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Fish University

Mississippi State University

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Fish University is a science-based podcast covering the latest research in fish management from the small pond to the vast ocean. This podcast is part of a larger podcast network: Natural Resources University, funded by the Renewable Resources Extension Act.
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Crime Junkie

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Does hearing about a true crime case always leave you scouring the internet for the truth behind the story? Dive into your next mystery with Crime Junkie. Every Monday, join your host Ashley Flowers as she unravels all the details of infamous and underreported true crime cases with her best friend Brit Prawat. From cold cases to missing persons and heroes in our community who seek justice, Crime Junkie is your destination for theories and stories you won’t hear anywhere else. Whether you're ...
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Batwoman TV Talk

Thought Bubble Audio

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Batwoman TV Talk is your home for everything relating to the new CW show Batwoman. Our dynamic duo of hosts will break down every episode of the CW series and explore the history of Kate Kane.
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Fearless

Texas Tech University

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From Texas Tech University, we bring you Fearless. It’s a podcast that features the untold stories of the school we love so dearly. Fearless is produced by the Texas Tech Office of Communications & Marketing. It’s hosted by Taylor Peters, with special help from Allison Hirth.
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Think of the people you interact with every day, would you want to spend a day in a canoe with them? This show is all about creating the life that you want, one filled with wealth, wisdom, meaning and purpose. And that starts with surrounding yourself with the right people – people you'd want to spend a day with, in a canoe.
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GOOD ON WOOD

St Stephen's University

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“If you are going to follow Jesus, you better look good on wood.” - Daniel Berrigan SJ The Good on Wood podcast explores the lives of dangerous disciples, holy mischief makers, contemplative activists, and ordinary radicals in hopes that their witness would inspire a new generation of Jesus followers to get up, get out, and get into some "good trouble." A production of St Stephens University & The Jim Forest Institute of Religion, Peace & Justice
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To be human is to fail – period. And not just to fail once, but to fail a lot. As the author Samuel Beckett said: “Fail again. Fail better.” This saying means a lot to me and my family – so much so that my daughter got a tattoo of it. Why are we, and so many others, so deeply concerned by failure? And if it’s something we all do so often, why are we so afraid of it – especially those of us here in win-at-all-costs America? In this podcast, I sit down with successful, thoughtful people like B ...
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A podcast dedicated to helping higher ed marketers tell better stories and enroll more students. Hosted by video producer and storytelling coach, John Azoni, these episodes provide quick-win practical advice you can put to use in your marketing right away.
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Hello Universe

Kyley Caldwell, Eva Liao

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Welcome to the Hello Universe podcast. We’re your hosts, Kyley and Eva—two spiritual besties obsessed with weird, trippy conversations and stories that make us feel alive in our human mess. If you want to expand your mind, open your heart, and feel better about life, you’re in the right place.
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Pivot Podcast

It's Never Too Late To Pivot

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Former NFL stars Ryan Clark, Fred Taylor and Channing Crowder have transcended the podcast game, topping the charts globally by creating a new form of media and carving an unprecedented niche in the space of sports, music and entertainment. Hosting weekly sit-down conversations with A-list stars, delivering timely discussions on important topics, not only becoming a voice of influence but one of impact as their unguarded emotion, humor and experience has established The Pivot as a premiere p ...
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Hawk to Hawk Podcast

University of Hartford Office of Development and Alumni Affairs

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This is the official University of Hartford Alumni Podcast! Season one features alumni interviews with host Abe Hefter, who is an Applied Assistant Professor of Journalism and Media at the University of Hartford. Season two continues to share stories of UHart Hawk Alums who spread their wings and work to better their community with host Eden Fritz Aguiar, who is a Graduate Student and Teaching Intern in the School of Communication. Check out this podcast to see what UHart Hawks do once they ...
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'Commemorating Partition and Civil Wars in Ireland, 2020-2023' is a project run by Dr Marie Coleman and Dr Dominic Bryan at Queen's University Belfast. The project, which is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, examines approaches to the upcoming centenary of the partition of Ireland and is one of a number of funded research projects being undertaken at Queen's University Belfast linked to the commemoration of the Irish 'decade of centenaries'. Speakers at 'Commemorating Parti ...
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Cosmic Radio

Elizabeth Garcia

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Cosmic Radio with host Elizabeth Garcia, NASA Ambassador. A show devoted to Space and Star watching. There will be interviews and information about current space missions, observatory information and local resources about the night sky over Mendocino. Tune in on the first Wednesdays of the month at 3:30 PM here in KZYX and Z
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Centre for Cities

Centre for Cities

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Centre for Cities is the leading think tank dedicated to improving the economies of the UK’s largest cities and towns. In these podcasts, Chief Executive Andrew Carter interviews leading thinkers in the urban policy field, as well as experts from Centre for Cities about their research and ideas on improving the economies of cities and large towns.
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Row Sixty: A Georgia Football Podcast

Clark Gaines, Adam Thornton, | UGA Alumni

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Row Sixty is a Georgia football podcast made for Dawgs, by Dawgs. Hosted by lifelong fans and alumni Clark Gaines and Adam Thornton, the show blends passion, energy, and analysis from a true fan’s perspective. Named after their own seats in Sanford Stadium, Row Sixty is a boots-on-the-ground experience that captures the heartbeat of the Bulldog Nation and brings fans closer to the game they love.
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Hey folks. Mandy Kaplan here. I’d like to share a bit about my intentions and mission for MMAN if you’ll indulge me. You will? Huzzah! Look, I am a lot of things. I’m a writer, actress, mother, and lover of musicals and cats, but NOT Cats, The Musical. Give me a little bit of credit, would ya? So...throughout my life, I’ve been surrounded (and intrigued) by all things nerd. A sister who plays D&D, a Star Wars-obsessed husband, friends who love anime, comic books, video games, and...well, you ...
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Hosted by comedians Amy Gledhill and Ian Smith – two Northerners living in London –on a mission to find the juiciest stories from their hometowns and beyond. Join them each week as they scour the local rags of the North to find the stories you didn’t know you needed to know. Do you have news from the North? Write in to [email protected] Want even more Northern News? Join us on Patreon at patreon.com/NorthernNews Follow Northern News on Instagram @NorthernNewsPodcast Produced by Plosi ...
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Legendary voice actor Jim Cummings gives unique insights into the characters that shaped his career, joined by some of the biggest names in pop culture. Support the show for EARLY & AD-FREE ACCESS, as well as EXCLUSIVE CONTENT at patreon.com/jimcummingspodcast Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/toon-d-in-with-jim-cummings--5863067/support.
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NL Feast

Sports Drink

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The only baseball podcast specifically about the NL East. Objectively the strongest division in baseball, subjectively according to hosts Sam Clark and Brandon Gross. Powered by Sports Drink.
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Life Design

David L. Gould, The University of Iowa

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While most University students realize how bleak life’s prospects can be without a college degree, some have a difficult time answering the fundamental question, “Why am I here?” The good news is that even in today’s complex, competitive world, there are answers. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi calls it “flow”. Ken Robinson refers to it as “the Element” – the place where the things you love to do and the things you are good at come together. Martin Seligman calls it the “Good Life”, where an individ ...
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Universal Sounds

Small Batch Network

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Universal Sounds is a weekly Podcast , Breaking Down & Discussing all things Music , including Artist Timelines & Biographies , Album , Song & Artist Breakdowns , as well as general topics.
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The Weekly Planet

Planet Broadcasting

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The Weekly Planet covers all things movies, TV shows and comics. Often considered the first and worst podcast on the Planet Broadcasting Network. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Excellent Leadership Podcast

Excel Search & Advisory x DBPodcasts

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The Excellent Leadership Podcast interviews sports and entertainment CEOs, Presidents, General Managers, Athletics Directors, Head Coaches, Elite Athletes and Performers. We explore their career journeys, experiences, and advice as leaders in the world's most exciting and competitive industry. You will gain key insights on high performance, championship cultures, team management, leadership, and transformation. The podcast is hosted by Chad Biagini, President of Excel Search & Advisory at Ex ...
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Trauma InJustice

Alison DeBelder and Chris Moser

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Trauma InJustice is a podcast about the ways that people in the criminal justice system confront and manage trauma. It’s also about the ways that training has aided (or failed) them and ought to be improved.
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The Finish Line Podcast

The Finish Line Team

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Kealan, a surgeon, and Cody, a financial advisor, discuss the intersection of faith, generosity, and personal finance. They’re joined by a variety of guests, including pastors, financial advisors, radically generous givers, entrepreneurs, CEOs, and nonprofit leaders to explore one central question: How do we best steward God’s wealth? On The Finish Line Podcast, you’ll hear challenging and inspirational stories of tremendous generosity. You’ll also learn from experts in multiple fields about ...
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Are you ready to dive into the hidden realms and uncover the deeper meaning that lies beyond the ordinary? Tune in to Get Psyched with Kari Samuels, your gateway to exploring the mystical and profound. This podcast guides you on a journey to connect with your inner wisdom and the unseen realms, helping you enrich your life with greater purpose and meaning. Each episode equips you with practical tools and insights to tune into your intuition, harness the power of astrology and numerology, and ...
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The Human Factor

Inc. Magazine

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A dive into the messy, imperfect and all-too-human side of today’s leading business stories, inspired by the real-life, behind-the-scenes stories of struggle, innovation, creativity, resilience and ultimate breakthrough (or not). Hosted by Inc. and Fast Company’s CEO and Inc.’s former editor-in-chief, Eric Schurenberg.
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All Ball with Doug Gottlieb

Fox Sports Radio and iHeartPodcasts

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All Ball with Doug Gottlieb is an unfiltered podcast covering the biggest stories in college basketball and the NBA. Join Doug as he brings his unique perspective as an TV analyst and radio host. In each episode, he'll give his opinions and discuss the top stories in the NBA and college basketball. Follow Doug on Twitter and subscribe NOW to get all the latest episodes!.
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Spoke

Jonny McCormick

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Welcome to Spoke. Deep conversations with interesting people about subjects that matter. Join Jonny McCormick and a new guest each week during the season and be a 'fly-on-the-wall' during interesting conversations on a whole host topics like online community building and the fight against modern slavery. You'll get a unique insight into a subject that's close to our guests' heart and hear a little bit about what makes these incredible people tick. You can connect with Spoke on instagram and ...
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Adam Jones will be familiar to anyone interested in the field of genocide studies. He's published one of the leading textbooks in the field. He's been influential in drawing attention to the intersection of gender and mass violence. And he's particpated in the emergence of attention to genocides of indigenous peoples over the past decade. Sites of …
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This week, we feature an episode with Dr. Alvaro Salas-Castro, President and CEO of the Reynolds Foundation, and Founder and Chairman of the Democracy Lab Foundation, which fosters civic innovation. We discuss the current state of the freedom and democracy movement, how philanthropic partnerships and democracy defenders are responding to authoritar…
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Eucalypts, iconic to Australia, have shaped art, science and landscapes worldwide. With around nine hundred species, from towering giants to compact mallees, these trees inspire awe and curiosity. Their hardwood has driven industries, sparked protests and even toppled governments. Their aromatic leaves hold healing properties yet fuel devastating w…
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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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Plastic is ubiquitous. It is in the Arctic, in the depths of the Mariana Trench, and in the high mountaintops of the Pyrenees. It is in the air we breathe and the water we drink. Nanoplastics penetrate our cell walls. Plastic is not just any material—it is emblematic of life in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. In Plastic Matter (Duke UP, 2…
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The Psychgeist of Pop Culture: The Last of Us (Playstory Press, 2025) explores the psychological themes at the heart of The Last of Us franchise. Authors from media, culture, and fandom studies explore how trauma, grief, morality, survival, and revenge shape the story’s characters and influence their choices. This book examines these themes across …
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Antarcticness: Inspirations and Imaginaries (UCL Press, 2022) edited by Ilan Kelman Antarcticness joins disciplines, communication approaches, and ideas to explore meanings and depictions of Antarctica. Personal and professional words in poetry and prose, plus images, present and represent Antarctica, as presumed and as imagined, alongside what is …
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Thinking of the French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, it is hard to think of him without imagining him in very particular contexts. One will likely imagine him in a Parisian cafe working through a pack of cigarettes and coffee, working on his latest play while waiting for his friend Pierre to arrive. His theories of freedom against the temptations o…
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1980 was a turning point in American history. When the year began, it was still very much the 1970s, with Jimmy Carter in the White House, a sluggish economy marked by high inflation, and the disco still riding the airwaves. When it ended, Ronald Reagan won the presidency in a landslide, inaugurating a rightward turn in American politics and cultur…
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Once used extensively in schools, hospitals, and housing, asbestos has taken the lives of millions. Bad Dust: A History of the Asbestos Disaster (Repeater, 2025) by Tom White traces the international history of the asbestos disaster — from mining operations in apartheid South Africa to the factories and shipyards of the UK – and tells the story of …
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Like any set of star-crossed lovers, Elaine and Charles came from different worlds. Elaine, an acclaimed childhood poet from a remote corner of the Massachusetts Berkshires, traveled to the Dakota Territories to teach Native American students, undaunted by society’s admonitions. Charles, a Dakota Sioux from Minnesota, educated at Dartmouth and Bost…
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Over the span of a single decade, VHS technology changed the relationship between privacy and entertainment, pried open the closed societies behind the Iron Curtain, and then sank back into oblivion. Its meteoric rise and fall encapsulated the dynamics of the '80s and foreshadowed the seismic cultural shifts to come after the Cold War. In the West,…
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Western democracies are haunted. Michael Hanchard suggests that the specter of race is what haunts our democracies, but it may be more accurate to suggest that they are haunted by their own racialized death machines—by racialized premature death. If this haunting is not adequately attended to, democracies cannot fulfill their function. Even W. E. B…
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What does it feel like to experience your body cleaving into two while public discussion of reproductive healthcare centers around the viability line: the fantasized moment when a fetus could feasibly be extracted from a uterus? What happens to the psychology of parents who spend years scrolling through photographs of children crushed in war while …
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September 11th, 2001 marked the beginning of the so-called war on terror, but the attacks of that day also re-ignited battles over the nature of American patriotism. In Divided by Terror: American Patriotism after 9/11 (UNC Press, 2021), Professor John Bodnar argues that the nature of patriotism as being war-based or empathetic divided the nation a…
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In Governing Forests: State, Law and Citizenship in India’s Forests (Melbourne UP, 2024), Arpitha Kodiveri unpacks the fraught and shifting relationship between the Indian State, forest-dwelling communities, and forest conservation regimes. The book builds on years of fieldwork across the Indian states of Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Gujarat, Odisha, …
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Michael Brown undertakes a thorough study of Eyeliner's Eyeliner's Buy Now (Bloomsbury 2025) a vaporwave homage to the kitsch electronic sounds of the 1980s and 1990s. Eyeliner's BUY NOW (2015) belongs to a new genre for our times: vaporwave. Emerging in the early 2010s on the internet, vaporwave originated with a cohort of millennial artists who r…
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Faisal Devji's Waning Crescent: The Rise and Fall of Global Islam (Yale UP, 2025) is a compelling examination of the rise of Islam as a global historical actor. Until the nineteenth century, Islam was variously understood as a set of beliefs and practices. But after Muslims began to see their faith as an historical actor on the world stage, they ne…
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A transcript of this interview is available [here] Preserving Disability: Disability and the Archival Profession (Library Juice Press, 2024) weaves together first-person narratives and case studies contributed from disabled archivists and disabled archives users, bringing critical perspectives and approaches to the archival profession. Contributed …
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Faisal Devji's Waning Crescent: The Rise and Fall of Global Islam (Yale UP, 2025) is a compelling examination of the rise of Islam as a global historical actor. Until the nineteenth century, Islam was variously understood as a set of beliefs and practices. But after Muslims began to see their faith as an historical actor on the world stage, they ne…
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Wilberforce, Clarkson, Wesley. Britain’s great abolitionist activist Granville Sharp. Each of these consequential figures of the eighteenth-century Atlantic world were galvanized by the moral power of a modest Quaker teacher who never ventured more than a few miles from his home in Philadelphia: Anthony Benezet. While Benezet was buried in an unmar…
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This week on Toon’d In!, Jim Cummings welcomes the charismatic, endlessly entertaining, and unmistakably unforgettable Efren Ramirez! Best known as the iconic Pedro Sánchez from Napoleon Dynamite, Efren has carved out a career filled with cult-classic moments, scene-stealing roles, and a creative spirit all his own. In this lively and wide-ranging …
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(0:00) Bestie intros LIVE from The Venetian Las Vegas (1:13) Epstein Files breakdown (10:06) Biggest Epstein questions: where did his money come from? (14:44) Tether's booming business (23:50) Michael Burry vs. Friedberg, Nvidia's blowout quarter and risks for 2026 (35:25) Google's Gemini 3 and TPU breakthrough (42:51) Investing your own money vs. …
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Clark Psychology Professor Michael Miller has a background in communication science, so as artificial intelligence like ChatGPT emerged and ballooned in popularity over the last few years, he wanted to examine AI's impact on the way we communicate. "It was like finding a new type of microscope to study human communication. I could see so much deepe…
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“I think you have to have a big ego in business and in sports but I use mine to want to protect myself from failure. Ego makes me not want to fail, it’s a motivator, my ego doesn’t want me to be laughed at or labeled a failure.” Zak Brown CEO of McLaren Racing The 2025 F1 season is winding down with three races left to go and McLaren has already wo…
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Coach Gottlieb breaks down the good and bad from his Green Bay team’s tough OT road loss to Minnesota and previews their next matchup with Yale. Then, he’s joined by his 29-year old Center Remel Bethea to discuss his unique path to DI basketball from growing up in Maryland, his experience serving in the Navy, and his love of NBA 2K, and decision to…
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What happens when America loses its foreign-policy playbook? RBI acting director Eli Karetny talks with veteran diplomat and policy strategist Joel Rubin about the vacuum of strategic vision shaping U.S. decisions from Venezuela to Ukraine to Gaza. Rubin pulls back the curtain on factional battles inside both parties, the dangers of politicizing di…
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Why do some revolutions fail and succumb to counterrevolutions, whereas others go on to establish durable rule? Marshalling original data on counterrevolutions worldwide since 1900 and new evidence from the reversal of Egypt's 2011 revolution, in Return of Tyranny: Why Counterrevolutions Emerge and Succeed (Cambridge UP, 2025) Dr. Killian Clarke ex…
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Jasbeer Mamalipurath’s TEDified Islam: Postsecular Storytelling in New Media (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024) is the first of its kind in-depth examination of the TedTalk phenomenon and in particular how Islam and Muslim experiences are represented in these talks. Mamalipurath argues that TED Talks on Islam are part of a larger postsecular (the secular's…
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Thomas Morel joins Jana Byars to tell the story of subterranean geometry, a forgotten discipline that developed in the silver mines of early modern Europe, talking about his book Underground Mathematics: Craft Culture and Knowledge Production in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge UP, 2022). Mining and metallurgy were of great significance to the rulers…
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A transcript of this interview is available [here] A queer disabled love song to trees and beavers, tremors and dreams, Unfurl: Survivals, Sorrows, and Dreaming (Duke UP, 2025) explores the pulsing core and porous edges of survival, sorrow, and dreaming. Blending poetry and creative nonfiction, emotion and activist thinking, Eli Clare invites us to…
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Why do some revolutions fail and succumb to counterrevolutions, whereas others go on to establish durable rule? Marshalling original data on counterrevolutions worldwide since 1900 and new evidence from the reversal of Egypt's 2011 revolution, in Return of Tyranny: Why Counterrevolutions Emerge and Succeed (Cambridge UP, 2025) Dr. Killian Clarke ex…
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What does it mean for a country to seek admiration — and what kinds of institutions try to make that admiration possible? Yanqiu Zheng’s In Search of Admiration and Respect: Chinese Cultural Diplomacy in the United States, 1875–1974 (U Michigan Press, 2024) traces how China attempted to reshape its international image across a century marked by imp…
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Drawing Liberalism: Herblock's Political Cartoons in Postwar America (U Virginia Press, 2023) is the first book-length critical examination of the political and social impact of the political cartoonist Herbert Block--popularly known as Herblock. Working for the Washington Post, Herblock played a central role in shaping, propagandizing, and defendi…
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Across the globe, memorial and grave sites are being increasingly weaponized in conflicts and politicized by parties to advance agendas. Here, Carol S. Lilly examines ideas of death, politics, memory, ideology and nationalism in the former Yugoslav republics of Bosnia & Hercegovina, Croatia, and Serbia to shine fresh light on cemetery culture in 20…
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The US has some of the highest rates of STIs and teen pregnancies in the industrialized world. A comprehensive sex education curriculum—which teaches facts on contraception, prophylactics, consent, and STIs—has been available since the 90s. Yet the majority of states require that sex education stress abstinence, and 22 states do not require sex ed …
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We’re all familiar with the sentiment that “college is the best time of your life.” Along with a newfound sense of freedom, students have a unique opportunity to forge lifelong friendships at a point in life when friendship is particularly important. Why is it, then, that so many college students are falling victim to what the US Surgeon General te…
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Modern Disney is in a very precarious situation, their previously successful propeties like Marvel and Star Wars arn't landing and the newer ideas Wish and Elio arn't making any impact. This isn't new for Disney however, they've always had periods like this and massive bombs and to celebrate that over the next few weeks we're going to look at four …
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In 2016, Ludovic Orlando, a genetics researcher, embarked on the Pegasus Project, an ambitious endeavor to use genetics to discover the origin of the modern horse. There were plenty of theories as to who domesticated horses first–but Ludovic’s team came up with their answer: They emerged on the western Eurasian steppe around 4200 years ago. But tha…
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The Good Forest: The Salzburgers, Success, and the Plan for Georgia (U Georgia Press, 2024) explores some of Georgia’s earliest settlers, the Salzburgers. Georgia, the last of Britain’s American mainland colonies, began with high aspirations to create a morally sound society based on small family farms with no enslaved workers. But those goals were…
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“If I had been enslaved for a year or two, I might not be able to believe in humanity any more.” “I am a victim of modern slavery.” These chilling words come from a Taiwanese female lured by a fake job offer, only to be sold into a scam compound in Cambodia. She is not alone. She is one of thousands deceived into this industry—people who left home …
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Transcript of the interview Minna Salami is a writer, social critic, and thought leader on feminism, knowledge production, and the aesthetics and structures of power. She formerly served as Programme Chair and Senior Fellow at THE NEW INSTITUTE, where she led the Black Feminism and the Polycrisis programme. Her work sits at the intersection of idea…
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This textbook offers a fresh approach to learning Sanskrit, the ancient language at the heart of South Asia’s vast religious, philosophical, and literary heritage. Designed for independent learners and classrooms alike, it provides a uniquely in-depth and immersive introduction to the language, exploring a rich selection of Sanskrit texts from the …
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In Doing the Work of Equity Leadership for Justice and Systems Change, scholars and practitioners who have worked together in various capacities across different school systems examine systemic equity leadership in U.S. public schools over the course of nearly a decade and across a time of profound racial and historical change. This volume weaves t…
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John's “Arendt's Refugee Politics” came out in Public Books in early November. He made the case that his favorite political philosopher, Hannah Arendt is an opponent both of identity politics and also of a cosmpolitan universalism that is blind to all the differences (of race, gender, belief) that make us who though not what we are. Going back to o…
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Chef Pyet DeSpain joins the New Books Network to discuss her new cookbook, Rooted in Fire: A Celebration of Native American and Mexican Cooking (HarperOne, 2025). Drawing from her Potawatomi and Mexican heritage, DeSpain shares recipes that connect past and present, including bison meatballs with Wojape BBQ sauce, raspberry mezcal quail, and poblan…
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