Is capitalism the engine of destruction or the engine of prosperity? On this podcast we talk about the ways capitalism is—or more often isn’t—working in our world today. Hosted by Vanity Fair contributing editor, Bethany McLean and world renowned economics professor Luigi Zingales, we explain how capitalism can go wrong, and what we can do to fix it. Cover photo attributions: https://www.chicagobooth.edu/research/stigler/about/capitalisnt. If you would like to send us feedback, suggestions f ...
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Big Brains explores the groundbreaking research and discoveries that are changing our world. In each episode, we talk to leading experts and unpack their work in straightforward terms. Interesting conversations that cover a gamut of topics from how music affects our brains to what happens after we die.
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With all the noise created by a 24/7 news cycle, it can be hard to really grasp what's going on in politics today. We provide a fresh perspective on the biggest political stories not through opinion and anecdotes, but rigorous scholarship, massive data sets and a deep knowledge of theory. Understand the political science beyond the headlines with Harris School of Public Policy Professors William Howell, Anthony Fowler and Wioletta Dziuda. Our show is part of the University of Chicago Podcast ...
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Rights matter, but conversations about rights can be polarizing, confusing and frustrating. Lawyers and law professors Claudia Flores and Tom Ginsburg have traveled the world getting into the weeds of global human rights debates. On Entitled, they use that expertise to explore the stories and thorny questions around why rights matter and what’s the matter with rights. Entitled is produced with the support of University of Chicago Law School and Yale Law School, and is part of the award winni ...
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CareerCast by the University of Chicago Booth School of Business
The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Chicago Booth believes in life-long career development to help you maintain your professional edge. Through CareerCast, an online, audio recording series, we give alumni and students the chance to hear experts discuss topics such as crafting your story, making an industry or function change, managing employees, taking the entrepreneurial plunge and more. Because these talks are available online, you can access them anytime, anywhere and as often as you want. You will have the opportunity to ...
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DIS Unlimited's Universal Show is a discussion podcast that covers all aspects of planning a vacation to Universal Orlando Resort. Our show is unbiased and presents honest opinions of every aspect of a Universal experience - from dining and theme parks to attractions and hotels. We discuss various topics including the top news stories, dining and restaurant reviews, upcoming events, vacation planning tips, listener questions, plus much more! The show is hosted by Ryan "Ryno" Clavin! Hosted o ...
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The LiberatED Podcast tells the stories of the entrepreneurial parents and teachers who are creating innovative K-12 learning options across the US and expanding education options for families. This twice-weekly podcast is hosted by Kerry McDonald, a Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Economic Education and leader of the Education Entrepreneurship Lab. A regular contributor at Forbes.com and The 74, Kerry is the bestselling author of Unschooled: Raising Curious, Well-Educated Children Outsi ...
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The biggest ideas in physics, broken down. Join theoretical physicist Dan Hooper and co-host Shalma Wegsman as they answer your questions about dark matter, black holes, quantum mechanics, and more. Part of The University of Chicago Podcast Network.
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UC3P is a student-run podcast network based at the University of Chicago's Harris School of Public Policy. Our main page hosts current events, politics, research, debates, and more from across the University of Chicago.
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Welcome to The Rocket Networker Podcast! You're in the right place if you're interested in building and managing your relationship network. As an entrepreneur, executive, advisor, and technologist I've had the privilege of living across the United States and working around the world. Over four decades, I've engaged with people from all walks of life - - all day, every day. It's what I love to do. So, in every episode of The Rocket Networker, I interview incredible people that I've met along ...
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Join Wolfie as he dives into the history of the events, actions, and stories that shaped LA sports. Alexander “Wolfie” Tash is a sports journalist from Los Angeles. Wolfie was drafted out of High School in the 39th round of the 2013 MLB amateur draft to the Chicago White Sox. After deciding to forgo the minor leagues, he attended college at Chapman University, earning a bachelor's degree in broadcast journalism in 2017. Wolfie has spent the past five years working in the sports world for com ...
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Off The Charts Energy Podcast
Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago & UChicago Podcast Network
At the Energy Policy Institute, we love our charts. That’s why we’re bringing you analysis of today’s top trends and policies grounded in the latest evidence off the charts.
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The Quantum Divide is a podcast focussing on quantum technology, with a slant towards networking. Do you work in the IT industry, want to learn about quantum technologies, and are daunted by the extraordinarily high bar for deep comprehension? Yeah, me too. Join our podcast to hear interesting talks about quantum technology concepts, and fascinating interviews from individuals in the industry. (Opinions expressed by Steve & Dan belong only to them, and not their employer)
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Each week, your hosts--public radio veteran Stephan Cox, political science PhD candidate Chad Levinson, and Democratic strategist David Gershwin--unpack the week in politics and attempt to drill down through the chatter and into something that quite possibly resembles the truth. Born during the 16-month long national nightmare that is the 2016 Presidential election, the show continues to evolve, examining greater and deeper themes and threads across the political and cultural landscape. Step ...
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Ramona Rice was a very casual fan of football, basketball, and baseball growing up. Her father watched sports, and her hometown of Hampton Roads is known for its high school football - but she didn't fall in love with sports until she fell in love with a guy, James, who loved to watch sports - any sport. When they became engaged Ramona decided to learn more about his favorite sport, football, and checked out Football For Dummies by Howie Long. She also started to listen to sports radio, watc ...
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Our Honest Review of Universal Helios Grand Hotel
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47:26Hannah and Ryno are giving you their honest review of Helios Grand Hotel, the newest Universal Orlando Resort to open as part of the Universal Epic Universe expansion in this episode of the DIS Unlimited Universal Show. Links: UO Fan Website Get a FREE No-Obligation Quote on a Universal vacation from Dreams Unlimited Travel today! Important DIS lin…
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Think of Alexa Achille as an "Alexa" for innovative education in South Florida. A former special education teacher in the New York City public schools, Alexa finds great fulfillment in helping families discover the benefits of unconventional education. She is the founder of The Collabo in West Palm Beach, Florida, which empowers homeschooling famil…
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How Mosaic is supporting self-directed education
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30:55Today on LiberatED, Kerry McDonald sits down with Bonnie Benjamin-Phariss, the Executive Director of Mosaic at WeAreBornToLearn.org—a vibrant online hub where families can reimagine education in meaningful ways. Founded by philanthropist Jeff Westphal and supported by the Jeff & Jenifer Westphal Foundation, Mosaic blends community with curated reso…
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How Microplastics Are Invading Our Bodies, with Matthew Campen
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28:18You’ve heard of plastic polluting oceans. But what if it’s polluting you—your brain, your reproductive system, even your unborn children? In this eye-opening episode, we speak with Prof. Matthew Campen, a scientist at the University of New Mexico, whose latest studies have uncovered evidence of microplastics in placentas, reproductive organs and br…
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Do We Understand Members Of The Other Party?
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54:14Do Democrats and Republicans really misunderstand each other as much as we think? This week, we dive into a surprising new experiment that puts that idea to the test — literally. Psychologist and researcher Adam Mastriani created a kind of “political Turing test,” asking people to write persuasive statements from the perspective of the opposite pol…
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Should Chatbots Teach Our Children? With Khan Academy CEO Sal Khan
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44:38What is the right way, if there is one at all, to integrate artificial intelligence (AI) technology into our education system? For Sal Khan, CEO of one of the world’s largest nonprofit education technology platforms, the answer is to take a step back and ask: Where can AI best complement current pedagogy? If a problem can be solved by pencil and pa…
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Kerry's new book, Joyful Learning: How to Find Freedom, Happiness, and Success Beyond Conventional Schooling, will be on bookstore shelves two weeks from today—Tuesday, August 19th. Preorder your copy today at this link and use code JOYFUL20 at checkout for 20% off. Or visit your favorite local bookstore or online retailer to get your copy. *** Sig…
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Opening a microschool after 20 years of teaching
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41:26Today's guest, Tiffany Blassingame, is reimagining Christian education. As the founder and lead teacher at The Ferguson School—a progressive, faith-based K-5 microschool in Decatur, Georgia—she blends over 20 years of experience in public and private education with a heart for helping students thrive. A fourth-generation educator, Tiffany primarily…
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Everything We Know About Halloween Horror Nights 2025 - All Houses Announced, Scare Zones, Shows, & Street Experiences
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41:34It's that time of the year. Halloween Horror Nights draws near and we try to brace you for all the Universal Orlando Resort Halloween fear. In this episode of the Universal Show Ryno and Hannah are going over everything we know about Halloween Horror Nights 2025 so far including the complete list of all ten haunted houses, the four Scare Zones that…
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Primer founder Ryan Delk on creating a vast microschool network
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37:54Today's guest is Ryan Delk, cofounder and CEO of Primer, a fast-growing platform helping top teachers to launch microschools in their communities. He’s spent the last decade building tech companies (like Square, Gumroad, and Omni), and was homeschooled from kindergarten through 8th grade. Ryan lives in San Francisco with his wife and three kids. **…
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Why a public school teacher opened Lighthouse Christian Academy
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38:07My guest today is Emma Rodriguez, founder of Lighthouse Christian Academy, a microschool in Frisco, Texas that opened in January of this year. After graduating from Texas A&M University, Emma spent seven years teaching in one of the largest and fastest-growing school districts in the country. While she loved the classroom, she saw firsthand how tra…
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Why We Get Stuck—And How to Finally Move Forward
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34:17Hello listeners…we're re-releasing one of our favorite Big Brains episodes—an incredibly insightful conversation with psychologist Adam Alter. If you've ever felt stuck in your life or career, this episode offers practical strategies and surprising science to help you move forward. From why your best ideas might come after you feel like giving up, …
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MechaHitler and The Political Bias of AI Chatbots
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57:28When you ask ChatGPT or Gemini a question about politics, whose opinions are you really hearing? In this episode, we dive into a provocative new study from political scientist Justin Grimmer and his colleagues, which finds that nearly every major large language model—from ChatGPT to Grok—is perceived by Americans as having a left-leaning bias. But …
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Can The Dollar Be Dethroned?, with Ken Rogoff
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57:42Americans are often told that they benefit from the privilege of the dollar serving as the world's currency. A strong dollar makes imports cheaper, facilitates demand for American companies, and is tied to cheap government borrowing. But what happens when this powerful privilege weakens? What does it even mean for the dollar to be “strong” or “weak…
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A physician launches a new Islamic microschool
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35:50Today's guest is Sana Khan, a Board-certified Family Medicine Physician and founder of Ihsan Academy of Texas Microschool, a full-time, in-person program serving Grades 1-8 in Katy, Texas. The word Ihsan is Arabic for "Excellence", highlighting the vision of the school to provide Excellence in both the knowledge and application of the Islamic faith…
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Craving a reset, but worried it might be overwhelming? Think again. In the next episode of CareerCast, host Anita Brick sits down with Anne-Laure Le Cunff, founder of Ness Labs and author of “Tiny Experiments,” for a lively conversation that combines imaginative thinking with practical approaches. Whether you’re launching your career, pivoting to s…
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What does it mean when people start calling Donald Trump a king? And why are some political theorists — on both the right and left — exploring the possibility of leaving democracy behind? All this debate got co-host Tom Ginsburg thinking about an argument he’s been turning over in his head for years: could constitutional monarchy actually be the be…
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In suburban Ohio, a former public school teacher launches a nature-based microschool
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36:02Jackie Bonath was a public school teacher for 14 years before quitting her job earlier this year to launch Creekside Cottage School, a full-time, multi-age microschool located in Gahanna, Ohio, a close suburb of Columbus, that is focused on nature-based learning. With 20 students already enrolled for this fall, and daily inquiries from interested p…
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In rural Ohio, a former public school teacher launches a literacy-rich microschool
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32:11Today’s guest is Pam Frankforther, founder of Pioneer Reading Center in Wayne, Ohio. Pam left her job as a longtime public school teacher this year to launch Pioneer as full-time microschool for students with dyslexia and other learning differences. She was motivated to create a science-backed, literacy-rich learning environment for children in her…
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Managing Entrepreneurial Growing Pains & Regulatory Ambiguity
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38:19Jennie Jones is an Entrepreneur-In-Residence at FEE's Education Entrepreneurship Lab. She is a former professional ballerina, turned homeschooling mom of four, turned education entrepreneur who launched her home-based microschool, Treehouse Agile Learning Community, in St. George, Utah last fall and is expanding into a second location this fall. Je…
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Inside the AI Debate: Hope, Hype, Or Harm? A Big Brains Panel Weighs In
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47:57One of the benefits of producing this podcast at the University of Chicago is that there are often events on campus that bring in not just one Big Brain, but many in order to find answers to the some of the most complex problems of our time. I recently had the pleasure of hosting one such event on artificial intelligence that we want to share with …
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We're taking some time off to regroup over the summer, but we’re not just dusting off this older episode for no reason. When we first released it, we were grappling with what Supreme Court reform might look like—specifically, whether we should rethink lifetime appointments and move toward term limits. Now? The stakes feel even higher. In just the l…
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Revealing the Secret Architects of Capitalism, with Chris Hughes
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49:27After the 2008 financial crisis, and especially after the COVID pandemic of 2020, an increasing number of Americans are questioning the wisdom of unregulated markets and envisioning a more active role for the state. Scholars have coined a panoply of neologisms to capture this view of the political economy, including political scientist Steven Vogel…
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How OpenEd is expanding personalized education options to more families
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38:26More than a decade ago, Matt Bowman cofounded My Tech High as a platform that enabled personalized, customized learning through tuition-free partnerships with innovative public and charter schools and in collaboration with individual education providers. With a bold vision to expand personalized learning options to more families, Matt recently rebr…
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Halloween Horror Nights 2025 House Announcements & Universal Horror Unleashed Coming to Chicago 2027
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22:07In this week's episode of DIS Unlimited's Universal Show, Ryno is going over a BUNCH of Halloween Horror Nights 2025 house announcements, as well as the announcement of Universal Horror Unleashed: Chicago coming to the midwest in 2027. Links: UO Fan Website Get a FREE No-Obligation Quote on a Universal vacation from Dreams Unlimited Travel today! I…
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From former elementary school teacher to Phoenix faith-based learning pod founder
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40:22Deja Hillis is the founder of Faithscape Learning Pod, a faith-based K-5 microschool in Casa Grande, Arizona, near Phoenix, which she launched in August 2024. An early elementary school teacher for nearly a decade, Deja has a passion for literacy education and is the author of four children’s books. *** Sign up for Kerry's free, weekly email newsle…
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“So many parents don’t feel listened to.” From middle school math teacher to microschool founder
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38:42Today’s guest is Joanna Cervantez, founder of A Fuller Education Microschool just outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania which she launched in the fall 2024. Joanna has both a bachelor’s and master’s degree in education and began her career as a middle school math teacher in inner-city Los Angeles, later teaching in a school for an orphanage in El S…
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Before we get into today’s episode, we wanted to let you know this is a re-release as we take some time to regroup over the summer. But we’re not just dusting it off for no reason. If anything, this episode feels even more relevant now than when we first aired it. It raises a big question: Are voters really thinking for themselves? Or are they just…
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Are Your Medications Safe And Effective?, with Jerry Avorn
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36:39For a more than a century, the Food and Drug Administration has worked to protect public health. In his research, Harvard University physician-researcher Jerry Avorn has examined how the FDA’s once-rigorous gold standard approval process has been affected by a powerful shortcut known as the Accelerated Approval Program—originally designed for despe…
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How The Democrats Lost Labor And Found Capital, with David Sirota
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49:36The Democratic Party has become too focused on appeasing its billionaire donors and has failed to communicate its commitment to the working class, argues long-time political journalist David Sirota. The question moving forward, he says, is if the party can ever refocus its brand orthodoxy from prioritizing social and cultural issues to economic pop…
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From math teacher to hybrid school founder in Louisiana
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34:42Today's guest is Kate Lundquist, founder and principal of Northshore Prep Academy. A former public high school math and physics teacher, Kate opened her secular K-8 hybrid school in Mandeville, Louisiana, a suburb of New Orleans, in 2015. Today, Northshore Prep Academy has 75 students enrolled. *** Sign up for Kerry's free, weekly email newsletter …
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In this episode of CareerCast, Anita Brick chats with Heather Campbell, author of Good is Amazing, to tackle one big question: Why settle for “good” when you can aim for “amazing”? Heather has practical tips for stepping up your career game, unlocking your potential, and making your journey feel authentic, not overwhelming. With relatable stories a…
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From physician to founder, with Barbara Jauregui Wurst of Acton Academy Falls Church
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32:48Today's guest is Barbara Jauregui Wurst, a medical doctor and adjunct professor at George Washington University who cofounded Acton Academy Falls Church in Northern Virginia in 2021. Read Courage To Grow by Acton Academy cofounder, Laura Sandefer. Check out this new article at our Education Entrepreneurship Lab by a recent graduate of an Acton Acad…
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Pre-launch plans: A former special education teacher prepares to open a new school
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24:08Today's guest is Cassandra Orozco, the founder of Beacon of Hope Academy, a faith-based microschool serving K–5th grade students with special needs in Lake Worth, Florida, set to open this fall. As a certified special education teacher with experience in both charter and private schools, Cassandra is passionate about reimagining education to better…
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Alexandra Batista Rodriguez on creating a microschool for students with special needs
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44:02Today’s guest is Alexandra Batista Rodriguez, founder and director of Steps Learning Center in Orlando, Florida, a specialized K-8 microschool for neurodiverse learners with moderate to significant special needs. Steps Learning Center takes a nontraditional, student-centered approach to learning, and serves a variety of families through various fle…
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The Surprising Political Consequences Of Emigration?
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54:44Migration policies shape not only the economies of countries but also their politics. In this episode, we dive deep into how letting people leave—or restricting their exit—can have surprising ripple effects on collective action and political reform in their home countries. Yale political scientist Emily Sellars reveals why migration might weaken th…
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Are We Making AI Too Human?, with James Evans
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31:18Prof. James Evans, a University of Chicago sociologist and data scientist, believes we’re training AI to think too much like humans—and it’s holding science back. In this episode, Evans shares how our current models risk narrowing scientific exploration rather than expanding it, and explains why he’s pushing for AIs that think differently from us—w…
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Why Cliff Asness Believes Markets Are Getting Dumber
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51:24Are financial markets becoming less efficient? Famous investor Cliff Asness certainly thinks so. In his paper published last year, “The Less-Efficient Market Hypothesis,” Asness argues that social media and low interest rates, among other factors, have distorted market information so that stocks have become disconnected from their true values. This…
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Why a former public school teacher launched an Ohio Acton Academy
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36:44Today’s guest is Sara James, a former public school teacher who founded Spark Christian Academy, an Acton Academy affiliate in Harrison, Ohio, near Cincinnati, in 2022. *** Sign up for Kerry's free, weekly email newsletter on education trends at edentrepreneur.org.By Kerry McDonald
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An Apogee Network Micro-High School Takes Root in Texas
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37:55Today’s guest is Sarah Pevehouse, founder of Apogee Dripping Springs Micro High School in Dripping Springs, Texas, west of Austin, which she launched in 2024. With a background in Waldorf and alternative education, Sarah has served as a teacher, administrator, and enrollment director, shaping real-world learning experiences for students. She has ta…
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