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Antisemitism and the Academy: Bret Stephens
Season 1 Episode 84
Institutions of higher education, especially in the United States, have received a great deal of attention over the past two generations regarding th…
1 year, 8 months ago
Hebrew: Shalom Goldman
Season 1 Episode 83
What was the Western World's understanding of the origins of humanity prior to the Enlightenment? Why did Christopher Columbus have a Hebrew speaker …
1 year, 9 months ago
Jerusalem Archeology: Jodi Magness
Season 1 Episode 82
Archeology is the science that most directly connects us with our past, and no city in the world has been subject to more archeological interest than…
1 year, 10 months ago
Nuclear Disarmament: Steve Fetter
Season 1 Episode 81
Today I speak with Steve Fetter about his work on a variety of nuclear disarmament efforts, including the Black Sea Experiment, nuclear archeology, t…
1 year, 11 months ago
Soviet Nuclear Program: Thomas Cochran
Season 1 Episode 80
Today we focus on the Soviet nuclear program with Thomas Cochran. Tom directed nuclear disarmament projects at the Natural Resources Defense Council …
2 years ago
Endocrine Disruption: Patricia Hunt
Season 1 Episode 79
Today we explore the history of the field of endocrine disruption with Patricia Hunt. Pat is a Regents Professor in the School of Molecular Bioscienc…
2 years, 1 month ago
Szilard After the War: William Lanouette
Season 1 Episode 78
In episode 77, I interviewed William Lanouette about Leo Szilard's work on the atom bomb, with a discussion of the roles that Szilard played until th…
2 years, 1 month ago
Szilard's Chain Reaction: William Lanouette
Season 1 Episode 77
Perhaps the most overlooked scientist who played critical roles in the development of the atomic bomb was Leo Szilard. With us to explore Szilard's n…
2 years, 3 months ago
Malaria & Reminiscences: Nobel Laureate Peter Agre
Season 1 Episode 76
Peter Agre received the 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery of aquaporins. Peter is a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor in Molecular Micr…
2 years, 4 months ago
Retrospective: Oliver Sacks
Season 1 Episode 75
In 1994, while attending graduate school at the University of California, Berkeley, I had the pleasure of seeing a lecture by Oliver Sacks in which h…
2 years, 5 months ago