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#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, phenomen…
2 years, 7 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…
2 years, 7 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…
2 years, 7 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 Federa…
2 years, 8 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 autho…
2 years, 8 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 journali…
2 years, 8 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 Disord…
2 years, 8 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 ou…
2 years, 8 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 exp…
2 years, 9 months ago
#36. The People’s Hospital: Better and Less Costly Medical Care, Putting Patients’ Needs Above Profit
Season 1 Episode 36
Ricardo Nuila is a writer, physician, and professor of medicine, medical ethics, and health policy at Baylor College of Medicine, where he teaches th…
2 years, 9 months ago