Immoral Traffic: An Ethnography of Law, NGOs, and the Governance of Prostitution in India (Cambridge UP, 2025)delves into the complex intersection of India's anti-prostitution law and global anti-trafficking campaigns, and how they impact sex workers in both voluntary and involuntary situations. Immoral Traffic examines the role of legal actors and NGOs in implementing these interventions, revealing the mix of paternalism, humanitarianism, punitive care, bureaucracy, and morality in their efforts

Ever get a song stuck in your head that simply will not leave? That’s an earworm, and while it will eventually fade away on its own, there are some things you can do to help get rid of it sooner. Listen and discover what works. https://health.clevelandclinic.org/songs-get-stuck-headBeing a good conversationalist can make an enormous difference in your personal and professional life. Yet most of us were never actually taught how to have a great conversation. How do you comfortably talk to someone

On this day, 8 October 1916, mostly migrant workers at Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company in New Jersey walked out on strike against low wages and dangerous conditions. City authorities collaborated with the company and sent in police to brutally repress the strike, killing four and injuring dozens and the strike collapsed after 10 days. This is a history of the dispute: https://libcom.org/history/bloodshed-bayonneOur work is only possible because of support from you, our listeners on patreon. If

Contemporary urbanists continue to find inspiration in the ideas crafted, tested and authored by American-Canadian activist Jane Jacobs more than fifty years ago. Mary Rowe revisits some of Jane's visionary work with two fellow devotees - Toronto environmental writer Lloyd Alter and former Toronto mayor John Sewell - and how it's as timely as ever to Canada's rapidly-shifting economy. Carbon Upfront - Lloyd Alter on Substack The Story of Upfront Carbon - book by Lloyd AlterBooks by...

Japan has one of the most fascinating and mysterious histories in the world. Across two thousand years, its islands witnessed the rise of emperors, powerful warrior clans, samurai, shoguns, merchants, religious traditions, and a society that repeatedly transformed itself.This documentary takes a calm journey through the major chapters of Japanese history, from ancient kingdoms and the imperial court to the age of samurai, the rise of the shogunate, the isolation of the Edo period, and Japan’s

Reading 1Acts 2:14, 22-33Then Peter stood up with the Eleven,raised his voice, and proclaimed:"You who are Jews, indeed all of you staying in Jerusalem.Let this be known to you, and listen to my words.You who are Israelites, hear these words.Jesus the Nazarene was a man commended to you by Godwith mighty deeds, wonders, and signs,which God worked through him in your midst, as you yourselves know.This man, delivered up by the set plan and foreknowledge of God,you killed, using lawless men to crucify

Reading 1Acts 2:42-47They devoted themselvesto the teaching of the apostles and to the communal life,to the breaking of bread and to the prayers.Awe came upon everyone,and many wonders and signs were done through the apostles.All who believed were together and had all things in common;they would sell their property and possessionsand divide them among all according to each one’s need.Every day they devoted themselvesto meeting together in the temple areaand to breaking bread in their homes.They ate

Accusations of witchcraft commence in 1612 England.Ghost Town: https://www.ghosttownpod.comSupport the show: https://www.patreon.com/ghosttownpod (7 Day Free Trial)Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ghosttownpodAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Geoffrey West, theoretical physicist and distinguished professor at the Santa Fe Institute, on urban scaling laws,cities that grow faster than exponential, and what happens when populations start to shrink. He treats the future of cities as the future of the planet. Cities drive resource use and climate change because that is where the people are. Without immigration, much of Europe and the United States would already be shrinking, even while other places cannot build housing fast enough. A city,

This episode of the Armed Forces & Society AI podcast series is a conversational-style AI summary of Patrick Bury's article entitled, 'Recruitment and Retention in British Army Reserve Logistics Units'. All podcasts, videos, and content listed below are AI-generated adaptations of scholarly articles originally published in Armed Forces & Society. These derivative products are intended solely as supplementary means of engaging with academic research. The content was generated using Google's

Peter is getting old.He knows this because he can remember when Louis Kahn, Edmund Bacon, and Oscar Stonorov were not historical figures—they were people his friends and colleagues actually knew.Forty years later, Peter reflects on his move to Philadelphia, his first architecture job, the people who shaped the city, and a generation of architects who are slowly disappearing from living memory.Episode music: Let the Show Begin by RA

Can fatigue cause visual blindness in plant operators and drivers?In this video, I review a 2019 study from Li et al. (Automation in Construction) who used wearable eye-tracking tech to measure how prolonged excavator operation / time-on-task fatigue impacts hazard detection and visual attention.Namely, whether the operators notice workers walking behind the excavator over a shift.Key findings:a. Hazard miss rates increased over 40% after 60 mins. Overall detection rates dropped to 70% at 36 minutes

The CDC has reportedly found the source of a diarrhea outbreak, linking the parasite Cyclospora to wastewater on farms. Rather than addressing the animal agriculture waste disposal issue, lettuce and vegetables are blamed. However, while 50% or more of the United States has yearly explosive diarrhea, the percentage in Japan is substantially lower at around 3%. What's the difference? Lack of fiber, excess protein consumption, fast-processed foods, wheat and dairy are just a few major factors. What’s

Explores how to listen to your thoughts, body, emotions, intuition, and other people from a place of neutral self-assessmentExplains how most of us respond to the world automatically based on mental habitsShares journaling exercises and mindfulness practices to enhance intuition and recognize limiting beliefs, biases, shadows, and weaknessesWithout realizing it, most of us tend to react based on our habits and memories, rather than what our senses, bodies, emotions, intuition, or the people around

Do you have a question or comment? Want to suggest a topic for our panel or be a guest on the Nova Society? Send us a message! Sierra, from THE Ohio State University, writes: As a law student who also minors in Political Science, I watched the Senate hearings with Jack Smith knowing full well they were designed more for spectacle than for any meaningful insight into the investigations. Even with that expectation, I was stunned. The Republicans managed to embarrass themselves at nearly every ...

In this conversation from 2023, Alex speaks with Rachel Lomasky about hot-button issues surrounding machine learning and artificial intelligence and the limitations and definitions of each, especially when it comes to ethical decision-making. References 1. Rachel’s Articles, Law&Liberty Link: https://lawliberty.org/author/rachel-lomasky/ 2. “Artificial Intelligence (AI) vs. Machine Learning” by Columbia Engineering Link: https://ai.engineering.columbia.edu/ai-vs-machine-learning/ 3

What happens when the life you planned suddenly disappears—and you're left wondering, “Am I going to be okay?”Whether you're facing divorce, widowhood, or another major life transition, starting over can feel overwhelming. You're grieving the life you thought you would have while simultaneously being asked to make some of the biggest financial decisions of your life.In this episode of Bent Not Broken: Life After Divorce, Coach Deborah sits down with Donna Jean Kendrick, CFP® and

Imagine that you have just lost your job. You wonder: “Who or what can I depend on now?” The answer, it turns out, varies significantly depending on where you live. In Norway, a small European social democracy, you would almost certainly turn to the country’s comprehensive public welfare system. With a work history, you could be eligible for two years of unemployment benefits that replace upwards of 62% of your previous salary. Meanwhile, you would not be too worried about covering other major

Belize is often described as a “pristine” ecotourism destination with a landscape that is “naturally” valuable. Yet for much of the twentieth century, British Honduras—as the country was known under colonial rule—was seen as lacking value, an unprofitable backwater.Valuing Nature at the Ends of the World: Natural Capital and Climate Disaster in Belize (Columbia UP, 2026) explores how Belize’s precarious coastal environment has become a site for a new kind of capitalist value production, in which

In the first pages of The Souls of Black Folk, W. E. B. Du Bois meditates on the question, "How does it feel to be a problem?"In this profound response to that question, Zahi Zalloua endeavours to think through the shared Black and Palestinian experience of being racialized as a problem. Zalloua argues that today's anti-Blackness is not a lingering feature of a regrettable past that only occasionally manifests its ugly face. Rather, anti-Blackness permeates white civil society. Black being stands