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#190. The History of the Opioid Trade, Legal and Illegal
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Jun 07, 2026 |
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#189. One of Ancient Rome's Most Powerful Women
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May 30, 2026 |
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#188. A Memoir that Explores the Tensions Between Devotion to Parents and Building One's Own Life
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May 25, 2026 |
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#187. Attachment Theory: A Cornerstone for Understanding Our Most Intimate Relationships
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May 17, 2026 |
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#186. The Death of Her Parents at Fourteen Years Old
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Apr 26, 2026 |
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#185. A Humane and Effective Method for Helping Disruptive Students
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Apr 13, 2026 |
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#184. The Conditions and Challenges of Post-War Europe
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Mar 23, 2026 |
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#183. A Neuroscientist Tells the Story of his Remarkable Overcoming of Profound Childhood Adversity
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Mar 16, 2026 |
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#182. Alternative Approaches to the Philosophy of Ethics
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Mar 08, 2026 |
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#181. Decisive Breakthroughs in Renewable Energy
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Feb 27, 2026 |
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#180. The Power and Dangers of Digital Self-Surveillance
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Feb 16, 2026 |
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#179. U.S. Efforts to Influence Values and Allegiances in the Middle East
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Feb 02, 2026 |
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#178. An Expedition into the Brazilian Amazon to Establish the Boundaries of a Totally Isolated, Uncontacted tribe.
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Jan 25, 2026 |
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#177. What African-Americans Endured Throughout the History of the Mississippi Delta
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Jan 20, 2026 |
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#176. Exposing How Financial Corruption is Tied to Environmental Destruction, Human-Rights Abuses, and War
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Jan 11, 2026 |
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#175. Maintaining Love Throughout Her Husband's Dementia
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Jan 04, 2026 |
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#174. Conundrums of the Mind-Body Problem and the Ethical Dilemmas of Possibly Conscious A.I.
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Dec 14, 2025 |
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#173. Scenarios for Another Civil War in the U.S.
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Dec 07, 2025 |
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#172. Positive Masculine Identity, As Nurtured by the Mother of a Boy Soprano
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Nov 16, 2025 |
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#171. The Remarkable Contributions of Unwed, Childless Women Throughout History
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Nov 09, 2025 |
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#170. The Origins and Remedies for the Rural-Urban Political Divide
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Oct 20, 2025 |
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#169. On Being a Wilderness Fire Watcher
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Oct 13, 2025 |
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#168. The Power of Followers to Restrain Toxic Leaders
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Sep 22, 2025 |
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#167. A BBC Journalist and News Anchor on How His Two Identities, as Journalist and Jew, Inform One Another
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Sep 14, 2025 |
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#166. Nature's Symbiotic Relationships, Some Mutually Beneficial and Others Parasitic
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Sep 07, 2025 |
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#165. Why the U.S. War in Afghanistan Failed
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Sep 02, 2025 |
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#164. An Actor/Playwright Reflects on Fifty Years of Deep Relationships with Holocaust Survivors
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Aug 25, 2025 |
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#163. The Rationale and Controversies of Gender-Affirmative Health Care
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Aug 19, 2025 |
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#162. How Developed Countries Perpetuate Their Economic Power (and the Obstacles to Joining Their Ranks)
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Aug 11, 2025 |
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#161. How Women Runners Refuted the Myth of Female Fragility
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Aug 04, 2025 |
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#160. The Concept of Race in Latin America
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Aug 03, 2025 |
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#159. The History of "Rule By Law" and How Autocratic Rulers Co-opt the Concept to Consolidate Power
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Jul 28, 2025 |
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#158. Black Entrepreneurship with a Social Conscience
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Jul 21, 2025 |
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#157. Racial and Other Biases in Scientific Research, Medical Practices, and Everyday Attitudes
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Jul 07, 2025 |
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#156. An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence
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Jun 29, 2025 |
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#155. Generating a Love for Math and Math History
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Jun 09, 2025 |
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#154. The Hazards and History of Forever Chemicals
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Jun 08, 2025 |
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#153. Jessy Randall's New Poems on Women in Science, The Path of Most Resistance
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Jun 02, 2025 |
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#152. How Games and Game Theory Shape Our Social World
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May 25, 2025 |
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#151. The Successful Struggle to Organize the First Union at Starbucks
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Apr 27, 2025 |
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#150. Out of My Skull: The Psychology of Boredom
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Apr 21, 2025 |
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#149. A Mother and Five Children, Upwardly Striving and Homeless
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Apr 07, 2025 |
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#148. Nearly Dying While Giving Birth, Followed by Seven Years of Recovery
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Mar 31, 2025 |
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#147. Fraud in Alzheimer's Research that Underpins the Dominant Model of the Disease
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Mar 24, 2025 |
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#146. The History of Antisemitism in the Arab World
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Mar 16, 2025 |
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#145. The Case for Government Supported Housing
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Mar 02, 2025 |
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#144. Native Alaskan Resistance to Russian Expansion into North America
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Feb 10, 2025 |
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#143. How American Capitalists Harnessed the American Work Ethic
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Feb 03, 2025 |
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#142. The South's Long War on Black Literacy
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Jan 28, 2025 |
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#141, Whether Dictatorship, Democracy, or Corporation: What It Takes to Stay in Power
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Jan 20, 2025 |
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#140. Malcolm Before X: Family Background, Childhood, and Incarceration
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Jan 06, 2025 |
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#139. The Amazing New Science of Smell
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Dec 31, 2024 |
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#138. The History and Enduring Effects of the 2022 Uprising in Iran
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Dec 30, 2024 |
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#137. Science, Pseudoscience, and the Co-opting of Quantum Physics by the New Age Movement
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Dec 15, 2024 |
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#136. The Complicated History of Native American Identity
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Dec 09, 2024 |
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#135. Where Does Economic Inequality Come From?
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Dec 04, 2024 |
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#134. Reflecting on (an Unusally) Long Career as a Child Protective Worker
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Nov 29, 2024 |
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#133. Benjamin Franklin's Scientific Dimension Underpinned Everthing Else
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Nov 20, 2024 |
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#132. A Religious Movement that is Reshaping American Politics and is Threatening Our Democracy
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Nov 03, 2024 |
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#131. A Daughter of Holocaust Survivors Reflects on Intergenerational Trauma, Memory, and Listening
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Oct 27, 2024 |
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#130. State Laws that Promote Vigilante Intimidation
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Oct 21, 2024 |
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#129. An Evangelical Mega-Church that Fights Racism
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Oct 06, 2024 |
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#128. Space, Time, and the Universe
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Oct 06, 2024 |
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#127. White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy
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Sep 23, 2024 |
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#126. The Paranoia and Drama of the McCarthy Era
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Sep 16, 2024 |
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#125. Immigrant Workers Take on America's Largest Meatpacking Company
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Sep 10, 2024 |
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#124. Hypochondria: A Personal Story and Historical Exploration
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Sep 01, 2024 |
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#123. Space Archaeology: Preserving Artifacts on the Moon
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Aug 25, 2024 |
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#122. The Life, Times, and Philosophy of Baruch Spinoza, a Founding Thinker of the Enlightenment
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Aug 25, 2024 |
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#121. Doing Philosophy with Children
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Aug 18, 2024 |
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#120. A Muslim Scholar, Who Converted to Islam, Promotes Interfaith Dialogue
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Aug 13, 2024 |
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#119. A History of American Inequality.
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Aug 13, 2024 |
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#118. Unjust Inequities in Bankruptcy Law
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Aug 12, 2024 |
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#117. A Cause Fraught with Peril: Exposing Abusive Medical Research
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Aug 06, 2024 |
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#116. What is the Universe Made of and What is its Destiny?
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Jul 28, 2024 |
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#115. Women and War
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Jul 26, 2024 |
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#114. Real World Harms Created by Advances in Artificial Intelligence
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Jul 14, 2024 |
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#113. A Renaissance Man Reflects on the Creative Process and the Honing of Artistic Skills
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Jun 30, 2024 |
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#112. Reclaiming the Vietnamese Heritage Her Refugee Father Never Shared
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Jun 30, 2024 |
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#111. The National Park Service, Its Mission, and How it was Co-opted by the South to Celebrate the Confederacy
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Jun 29, 2024 |
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#110. Research that Proved the Toxic Effects of Lead in Our Gasoline and in Our Drinking Water
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Jun 22, 2024 |
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#109. Finding Meaning After Catastrophic Illness or Injury
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Jun 21, 2024 |
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#108. The Amazing Auditory World of Sea Creatures
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Jun 16, 2024 |
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#107. Teaching Social Justice Issues to White Students in a Wealthy Suburb of Boston
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Jun 15, 2024 |
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#106. The Incredible Potential and Daunting Risks of Stem Cell Therapy
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Jun 15, 2024 |
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#105. How Mandela Averted Civil War in South Africa
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Jun 12, 2024 |
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#104. The Promise and Shortcomings of Massive Open Online Courses
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Jun 02, 2024 |
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#103. Cognitive Biases that are Amplified by Social Media
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Jun 02, 2024 |
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#102. How Bayesian Statistics Underpins Both Scientific Prediction and Everyday Functioning
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May 27, 2024 |
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#101. Schadenfreude (Pleasure From Someone Else's Misfortune)
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May 22, 2024 |
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#100. What Life Was Like in the Prehistoric Past
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May 19, 2024 |
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#99. Ethical Dilemmas of Non-Invasive Prenatal Testing
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May 03, 2024 |
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#98. Re-examining the Evidence for the Genetic Basis of Mental Illness
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May 03, 2024 |
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#97. How to Best Help the Most Vulnerable Children? Start Before They're Even Born!
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Apr 25, 2024 |
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#96. Compassionate Care for a Devastating Disease
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Apr 24, 2024 |
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#95. The Amazing Grit and Determination of the First Women Doctors
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Apr 16, 2024 |
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#94. Can Trauma Be Inherited?
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Apr 09, 2024 |
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#93. An Evolutionary Perspective on Mental Illness and Human Suffering
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Apr 08, 2024 |
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#92. The Trailblazers of the Dance Theatre of Harlem
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Mar 31, 2024 |
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#91. The Corporatization of American Health Care
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Mar 26, 2024 |
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#90. Symbiotic Relationships with Bacteria
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Mar 26, 2024 |
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#89. The History and Continued Threats of White Supremacist Terrorism
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Mar 24, 2024 |
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#88. The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America
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Mar 17, 2024 |
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#87. Hard Choices that the Green Revolution Poses
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Mar 11, 2024 |
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86. How Religious Practice Creates Faith, Rather than the Other Way Around
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Mar 05, 2024 |
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#85. The History of Myanmar (Burma)
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Feb 24, 2024 |
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#84. Reflections of a Human Rights Leader
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Feb 24, 2024 |
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#83. Unseen, Unheard, Yet a Clear Sense of Another’s Presence
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Feb 18, 2024 |
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#82. Why Is It So Difficult to Promote Social Mobility and Equality of Opportunity?
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Feb 13, 2024 |
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#81. The Neurology of Memory in the Continuity of Experience and Personal Identity
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Feb 08, 2024 |
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#80. Political Dynamics of the Drug Cartels of Mexico
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Jan 31, 2024 |
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#79. A Long-Neglected Form of Government with the Potential to Revitalize Democracy
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Jan 28, 2024 |
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#78. Life-Affirming Ritual and Poetry for Believers and Skeptics Alike
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Jan 21, 2024 |
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#77. The Challenges of Facilitating Conflict Resolution
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Jan 14, 2024 |
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#76. The History of the Theory of Evolution
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Jan 14, 2024 |
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#75. Antisemitism, Clear and Not-So-Clear
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Jan 14, 2024 |
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#74. The Historical and Intellectual Roots of our Current Political Crisis
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Jan 08, 2024 |
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#73. Media Literacy for Older Children
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Dec 31, 2023 |
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#72. Media Literacy for Young Children
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Dec 24, 2023 |
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#71. Disgust, the Emotion of Aversion
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Dec 21, 2023 |
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#70. A Close Look at the Brief History of East Germany
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Dec 17, 2023 |
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#69. Genes Are Only One Part of the Story
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Dec 10, 2023 |
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#68. The Communal Nature of Knowledge
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Dec 10, 2023 |
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#67. Ecologist Carl Safina on his Relationship with an Owl
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Nov 27, 2023 |
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#66. A Window into the History of U.S.-Latin American Relations
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Nov 24, 2023 |
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#65. How Evolution Gave Us Free Will (the Real Thing, Not an Illusion)
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Nov 19, 2023 |
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#64. How Terrorism Ends
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Nov 12, 2023 |
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#63. Period. End of Sentence: A New Chapter in the Fight for Menstrual Justice
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Nov 10, 2023 |
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#62. A Photographer and Poet of Volcanoes
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Nov 10, 2023 |
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#61. Emerging Uses of A.I. for Social Control and Weapon Systems
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Oct 23, 2023 |
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#60. How Powerful People Get Away With It
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Oct 16, 2023 |
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#59. The Neuroscience of Time
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Oct 09, 2023 |
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#58. The Science and Meaning of Touch
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Oct 09, 2023 |
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#57. The Neurology of Individual Differences
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Sep 24, 2023 |
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#56. Philosophical Examination of Concepts in Psychology and Psychiatry
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Sep 20, 2023 |
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#55. How to Best Encourage Individual Action on Climate Change
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Sep 20, 2023 |
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#54. Speaking Truth to Power: Physicians for Human Rights
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Sep 13, 2023 |
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#55. Creative Approaches to Asynchronous Online Learning
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Sep 13, 2023 |
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#53. The Assumptions Upon Which Science Rests
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Sep 03, 2023 |
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#52. The Spanish Conquest of Mexico
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Aug 29, 2023 |
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#51. An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom
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Aug 29, 2023 |
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#50. Culture and Justice Among the Maasai of Tanzania
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Aug 21, 2023 |
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#49. How the Brain Processes Pain... and its Relief
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Aug 17, 2023 |
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#48. The Challenges of Being a Single Woman in India
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Aug 13, 2023 |
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#47. A Child of Holocaust Survivors
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Aug 13, 2023 |
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#46. Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Making of Gender Equality Law
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Aug 06, 2023 |
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#45. Bizarre, Counter-Intuitive, and Seemingly Impossible, Yet True: Quantum Physics
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Jul 31, 2023 |
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#44. Breaking Out of the Underclass in India
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Jul 28, 2023 |
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#43. The Complexity of Gender Differences
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Jul 24, 2023 |
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#42. The History and Science of Dreaming
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Jul 09, 2023 |
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#41. The Philosopher Who Tried to Save (Secular) Morality
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Jul 09, 2023 |
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#40. Alabama Sues the New York Times for Reporting on Racism and Civil Rights Protests in the Early 1960s
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Jul 02, 2023 |
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#39. A Successful Recovery from Dissociative Identity Disorder (D.I.D.)
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Jun 19, 2023 |
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#38. Black Holes, the Big Bang, and Intriguing New Data from the James Webb Space Telescope
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Jun 18, 2023 |
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#37. A V.A. Surgeon Channels His Richly Varied Life Experiences Into Community Activism
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Jun 11, 2023 |
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#36. The People’s Hospital: Better and Less Costly Medical Care, Putting Patients’ Needs Above Profit
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Jun 11, 2023 |
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#35. Past Cataclysmic Changes in Climate Across the World Since its Beginning, with Lessons for Today
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Jun 04, 2023 |
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#34. The Hidden Wonders of Human Anatomy
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May 29, 2023 |
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#33. On Climbing Everest and Denali
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May 29, 2023 |
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#32. Values in Science? You Bet!
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May 23, 2023 |
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#31. The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism
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May 14, 2023 |
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#30. The History of the Right to Privacy
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May 14, 2023 |
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#29. The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market
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May 14, 2023 |
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#28. On the Receiving End of (Six!) Psychiatric Misdiagnoses
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May 09, 2023 |
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#27. Womb: The Inside Story of Where We All Began
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May 01, 2023 |
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#26. Sixty-Six Years of Figuring Out How the Brain Makes a Mind
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Apr 25, 2023 |
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#25. How Did Life Originate on Earth?
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Apr 02, 2023 |
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#24. The Demands of Classical Violin, Time Distortion within Performance Anxiety, and the Wonder of Musical Improvisation
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Apr 02, 2023 |
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#23. Aztec History and Culture Before the Spanish Conquest
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Mar 19, 2023 |
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#22. Common Misconceptions About the Relationship Between Sleep and Mental Health
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Mar 19, 2023 |
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#21. Two Identities: A Physicist-Administrator at Los Alamos and Also a Rabbi
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Mar 07, 2023 |
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#20. The Awesome Benefits and Potential Dangers of Recent Advances in Gene-Editing Technology
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Mar 05, 2023 |
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#19. The High-Stakes Work of a Pediatric Neurosurgeon
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Feb 26, 2023 |
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#18. Land Conservancy in the Private Sector: Values and Process
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Feb 26, 2023 |
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#17. Human Waste: Underappreciated Treasure for Energy Production, Water Reclamation, Medical Interventions, and the Tracking of Epidemics
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Feb 19, 2023 |
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#16. The Transition of Hong Kong to Chinese Rule
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Feb 12, 2023 |
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#15. Ethical Complexities in Assisted Dying
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Feb 06, 2023 |
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#14. A Neuroscientist Challenges the Prevailing Model of Physiological Regulation
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Jan 29, 2023 |
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#13. Human-Wildlife Conflict: Ill-Fated Attempts at Control vs. Cultivating an Attitude of Coexistence
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Dec 25, 2022 |
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#12. Congressman Jamie Raskin’s Inspiring Response to Two Unthinkable, Juxtaposed Traumas: The Insurrection of January 6th, the Day after Burying His Beloved Son
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Dec 24, 2022 |
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#11. How Does the Brain Enable Us To Perceive, Make Sense Of, and Learn From Sound?
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Dec 21, 2022 |
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#10. Coming Soon(ish): Human Hibernation!
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Dec 18, 2022 |
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#9. An Audacious Vehicle for Fostering Math Appreciation and Fascination
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Dec 16, 2022 |
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#8. The Momentous Lawsuit that Determined Who Owns Your DNA
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Dec 04, 2022 |
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#7. Civilization and Water
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Dec 03, 2022 |
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#6. How Placebo Effects Complicate Medicine
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Nov 26, 2022 |
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#2. A Promising Approach to Schizophrenia
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Nov 25, 2022 |
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#3. Recently Disclosed Vatican Records about Pius XII, the Pope During WWII
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Nov 25, 2022 |
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#4. Race Relations in Post-Apartheid South Africa
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Nov 25, 2022 |
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#5. Early Women Scientists: Their History and a Poem for Each
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Nov 25, 2022 |
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#1. The Search for Intelligent Life in the Universe
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Nov 24, 2022 |