Helping you understand everything you should know about Japan. Interviews with Japan experts, deep dives into Japanese culture and society, and plenty of laughs; every episode host Tony R. Vega sheds light on a different aspect of Japan. Whether you're planning a visit to Japan, learning Japanese or just have a passion for all things Japan, we've got something for you! Common topics include ・Japanese culture ・Deep dives into the Japanese language ・Japanese history ・Japanese food ・Japan trave ...
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Krewe of Japan is a weekly podcast that takes listeners on audio journeys through Japanese culture. With our hosts as your guide, and the help of guest experts, Japanese natives, and ex-pats, understanding Japan is now easier than ever before.
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Exploring Japanese pop culture through a feminist lens.
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Join writer/Japanophile Josh Furr on a treasure hunt through the "back" of Japan: the underrated and overlooked Hokuriku region, including present day Fukui, Niigata and Toyama prefectures.
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A podcast where we chat about Asian pop culture: films, tv shows, cartoons, video games, comics, books, food… whatever we’re feeling on the day, really. A little bit of news, a little bit of analysis, but a whole lot of fun. New episodes every Monday!
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Unpacking Japan explores Japanese arts, culture, and business through the lives of foreigners who have made this amazing country their home. While we’ve all seen vlogs and movies showing Japan from a pop culture perspective, Unpacking Japan tells the stories that get left by the wayside—the immigrants, the entrepreneurs, and the artists. Tune in every week for an authentic, inspiring conversation with someone who’s carved out their own, unique place in this beautiful country. Host: Tobias Bi ...
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Online Japanese school Nihongo Picnic's Podcast for learners of Japanese! We pick up a topic for each episode and talk about it in Japanese. Here's the transcript of each episode: https://nihongopicnic.notion.site/Nihongo-Picnic-Podcast-s-Transcript-e6c923a2d9f34c1fa278bb5e4531ea0f 🚲：A little easier than other episodes. Most grammar I use in the episodes are N4 level. 🚃：About N3 level 🚀：For advanced learners 👥：Interview 🖥 Website: https://nihongopicnic.com 🐦 Twitter: https://twitter.com/akok ...
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Football’s funniest family duo — Jason Kelce of the Philadelphia Eagles and Travis Kelce of the Kansas City Chiefs — team up to provide next-level access to life in the league as it unfolds. The two brothers and Super Bowl champions drop weekly insights about the weekly slate of games and share their INSIDE perspectives on trending NFL news and sports headlines. They also endlessly rag on each other as brothers do, chat the latest in pop culture and welcome some very popular and well-known f ...
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A pop culture comedy podcast hosted by Erin Gibson and Bryan Safi who cover LGBTQ+ and gender issues of the moment with both hilarity and healthy doses of absurdity. Sales and Distribution by Lemonada Media https://lemonadamedia.com/
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Reviews and deep dives into Japanese and American pop culture's effect on history, the history of genres and franchises, and philosophy behind and within said content. I'm just a guy trying to justify his library and TV watching habits.
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AniPro Podcast is your weekly go-to for anime, manga, and Japanese pop culture. Hosted by Cole, Mike, and Jay, we spotlight classic anime, debate the hottest seasonal shows, dive into manga, and explore the culture behind it all. No gatekeeping, no drama, just three passionate nerds with lively, thoughtful discussions and the occasional gaming detour. Whether you’re a longtime fan or new to anime, AniPro is your enthusiastic and welcoming guide to Japanese entertainment.
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A podcast covering Japanese pop culture, including music, celebrities, video games, dramas, anime, and everything else in between.
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The Loftus Party podcast is a political comedy, pop culture Podcast that crushes the news into bite sized bits of comedic common sense. Hosted by comedian and writer Michael Loftus.
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Wrestling podcast that loves all types of pro wrestling! We Talk about AEW, New Japan, Impact, WWE, WOW, GCW and our local Independent scene. We cover a wide range of wrestling topics with a touch of pop culture and have a few guests from time to time!
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Poetry Pea is a poetry podcast from www.poetrypea.com. It features haiku and senryu and other Japanese short form poetry. There are lots of free writing resources, workshops from experts, readings of original poetry, haiku and senryu, as well as prompts and writing exercises. You can submit your haiku or senryu to Patricia and be featured on the podcast and in the Poetry Pea Journal. Let’s write together.
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Welcome to Tokyo Storytellers. Life straight from Japan. Have your questions answered. Cover art photo provided by Freddy Castro on Unsplash: https://unsplash.com/@readysetfreddy
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Welcome to Asian Not Asian, a podcast where two Asian peeps not from Asia talk about American issues no American cares about. New episode every other Tuesday!
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Love, Hate, Life, Pain, Everything
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https://archive.org/details/@crapfromthepast for more... Host Ron "Boogiemonster" Gerber has a soft spot for everything original in pop music, from the dizzying heights (Stevie Wonder, Tears For Fears, Toy Matinee, Holly Knight, Crowded House, Marshall Crenshaw, Jellyfish, ...), to the stultifying depths (Stars on 45, MC Hammer, the Ethel Merman Disco Album, Milli Vanilli, anything on Kid Stuff Records...), to the spellbindingly odd (Peter Cetera singing in Japanese?!?).As the old saying goe ...
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Selective Hearing Radio is a collection of discussions about anything we feel about mouthing off on in regards to music, video games, pro wrestling and pop culture.
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Lots of politics and pop culture from a progressive white rednecks who live in Los Angeles. We discuss grassroots politics from our point of view and try and keep it from being too textbook. Instead, we explain it from our perspective and also share with you all the fun we have in Los Angeles.
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Daily talk about Video Games, Comics, Anime, TV, Movies, Animation, Tech and more from ClownfishTV.com. Pop Culture News, Views, Reviews, and Rants hosted by Kneon and Geeky Sparkles. Listen on YouTube and Spotify for the VIDEO version.
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Welcome to our fandom-centric podcast, where we explore anime, geek culture, and dive deep into Japanese aesthetics and Asian Studies. Our family-friendly program features open forum discussions with a conversational, casual tone, offering unique perspectives on the topics that matter most. Episodes typically run for about 60 minutes, with new content available on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, and occasionally Saturdays. Please note that it may take up to 24 hours for episodes to appear on t ...
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Bringing you Asia-wide hits 24/7. Stream us 24/7 via asianpopradio.com or by downloading our free APP here:goo.gl/nRFtjy Twitter.com/asianpopradio Youtube.com/asianpopradio
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I talk about Japanese Music: Electronic, Pop and Rock. This podcast is licensed under Creative Comments. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
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Two stand-up comics in NYC bring you a weekly roundup of the best of the worst the internet has to offer. We cover everything from pop culture and corporate fails to celebrity news and whatever else the almighty algorithm throws our way. We doomscroll so you don’t have to. https://beacons.ai/doomscrolldiariespod
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Welcome to the Japanese Music Café, or the J-Café, where we have conversations about your favorite Japanese pop, rock, and hip-hop artists from the 21st century. Hosted by JD, a Japanese music fanatic for over 20 years. In each episode, JD and a guest will discuss their experiences with Japanese music and discuss a Japanese artist's music, provide reviews of songs, and share stories about how these artists or songs have impacted our lives.
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For the Education, Elucidation, Emancipation and Enlightenment of the Nipponistic Hoi-Polloi…
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Burnout-free video game coverage from podcast veterans. Join Garrett and Kyle every week as they get lost in games, pop culture, and everything they’re personally playing.
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The show where we guide newcomers through the world of anime, manga, and all things Japanese pop culture.
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{Bandwidth Will Reset Around The Beginning Of Each Month. Podcast Lasts About A Week Or So. Just Keep Checking Back}This podcast has mainly Asian rock songs. There is some hip-hop/pop as well. I also have NO CONTROL OVER BANDWIDTH! You just have to listen to it when it resets or donate so I can upgrade bandwidth, it will last a month. http://chaosd.podomatic.com/ is the original podcast page. Email me at [email protected] if you have any questions.
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The Raw and Cooked...
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The Super Chevy Bros., Chevar and Chevall, take on video games and more. With separate homes in Texas and Japan, the two will keep you updated on pop culture and news from one end of the globe to the other. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/super-chevy-bros. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Dragon Ball has a wealth of cultural context and inspiration that’s often overlooked because the fights are cool. Though not averse to fawning over animation and allowing for the Rule of Cool, Jelli and Bekinney delve into the world of Akira Toriyama, and discuss lesser-known facts about the worldwide manga and anime phenomenon that is one of the most well-known and popular Japanese pop culture exports of all-time. Want to learn about the cultural importance of moments, literary inspirations ...
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The Unofficial Voice of the Cafe
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https://esumiyos.bandcamp.com/ Now the New Album Lepidoptera is available on Bandcamp Japanese indie rock musician/multiplayer(G,B,K,D,V), playing pop yet experimental songs, influenced by various music including 70's UK rock, Soviet rock, Japanese pops, TV soundtrack, heavy metal, new age, fusion, jazz, and prog rock (without programming). Artworks are made by esumiyos using ImageJ software.
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Interviews with Authors about their New Books Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network
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Welcome to Wuhoi Podcast Season 03! Isang variety podcast na kahit ano pwedeng pag-usapan. May mga topics tulad ng adulting, art talks, nostalgia, mental decluttering, reality shows, top ten lists, pop culture, at kung anu-ano pa. Hosted by Chikoy Domingo. Catch the Wuhoi Podcast every Wednesday at 8 PM Philippine Standard Time on your favorite podcast apps or by visiting https://podcast.wuhoi.com. Use the hashtag #thewuhoipodcast and tag me @chikoywuhoi on Instagram, Facebook or YouTubefor ...
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Like My Anime is a podcast about language learning, media analysis, and Japanese pop culture. Every month, we dive into how anime and media can actually help you learn Japanese (and where they fall short), with study tips, language myths, and deep dives into different shows and series.
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This podcast is devoted to brings audio reviews, news and "insightful" discussion on J-Pop, J-Rock and K-Pop. It could be random and could follow a format, really depends on how much time I have between my hobbies and my studies.
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Hour long weekly show about asian music and culture, playing full length songs. Airs Sundays 8pm EST on Jackalope Radio ( http://jackaloperadio.com )
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My name is Lisle Wilkerson, and I am an American woman who grew up and lived/worked in Japan for about 30 years.I am what they call a "TCK" (third culture kid) ..Not American. Not Japanese. Who and what am I?!?! I tell some crazy stories about my life straddling the two very different cultures of Japan and the US...and of course I also include voices from many amazing people who have had similar journeys.
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This podcast features two young ladies that have big personalities and even bigger opinions. Get comfortable with Ali and Cammy as we drive the conversation. We love to share our thoughts on anime, celebrity news, pop culture, beauty, business and so much more. We will have something that you can enjoy. Join us in the conversation and share some of your 2 cents! Follow us on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook at hear_our2cents Thank you to Hannah for customized cover art! Follow her on Instagra ...
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A K-Pop podcast that brings you bite-size news five-days-a-week. Let us catch you up on the latest buzz of the Internet!
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In December of the year 2000, an unknown male broke into a suburban Tokyo home and killed an entire family. Despite leaving thousands of pieces of evidence in the house, including his clothes, the murder weapon, his DNA, his blood, even his excrement—we are no closer to knowing this man’s identity. There’s no clear motive. And no sign of the case being closed. The Miyazawa family murders are a paradox. They’re a case which has haunted Tokyo police for 22 years now. A case which should be sol ...
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AEW World's End 2025 | Total Spotfest Year End Awards and 2025 Review
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JJ, Jamie and Austin Reddick review and react to AEW's World's End PPV from Chicago and go over their year end awards in this special Year End show!-------------------------------------------------------- Intro Music:VOYAGER 1 by John Tasoulas | https://soundcloud.com/john-tasoulas Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.comCreative Commons …
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Dagmar Schafer, "Ownership of Knowledge: Beyond Intellectual Property" (MIT Press, 2023)
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Ownership of Knowledge: Beyond Intellectual Property (MIT Press, 2023) provides a framework for knowledge ownership that challenges the mechanisms of inequality in modern society. Scholars of science, technology, medicine, and law have all tended to emphasize knowledge as the sum of human understanding, and its ownership as possession by law. Break…
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Gil Ben-Herut, "Stories of Shiva's Saints: Selections from Harihara's Ragales" (Oxford UP, 2025)
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The Kannada language boasts an ongoing literary tradition spanning more than a millennium, with a rich array of social positions and roles, religious traditions, and poetic styles that developed over the dramatic history of the region. Yet translations from premodern Kannada to English have been inconsistent, with only a handful of works that have …
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How to Organize Inclusive Events and Conferences
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How to Organize Inclusive Events and Conferences is the ultimate guide to creating welcoming, safe, and accessible gatherings for everyone. With detailed strategies and illustrative examples, How to Organize Inclusive Events and Conferences uses principles of design justice to share how to put on truly inclusive occasions built for the needs and ab…
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Hans Kundnani, "Eurowhiteness: Culture, Empire and Race in the European Project" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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"Today’s 'pro-Europeans' would be horrified at the suggestion that their idea of Europe had anything to do with whiteness. In fact, many would find the attempt to link the two baffling and outrageous," writes Hans Kundnani in Eurowhiteness: Culture, Empire and Race in the European Project (Oxford UP, 2023). Yet, he does so - taking the reader on a …
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Baijayanti Roy, "The Nazi Study of India and Indian Anti-Colonialism" (Oxford UP, 2024)
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The Nazi Study of India and Indian Anti-Colonialism (2024) is the first detailed and critical study of the intellectual and political connections that existed between some German scholars specializing on India, non-academic ‘India experts,’ Indian anti-colonialists and various organs of the Nazi state published by the Oxford University Press. It ex…
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Betty Milan, "Analyzed by Lacan: A Personal Account" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
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Analyzed by Lacan: A Personal Account (Bloomsbury, 2023) brings together the first English translations of Why Lacan, Betty Milan's memoir of her analysis with Lacan in the 1970s, and her play, Goodbye Doctor, inspired by her experience. Why Lacan provides a unique and valuable perspective on how Lacan worked as psychoanalyst as well as his approac…
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Kevin J. Mitchell, "Free Agents: How Evolution Gave Us Free Will" (Princeton UP, 2023)
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Scientists are learning more and more about how brain activity controls behavior and how neural circuits weigh alternatives and initiate actions. As we probe ever deeper into the mechanics of decision making, many conclude that agency--or free will--is an illusion. In Free Agents: How Evolution Gave Us Free Will (Princeton UP, 2023), leading neuros…
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Tony Spawforth, "What the Greeks Did for Us" (Yale UP, 2023)
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Our contemporary world is inescapably Greek. Whether in a word like “pandemic,” a Freudian state of mind like the “Oedipus complex,” or a replica of the Parthenon in a Chinese theme park, ancient Greek culture shapes the contours of our lives. Ever since the first Roman imitators, we have been continually falling under the Greeks’ spell. But how di…
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Henry Grabar, "Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World" (Penguin, 2023)
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Parking, quite literally, has a death grip on America: each year a handful of Americans are tragically killed by their fellow citizens over parking spots. But even when we don't resort to violence, we routinely do ridiculous things for parking, contorting our professional, social, and financial lives to get a spot. Indeed, in the century since the …
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Kerry Brown, "The Great Reversal: Britain, China and the 400-Year Contest for Power" (Yale UP, 2024)
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In the sixteenth century, Queen Elizabeth I tried to send several letters to her Chinese counterpart, the Wan Li Emperor. The letters tried to ask the Ming emperor to conduct trade relations with faraway England; none of the expeditions carrying the letters ever arrived. It’s an inauspicious beginning to the four centuries of foreign relations betw…
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Caitlin Clark on New Nike Ad, Signature Shoe & Fantasy Punishments + Week 18 Preview | EP 173
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92%ers, welcome to another episode of New Heights brought to you by Nike! On today’s episode, we are welcoming back to the show WNBA Superstar, Caitlin Clark! Caitlin and the guys get her thoughts on what went into creating her new Nike commercial, what she’s planning for her first signature shoe, her reaction to Jason dunking, how she’s feeling ge…
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Anna Zeide, "US History in 15 Foods" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
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From whiskey in the American Revolution to Spam in WWII, food reveals a great deal about the society in which it exists. Selecting 15 foods that represent key moments in the history of the United States, this book takes readers from before European colonization to the present, narrating major turning points along the way, with food as a guide. US H…
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J. Barton Scott, "Slandering the Sacred: Blasphemy Law and Religious Affect in Colonial India" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
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Why is religion today so often associated with giving and taking offense? To answer this question, Slandering the Sacred: Blasphemy Law and Religious Affect in Colonial India (U Chicago Press, 2023) invites us to consider how colonial infrastructures shaped our globalized world. Through the origin and afterlives of a 1927 British imperial law (Sect…
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Amit Varshizky, "The Metaphysics of Race: Science and Faith in the Nazi Worldview" (Taylor & Francis, 2024)
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The Metaphysics of Race seeks to reframe debates on the conflicting scientific and spiritual traditions that underpinned the Nazi worldview, showing how despite the multitude of tensions and rivals among its adherents, it provided a coherent conceptual grid and possessed its own philosophical consistency. Drawing on a large variety of works, the vo…
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Dejan Djokić, "A Concise History of Serbia" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
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Dejan Djokić's book A Concise History of Serbia (Cambridge UP, 2023) covers the full span of Serbia's history – from the sixth-century Slav migrations through until the present day – in an effort to understand the country’s position at the crossroads of east and west. The book traces key developments surrounding the medieval and modern polities ass…
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James Welsh et al., "Weathering Space" (American Scientist 114:1 2026)
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Past human space missions were protected by Earth’s magnetic field and a measure of luck, but future missions beyond the Earth–Moon system will face far greater and longer-lasting radiation risks that cannot be managed by route planning alone. The authors argue that safe deep-space exploration will require major advances in understanding radiation,…
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Bernard Forjwuor, "Critique of Political Decolonization" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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What is political independence? As a political act, what was it sanctioned to accomplish? Is formal colonialism over, or a condition in the present, albeit mutated and evolved? In Critique of Political Decolonization (Oxford UP, 2023), Bernard Forjwuor challenges what, in normative scholarship, has become a persistent conflation of two different co…
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Jordan Frith, "Barcode" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
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Barcodes are about as ordinary as an object can be. Billions of them are scanned each day and they impact everything from how we shop to how we travel to how the global economy is managed. But few people likely give them more than a second thought. In a way, the barcode's ordinariness is the ultimate symbol of its success. However, behind the munda…
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Philip A. Wallach, "Why Congress" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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To achieve legitimate self-government in America's extended Republic, the U.S. Constitution depends on Congress harmonizing the country's factions through a process of conflict and accommodation. Why Congress (Oxford University Press, 2023) demonstrates the value of this activity by showing the legislature's distinctive contributions in two crucial…
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Alison Stone, "Women Philosophers in Nineteenth-Century Britain" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Many women wrote philosophy in nineteenth-century Britain, and they wrote across the full range of philosophical topics. Yet these important women thinkers have been left out of the philosophical canon and many of them are barely known today. The aim of Women Philosophers in Nineteenth-Century Britain (Oxford UP, 2023) is to put them back on the ma…
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J. W. Rinzler and Lee Unkrich, "Stanley Kubrick's The Shining" (Taschen, 2023)
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In 1966 Stanley Kubrick told a friend that he wanted to make “the world’s scariest movie.” A decade later Stephen King’s The Shining landed on the director’s desk, and a visual masterpiece was born. J. W. Rinzler and Lee Unkrich's book Stanley Kubrick's The Shining (Taschen, 2023) is the definitive compendium of the film that transformed the horror…
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Why "religion" in Japan doesn't make sense (to Westerners): A Talk with Hiroko Yoda | Japan Station 189
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On this episode of Japan Station, author Hiroko Yoda joins us to talk about the complexities of religious and spirituality in Japan, a topic she covers in her new book Eight Million Ways to Happiness. 👉Topics Discussed Why Hiroko Yoda was told to tell people she's Buddhist before going to the U.S. to study abroad About "Yaoyorozu no kami" About the…
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157 - Wicked REVIEW! It's just The Dark Knight for chicks
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In this week's episode of Two Asian Blokes, we finally review Wicked: Part 1 and Wicked: For Good. Why, you might ask? Well, these two movies happen to be directed by a man that has been mentioned on the podcast quite a bit, usually in a negative context - Jon M. Chu. So what did we think of this series of movies, which are in a genre of film that …
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What it takes to be a Japanese race car driver ft. Hana Burton
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Meet Hana, a Japanese-American race car driver, who sits down to talk with us about her life and career. She tells us about her journey into the racing world, cultural differences between Japan and the West, and what it takes to be a Japanese race car driver.Follow Hana:https://www.youtube.com/@hanaburtonhttps://www.instagram.com/hanubuu_https://x.…
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Looking back at 2025 and stoked for 26! Plus: More news and oddities.
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It's the episode of The Loftus Party Podcast with Michael Loftus we've been waiting all year for! We're taking a little look back at the big events of 2025, but dang it, we are focused on the future! So, buckle up for following the law on Immigration, AI news, Minnesota fraud, Brigitte Bardot, Life hacks, the big stories of 2025 and more! Wanna sho…
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Gillian Adler and Paul Strohm, "Alle Thyng Hath Tyme: Time and Medieval Life" (Reaktion, 2023)
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Alle Thyng Hath Tyme: Time and Medieval Life (Reaktion, 2023) recreates medieval people’s experience of time: as continuous and discontinuous, linear and cyclical, embracing Creation and Judgement, shrinking to ‘atoms’ or ‘droplets’ and extending to the silent spaces of eternity. They might measure time by natural phenomena such as sunrise and suns…
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Kate Clancy, "Period: The Real Story of Menstruation" (Princeton UP, 2023)
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Menstruation is something half the world does for a week at a time, for months and years on end, yet it remains largely misunderstood. Scientists once thought of an individual's period as useless, and some doctors still believe it's unsafe for a menstruating person to swim in the ocean wearing a tampon. Period: The Real Story of Menstruation (Princ…
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Sara Byala, "Bottled: How Coca-Cola Became African" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Travel to virtually any African country and you are likely to find a Coca-Cola, often a cold one at that. Bottled asks how this carbonated drink became ubiquitous across the continent, and what this reveals about the realities of globalisation, development and capitalism. Bottled: How Coca-Cola Became African (Oxford University Press, 2023) by Dr. …
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Michael Newton, "It's a Wonderful Life" (British Film Institute, 2023)
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Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life is one of the best-loved films of Classical Hollywood cinema, a story of despair and redemption in the aftermath of war that is one of the central movies of the 1940s, and a key text in America's understanding of itself. This is a film that remains relevant to our own anxieties and yearnings, to all the contradic…
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Marion Gibson, "Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials" (Scribner, 2023)
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Witchfinder General, Salem, Malleus Maleficarum. The world of witch-hunts and witch trials sounds archaic and fanciful, these terms relics of an unenlightened, brutal age. However, we often hear ‘witch-hunt’ in today’s media, and the misogyny that shaped witch trials is all too familiar. Three women were prosecuted under a version of the 1735 Witch…
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Andy Cowan, "B-Side: A Flipsided History of Pop" (Headpress, 2023)
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In his new book B-Sides: A Flipsided History of Pop (Headpress, 2023), Andy Cowan explores a century of music b-sides. Pop music would be a different beast without the B-Side. Music history is riven with songs deemed throwaway that revolted against their lowly status and refused to be denied. Be it rock'n'roll's national anthem ('Rock Around The Cl…
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Agata Fijalkowski, "Law, Visual Culture, and the Show Trial" (Routledge, 2023)
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Addressing the relationship between law and the visual, this book examines the importance of photography in Central, East, and Southeast European show trials. The dispensation of justice during communist rule in Albania, East Germany, and Poland was reliant on legal propaganda, making the visual a fundamental part of the legitimacy of the law. Anal…
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Amitav Acharya, "Tragic Nation: Burma--Why and How Democracy Failed" (Penguin Random House, 2023)
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What went wrong with Burma’s democratic experiment? How are we to understand the country’s turbulent politics in the wake of the 2021 coup? In this conversation with Duncan McCargo, Amitav Acharya talks about his new book on Burma, which draws extensively on communications with young activists he refers to as “thought warriors”. He also discusses t…
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Scott A. Mitchell, "The Making of American Buddhism" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Scott A. Mitchell is the Dean of Students and Faculty Affairs and holds the Yoshitaka Tamai Professorial Chair at the Institute of Buddhist Studies in Berkeley. He teaches and writes about Buddhism in the West, Pure Land Buddhism, and Buddhist modernism. As of 2010, there were approximately 3-4 million Buddhists in the United States, and that figur…
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Martin Jay, "Immanent Critiques: The Frankfurt School under Pressure" (Verso, 2023)
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The Frankfurt School’s own legacy is best preserved by exercising an immanent critique of its premises and the conclusions to which they often led. By distinguishing between what is still and what is no longer alive in Critical Theory, Immanent Critiques: The Frankfurt School Under Pressure (Verso, 2023) seeks to demonstrate its continuing relevanc…
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What if… Dragon Ball were to implement a Secret Invasion type of story, with a race of Ginyu type aliens body swapping into various bodies? How would swapping two beings into the same body at the same time? Join Jelli and Bekinney as they continue breaking down Akira Toriyama's worldwide manga and anime phenomenon Dragon Ball Z by looking at episod…
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----- 🚲：A little easier than other episodes. Most grammar I use in the episodes are N4 level. 🚃：About N3 level 🚀：For advanced learners 👥：Interview ----- ✍️ Transcript of each episode 🗞️ Nihongo Picnic Blog post on Substack 📓…
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Jeremy Black, "A History of Artillery" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023)
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Jeremy Black's book A History of Artillery (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023) traces the development of artillery through the ages, providing a thorough study of these weapons. From its earliest recorded use in battle over a millennium ago, up to the recent Gulf War, Balkan, and Afghanistan conflicts, artillery has often been the deciding factor in battl…
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Jean Pfaelzer, "California, a Slave State" (Yale UP, 2023)
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California owes its origins and sunny prosperity to slavery. Spanish invaders captured Indigenous people to build the chain of Catholic missions. Russian otter hunters shipped Alaska Natives--the first slaves transported into California--and launched a Pacific slave triangle to China. Plantation slaves were marched across the plains for the Gold Ru…
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Donna J. Drucker, "Fertility Technology" (MIT Press, 2023)
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A concise overview of fertility technology—its history, practical applications, and ethical and social implications around the world. In the late 1850s, a physician in New York City used a syringe and glass tube to inject half a drop of sperm into a woman’s uterus, marking the first recorded instance of artificial insemination. From that day forwar…
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Kathryn Cornell Dolan, "Breakfast Cereal: A Global History" (Reaktion Books, 2023)
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Breakfast Cereal: A Global History (Reaktion, 2023) by Dr. Kathryn Dolan presents the long, distinguished and surprising history of breakfast cereal. Simple, healthy and comforting, breakfast cereals are a perennially popular way to start the day around the world. They have a long, distinguished and surprising history – around 10,000 years ago, wit…
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Philippe Huneman, "Why?: The Philosophy Behind the Question" (Stanford UP, 2023)
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Why did triceratops have horns? Why did World War I occur? Why does Romeo love Juliet? And, most importantly, why ask why? In Why?: The Philosophy Behind the Question (Stanford UP, 2023), philosopher Philippe Huneman describes the different meanings of "why," and how those meanings can, and should (or should not), be conflated. As Huneman outlines,…
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Eric G. Wilson, "Point Blank" (British Film Institute, 2023)
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John Boorman's Point Blank (1967) has long been recognized as one of the seminal films of the sixties, with its revisionary mix of genres including neo-noir, New Wave, and spaghetti western. Its lasting influence can be traced throughout the decades in films like Mean Streets (1973), Reservoir Dogs (1992), Heat (1995), The Limey (1999) and Memento …
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Helle Strandgaard Jensen, "Sesame Street: A Transnational History" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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In Sesame Street: A Transnational History (Oxford UP, 2023), author Helle Strandgaard Jensen tells the story of how the American television show became a global brand. Jensen argues that because the show's domestic production was not financially viable from the beginning, Sesame Street became a commodity that its producers assertively marketed all …
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Richard Bradford, "Tough Guy: The Life of Norman Mailer" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
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Twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize, firstly in 1969 for The Armies of the Night and again in 1980 for The Executioner's Song, Norman Mailer's life comes as close as is possible to being the Great American Novel: beyond reason, inexplicable, wonderfully grotesque and addictive.The Naked and the Dead was acclaimed not so much for its intrinsic qualit…
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Stephanie Barczewski, "How the Country House Became English (Reaktion, 2023)
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How the Country House Became English (Reaktion, 2023) by Dr. Stephanie Barczewski is an exploration of the evolution of the quintessentially English country house. Country houses have come to be regarded as quintessentially English, not only in terms of their architectural style but because they appear to embody national values of continuity and in…
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A graduate-level course in pop, hosted by Ron "Boogiemonster" Gerber since 1992, originating from KFAI/Minneapolis, Friday nights 10 to midnight.. This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Columbia Peaks, Item Tile, JPEG Thumb, Metadata, PNG, Spectrogram, VBR MP3
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2026 Will Be ROUGH for Hollywood... | Clownfish TV
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Hollywood barely survived until 2025, and 2026 looks to be a whole lot worse. The employment numbers in the LA entertainment industry right now are HORRIBLE and Hollywood as we have known it has basically collapsed in a few short years. The Netflix/Warner Bros. merger isn't going to help anyone but Netflic shareholders. Buckle up..Watch this podcas…
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