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#144. Native Alaskan Resistance to Russian Expansion into North America
Season 1 Episode 144
Gerald Easter and Mara Vorhees are co-authors of two books, The Tsarina's Lost Treasure: Catherine the Great, a Golden Age Masterpiece, and a Legendary Shipwreck, published in 2020 and The Last Stan…
Published on 10 months ago
#143. How American Capitalists Harnessed the American Work Ethic
Season 1 Episode 143
Erik Baker is a historian, writer, and teacher based in Boston, a lecturer in the History of Science department at Harvard University and associate editor of The Drift, a magazine about culture and p…
Published on 10 months, 1 week ago
#142. The South's Long War on Black Literacy
Season 1 Episode 142
Derek W. Black is a Professor of Law at the University of South Carolina, where he directs the Constitutional Law Center. He is one of the nation’s foremost experts in education law and policy, on su…
Published on 10 months, 2 weeks ago
#141, Whether Dictatorship, Democracy, or Corporation: What It Takes to Stay in Power
Season 1 Episode 141
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita is a political science professor at New York University and past president of the International Studies Association, who has served as an adviser to the U.S. government on nat…
Published on 10 months, 3 weeks ago
#140. Malcolm Before X: Family Background, Childhood, and Incarceration
Season 1 Episode 140
Patrick Parr is an historian and biographer of writers and civil rights leaders, including Martin Luther King Jr., James Baldwin, Kurt Vonnegut, Ralph Ellison, and Kato Shidzue. Teaching in Japan sin…
Published on 11 months, 1 week ago
#139. The Amazing New Science of Smell
Season 1 Episode 139
Jonas Olofsson is a professor at Stockholm University in Sweden, where he directs the Sensory Cognitive Interaction Lab, with a particular focus on the sense of smell, as well as its loss, as it inte…
Published on 11 months, 2 weeks ago
#138. The History and Enduring Effects of the 2022 Uprising in Iran
Season 1 Episode 138
Farhad Khosrokhavar is a retired professor and former Director of Studies at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in Paris, whose work focuses on the social movements in Iran after …
Published on 11 months, 2 weeks ago
#138. The Forgotten Sense: The New Science of Smell and the Extraordinary Power of the Nose
Season 1 Episode 138
Jonas Olofsson is a professor at Stockholm University in Sweden, where he directs the Sensory Cognitive Interaction Lab, with a particular focus on the sense of smell, as well as its loss, as it inte…
Published on 11 months, 3 weeks ago
#137. Science, Pseudoscience, and the Co-opting of Quantum Physics by the New Age Movement
Season 1 Episode 137
Sadri Hassani is a professor emeritus of Physics at Illinois State University, who continues to teach courses in thermal and quantum physics as the University of Illinois. He holds a PhD in theoretic…
Published on 1 year ago
#136. The Complicated History of Native American Identity
Season 1 Episode 136
For seven years Carrie Lowry Schuettpelz was a policy advisor in the Obama Administration, focusing on homelessness and Native policy. In addition to an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of…
Published on 1 year ago