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On Advances in Care, epidemiologist and science communicator Erin Welsh sits down with physicians from NewYork-Presbyterian hospital to discuss the details behind cutting-edge research and innovative treatments that are changing the course of medicine. From breakthroughs in genome sequencing to the backstories on life-saving cardiac procedures, the work of these doctors from Columbia & Weill Cornell Medicine is united by a collective mission to shape the future of health care and transform t ...
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Interviews with Authors about their New Books Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network
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Interviews with University of North Carolina Press Authors
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The Nurse Keith Show offers up-to-date career advice and knowledge for savvy 21st-century nurses. During each episode, Board-Certified holistic career coach Keith Carlson, BSN, RN, NC-BC explores the multiplicity of potential career pathways in nursing through inspiring interviews with healthcare thought leaders, innovators, and entrepreneurs. With the goal of helping you create the most satisfying nursing career and life possible, The Nurse Keith Show is an invaluable audio destination for ...
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Welcome to the official podcast channel of the Social Interventions Research and Evaluation Network (SIREN) at the University of California, San Francisco.
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Brave New World is a look into the transformation of humanity by machines in the post-COVID era. It examines a wide range of topics around how technology and “virtualization” of our lives is impacting work, health, faith, emotional well being, government, democracy, and freedom. It is hosted by AI-pioneer Vasant Dhar.
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Each week on the Health Lab podcast, we share cutting-edge research, practical health information and inspiring stories of survival from Michigan Medicine, the academic medical center for the University of Michigan. Visit the Health Lab website where you can check out all of our content and subscribe to our Health Lab newsletters to receive the latest in health research and information to your inbox each week. Transcripts for each episode of Health Lab are linked in the episode descriptions. ...
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AI and digital expert Suchi Srinivasan and fintech practice leader Kamila Rakhimova from Boston Consulting Group (BCG) talk to the women at the vanguard of business, digital, and technology. They’re digging into how these powerhouse leaders got where they are—everything from the joy of projects gone right to the realities of family responsibilities. And crucially, asking: what was that moment you knew you weren't merely getting there...you had arrived? That's when you know you're in your ele ...
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Into the Fold: Issues in Mental Health is the monthly podcast by the Hogg Foundation for Mental Health. Consistent with the spirit of the foundation's work, the podcast captures the human implications of mental health and related issues, bringing you conversations with mental health advocates, researchers, consumers, officials, and others who carry the torch on behalf of mental health and wellness in Texas and beyond. Into the Fold is part of the Texas Podcast Network. Texas Podcast Network ...
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New podcasSafe Kids Grand Forks brings together the expertise of individuals in our community and region who are dedicated to reducing childhood injuries. Safe Kids Grand Forks Coalition members include, but are not limited to: EMS, law enforcement, fire departments, service groups, childcare providers, school personnel, government agencies, city personnel, parents, University of North Dakota staff, and Altru Health System staff. Safe Kids Grand Forks has an extensive coalition network that ...
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Welcome to the Physio Foundations podcast, a podcast about the foundational knowledge and skills that lie beneath expert clinical practice. Hosted by Luke Perraton, PhD, physiotherapist and physiotherapy educator/researcher at Monash university, Melbourne, Australia. Watch the video version on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/@PerratonPhysio Visit our website www.Perraton.Physio for episode summaries and to book clinical services in Box Hill and Mount Eliza, Australia. If you enjoy the epi ...
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Unlock the latest breakthroughs in thrombosis diagnosis and management with CLOT Conversations - the must-listen podcast for healthcare professionals. Join hosts Dr Jameel Abdulrehman, a Hematologist with specialization in Thrombosis and Hemostasis at the University Health Network in Toronto, and David Airdrie, the Executive Director of Thrombosis Canada, as they delve into new research and explore the evolving field of thrombosis in 15 to 30 minute easily digestible episodes. Learn from the ...
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Dietitian Melinda Hemmelgarn helps listeners “think beyond their plates,” connect the dots between food, health and agriculture, and find food truth.
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Clinicians have trained in the art and science of medicine, and yet feel powerless to make a meaningful impact on the healthcare system. Clinical Changemakers is the podcast looking to bridge this gap by exploring inspiring stories of leadership, innovation and so much more. To learn more and join the conversation, visit: www.clinicalchangemakers.com www.clinicalchangemakers.com
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Tom Donahue is a seasoned talk host, an innovative and independent broadcast voice. Tom Donahue Reports has returned and offered on-demand for podcast reports and briefings (new) and streaming. Heard on Talk Stream Live, Talk Right and K-Star Talk Radio Network. Tom Donahue Show had aired on KCAA Radio, WFYL, Red State Talk Radio, Liberty News Radio. He was on broadcast radio distributed by Salem (SRN) in 2018 with a live weekend talk show aired on stations KSLM, KCAA, WXME, KYAH, Red State ...
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The FedUpward Podcast gives federal employees and friends of feds strategies and tips for navigating everyday problems. This is a place for federal employees to network, share ideas and get better. Don't get fed up. Get FedUpward!
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Here are full episodes of "Driving It Home with Patti Vasquez" (weeknights from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. on WCPT Chicago), a radio talk show devoted to covering the news of the day and connecting listeners with local leaders. Patti Vasquez is a Chicago comedian, writer, actor, talk show host, consultant, advocate, and policy adviser. After achieving a degree in history from the University of Illinois, she set out to share her hilarious observations about how people behave, and stories about her sec ...
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Thoughts on spirituality, Kabbalah, Jewish thought, Judaism and Relationships. Rabbi Yisroel Bernath is the Senior Rabbi at Rohr Chabad of NDG and the Director of Chabad on Campus at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. Cherished for his incredible warmth and non-judgmental personality, this hipster is not your typical rabbi. In 2012, Rabbi Bernath founded the smashing success JMatchmaking International, a network of Jewish dating sites. He has made 104 matches (that he knows of) to dat ...
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Companion podcast to the ASMR University website (www.asmruniversity.com), hosted by Dr. Craig Richard. Similar to the website, the podcast will cover the Origin, Art, and Science of Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response.
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self-help & spiritual teachings of healing,health from indigenous & mystical traditions. Feng Shui with Brenda Michiko Kelly and healing ways with Pathfinder!
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Ben Mulroney is regarded as one of Canada’s premier television and radio hosts. He is best known as the former co-host of Your Morning and Etalk and host of Canadian Idol, which was the most watched English-language Canadian television show on record for the entirety of its six-season run. As a preeminent host, emcee, and interviewer, Mulroney infuses galas, conferences, and every event he’s involved in with his signature humour, charisma, and warm personality. Despite being the son of forme ...
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The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) Superfund Research Program (SRP) produces a monthly Research Brief Podcast that highlights the research of SRP grantees. The SRP is a network of university grants that seek solutions to the complex health and environmental issues associated with the nation's hazardous waste sites. The research conducted by the SRP is a coordinated effort with the Environmental Protection Agency, which is the federal entity charged with cleaning ...
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Welcome to AI News Daily, brought to you by Brief! Our AI selects the latest stories and top headlines and then delivers them to you each day in less than ten minutes (for more details, visit www.brief.news/how-it-works). Tune in to get your daily news about machine learning, robotics, automation, natural language processing, AI ethics, and more. Whether you're a tech enthusiast, AI researcher, or simply curious about the future of technology, this podcast is your go-to source for AI news. T ...
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Explore the world of Traditional Chinese Veterinary Medicine with the Chi University. The Chi University is the premier facility in the country for teaching veterinarians Eastern medicine. The episodes will cover Chinese herbs and treatments passed down thousands of years.
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Welcome to Wild Card – Whose Shoes! Walking in the shoes of more interesting people 😉 My name is Gill Phillips and I’m the creator of Whose Shoes, a popular approach to coproduction and I am known for having an amazing network. Building on my inclusion in the Health Services Journal ‘WILD CARDS’, part of #HSJ100, and particularly the shoutout for ‘improving care for some of the most vulnerable in society through co-production’, I enjoy chatting to a really diverse group of people, providing ...
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Professor of Politics, University of Buckingham. This podcast focuses on nationalism, ethnicity and religion, and their interaction with immigration and population change. Also issues of academic freedom and left-modernism.
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Time for a checkup! Shaun McMahon hosts Your Health, a podcast about healthcare news and insights from CIUSSS West-Central Montreal (the Integrated Health and Social Services University Network for West-Central Montreal). Got a topic suggestion or a health question? Send them in at [email protected] Également disponible en français.
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On "The Infectious Myth" host David Crowe will examine the questionable or outright false paradigms that infect our society.
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Inspired by the American Undifferentiated Medical Student Podcast with a Canadian context, UBC Faculty of Medicine learners sit down with various physicians to learn more about their specialties and help learners across the country navigate their medical careers. Subscribe on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and all major podcast platforms. New episodes the last Monday of each month.
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Informative and trendy show that focuses on Trine University students and Trine events.
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The Justifiably Enchanted with Enlightened Living (J.E.W.E.L.) NETWORK is a radio frequency of continuous streaming knowledge and wisdom, which promotes and sustains the activation of the present evolutionary process of Immortality and the unfolding of the GOD-SELF, in an evolving planetary society. Every individual with an adult body can have the mind of a scientist when they tune into the J.E.W.E.L. Network.
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Education is more than the accumulation of knowledge. It’s the growth we experience when digging deep into the topics, systems, and ways of thinking that give flavor to life. Enlighten Me is dedicated to bringing listeners into the world of the unknown and providing meaningful insights into issues that affect us all. In each episode, we bring in researchers and experts from a wide range of fields to discuss a topic and how it relates to their industry. Part of the TXST Podcast Network: https ...
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Faculty at the Nuffield Department of Medicine have been carrying out ground-breaking research overseas for nearly thirty years. We are now working on new and established projects in China, South-East Asia and East Africa with several collaborative partners.
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Join Dr. Frederick L. (Rick) Greene each month as he hosts the podcast series, Cancer Registry World™, that focuses on the role of cancer registrars and cancer registries in the universal treatment of malignancy. Each segment will feature cancer registrars, clinicians, organizations, administrators, researchers, and representatives of all healthcare groups who contribute to and benefit from data that are derived from cancer registries.
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The Desert Island Books series is being run by the Nottingham University Hospital Library Service.
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Science in Translation is a podcast from the Northwestern University Clinical and Translational Sciences (NUCATS) Institute. On this show, you’ll hear from NUCATS scientists who are dedicated to accelerating how fast they can move a transformational finding in a lab into a treatment, cure, or solution that will improve human health. You will also discover tools and resources available through NUCATS to catalyze, accelerate, and transform translational science. Funded by the NIH’s National Ce ...
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Hosted by Gabe Feldman--Director of the Tulane Sports Law Program, NFL Network Legal Analyst, and sports industry consultant, this podcast will look at current and breaking stories in the sports world and tell the largely untold (and often misunderstood) legal story behind the headlines. It will also explore significant sports stories and lawsuits that have been overlooked or forgotten. The goal of the podcast is to help people understand why and how each of these stories and cases have had ...
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Another great show which began through the Law of Attraction Talk Radio Network: Master Your Universe, sponsored by Simple Online Fitness, focuses on creating the life you want, fitness, personal development and providing techniques for improving your physical, emotional and spiritual health and well being. Tune in to learn more about how you can reprogram your body and your mind to eliminate limiting beliefs and begin creating a personal reality that will add to your life and the lives of o ...
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A podcast made for Law Students, by Law Students. Produced by the D.C. Bar Law Student Community. Learn more about the D.C. Bar Law Student Community at dcbar.org/LSC. Current Hosts: Tamya Anderson, Howard University School of Law, Class of 2026 Andrew Nettels, George Washington University Law School, Class of 2025 Prisila Otazo, UDC David A. Clark School of Law, Class of 2027 Presented by the D.C. Bar Communities Podcast Network. Theme Music: "Something Elated" by Broke for Free
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The podcast is a service of WCWP Radio and Project Independence, the Town of North Hempstead, New York’s aging in place initiative. This a show for all ages, where the hosts discuss important and timely information from medical and mental health experts, community organizations, interesting people, and more.
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Well@Work presents podcasts on health and wellness at work as health and behavioral health professionals deal with the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. Join the University of Kentucky Center on Trauma and Children as they present strategies that cover a variety of topics to build resilience and emotional well-being to assist and empower workers and supervisors to stay well at work. These podcasts are provided through a grant from SAMHSA to the Department of Behavioral Health Developmental a ...
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A joint project of Costs of Care and the ABIM Foundation, the Teaching Value in Health Care Learning Network is a dynamic community of medical residents, students, faculty and others who are committed to learning and teaching the principles of stewardship and high-value care. Our podcasts include conversations with leaders and innovators who are implementing successful tools and strategies in their organizations.
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Is you diagnosis precise, correct, and complete? Is your treatment plan perfect? Get answers here: https://diagnosticdetectives.com/ Top doctors educate and share wisdom that patients cannot hear during brief office visits. Diagnostic Detectives Network expert conversations invite you to go beyond buzzwords and platitudes in medicine. How to maintain health? How to get better if your health faltered? What are common misconceptions in medicine? Our experts answer these questions. Host: Anton ...
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Just how dangerous is the everyday workplace? What can be done to mitigate risks and avoid hazards? And what trade-offs have to be made between the competing demands of safety, efficiency and wider social responsibility? This album looks at three very different case studies - farming, food manufacturing and urban redevelopment - and explores the varying approaches to risk management within each different sphere. It includes a visit to Fox's Biscuits and Brooksby Agricultural College in the U ...
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Staff and providers at the University of Vermont Medical Center discuss relevant health topics and give you tips on how to live a healthier life.
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The Village Global podcast takes you inside the world of venture capital and technology, featuring enlightening interviews with entrepreneurs, investors and tech industry leaders. Learn more at www.villageglobal.vc.
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To all the past Host and Hostess of The RIFT Radio , Thank you for putting in your time . --------The R.I.F.T. network was created to give a voice; covering a wide span of subjects from the spiritual to the unexplained...creating a new journey unlike any other.---Thank you who supported us and listened in : It was our Pleasure---SUNDAY NIGHTS : The Orion Effect Howie " The Hitman " & Rhonda Harris Daughty 7:00PM to 9:00PM EDT PG-!3 / ---MONDAY NIGHTS : Haunted Tales from the Old Rocking Chai ...
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Weather nuttery - from floods in New York to mapping wildfires in Canada
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- Mihalis Belantis. Chief Executive Office AISIX - Mohit Rajhans Mediologist and Consultant, ThinkStart If you enjoyed the podcast,tell a friend! For more of the Ben Mulroney Show, subscribe to the podcast! https://link.chtbl.com/bms Also, on youtube -- https://www.youtube.com/@BenMulroneyShow Follow Ben on Twitter/X athttps://x…
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The Toronto cast -- Is the air quality bad or is that the mayor's race heating up
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- Councillor Brad Bradford on who can beat Mayor Olivia Chow If you enjoyed the podcast,tell a friend! For more of the Ben Mulroney Show, subscribe to the podcast! https://link.chtbl.com/bms Also, on youtube -- https://www.youtube.com/@BenMulroneyShow Follow Ben on Twitter/X athttps://x.com/BenMulroney Insta: @benmulroneyshow Tw…
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AWS and Pega Transform AI Systems, Arm Holdings Stock Soars 41 Percent, Fostering Connections Against AI Loneliness, Anthropic Launches Claude Directory, and more...
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(0:10): AWS, Pega, and Amazon Bedrock Unite to Revolutionize AI-Powered Legacy System Modernization (1:52): Arm Holdings' Stock Soars 41% Amid AI and IoT Expansion, But Overvaluation Concerns Loom (3:21): Addressing AI-Induced Loneliness: A Call to Foster Human Connections in the Workplace (5:01): Anthropic Launches Claude Directory: One-Click App …
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Simon Butt, "Judicial Dysfunction in Indonesia" (Melbourne UP, 2023)
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Indonesia's judicial system has long been described as dysfunctional. Many of its problems developed out of decades of authoritarian rule, which began in the last few years of the reign of Indonesia's first president, Soekarno. By the time President Soeharto's regime fell in 1998, the judiciary had virtually collapsed. Judicial dependence on govern…
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Brendan O'Meara, "The Front Runner: The Life of Steve Prefontaine" (HarperCollins, 2025)
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In the fifty years since his tragic death in a car crash, Steve Prefontaine has towered over American distance running. One of the most recognizable and charismatic figures to ever run competitively in the United States, Prefontaine has endured as a source of inspiration and fascination—a talent who presaged the American running boom of the late 19…
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Lorna Graham, "Where You Once Belonged: A Novel" (She Writes Press, 2025)
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A writer at Dateline NBC tries her hand at a different kind of mystery, perfect for fans of Chandler Baker’s Whisper Network, where a cynical TV news producer sells out her principles to rise to her network’s top job, and comes face-to-face with what appears to be her idealistic teenage self. Everleigh Page is on the cusp of greatness. Executive pr…
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Sonia C. Gomez, "Picture Bride, War Bride: The Role of Marriage in Shaping Japanese America" (NYU Press, 2024)
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Picture Bride, War Bride examines how the institution of marriage created pockets of legal and social inclusion for Japanese women during the period of Japanese exclusion. Gomez’s work joins together an analysis of picture brides, or Japanese women who migrated to the United States to join husbands whom they married [in absentia] in the early 20th …
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Lanlan Kuang, "Staging Tianxia: Dunhuang Expressive Arts and China's New Cosmopolitan Heritage" (Indiana UP, 2024)
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How can art shape historical memory and national identity? And how can cultural heritage and historical references be used to enact a vision of a nation? In Staging Tianxia: Dunhuang Expressive Arts and China’s New Cosmopolitan Heritage (Indiana University Press, 2024), Lanlan Kuang explores these questions through the lens of Dunhuang expressive a…
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Vatican Reporter Christopher White has just written book about Pope Leo XIV, our new Holy Father, an American, an Augustinian, from Chicago, from Perú; it’s a biography, but it also places Pope Leo in the Context of the Second Vatican Council, the legacy of Leo XIII and especially his predecessor Pope Francis and the synodal church of the last few …
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Renay Richardson and Arisa Loomba, "Human Resources: Slavery and the Making of Modern Britain" (Profile Books, 2025)
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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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Anahid Matossian, "Syrian-Armenian Women Migrants in Armenia: Gender, Identity and Painful Belonging" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
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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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Driving It Home with Patti Vasquez July14, 2025
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On today's show Patti Vasquez is joined by guest co-host Jaime De Leon and their guests are: – Cassie Lucchesi, president of Peoria Proud and chair of River City Pride Festival (taking place Saturday, July 19th – Carrie Powell, owner of Method Seattle Catch "Driving It Home with Patti Vasquez" weekdays from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. Central on WCPT (heartl…
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211. David Spirk on Scaling What Works and Cutting What Doesn’t
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David Spirk on Scaling What Works and Cutting What Doesn’t David Spirk, a Marine Corps veteran and Senior Counselor at Palantir, joins FedUpward to talk about driving real transformation in government. He discusses how to operationalize data, the trap of failing programs, and what efficiency should actually mean in federal service. David joined the…
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The political panel -- A heated discussion on Carney's conflict of interests
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Guest: Max Fawcett - Columnist, National Observer Guest: Anthony Koch, Managing Principal at AK Strategies and former National Campaign Spokesperson for Pierre Poilievre If you enjoyed the podcast,tell a friend! For more of the Ben Mulroney Show, subscribe to the podcast! https://link.chtbl.com/bms Also, on youtube -- https://www.you…
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Did the NDP nominate an anti-semite for the Nobel Peace Prize?
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- Michelle Ferreri/former MP If you enjoyed the podcast,tell a friend! For more of the Ben Mulroney Show, subscribe to the podcast! https://link.chtbl.com/bms Also, on youtube -- https://www.youtube.com/@BenMulroneyShow Follow Ben on Twitter/X athttps://x.com/BenMulroney Insta: @benmulroneyshow Twitter: @benmulroneyshow TikTok: …
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Zillow Transforms Real Estate with AI, AWS S3 Becomes AI Powerhouse, India Launches AI X-ray Kits, American Airlines Innovates Travel Experience, and more...
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(0:10): Zillow Revolutionizes Real Estate with AI: Boosting Efficiency, Accuracy, and Market Access (2:12): AWS S3 Transforms into AI Powerhouse with Metadata Lakes and Autonomous Data Agents (4:11): India Launches AI-Powered Portable X-ray Kits to Boost TB Detection Nationwide (6:25): American Airlines Revolutionizes Travel with AI and Biometric I…
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Home invasion in the GTA - An exclusive podcast interview with a survivor
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- Hank Idsinga / Former Toronto Police Detective If you enjoyed the podcast,tell a friend! For more of the Ben Mulroney Show, subscribe to the podcast! https://link.chtbl.com/bms Also, on youtube -- https://www.youtube.com/@BenMulroneyShow Follow Ben on Twitter/X athttps://x.com/BenMulroney Insta: @benmulroneyshow Twitter: @benm…
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The Toronto cast - The big smoke has some mental health issues to deal with
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- Alan Cross on Oasis reunion tour If you enjoyed the podcast,tell a friend! For more of the Ben Mulroney Show, subscribe to the podcast! https://link.chtbl.com/bms Also, on youtube -- https://www.youtube.com/@BenMulroneyShow Follow Ben on Twitter/X athttps://x.com/BenMulroney Insta: @benmulroneyshow Twitter: @benmulroneyshow Ti…
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John Nott, "Between Feast Famine: Food, Health, and the History of Ghana's Long Twentieth Century" (UCL Press, 2025)
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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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Savannah Mandel on an Argument for the End of Human Space Exploration
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Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks with space anthropologist, writer, and Virginia Tech doctoral candidate, Savannah Mandel, about her book, Ground Control: An Argument for the End of Human Space Exploration (Chicago Review Press, 2025). The book uses history, ethnography, participant observation in policy-making, and other forms of evidence …
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Elizabeth Popp Berman, "Thinking like an Economist: How Efficiency Replaced Equality in U.S. Public Policy" (Princeton UP, 2022)
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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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Andréa Becker, "Get It Out: On the Politics of Hysterectomy" (NYU Press, 2025)
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At least one hysterectomy is performed every minute of the year, making it the most common gynecological surgery worldwide. By the age of sixty-five, one out of five people born with a uterus will have it removed. So, why do we seldom talk about this surgery? Highly performed yet overlooked, examining the paradox of hysterectomy begins to unravel t…
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Charles Glass, "Syria: Civil War to Holy War?" (OR Books, 2024)
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In December 2024, the long and bloody stalemate in Syria broke down. In a transformation breathtaking for its suddenness and speed, President Bashar al-Assad, the beating heart of Arab authoritarianism, fled to Russia, his dungeons emptying as rebels overcame the Syrian army with scarcely a fight. Euphoria at the collapse of a government people nev…
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Jeremy Black, "The Civil War" (Saint Augustine's Press, 2025)
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The American Civil War may have been more consequential to American history (and its global supremacy) than its Revolutionary War and participation in all other world wars. The influence of this war is not just reduced to the victory of the north and its economic infrastructure, but the fact of Union success ushered in the notion of 'what it means …
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Aditi Sahasrabuddhe, "Bankers' Trust: How Social Relations Avert Global Financial Collapse" (Cornell UP, 2025)
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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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Chris Bernhardt, "Beautiful Math: The Surprisingly Simple Ideas behind the Digital Revolution in How We Live, Work, and Communicate" (MIT Press, 2024)
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Most of us know something about the grand theories of physics that transformed our views of the universe at the start of the twentieth century: quantum mechanics and general relativity. But we are much less familiar with the brilliant theories that make up the backbone of the digital revolution. In Beautiful Math: The Surprisingly Simple Ideas behi…
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John McGahern, "The Dark: A Critical Edition" (Syracuse UP, 2025)
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Bringing John McGahern's 1965 masterpiece back into print in the United States after years of inaccessibility, this new sixtieth-anniversary critical edition includes an introduction aimed at first-time readers, explanatory footnotes, McGahern's own glossary, and four scholarly essays aimed at guiding readers through the novel's famously controvers…
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Andréa Becker, "Get It Out: On the Politics of Hysterectomy" (NYU Press, 2025)
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At least one hysterectomy is performed every minute of the year, making it the most common gynecological surgery worldwide. By the age of sixty-five, one out of five people born with a uterus will have it removed. So, why do we seldom talk about this surgery? Highly performed yet overlooked, examining the paradox of hysterectomy begins to unravel t…
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David S. Wall, "Cybercrime: The Transformation of Crime in the Information Age" (Polity, 2024)
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How has the digital revolution transformed criminal opportunities and behaviour? What is different about cybercrime compared with traditional criminal activity? What impact might cybercrime have on public security? In this updated edition of his authoritative and field-defining text, cybercrime expert David Wall carefully examines these and other i…
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Alexander Lian, "Stereoscopic Law: Oliver Wendell Holmes and Legal Education" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
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A unique and thorough work of intellectual history and legal scholarship Stereoscopic Law: Oliver Wendell Holmes and Legal Education (Cambridge University Press, 2020) by Alexander Lian, a practicing commercial litigator, reconstructs Oliver Wendell Holmes’ as a pioneering legal pedagogue and sophisticated theoretician of law and the ‘reality of pr…
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Emma Marris, "Wild Souls: Freedom and Flourishing in the Non-Human World" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
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In Wild Souls: Freedom and Flourishing in the Non-Human World (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021), Emma Marris wrestles with big ethical questions facing the conservation field. Emma takes us through several experiences that informed the book, exposing us to relevant on-the-ground decisions impacting the life or death of animals. When the interests of in…
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