Everything seems to be accelerating: geopolitics, technology, security threats, the dispersal of information. At times, it feels like a blur. But beneath the dizzying proliferation of events, discoveries, there are deeper trends that can be grasped and understood through conversation and debate. That’s the idea behind Stop the World, the Australian Strategic Policy Institute’s podcast on international affairs and security. Each week, we cast a freeze-frame around the blur of events and bring ...
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The Morningside Institute is an independent scholarly endeavor dedicated to examining human life through the liberal arts. Morningside helps scholars and students contribute to academic disciplines and understand them in light of the rich traditions that lie at their origin. The Institute also helps students integrate the beauty of culture in New York City with their search for truth in the intellectual life.
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Bringing you recent lectures, classes, and programs from the Hadar Institute, Ta Shma is where you get to listen in on the beit midrash. Come and listen on the go, at home, or wherever you are. Hosted by Rabbi Avi Killip of the Hadar Institute.
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A Cleveland Clinic podcast covering all things women's health from our host, Erica Newlin, MD. You'll hear from our experts on topics such as birth control, pregnancy, fertility, menopause and everything in between. Listen in to better understand your health and be empowered to live your best.
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Welcome Beautiful Soul Sisters, I am so happy you are here! This is a space where we explore what it means to be wild women walking upon this earth, unearthing that which is often unseen & unspoken. Together we practice using our voices & the ancient ritual of storytelling, connecting about all that unites us as we share our stories of Birth, Life, Death, Grief & Joy. Follow along on Instagram @AmanaBeLove or Youtube @AmanaBeLove Earthing Nova Enjoy new Episodes most Full & New Moons (I am a ...
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Welcome to Unraveling Behavior, a science podcast where we uncover the patterns driving human judgment and decision making. In each episode, Dr. Ana Sofia Morais sits down with a researcher to explore how people make decisions, how they handle risk, and how our surroundings and the online world shape our behavior. Unraveling Behavior is a non-commercial initiative from the Center for Adaptive Rationality, a research group at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin.
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The Thurgood Marshall Institute at the Legal Defense Fund brings you Justice Above All, a quarterly series about the evolution of, and continued need for, racial justice advocacy. We’ve entered a time where many of the building blocks underpinning our work for racial justice are being questioned or actively undermined. Justice Above All provides an accessible way to help inform the national debate, revive our history, and remember how far we still must go in our quest to realize the ideals f ...
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Frankely Judaic: Explorations in Jewish Studies
University of Michigan Frankel Center for Judaic Studies
A Jewish Studies podcast series featuring the research of Frankel Institute fellows at the University of Michigan.
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Formerly known as Vulture Culture, this podcast is landing with full-hearted clarity as host Narinder Bazen refines her vision. Nine Keys is an exploration of death midwifery as an art form, a calling seen through the mystic’s soul-eyes, and a force for collective healing. Here, we weave together activism, grief literacy, soft-business structures, decolonized death care, and the deep wisdom of living in death awareness. This is a space for the sacred, the practical, and the revolutionary. Th ...
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Commercial Free, Entertaining, Informative. Choose From the World’s Best Conservative Talent.
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We are a podcast devoted to People of Color in Psychology. People of Color in Psychology is where mental health professionals gain insight to culturally relevant psychological practice and research. Produced by The Multicultural Counseling Institute and your host, Dr. Jack Tsan, you will learn from mental health experts to help advance your personal and professional development. My hope is that together we will be able to learn from each other and appreciate the importance of advancing the c ...
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Inspire your birth, evolve your parenting & live a life you love. Nadine Richardson, Founder of She Births®, hosts a collection of conversations with special guests about beautiful births, connected parenting & healthy living. Ideal for parents, parents-to-be & birth professionals. She Births® is a scientifically verified childbirth education program (BMJ July 2016). Evidence-based & holistic we provide families with knowledge to empower a beautiful birth. She Births® is Face to Face & Onlin ...
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For the Love of Hormones- Hormones, Infertility, Miscarriage, Ovulating, TTC, Irregular Cycles, Conception, Progesterone
Bekah Yawn I Christian Hormone & Ovulation Coach, FEMM Educator, Certified Doula, Fiat Institute
***TOP 1.5% GLOBALLY RANKED PODCAST*** Have you been trying to get pregnant, but are disappointed month after month as you wonder why God put a dream to become a mother in your heart? Have you struggled with the pain of miscarriage, only to wonder if you will ever feel like your family is complete? Are you overwhelmed by all the information out there about hormones and fertility, wishing that you understood how your unique body actually worked? Sister- you are so in the right place! This pod ...
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Origins: Birth of a Pandemic is a multi-part series exploring the likelihood that SARS-CoV-2 escaped from the Wuhan Institute of Virology by talking to independent scientists from around the world who have been working to get to the bottom of just how the COVID-19 pandemic began. Origins also critiques the media and academic institutions that tried to denigrate the "lab leak" hypothesis as a conspiracy theory, and looks into how institutions were used by those with many conflicts of interest ...
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Sundance Institute is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the discovery and development of independent artists and audiences. Through its programs, the Institute seeks to discover, support, and inspire independent film and theatre artists from the United States and around the world, and to introduce audiences to their new work.
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An unlikely super-hero origin story, The Beautiful Liar, is an original scripted series imagined by the band the X Ambassadors. When a blind teenager named Clementine (Rory Anne Dahl) suddenly loses her father, her world is completely upended — powers she didn’t know she had start to manifest and take the form of her secret friend, Shadow (Emily Hampshire, Schitt’s Creek). Moving to a new school, she struggles to hide her abilities from her friends - and band mates - as they fight to make the ...
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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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Destiny Lines: Sacred Activism for Peacemaking and Ending Violence with Rachel Mann PhD
Rachel Mann PhD
Join Rachel Mann, PhD, sacred activist, social scientist, healer and spiritual mentor and her amazing guests on her podcast, Destiny Lines: Sacred Activism for Peacemaking and Ending Violence as they explore the multidimensional sources and impacts of violence and how we can end the cycle for future generations into an enduring peace. In these tumultuous times, it is critically important to continue to build a Great Wave of Peace on a planetary level. Destiny lines are energetic pathways of ...
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Way more than birth, way more than fitness. This is where you will find real talk, information and education, and experiences. We get into pregnancy, birth, and postpartum with doctors, midwives, chiropractors, birth educators and advocates, and of course moms and dads and everyone in between.
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Seminars@Hadley - Explore the Universe with NASA
Hadley Institute for the Blind and Visually Impaired
Seminars@Hadley - Explore the Universe with NASA
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Im Richard Dugan, host of 'Tell Me Your Story”, NEW PARADIGMS FOR A NEW WORLD... To bring as many different points of view, from around the circle, into your view, to assist you in expanding your life and living. To assist in the positive evolution of mankind and bringing about a greater awareness of self and others in order to create the kind of world YOU want. A world in which we all can search for, find and fulfill our 'first best destiny'. GIVING YOU CHOICES AND KNOWLEDGE OF THOSE CHOICE ...
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The Poverty Research & Policy podcast is produced by the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP) and features interviews with researchers about poverty, inequality, and policy in the United States.
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Murray Rothbard died before he could write the third volume of his famous History of Economic Thought, which would cover the birth and development of the Austrian School, through the Keynesian Revolution and Chicago School. With this six-lecture course, however, the History of Economic Thought is complete. Download the complete audio of this event (ZIP) here.
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Founded in 1997 by a team of India’s leading cardiologists, CARE Hospitals started its journey as a 100-bedded Heart Institute with a core team of 20 cardiologists, 1 operating theatre, and 1 catheterization laboratory. 25 years later, the CARE Hospitals Group is a multi-speciality healthcare provider with 17 healthcare facilities serving 7 cities across 6 states in India. It is the regional leader in South and Central India and is amongst the top 5 Pan-Indian hospital chains. CARE Hospitals ...
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In this ten-lecture course sponsored by George and Joele Eddy, Jörg Guido Hülsmann explains how Ludwig von Mises's life took dramatic turns, what contributions Mises made to the social sciences, and how Mises never gave up and never gave in.Download the complete audio of this event (ZIP) here.
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Have you, a family member, or friend, faced challenges that have blocked your success in one or more areas of your life – like your career and wealth, health and energy, or relationships and personal life? Or perhaps you’ve attained a certain level of success, and just not what you’d like? Or maybe you’ve reached your goals in one area of life and at the sacrifice of others? You’re not alone. And you’re not stupid, lazy, or crazy. On the contrary, you’re probably like most people who’re suff ...
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Too many voices are not being heard in the Catholic Church today. "The Gloria Purvis Podcast" is a new podcast from America Media hosted by radio personality and Catholic commentator, Gloria Purvis. The podcast centers the opinions, stories and experiences of individuals who have been marginalized in the Catholic Church and in society. A consistent ethic of life informs the conversations and honestly critiques narrow applications of Catholic teachings and ideological attitudes. It's not libe ...
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Jessica DiRuzza, MFT, and Travis DiRuzza, PhD, are the dynamic wife-and-husband team behind the Trust Psyche Podcast, dedicated to the exploring the sacred realms of soul through archetypal astrology and depth psychology in service of how we live the most meaningful lives we can with the precious time we have here. Jessica and Travis’s journey began at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, CA, where their shared passion for astrology brought them together. Since fall ...
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Conservative Talk Radio at Its Best! Hottest Topics, A-List Guests, Analysis from America's Original Conservative Warrior Princess Because it's impossible to be free and ignorant LIBERALS LISTEN AT YOUR OWN RISK! "If you're going to tell people the truth, you'd better make them laugh. Otherwise, they'll kill you." George Bernard Shaw Teri O'Brien is America's Original Conservative Warrior Princess, or as the Democratic Underground says "she is scum." Hear it on Teri's Show on Sunday or somew ...
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With the business of space projected to be worth one trillion USD by 2030, there is no question that you could be a part of it. 'Your Business : In Space' is your invitation to join the leading minds shaping the space industry. Meet astronauts, engineers, artists, and space lawyers who are charting the course for what's now and what's next in space. Whether you're a student with your eyes on the stars, an entrepreneur ready to launch, a dedicated member of the workforce, a pioneering busines ...
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Listen to Interview about USPS on WZRD 88.3 fm radio Chicago Karen M. Nielsen USPS Employee Also see: UnemployDeJoy.com and google: Dominick VS Louis DeJoy (The Guardian). Also IWP DeJoy. Hi I'm KaRi. I started TPSradio in 1999, podcasting Feb 2005. The rage became "Live Internet TV" (mogulus, etc.) in 2008 and in 2012 TPS returned to cable access TV. TPS college radio was heard on campus at CSULB via the internet, live webcast with simultaneous audio broadcast over Community Television. TPS ...
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This podcast is about the truth in nursing. Host Sandra Payne BN, ex-RN, Master Certified Holistic Wellness Coach and founder of Nurse Rx Online Coaching Program & Community, interviews real nurses who will share their stories, their struggles, their insights, advice, and inspiration. It's real, raw, and you don't want to miss a single episode!
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These are extremely informative and entertaining bible study lectures that have blessed many seekers of knowledge and faith over the last 20 years or more. Dr. Thomas L. Constable is a prominent theologian and former professor of Bible Exposition at Dallas Theological Seminary. He is also a pastor at Plano Bible Chapel in Plano, Texas, where he has served for over 50 years. Dr. Constable is widely known for his Bible commentary series, SonicLight.com, which includes Notes on the Bible, Notes ...
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Politics, geopolitics, economics, arts, and current affairs Constable has an extensive broadcasting background. He presented the Wall Street Journal's flagship daily TV show for many years and frequently hosted the syndicated John Batchelor radio show in New York. You'll find his written work in The Wall Street Journal, Barron's, Time, Forbes.com, Fortune, the New York Post, the New York Sun, and the South China Morning Post. He co-authored the award-winning book "WSJ Guide to the 50 Economi ...
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Frank X Walker, "Load in Nine Times: Poems" (Liveright, 2024)
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1:24:30For decades Frank X Walker has reclaimed essential American lives through his pathbreaking historical poetry. In this stirring new collection, he reimagines the experiences of Black Civil War soldiers—including his own ancestors—who enlisted in the Union army in exchange for emancipation. Moving chronologically from antebellum Kentucky through Reco…
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AAPI Series: Conversations about Hoarding within AAPI Context
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43:22In this episode, we have a conversation about hoarding disorder within the AAPI community, with Julianna Chung, a professional organizer and owner of Collected Abundance. Julianna, an expert in helping individuals declutter and organize, shares her experiences working with clients facing overwhelming possessions and the unique challenges observed w…
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Farmers vs. Redcoats: The Battle That Birthed American Freedom. Lexington & Concord. 3 Part Series.
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51:37Farmers vs. Redcoats: The Battle That Birthed American Freedom. Lexington & Concord. Strike 1: Farmers vs. Redcoats: The Battle That Birthed American Freedom. Lexington & Concord Strike 2: Battle at the North Bridge, Concord April 19 1775 Strike 3: Lexington & Concord, Defeat and Retreat to Boston Farmers vs. Redcoats: The Battle That Birthed Ameri…
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Empire of Gain: Inside Trump’s Billion-Dollar Crypto Hustle
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53:50Hosts Nina dos Santos and Owen Bennett-Jones are joined by crypto journalist Matt Binder and longtime observer of U.S. politics and policy Edward Luce to explore the staggering wealth being generated by the Trump family’s crypto empire. We also hear from Sergei Sergienko, a crypto entrepreneur who has made and lost hundreds of millions in the crypt…
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Thomas Leduc, "Palpitations" (Latitude 46, 2025)
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33:50In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery speaks with former Sudbury Poet Laureate Thomas Leduc about his new collection of poetry, Palpitations (Latitude 46 Publishing, 2025). There are moments that change the course of a day, a year, or even a life. Palpitations explores the journey through the twists and turns of the human experience. From childh…
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Toine van Teeffelen, "The Birthplace of Jesus Is in Palestine: A Memoir" (Wipf and Stock, 2024)
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1:03:20The Birthplace of Jesus Is in Palestine: A Memoir (Wipf and Stock, 2024) is a narrative of a Christian family in Bethlehem in the West Bank. Based on diary entries and interviews from 2000 to 2023, the Dutch author--an anthropologist and peace activist--chronicles the spontaneous reactions of his Palestinian children and wife navigating the challen…
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Claire Knight, "Stalin's Final Films: Cinema, Socialist Realism, and Soviet Postwar Reality, 1945-1953" (Cornell UP, 2024)
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1:26:23Stalin's Final Films: Cinema, Socialist Realism, and Soviet Postwar Reality, 1945-1953 (Cornell UP, 2024) explores a neglected period in the history of Soviet cinema, breathing new life into a body of films long considered moribund as the pinnacle of Stalinism. While film censorship reached its apogee in this period and fewer films were made, film …
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Hannah Jeans, "Reading, Gender and Identity in Seventeenth-Century England" (U London Press, 2025)
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50:13In Reading, Gender and Identity in Seventeenth-Century England (University of London Press, 2025), Hannah Jeans explores the reading habits of early modern women and the ways in which their reading became a site of identity formation and promotion. Jeans studies both contemporary prescriptions around women's reading, particularly their consumption …
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Yitzhak Conforti, "Zionism and Jewish Culture: A Study in the Origins of a National Movement" (Academic Studies Press, 2024)
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55:50What many people don’t realize is that Zionism is not a monolithic term. From its inception there were rigorous debates about the nature and direction of the movement? Thinkers had argued about some of the fundamental questions around Israel. Where would a future Jewish state be located? What language would they speak? Should Israel come about thro…
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Erin Pritchard, "Midgetism: The Exploitation and Discrimination of People with Dwarfism" (Routledge, 2023)
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15:30There exist problematic attitudes and beliefs about dwarfism that have rarely been challenged, but continue to construct people with dwarfism as an inferior group within society. Midgetism: The Exploitation and Discrimination of People with Dwarfism (Routledge, 2023) introduces the critical term 'midgetism', which the author has coined, to demonstr…
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Janine Schipper, "Conservation Is Not Enough: Rethinking Relationships with Water in the Arid Southwest" ((U Wyoming Press, 2025)
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41:40Conservation Is Not Enough: Rethinking Relationships with Water in the Arid Southwest (University of Wyoming Press, 2025) by Dr. Janine Schipper reconsiders the most basic assumptions about water issues in the Southwest, revealing why conservation alone will not lead to a sustainable water future. The book undertakes a thorough examination of the p…
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Ryan Klejment-Lavin, "Evil: A North Korean Christian Refugee Perspective" (American Society of Missiology, 2024)
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46:02The purpose of Evil: A North Korean Christian Refugee Perspective (American Society of Missiology, 2024) is to describe how the North Korean refugee understanding of evil can shape missionary practice in the Korean Peninsula. The central research question guiding this study is, How do North Korean Christian refugees describe evil based on their liv…
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David G. Bonagura Jr, "100 Tough Questions for Catholics: Common Obstacles to Faith Today" (Sophia Institute, 2025)
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1:07:41David Bonagura teaches classical languages and theology at St. Joseph’s Seminary in New York and Catholic International University; he also teaches high school kids. He invited them to ask their questions about the faith, which led to some exciting classroom discussions and David’s new book—100 Tough Questions for Catholics—which we are talking abo…
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Michelle H. S. Ho, "Emergent Genders: Living Otherwise in Tokyo's Pink Economies" (Duke UP, 2025)
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41:28In Emergent Genders: Living Otherwise in Tokyo's Pink Economies (Duke UP, 2025), Michelle H. S. Ho traces the genders manifesting alongside Japanese popular culture in Akihabara, an area in Tokyo renowned for the fandom and consumption of anime, manga, and games. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in josō and dansō cafe-and-bars, establishments wher…
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Korshi Dosoo and Markéta Preininger, "Papyri Copticae Magicae: Coptic Magical Texts, Volume 1: Formularies" (de Gruyter, 2023)
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1:28:50Papyri Copticae Magicae: Coptic Magical Texts, Volume 1: Formularies (de Gruyter, 2023) offers an accessible repository of edited Coptic magical texts. The book is a careful and thorough edition and philological study of thirty-seven distinct Coptic manuscripts, covering a wide range of magical applications—from love spells, to curses, to exorcisms…
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Nathalie Tocci on the birth of a new Europe, and what it means for Australian security
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41:01European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen this week initiated a conversation about a security partnership with Australia. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese responded with a ‘maybe, sort of’. To talk about this development and much more, we have Nathalie Tocci, director of the Istituto Affari Internazionali, former adviser to two EU president…
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Dr. Lisa Nezneski - Grounded in Chaos-youtube
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1:13:47Dr. Lisa Nezneski, the author of Grounded in Chaos: Leaning into Adversity, Learning Joy (Lisa Nezneski, April 28, 2020). This 268-page book, published in English (ISBN-10: 1734745703 | ISBN-13: 978-1734745702), explores resilience, transformation, and self-discovery.Dr. Nezneski’s personal journey is one of overcoming adversity. After losing her h…
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132 | The Thief of Progesterone & What To Do About It!
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25:43Hey sisters! Today’s episode is all about something that’s stealing your progesterone—something you might not have thought about this way before: stress. Yup. We’re talking spiritual stress, emotional stress, physical stress, and even informational overload (hello, Dr. Google). This one is near and dear to me, not just as a hormone coach, but as a …
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Will Trump Ignore the Courts? How Billions in U.S. Tax Money is Swindled Overseas Each Year.
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34:29Will Trump Ignore the Courts? How Billions in U.S. Tax Money is Swindled Overseas Each Year. The Crisis is Here https://youtu.be/dxM-UxEMpC4?si=Xyi4hS3kjdwLXcCW America Uncovered 528K subscribers 33,510 views May 20, 2025 Trump wants to deport illegal immigrants but is facing court challenges. Will he just ignore the courts? Join our fight to expos…
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William F. Owen, "Euclid's Army: Preparing Land Forces for Warfare Today" (Howgate Publishing, 2024)
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1:44:44Rejecting much of the conventional wisdom to what makes up a modern Army, William F. Owen's Euclid's Army: Preparing Land Forces for Warfare Today (Howgate Publishing Limited, 2025) massacres fields sacred cows to challenge many of the mainstream ideas about the future of land warfare and how it should be conducted. Based on his experience working …
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Matthew Shindell, "Lunar: A History of the Moon in Myths, Maps and Matter" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
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1:15:09The first book to combine exquisite cartographical charts of the Moon with a thorough exploration of the Moon’s role in popular culture, science, and myth. President John F. Kennedy’s rousing “We will go to the Moon” speech in 1961 before the US Congress catalyzed the celebrated Apollo program, spurring the US Geological Survey’s scientists to map …
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Kevin Smokler, "Break the Frame: Conversations with Women Filmmakers" (Oxford UP, 2025)
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51:39In the twenty-first century alone, women filmmakers have succeeded at directing every size, genre, and style of motion picture. Their movies have won Oscars (Free Solo), made actors into household names (Jennifer Lawrence in Winter's Bone), received induction into the Library of Congress's National Film Registry (Real Women Have Curves), and become…
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Who Owns These Tools? Vauhini Vara and Aarthi Vadde (SW)
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50:58In an essay about her recent book Searches (Pantheon, 2025), a genre-bending chronicle of the deeply personal ways we use the internet and the uncanny ways it uses us, Vauhini Vara admits that several reviewers seemed to mistake her engagement with ChatGPT as an uncritical embrace of large language models. Enter Aarthi Vadde to talk with Vauhini ab…
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Dan Sperrin, "State of Ridicule: A History of Satire in English Literature" (Princeton UP, 2025)
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53:06Satire is a funny, aggressive, and largely oppositional literature which is typically created by people who refuse to participate in a given regime’s perception of itself. Although satire has always been a primary literature of state affairs, and although it has always been used to intervene in ongoing discussions about political theory and practic…
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Nathan S. French, "A Theocentric Interpretation of הדעת טוב ורע" (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2021)
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29:33he Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, set within the midst of the garden of Eden, is a longstanding enigma. What does it represent? How best to translate the Hebrew? What was gained and/or lost when the primal couple took of its fruit? Tune in as we speak with Nathan French about his book, A Theocentric Interpretation of HaDa’at Tov VeRa: The …
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Lizhi Liu, "From Click to Boom: The Political Economy of E-Commerce in China" (Princeton UP, 2024)
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59:37Alibaba. Tencent. JD. Pinduoduo. Run down the list of China’s most valuable companies and you’ll find, for the most part, that they’re all e-commerce companies—or at least facilitate e-commerce. The sector created giants: Alibaba grew from just 5.5 billion renminbi of revenue in 2010 to 280 billion last year. But how did Chinese e-commerce firms sh…
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Rot: An Imperial History of the Irish Famine
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1:12:46In 1845, European potato fields from Spain to Scandinavia were attacked by a novel pathogen. But it was only in Ireland, then part of the United Kingdom, that the blight’s devastation reached apocalyptic levels, leaving more than a million people dead and forcing millions more to emigrate. In Rot, historian Padraic X. Scanlan offers the definitive …
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Jaleh Mansoor, "Universal Prostitution and Modernist Abstraction: A Counterhistory" (Duke UP, 2025)
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1:23:13Join me for conversation with Dr. Jaleh Mansoor (Associate Professor of Art History in the Department of Art History, Visual Art, and Theory, University of British Columbia) about her book Universal Prostitution and Modernist Abstraction: A Counterhistory (Duke University Press, 2025). Our discussion brought us to topics like the artists’ muse, the…
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