New forms of mobilisation led by female, immigrant, and young wage-earners seemed to reflect the growing strength of the workers' movement rather than its …
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Artist Kristen Huizar joins What’s My Thesis? to reflect on drawing, printmaking, and the act of documenting Los Angeles. Born and raised in Commerce, CA, she traces her path from community college to Cal State Long Beach, where persistence and community shaped her practice. Working with wax pastels on plastic vinyl, hand stitching, and large lino …
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It's been a tough season to date for the Tigers in the AFLW. But that didn't stop a buoyant Bec Miller from dropping by the Babble. The Tigers defender discussed her journey to the AFLW, what it takes to compete at the highest level and how the competition has changed during her career. And did Gav and Matt K really say they are thinking about chan…
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Explore A000366, the integers you get by dividing the Genocchi numbers of the second kind by 2^(n-1). Despite the division, every term is a positive integer, a mystery that has driven a century of study starting with Delac and Marcel in 1901. We trace two complementary viewpoints: a concrete Delac grid counting problem (2n rows, n columns, two cell…
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Okay, full disclosure, I started this podcast not for any deep political reason, but because I was fascinated by the culture of the Weimar Republic, the music, the arts, the architecture, the personalities. I didn’t start it because I thought that the political parallels between then and now were absolutely clear. But, there’s that thing that happe…
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The difficulty of Jacques Lacan's thought is notorious. The Cambridge Introduction to Jacques Lacan cuts through this difficulty to provide a clear, jargon-free approach to understanding it. The book describes Lacan's life, the context from which he emerged, and the reception of his theory. Readers will come away with an understanding of concepts s…
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Innovation plays a role in the beauty and fashion industry as it does in any line of business. New products, new techniques, and new markets animate the industry, and punctuate its history.In her latest book project, Dr. Denise Sutton, associate professor at the City University of New York, examines several case studies in fashion and beauty innova…
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We journey through the Gudermannian (often called Gutermannian) function, the elegant link that ties circular angles to hyperbolic angles without complex numbers. We explore how its antiderivative is the hyperbolic secant, while its inverse comes from the circular secant, and why this makes the function a natural bridge between two geometries. We'l…
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