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#46. Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Making of Gender Equality Law
Season 1 Episode 46
Philippa Strum is a Global Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and the Center’s former Director of the Division of United States Studies. For two decades, she was a Profess…
Published on 2 years, 4 months ago
#45. Bizarre, Counter-Intuitive, and Seemingly Impossible, Yet True: Quantum Physics
Season 1 Episode 45
New Mexico State University physics professors, Boris Kiefer and Matthew Sievert, explain in everyday language the strange, yet fundamental, phenomena of quantum physics. Boris Kiefer has been at NMS…
Published on 2 years, 4 months ago
#44. Breaking Out of the Underclass in India
Season 1 Episode 44
Shilpa Raj was one of five girls featured in the four-part Netflix documentary, Daughters of Destiny, about growing up from age four in a residential school called Shanti Bhavan in Tamil Nadu, India,…
Published on 2 years, 4 months ago
#43. The Complexity of Gender Differences
Season 1 Episode 43
Hilary Lips is a Professor Emerita of Social Psychology at Radford University, where she founded the Center for Gender Studies, was its director from 1989 to 2015, and was also the chair of the Depar…
Published on 2 years, 4 months ago
#42. The History and Science of Dreaming
Season 1 Episode 42
Sidarta Ribeiro is a Brazilian neuroscientist, writer, and science communicator. He is the Founder and Vice Director of the Brain Institute at Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte in Natal, Braz…
Published on 2 years, 5 months ago
#41. The Philosopher Who Tried to Save (Secular) Morality
Season 1 Episode 41
David Edmonds is a British philosopher and a Distinguished Research Fellow at Oxford University’s Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics. He is the author of many books, including The Murder of Professor…
Published on 2 years, 5 months ago
#40. Alabama Sues the New York Times for Reporting on Racism and Civil Rights Protests in the Early 1960s
Season 1 Episode 40
Samantha Barbas is a legal and cultural historian and the author of several books on media history and legal history topics, with a focus on journalism, privacy, defamation, and the First Amendment. …
Published on 2 years, 5 months ago
#39. A Successful Recovery from Dissociative Identity Disorder (D.I.D.)
Season 1 Episode 39
Lyn Barrett is an author, speaker, pastor, retreat leader, and survivor of early childhood trauma. Diagnosed in 1992 with Multiple Personality Disorder, now known as Dissociative Identity Disorder (D…
Published on 2 years, 5 months ago
#38. Black Holes, the Big Bang, and Intriguing New Data from the James Webb Space Telescope
Season 1 Episode 38
Wladimir Lyra is an astronomer at New Mexico State University whose research focuses on high-end computer simulations of planet formation, both in our own solar system and beyond, i.e., exoplanets an…
Published on 2 years, 5 months ago
#37. A V.A. Surgeon Channels His Richly Varied Life Experiences Into Community Activism
Season 1 Episode 37
Reuben Last has been a general surgeon for over 20 years at the Albuquerque Veteran’s Administration Medical Center. We’ll hear about the diverse experiences and family background that led to his car…
Published on 2 years, 6 months ago