Best Kevin McClelland Podcasts (2025)

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Taking Out the Imperial Trash - Jovanni Sy's A Taste of Empire 36:55

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Linda AND students of Bishop's University interview the award-winning Montreal-based playwright, Jovanni Sy, in this episode of Getting Lit With Linda. Linda considers how one of his plays in particular, A Taste of Empire (Talonbooks), obliges us confront the abuses of a system of globalization, wherein the processes involved in maximizing profit a…

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Truth Under Fire (The Capital Gazette Murders) 51:15

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A mass murder strikes at the heart of a community when the employees of its local paper are the targets. The preplanning and reasoning propelling the horrific attack is mind-boggling. View source material and photos for this episode at: anatomyofmurder.com/truth-under-fire Can’t get enough AoM? Find us on social media! Instagram: @aom_podcast | @au…

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Eduardo Mercado III, "Why Whales Sing" (JHU Press, 2025) 1:05:37

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With breathtaking complexity and haunting beauty, the songs of whales have long fascinated scientists. Whales are the only mammals that can sing continuously for ten hours or more, changing the unique songs they sing every year. In Why Whales Sing (JHU Press, 2025), bioacoustician and cognitive scientist Eduardo Mercado transforms our understanding…

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A Suspicious Death (Angela Craig) 40:25

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When a healthy mom becomes suddenly ill and dies, doctors and family are baffled. Foul play is soon suspected, but the biggest question would be, could they prove it? View source material and photos for this episode at: anatomyofmurder.com/a-suspicious-death Can’t get enough AoM? Find us on social media! Instagram: @aom_podcast | @audiochuck Twitte…

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The Dream (Kelly Brennan) 38:26

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A woman claims she had a dream that she hurt someone. After a body is found, investigators needed to uncover: was this ‘dream’ a figment of imagination or a confession? View source material and photos for this episode at: anatomyofmurder.com/the-dream Can’t get enough AoM? Find us on social media! Instagram: @aom_podcast | @audiochuck Twitter: @AOM…

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The Other Problem that Has No Name - The Passenger Seat by Vijay Khurana 43:50

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Perhaps strangely, Linda applies Betty Friedan’s 1963 feminist critique of patriarchal society The Feminine Mystique, and specifically the text “The Problem That Has No Name,” to The Passenger Seat by Vijay Khurana. An Australian/British author, Khurana wrote this very fine debut novel about the real-life events of two young men from Port Alberni, …

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Gaurav Suri and Jay McClelland, "The Emergent Mind: How Intelligence Arises in People and Machines" (Basic Books, 2025) 2:20:51

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When we are trying to solve a problem, what happens? We find ourselves weighing arguments, or relying on intuition, then reaching a conscious decision about what to do. What is going on behind the scenes? In The Emergent Mind: How Intelligence Arises in People and Machines (Basic Books, 2025), Gaurav Suri and Jay McClelland show that our experience…

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Aisle 52 (Brooklyn Sims) 41:16

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A young woman is shot and killed at work, in a local home improvement store. The shooter’s unlikely accomplice would prove pivotal to this crime. View source material and photos for this episode at: anatomyofmurder.com/aisle-52 Can’t get enough AoM? Find us on social media! Instagram: @aom_podcast | @audiochuck Twitter: @AOM_podcast | @audiochuck F…

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Jeffrey D. Sharon, "The Great Balancing Act: An Insider's Guide to the Human Vestibular System" (Columbia UP, 2025) 1:07:34

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What's the secret to keeping your balance? The ear does more than hear: it helps us stay stable by perceiving movements and gravity. Elegant sensors deep within the skull detect every twist, turn, and tumble, powering swift reflexes that keep vision and balance steady. This is the vestibular system. It's primordial and ubiquitous: every animal has …

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The Heart of Darkness (Mark Hasse, Mike and Cynthia McClelland) 52:13

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Two prosecutors are gunned down within a short span. A tip comes in that there will be more bloodshed. The entire justice system was on edge in a case striking at its heart. Can police stop this murderer before he strikes again? View source material and photos for this episode at: anatomyofmurder.com/the-heart-of-darkness Can’t get enough AoM? Find…

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Digital Trespassing: Human Rights in the Digital Age-- An Interview with Dr. Wendy Wong 47:07

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Linda met Dr. Wendy Wong at a conference in Kelowna, organized by Dr. Karis Shearer (1:25) and hosted by SpokenWeb (1:20), when Dr. Wong spoke about her book, We, the Data (a nod to the preamble of the United States Constitution, 4:10) -- and, since then, Linda has been obsessed. Being an expert on archival theory in relation to women writers' mate…

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Unthinkable (Tayten & Robert Baker) 43:50

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Two young teens are found dead in their home. One family is desperate for answers. Another has to confront an unthinkable truth. View source material and photos for this episode at: anatomyofmurder.com/unthinkable Can’t get enough AoM? Find us on social media! Instagram: @aom_podcast | @audiochuck Twitter: @AOM_podcast | @audiochuck Facebook: /list…

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The Fall (LeeAnn Fletcher) 49:46

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Equity on a Bookshelf: An Interview with Stephanie Sinclair, Publisher of McClelland & Stewart 43:35

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Does anyone remember that series, New Canadian Literature (NCL), produced by McClelland & Stewart? In this interview, Linda discusses the very much new and improved series, Kanata Classics (15:06), with Stephanie Sinclair, the publisher of McClelland & Stewart -- with special guest feature, Holly, her cat. A co-editor in her own right (with her sis…

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The Money Trail (Taylor Wright) 39:02

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A woman disappears as she navigates a recent divorce. Did she willingly disappear, or was it foul play? And if so, by whom? It would be money and checks that helped solve the mystery. View source material and photos for this episode at: anatomyofmurder.com/the-money-trail Can’t get enough AoM? Find us on social media! Instagram: @aom_podcast | @aud…

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The Knock (Lamont Baldwin) 44:01

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A woman knocks on the door, and within minutes, the man she asked for is outside dead. His family wanted answers. Detectives put the pieces together one by one to figure out this complex case. View source material and photos for this episode at: anatomyofmurder.com/the-knock Can’t get enough AoM? Find us on social media! Instagram: @aom_podcast | @…

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The Truth About Memoirs 23:08

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In this episode, Linda examines the resurgence of the memoir, and what readers expect - and what she expects - when we pick one up. While the first part of the episode examines the features and history of the memoir, the last part is devoted to the wonderful new memoir by Susan Swan, Big Girls Don't Cry. Highlights of this episode include: Giller p…

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The Windshield Murder (Gregory Biggs) 42:03

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A man’s body is found in the park. What happened would first center on a car. The end would involve murder. View source material and photos for this episode at: anatomyofmurder.com/the-windshield-murder Can’t get enough AoM? Find us on social media! Instagram: @aom_podcast | @audiochuck Twitter: @AOM_podcast | @audiochuck Facebook: /listenAOMpod | …

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Coins (Daniel Callaway and Patricia Andrews) 45:40

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A young man is found murdered in his home. Several hours later, a woman is found dead only blocks away. Coincidence or the work of one killer? Coins would help investigators find the answer. View source material and photos for this episode at: anatomyofmurder.com/coins Can’t get enough AoM? Find us on social media! Instagram: @aom_podcast | @audioc…

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The Lost City of Atlantis: Looking Back (and Forward) to the End (and Beginning) of an Era – Cherie Dimaline’s The Marrow Thieves and James Cairns’ In Crisis, On Crisis: Essays in Troubled Times 21:15

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In this episode, Linda begins by speaking about the Kingston Writers Fest (KWF) - if you are in reasonable distance, you MUST go! The most incredible line-up of authors will be there, including Madeleine Thien, Margaret Atwood, Canisia Lubrin, Nita Prose, and Ian Williams. She then thinks about Atlantis as a way of considering the dystopian novel, …

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The Package (Ildiko Krajnyak) 52:26

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A bomb explodes in a day spa, destroying the building, killing its owner, and seriously injuring others. Would the blast be the work of a terrorist act or something else? Unraveling the mystery became a puzzle that was solved one piece at a time View source material and photos for this episode at: anatomyofmurder.com/the-package Can’t get enough Ao…

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AKA 137F Strikes Again (Brook Baker & Erika Norman) 42:07

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In a small Indiana town, investigators connect the dots in the murders of young women. But sometimes, shocking coincidences are nothing more than that. View source material and photos for this episode at: anatomyofmurder.com/AKA-137F Can’t get enough AoM? Find us on social media! Instagram: @aom_podcast | @audiochuck Twitter: @AOM_podcast | @audioc…

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AKA 137F - Part 1 (Brook Baker) 42:15

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A young college student is murdered, sending shockwaves through the community. But another murder, eerily similar, makes investigators question if a serial killer is loose in this college community. View source material and photos for this episode at: anatomyofmurder.com/AKA-137F Can’t get enough AoM? Find us on social media! Instagram: @aom_podcas…

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Christopher Kemp, "Dark and Magical Places: The Neuroscience of Navigation" (Norton, 2022) 50:51

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Inside our heads we carry around an infinite and endlessly unfolding map of the world. Navigation is one of the most ancient neural abilities we have―older than language. In Dark and Magical Places: The Neuroscience of Navigation (Norton, 2022), Christopher Kemp embarks on a journey to discover the remarkable extent of what our minds can do. Fueled…

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I Did It (Jamesha Covson, Divieon Parker, Reginald Anderson, Renita Bennett) 44:43

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A murder spree leaves 5 dead—once the killer was identified, would the motive be revealed? What he said shocked everyone. View source material and photos for this episode at: anatomyofmurder.com/i-did-it Can’t get enough AoM? Find us on social media! Instagram: @aom_podcast | @audiochuck Twitter: @AOM_podcast | @audiochuck Facebook: /listenAOMpod |…

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James Kimmel, Jr., "The Science of Revenge: Understanding the World's Deadliest Addiction—and How to Overcome It" (Random House, 2025) 52:29

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There is a hidden addiction plaguing humanity right now: revenge. Researchers have identified retaliation in response to real and imagined grievances as the root cause of most forms of human aggression and violence. From vicious tweets to road rage, murder-suicide, and armed insurrection, perpetrators almost always see themselves as victims seeking…

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Only You (Ricardo Medina) 47:37

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A man on a first date is soon found dead in the street. The story behind the who and why will be baffling and up the enormity of the tragedy. View source material and photos for this episode at: anatomyofmurder.com/only-you Can’t get enough AoM? Find us on social media! Instagram: @aom_podcast | @audiochuck Twitter: @AOM_podcast | @audiochuck Faceb…

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Frances Egan, "Deflating Mental Representation" (MIT Press, 2025) 1:02:21

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The human mind has the curious, even mysterious, ability to generate thoughts about things with which we are not in causal contact, such as when we think about yesterday’s tennis final, or Aristotle, or unicorns. Naturalizing mental content has usually meant explaining how this is possible in terms that eliminate the mystery while retaining commitm…

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Paul Thagard, "Bots and Beasts: What Makes Machines, Animals, and People Smart?" (MIT Press, 2021) 59:54

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Octopuses can open jars to get food, and chimpanzees can plan for the future. An IBM computer named Watson won on Jeopardy! and Alexa knows our favorite songs. But do animals and smart machines really have intelligence comparable to that of humans? In Bots and Beasts: What Makes Machines, Animals, and People Smart? (MIT Press, 2021), Paul Thagard l…

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A Deadly Cocktail - Part 2 (David Castor) 38:42

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This part 2 is the dramatic conclusion to a case that took two lives and almost 3. It broke all family boundaries. A prosecutor was left to unravel the pieces. View source material and photos for this episode at: anatomyofmurder.com/a-deadly-cocktail-part-2 Can’t get enough AoM? Find us on social media! Instagram: @aom_podcast | @audiochuck Twitter…

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Judith Grisel, "Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction" (Doubleday, 2019) 1:00:13

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Not a lot of authors go from spending their early twenties homeless and addicted to cocaine to becoming one of the world’s leading researchers on the neuroscience of addiction. But Dr. Judith Grisel, in her new book Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction (Doubleday, 2019), uses her personal story to illuminate the ways in which …

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A Deadly Cocktail - Part 1 (David Castor) 36:05

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A husband is found dead in his bed. Items found in the home would help unwind a lethal trail and forever fracture a family. View source material and photos for this episode at: anatomyofmurder.com/a-deadly-cocktail-part-1 Can’t get enough AoM? Find us on social media! Instagram: @aom_podcast | @audiochuck Twitter: @AOM_podcast | @audiochuck Faceboo…

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Fatality Review (Jenean Chapman) 36:18

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A young career woman is discovered dead after a welfare check. The unraveling of what happened and who did it would strike at the heart of it all. View source material and photos for this episode at: anatomyofmurder.com/fatality-review Can’t get enough AoM? Find us on social media! Instagram: @aom_podcast | @audiochuck Twitter: @AOM_podcast | @audi…

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The Odyssey (Robert Vendrick) 53:07

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A retiree disappears, and his family soon suspects foul play. A boat and an anchor might be the things that break the case. View source material and photos for this episode at: anatomyofmurder.com/the-odyssey Can’t get enough AoM? Find us on social media! Instagram: @aom_podcast | @audiochuck Twitter: @AOM_podcast | @audiochuck Facebook: /listenAOM…

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Kevin J. Tracey, "The Great Nerve: The New Science of the Vagus Nerve and How to Harness Its Healing Reflexes" (Penguin, 2025) 30:55

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The vagus nerve is fundamental to our health and vitality, coordinating critical functions from the precise heartbeat we need to exercise or rest to the balance of appetite and digestion. Made up of 200,000 fibers, the vagus nerve sends thousands of electrical signals every second between your brain and your most important organs. Yet despite its e…

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Rebecca Lemov, "The Instability of Truth: Brainwashing, Mind Control, and Hyper-Persuasion" (Norton, 2025) 36:42

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Because brainwashing affects both the world and our observation of the world, we often don’t recognize it while it’s happening—unless we know where to look. As Rebecca Lemov writes in The Instability of Truth, “Brainwashing erases itself.” What we call brainwashing is more common than we think; it is not so much what happens to other people as what…

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Broken (Lisa Knoefel) 43:20

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Murder, manipulation, and a calculated plan. Untangling the pieces would be the challenge for investigators. View source material and photos for this episode at: anatomyofmurder.com/broken Can’t get enough AoM? Find us on social media! Instagram: @aom_podcast | @audiochuck Twitter: @AOM_podcast | @audiochuck Facebook: /listenAOMpod | /audiochuckllc…

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Pooja Agarwal, Cynthia Nebel, Veronica Yan, "Smart Teaching Stronger Learning: Practical Tips From 10 Cognitive Scientists" (Unleash Learning Press, 2025) 1:10:22

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How can I help my students not only learn my course material but also retain and transfer that information? This is a question that has plagued and intrigued teachers for centuries. In Smart Teaching Stronger Learning: Practical Tips for 10 Cognitive Scientists, the authors provide their readers with evidence-based practices for immediate classroom…

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Invitation to Reparative Reading - An Interview with Canisia Lubrin About Code Noir 57:01

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In this episode, Linda interviews the phenomenal Canisia Lubrin - the acclaimed writer, critic, professor, poet, and editor. Her first book Voodoo Hypothesis (Wolsak & Wynn, 2017) was named a CBC Best Book. Her second book, The Dyzgraphxst (M & S, 2020) won the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Poetry and the overall Literature prize, the Griffin Poetr…

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The Pawn (Don Vaughn) 38:14

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A jewelry salesman is found murdered in his car. Would the motive be personal, business, or random? Detectives were determined to find out. View source material and photos for this episode at: anatomyofmurder.com/the-pawn Can’t get enough AoM? Find us on social media! Instagram: @aom_podcast | @audiochuck Twitter: @AOM_podcast | @audiochuck Faceboo…

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Jeremy Stolow, "Picturing Aura: A Visual Biography" (MIT Press, 2025) 1:15:58

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Picturing Aura: A Visual Biography (MIT Press, 2025) by Dr. Jeremy Stolow is the first book of its kind: an extended historical, anthropological, and philosophical study of modern efforts to visualize the hidden radiant force encompassing the living body known as our aura. This rich, interdisciplinary study by Dr. Stolow chronicles the rise and glo…

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A Pane of Glass (Eveline Aguilar) 43:30

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A ransacked apartment and brutal assault left a young woman dead. One pane of glass would help solve the case- but it would be anything but quick. View source material and photos for this episode at: anatomyofmurder.com/a-pane-of-glass Can’t get enough AoM? Find us on social media! Instagram: @aom_podcast | @audiochuck Twitter: @AOM_podcast | @audi…

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That Kind of Meta: The Double Life of Benson Yu - An Interview with Kevin Chong 44:50

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In this episode, Linda chats with Kevin Chong about his novel The Double Life of Benson Yu (Simon & Schuster) shortlisted for the 2023 Giller Prize. It's a "meta" novel, in some ways - a concept that Linda explains in this episode - but it also had Linda thinking about the social media platform, Meta (formerly, Facebook). Whatever insights you migh…

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Tracking the Truth (George Young) 47:12

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A man is shot at his doorway as he comes home from work. Tracking the truth would take the detective down an unexpected, twisty trail. View source material and photos for this episode at: anatomyofmurder.com/tracking-the-truth Can’t get enough AoM? Find us on social media! Instagram: @aom_podcast | @audiochuck Twitter: @AOM_podcast | @audiochuck Fa…

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Hot Air (Cassandra Robinson) 47:06

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The search for a missing young mom would take police into the world of hot air balloons and bees. Once her body was found, those same connections would be pivotal to the investigation. View source material and photos for this episode at: anatomyofmurder.com/hot-air Can’t get enough AoM? Find us on social media! Instagram: @aom_podcast | @audiochuck…

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We, the Subplot (or Flying Monkeys) - An Interview with Michael Crummey about The Adversary 48:42

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What are flying monkeys?, Linda wonders - until her friend illuminates their place in relation to narcissists. Narcissism is key to understanding the Widow and Abe Strapp, two deliciously terrible main characters in Michael Crummey's novel, The Adversary (Knopf) -- which just won the Dublin Literary Award for 2025; this psychology is also key to un…

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Laura Otis, "Banned Emotions: How Metaphors Can Shape What People Feel" (Oxford UP, 2019) 33:21

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Who benefits and who loses when emotions are described in particular ways? How do metaphors such as "hold on" and "let go" affect people's emotional experiences? Banned Emotions: How Metaphors Can Shape What People Feel (Oxford UP, 2019), written by neuroscientist-turned-literary scholar Laura Otis, draws on the latest research in neuroscience and …

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Alarm Bells (Ammar Al-Yasari) 45:38

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A wife calls police after finding her husband dead inside their home. The couples' security system leads investigators to answers. View source material and photos for this episode at: anatomyofmurder.com/alarm-bells Can’t get enough AoM? Find us on social media! Instagram: @aom_podcast | @audiochuck Twitter: @AOM_podcast | @audiochuck Facebook: /li…

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Last Shift (Savannah Gold) 54:52

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A young woman disappears as she heads in to work. Unraveling what happened to her would take skilled detectives and an unexpected piece of video. View source material and photos for this episode at: anatomyofmurder.com/last-shift Can’t get enough AoM? Find us on social media! Instagram: @aom_podcast | @audiochuck Twitter: @AOM_podcast | @audiochuck…

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Nicole C. Nelson, "Model Behavior: Animal Experiments, Complexity, and the Genetics of Psychiatric Disorders" (U Chicago Press, 2018) 27:44

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Mice are used as model organisms across a wide range of fields in science today--but it is far from obvious how studying a mouse in a maze can help us understand human problems like alcoholism or anxiety. How do scientists convince funders, fellow scientists, the general public, and even themselves that animal experiments are a good way of producin…