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Deep in the back of your mind, you’ve always had the feeling that there’s something strange about reality. There is. Join Robert Lamb and Joe McCormick as they examine neurological quandaries, cosmic mysteries, evolutionary marvels and our transhuman future.
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Everyone needs a little help being a human. From sleep to saving money to parenting and more, host Marielle Segarra talks to experts to get the best advice out there. Life Kit is here to help you get it together. Want another life hack? Try Life Kit+. You'll support the show and unlock exclusive curated playlists and sponsor-free listening. Learn more at plus.npr.org/lifekit
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Queer Science!

Queer Science!

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A podcast exploring the intersection of science, society, and queerness. Intertwining personal interviews and audio storytelling, this podcast aims to challenge the current discourse of diversity in STEM to empower marginalized voices and think critically about the ways in which science is done. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/queerscience/support
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Science Friction's latest series is: Brain Rot. We're looking at what being chronically online is doing to our brains. What's really going on with our attention spans and tech addiction? Is data-dumping your entire life into ChatGPT helpful? Can going internet free help you escape the doomscroll? And what's it like to be in love ... with an AI? National technology reporter Ange Lavoipierre tackles the wildest ways people are using tech and the big questions about our own use. That's Brain Ro ...
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AnthroPod

Society for Cultural Anthropology

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AnthroPod is produced by the Society for Cultural Anthropology. In each episode, we explore what anthropology teaches us about the world and people around us.
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The Nordic Asia Podcast

NIAS and its academic partners

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The Nordic Asia Podcast is a collaboration sharing expertise on Asia across the Nordic region, brought to you by the following academic partners: -Asia Centre, University of Tartu (Estonia) -Asian studies, University of Helsinki (Finland) -Centre for Asian Studies, Vytautas Magnus University (Lithuania) -Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, Lund University (Sweden) -Centre for East Asian Studies, University of Turku (Finland) -Norwegian Network for Asian Studies
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Acid Horizon

Acid Horizon

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Emerging from affinities with post-structuralism, abolitionism, biopolitics, communism, critical metaphysics, critical mysticism, and ontological anarchy, Acid Horizon is a philosophy and theory podcast committed to thought in motion and political struggle. While these are our grounding currents, each episode opens out onto a wider constellation: ethics, politics, phenomenology, decolonial thought, queer theory, post-psychoanalysis, disability/crip theory, anarchism, Marxism, feminism, and a ...
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OUTsideHERS

OUTsideHERS

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OUTsideHers is a podcast focused on Women Innovators, Queer Culture and Conversation. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/outsidehers/support
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Exposing the logical holes in myths about the 2SLGBTQIA+ community since 2024. The show is hosted by Pittsburgh’s own Suzy while they search for answers about everything queer from music to relationships to video games to science and movies. Get answers to questions like do toilets gender? Who is JK Rowling and what’s his problem? What is a unicorn and why are they more than an interest on Tinder? New season coming June 2025.
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The Church of Tinkerbell Podcast

The Church of Tinkerbell

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Welcome to The Church of Tinkerbell Podcast, a podcast dedicated to love, acceptance, and making the world a better place. Here, we explore LGBTQIA+ and minority group issues, challenge injustice, and dive into the power of community, compassion, and resistance. Through thoughtful discussions -- including deep dives into issues that affect us all -- we spark conversations that celebrate diversity and empower change. No judgment, just love, truth, and a little bit of magic.
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Not Another Science Podcast is brought to you by Edinburgh University Science Media, or EUSci. Join our hosts Erin Howat and Emily Robertshaw-McFarlane as they talk to scientists about all the fascinating research and projects happening around Scotland. Intrigued by sourdough? Passionate about climate change? Love to keep it science? Then this is the show for you. Podcast logo by Apple Chew and episode art by Elizabeth Carmichael. Get in touch at [email protected], @euscimedia on insta ...
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Justice Visions

Human Rights Centre - UGent

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The Justice Visions podcast is hosted by the Human Rights Centre of Ghent University. The podcast showcases cutting-edge research and practice regarding victim participation in transitional justice.
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Getting Better with Jonathan Van Ness

Sony Music Entertainment / Jonathan Van Ness

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Join Jonathan Van Ness (Queer Eye) each week for their next exciting endeavor! “Getting Better with Jonathan Van Ness" is here to empower listeners (and also make them laugh) by using curiosity as a tool for personal growth. In a world that often feels overwhelming—where it’s easy to feel stuck, frustrated, or helpless—Getting Better offers a lifeline. Each week, Jonathan Van Ness, alongside experts and thought leaders, guides us through our shared challenges—confidence, productivity, mental ...
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The podcast for anyone who has ever felt "not queer enough." Through conversation and creativity, we will cultivate radical inclusion and queer solidarity, guided by the fundamental belief that queerness is a birthright. #notqueerenough
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Sex and relationships are intimate — and sometimes intimidating to talk about. In this weekly podcast from North Carolina Public Radio WUNC, host Anita Rao guides us on an exploration of our brains and our bodies that touches down in taboo territory. Follow the show on Instagram and Twitter @embodiedwunc. You can find Anita on Twitter @anisrao.
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CSU's The Audit

Colorado State University Marketing and Communications

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Colorado State University’s podcast — The Audit — features conversations with CSU faculty on everything from research to current events. Just as auditing a class provides an opportunity to explore a new subject or field, The Audit allows listeners to explore the latest works from the experts at CSU.
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Sydney Writers' Festival

Sydney Writers' Festival

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Australia's largest celebration of literature, stories and ideas. Bringing together the world's best authors, leading public intellectuals, scientists, journalists and more. Subscribe to our channel for new releases.
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Have you ever been watching a movie or tv show and seen two characters (most likely cis men) have emotionally intimate, potentially sexually charged interactions, but the show or movie WILL NOT LET THEM KISS and it forces you, the viewer, to yell LET THE BOYS KISS! If yes, this might be the podcast for you! In each episode we'll explore a ship and ask (and answer!) the question: is it queerbaiting, queer coding, or queer canon? More generally, we'll also be using queerbaiting as a lens to ex ...
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Virtual Sentiments

Mercatus Center at George Mason University

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In Virtual Sentiments, Kristen Collins interviews scholars and practitioners grappling with the most pressing problems in political economy today with an eye to the past.
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A deep dive into the world's greatest mysteries that were solved by science. Brought to you by Motherboard and staff writer Kaleigh Rogers. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Join host Jack Baker as he explores under-appreciated conservation stories! Featuring interviews with the pioneering conservationists at the forefront of wildlife protection, the show promises to highlight every story – no matter how small, strange, or unexpected! 🦜 Also, look out for new episodes of ReZOO – The Zoo Review Podcast! Co-hosted by Jodi McFarlane, this series investigates the conservation work of zoos from around the world, while also offering perspective on the visitor experien ...
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Talking Star Wars

Connor and Alex

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Alex and Connor, two 30-somethings with strong feelings about Star Wars, discuss a variety of topics in everyone's favorite science fiction universe, including; weird Force powers, character explorations, lore discussions, and deep dives into expanded universe content. Updates biweekly each Monday. See our new subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/TalkingStarWars/
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101 Woke Words

🇺🇸 Rooftop Deplorable

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Laugh along with Rooftop Deplorable and The Jason as they systematically, categorically, and comically introduce, discuss, mock, and metaphorically bury the most obnoxious, political, and manipulative ”woke” words that have invaded and corrupted our great American language.
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Twisting the Plot

Hannah Starobin and Cecilia Dintino

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Plot twists don’t just happen in novels or the movies, they show up in our everyday lives, whether we want them or not. Each week Dr. Cecilia Dintino and Psychotherapist Hannah Murray Starobin will speak with people who have twisted their plots and discovered that life can be filled with imagination, inspiration, laughter, and endless possibilities.
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Welcome to ’So What?” with Michael and Trevor as they invites us on a journey of big ideas. Join them as they talk about their mission to dig into thought-provoking ideas through diverse experiences of wisdom and voices. They bring a spacious perspective, a heap of curiosity, and a deep desires to see big ideas actually ’matter’ and be embodied in real life. Let’s be real - ideas can be fascinating, however if big ideas don’t lead us to more love, more peace, and more beautiful connections i ...
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Nature is Gay

Camryn Martin

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Nature is Gay is a biweekly podcast all about the queer world around us and just how gosh darn normal it is. Every Monday we explore gender and sexuality in animals, plants, fungi, and everything in between!
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Ring ring, gworls! Get into this bold, unapologetic dive into a wide range of topics. Join host Eric Dimarco as he brings a fresh black queer perspective to social justice, politics, and cultural flashpoints. From systemic inequalities to pop culture phenomena, he serves up piping-hot takes and eye-opening insights. Whether you want to expand your worldview or find voices that resonate with your own experiences, get ready to challenge your assumptions, laugh, rage, and maybe even change your ...
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Once upon a time, what we now call scientists were known as "natural philosophers". These were people who studied the physical universe through observation and logic, using philosophical methods and reasoning. Today, science and philosophy have gone their separate ways, with some scientists rejoicing in the split (the late theoretical physicist Ste…
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What does it mean to become worthy of the event? In this episode, we’re joined by Justin, longtime collaborator and host of our current reading group on Pierre Klossowski’s Living Currency. Together, we explore Deleuze’s stoic metaphysics, Nietzsche’s ethics of affirmation, and the revolutionary stakes of releasing ourselves from resentment. Along …
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Dr. Kirk and Rebecca answer patron emails This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/KIRK to get 10% off your first month. Become a member: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOUZWV1DRtHtpP2H48S7iiw/join Become a patron: https://www.patreon.com/PsychologyInSeattle Email: https://www.psychologyinseattle.com/co…
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In this four-part series from Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert and Joe discuss the history, science and legend of the ninja or shinobi. Feudal Japan’s espionage specialists might not have resembled the characters in your favorite action movie, but they’ve become fictionalized staples of global popular culture while keeping to the shadows of history.…
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Our understanding of the term bisexuality has been in a state of constant evolution. In a moment when bisexual adults make up the largest share of the LGBTQ+ population, how is bisexuality being re-imagined, reclaimed — and sometimes relinquished? Anita meets two people who have grappled with the term’s history, meaning and power for building commu…
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Apostles of Development: Six Economists and the World They Made (Oxford University Press and Penguin RandomHouse South Asia, 2025) by Dr. David Engerman recounts the work of six individuals, all former classmates at Cambridge University, who helped make international development--the effort to reduce poverty and inequality around the world--into a …
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Sometimes we buy things that we later regret spending on: a new sweater that's already falling apart, or a thrifted "vintage" vase that turns out to be a mass-produced dupe. In the moment, it's difficult to resist the temptation of making a purchase. But with a few pointed questions, you can make sure you've done your due diligence and buy somethin…
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On the one hand, food is about comfort, love and passion. On the other, it’s about the economics of the restaurant rat race and the politics of identity and historical context. Hear chefs, restauranteurs and culinary stars Parwana’s Durkhanai Ayubi (Returning the Moon), Adam Liaw (Time for Dinner) and Melbourne icon Tony Tan (Tony Tan’s Asian Cooki…
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Miles Franklin is a literary legend now, but her story, and those of women like her, were nearly lost to the passage of time. Kerrie Davies unwinds the mysteries of Miles Franklin’s lost years in Miles Franklin Undercover: The little-known years when she created her own brilliant career, constructing a real-life sequel to My Brilliant Career using …
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“Ritual makes the invisible, visible.” — Casper ter Kuile Casper ter Kuile shares insight and inspiration on the future of community, ritual, and spirituality. His work explores how we’ll make meaning, deepen our relationships, and experience beauty in the 21st century. He’s the author of The Power of Ritual and co-founder of The Nearness, a digita…
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Dr Kirk interviews Humberto about his abandonment grief. This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/KIRK to get 10% off your first month. 00:00 What is the dual process model of grief? 14:49 Humberto's experience with loss 19:23 What does oscillating in grief look like? 28:18 What are the effects of delayed…
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This week, the show takes you behind the scenes at L'Oréal’s research center in New Jersey. Malcolm Gladwell delves into the complexities of cosmetic formulation and the AI partnership with IBM. Learn how AI is poised to revolutionize the creation of beauty products, to make them even more sustainable and innovative. This is a paid advertisement fr…
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Body Count: The War on Terror and Civilian Deaths in Iraq (Bristol University Press, 2021), Lily Hamourtziadou’s investigation into civilian victims during the conflicts that followed the US-led coalition’s 2003 invasion of Iraq provides important new perspectives on the human cost of the War on Terror. From early fighting to the withdrawal and ret…
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The year 2025 marks the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War, a conflict that solidified SPAM’s place in global food culture. Created by Hormel Foods in 1937 to utilize surplus pork shoulder during the Great Depression, SPAM became an essential resource during the Second World War, and helped shape perceptions of American culture. SP…
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**Content Warning** This episode includes discussions of sexual assault and attempted murder, which may be distressing for some listeners. Please listen with care. On this episode of Virtual Sentiments, host Kristen Collins speaks with Susan Brison, author of Aftermath: Violence and the Remaking of a Self (Princeton University Press, 2002; 20th Ann…
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Check out the JVN Patreon for exclusive BTS content, extra interviews, and much much more - check it out here: www.patreon.com/jvn What actually happens during menopause—and why aren’t we talking about it more? This week, JVN is joined by Emmy-winning journalist, author, menopause advocate, and host of The Tamsen Show: Tamsen Fadal! Tamsen shares h…
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Sign up link:https://explore.healthygamer.gg/healing-from-narcissistic-parentsWorkshop date:Sunday, July 27, 11 am Pacific time. Become a member: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOUZWV1DRtHtpP2H48S7iiw/join Become a patron: https://www.patreon.com/PsychologyInSeattle Email: https://www.psychologyinseattle.com/contact Website: https://www.psycholog…
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Ordinary items take on new meanings when you cast them in different light. The origins of tea, coffee and sugar are well known, but when you discover that gym treadmills were pioneered on plantations or that denim jeans were once clothing for enslaved people, you can't help but ask where else the legacy of slavery hides in plain sight. Through the …
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After the outbreak of the 2011 Syrian War, a number Syrian-Armenians who had lived in the territory for generations, fled to the Republic of Armenia. This book traces the experiences of Syrian-Armenian women as they navigated their changing and gendered identities from their adopted 'homeland' to their socially constructed new 'ancestral' home in A…
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Ordinary items take on new meanings when you cast them in different light. The origins of tea, coffee and sugar are well known, but when you discover that gym treadmills were pioneered on plantations or that denim jeans were once clothing for enslaved people, you can't help but ask where else the legacy of slavery hides in plain sight. Through the …
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Receiving praise can feel good. But it can also feel uncomfortable. Should you say something nice back? Brush it off? Make a self-deprecating comment? Many of us were never taught how to accept compliments, but there's science to back up the benefits of receiving and giving kudos. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoic…
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On the International Space Station, a team of astronauts watch our big blue planet as it silently turns beneath them.  This 2024 Booker Prize–winning novel is largely observations of the astronauts as they collect data and record small, slow changes in their environment and their own bodies. Yet Samantha Harvey’s prose is expansive, delicately enco…
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Agriculture is big in Colorado, and a recent survey from the Colorado Department of Agriculture shows that Coloradans care a lot — not only about how their food is grown, but where it’s grown. CSU agricultural economist Dawn Thilmany spoke to The Audit about why the buy local movement matters so much to consumers.…
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Dr Kirk Honda provides a lecture on pedophilia-themed OCD. This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/KIRK to get 10% off your first month. 00:00 What is pedophilia OCD? 19:58 Client story & Identifying the difference 53:08 How to treat a client 1:28:43 Etiology and reddit accounts Become a member: https://…
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Central bank cooperation during global financial crises has been anything but consistent. While some crises are arrested with extensive cooperation, others are left to spiral. Going beyond explanations based on state power, interests, or resources, in Bankers' Trust: How Social Relations Avert Global Financial Collapse (Cornell University Press, 20…
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For decades, Democratic politicians have frustrated progressives by tinkering around the margins of policy while shying away from truly ambitious change. What happened to bold political vision on the left, and what shrunk the very horizons of possibility? In Thinking like an Economist, Elizabeth Popp Berman tells the story of how a distinctive way …
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My village, my kampung. The term kampung is a Malay word, referring to a "village hamlet" or "urban informal settlement." As rapid urbanization takes place both regionally and globally, the designation of kampung accrued a negative connotation associated with impoverishment and obsolescence. However, commencing in the mid-2010s, a countermovement a…
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For decades, Democratic politicians have frustrated progressives by tinkering around the margins of policy while shying away from truly ambitious change. What happened to bold political vision on the left, and what shrunk the very horizons of possibility? In Thinking like an Economist, Elizabeth Popp Berman tells the story of how a distinctive way …
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Ghana’s twentieth century was one of dramatic political, economic, and environmental change. Sparked initially by the impositions of colonial rule, these transformations had significant, if rarely uniform, repercussions for the determinants of good and bad nutrition. All across this new and uneven polity, food production, domestic reproduction, gen…
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In the era of online dating, asking someone out in real life has become a lost art. This episode, confidence coach Regina Bonds shares tips on putting yourself out there, bouncing back from rejections and talking to people in person. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy…
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This episode originally aired on July 19, 2021: This episode we visit Aspen Ridge Greenhouses to talk with former Terra Informer Dylan Hall. Dylan is a beginner beekeeper and welcomed Hannah and Elizabeth for a hive inspection. We also talk about the impact of heatwaves on different important pollinator insects. Program log here. Production, script…
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Check out the JVN Patreon for exclusive BTS content, extra interviews, and much much more - check it out here: www.patreon.com/jvn This week on The Monday Edit: the Texas floods, JoJo Siwa’s “Bette Davis Eyes,” the great prison conception, summer travel recommendations, and the final season of Queer Eye. To help support the Texas floods relief, che…
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In this classic two-parter from Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert and Joe discuss the chemistry, space science and mythology of burning hair. So strap in for a discussion of everything from pirates and barbecue mishaps to Latin literature and science fiction. (originally published 7/23/2024) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.…
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Today we’re continuing our series on philosopher Harry Frankfurt’s seminal work, On Bullshit. Our guest is Michael Patrick Lynch, Provost Professor of the Humanities and Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of Connecticut. Michael is the author of the recently published book, On Truth in Politics: Why Democracy …
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Welcome to the final episode of ‘Songs of the Skies’! Today I am joined by Mark Boden and Fennella Humphries to discuss 'Chasing Sunlight'! This incredible piece of music tells the story of the Arctic Tern, and how it takes part in one of natures greatest and most epic quests! First, we will hear about Mark’s time learning from these birds on the I…
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Dr Kirk Honda interviews Det. Mike Weber about his crime novel “The Mother Next Door”, in which he writes about catching parent perpetrators with munchausen by proxy. This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/KIRK to get 10% off your first month. 00:00 Introducing Mike Weber and "The Mother Next Door" 04:2…
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