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Russell Potter, "Finding Franklin: The Untold S...
In 1845, two British naval ships left England with 129 men in search of the Northwest Passage...
41 min
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Jamie L. Pietruska, "Looking Forward: Predictio...
Pietruska assesses how different varieties of forecasting created an often-contradictory “culture of prediction” during the rise of modern bureaucracies...
36 min
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Jeremy Black, "Maps of War: Mapping Conflict th...
Black covers the history of the mapping of land wars, and shows the way in which maps provide a guide to the history of war...
61 min
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Andreas Bernard, "Theory of the Hashtag" (Polit...
Bernard examines the hashtag’s role in changing how we define and discuss keywords...
38 min
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Amy Carney, "Marriage and Fatherhood in the Naz...
From 1931 to 1945, leaders of the SS sought to transform their organization into a racially-elite family community that would serve as the Third Reich’s new aristocracy...
38 min
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Ann Elias, "Coral Empire: Underwater Oceans, Co...
With the threats of sea water warming and ocean acidification, coral reefs have become both a fire alarm and a barometer for the dangers of human induced climate change...
43 min
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J. Neuhaus, "Geeky Pedagogy: A Guide for Intell...
The things that make people academics do not necessarily make them good teachers...
29 min
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Binyamin Appelbaum, "The Economists' Hour: Fals...
Think economics is the "dismal science" with abstract formulas that have no impact on life as it is actually lived? Think again...
37 min
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Valerie Olson, "Into the Extreme: U.S. Environm...
Olson talks about why the idea of outer space as a “frontier” is giving way to one that frames it as a cosmic ecosystem...
33 min
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Theodore Dalrymple, "False Positive: A Year of ...
Dalrymple recounts each week’s new edition of the Journal with an eye toward analytical errors and a culture of political correctness in regard to the handling of medical and public health issues...
43 min
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David Lindsay Roberts, "Republic of Numbers: Un...
Roberts anchors 20 biographical chapters to a decadal series of events, whose mathematical significance could not often have been anticipated...
71 min
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Elizabeth DeLoughrey, "Allegories of the Anthro...
DeLoughrey argues that the cosmopolitan position on Global Warming is in truth a provincial one limited to privileged circles in the Global North...
33 min
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David D. Vail, "Chemical Lands: Pesticides, Aer...
Over fifty years ago, Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring (1962) scolded the agricultural industry for its profligate spread of “poison” and pesticides “indiscriminately from the skies"...
36 min
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Thomas Hager, "Ten Drugs: How Plants, Powders, ...
Behind every landmark drug is a story...
59 min
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Oren Harman, "Evolutions: Fifteen Myths That Ex...
Harman takes scientific facts, as we know them today, and weaves them into narratives that have the tone, grace and drama of myth...
63 min
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Michitake Aso, "Rubber and the Making of Vietna...
How can the history of rubber be used as a way to understand the history of 20th-century Vietnam?
80 min
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Lucas Richert, “Strange Trips: Science, Culture...
Richert investigates the myths, meanings, and boundaries of recreational drugs, palliative care drugs, and pharmaceuticals, as well as struggles over product innovation, consumer protection, and freedom of choice in the medical marketplace...
48 min
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Jennifer L. Derr, "The Lived Nile: Environment,...
In October 1902, the reservoir of the first Aswan Dam filled, and Egypt's relationship with the Nile River forever changed...
51 min
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David Sinclair, "LifeSpan: Why We Age and Why W...
Do we have to grow old? Maybe not. David Sinclair explains...
57 min
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Erika Milam, "Creatures of Cain: The Hunt for H...
Milam talks about the scientific search for human nature, a project that captured the attention of paleontologists, anthropologists, and primatologists in the years after World War II...
38 min
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Timothy LeCain, "The Matter of History: How Thi...
LeCain presents a path-breaking approach to the study of the environment and history...
64 min
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Mark Monmonier, "Connections and Content: Refle...
Monmonier shares his insights about the relationships between networks and maps through a collection of essays...
60 min
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Nora Jaffary, "Reproduction and its Discontents...
Jaffary tracks how medical ideas, practices, and policies surrounding reproduction changed between the late eighteenth and early twentieth centuries in Mexico...
67 min
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Joy McCann, "Wild Sea: A History of the Souther...
McCann discusses the great circumpolar ocean that surrounds Antarctica...
32 min
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Aaron Hale-Dorrell, "Corn Crusade: Khrushchev’s...
Hale-Dorrell re-evaluates Khrushchev’s corn campaign as the cornerstone of his reformation programs...
74 min