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Episode 706: Tara Conklin - Community Board

Where does one go, you might ask, when the world falls apart? When the immutable facts of your...

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Episode 707: Agur Schiff - Professor Schiff's Guilt

A stellar novel rendered into a darkly comic, unforgettable narrative by Booker International...

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Episode 708: Michael Gordin - Pseudoscience: A Very Short Introduction

Everyone has heard of the term "pseudoscience," typically used to describe something that looks...

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Episode 709: Kelsy Burke - The Pornography Wars

For readers of Peggy Orenstein and Rebecca Traister, an authoritative, big think look at...

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Episode 704: Emily St John Mandel - Sea of Tranquility

Edwin St. Andrew is eighteen years old when he crosses the Atlantic by steamship, exiled from...

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Episode 705: Jon Burlingame - Music For Prime Time: A History of American Television Themes and Scoring

Music composed for television had, until recently, never been taken seriously by scholars or...

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Episode 703: Gaia Bernstein - Unwired: Gaining Control over Addictive Technologies

Our society has a technology problem. Many want to disconnect from screens but can't help...

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Episode 702: Carl T. Bogus - Madison's Militia: The Hidden History of the Second Amendment

This engaging history overturns the conventional wisdom about the Second Amendment--showing that...

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Episode 701: Gary Smith - Distrust: Big Data, Data-Torturing, and the Assault on Science

This thought-provoking book argues that, ironically, science's credibility is being undermined by...

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Episode 700: Ernest Owens - The Case for Cancel Culture: How This Democratic Tool Works to Liberate Us All

Chances are, you’ve heard this a lot lately. What might’ve once been a niche digital term has...

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Episode 699: Ulf Danielsson - The World Itself: Consciousness and the Everything of Physics

Can we ever truly comprehend the universe before we fully understand consciousness and the...

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Episode 699: Frank Nischk - Of Cockroaches and Crickets: Learning to Love Creatures That Skitter and Jump

This deep dive into the wonderful world of insects teaches us to love the tiny, seemingly...

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Episode 698: Grant Faulkner - The Art of Brevity: Crafting the Very Short Story

With increased compression, every word, every sentence matters more. A writer must learn how to...

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Episode 697: Reinier de Graaf - architect, verb.: The New Language of Building

The Hidden Rules of Architecture: how to build world-class, award winning, creative, innovative,...

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Episode 696: Chris Ferrie - Where Did the Universe Come From? And Other Cosmic Questions: Our Universe, from the...

Where Did the Universe Come From? And Other Cosmic Questions: Our Universe, from the Quantum to...

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Episode 695: Valerie Tiberius - What Do You Want Out Of Life?

A short guide to living well by understanding better what you really value--and what to do when...

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Episode 694: Martin Riker - The Guest Lecture

Martin Riker's poignant and startlingly original novel asks how to foster a brave mind in anxious...

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Episode 693: Paul Harding - This Other Eden

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Tinkers, a novel inspired by the true story of Malaga...

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Episode 692: Dr. David Alfery: Saving Grace: What Patients Teach Their Doctors about Life, Death, and the Balance in...

From the OR to the ICU, Dr. David Alfery brings you into a hidden world of medicine that has...

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Episode 691: Philip Kitcher - On John Stuart Mill

On Stuart Mill expressed many of the central tenets of liberalism with unsurpassed clarity and...

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