R. Jisung Park is assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania, where he holds appointments in the School of Social Policy and Practice and the Wharton School of Business.It’s hard not to feel anxious about the problem of climate change, especially if we think of it as an impending planetary catastrophe. In Slow Burn: The Hidden Costs of a Warming World (Princeton UP, 2025), R. Jisung Park encourages us to view climate change through a different lens: one that focuses less on the

Over the last several decades, sources of income derived away from farms have come to play a much bigger role in rural Indonesian households. How do rural people in Indonesia engage with farming and social and economic spheres beyond their villages? What do their changing forms of engagement mean for land relations, sustainability, and the future of agrarian communities?Jeff Neilson’s Fortress Farming: Agrarian Transitions, Livelihoods, and Coffee Value Chains in Indonesia (Cornell UP, 2025)

Why is there no metric system in the United States? Why is it that a country known for its openness to the future, its scientific innovations, and its preference for practicality has not adopted the most practical, scientific, and innovative system of measurement? Yardstick Nation: The Metric System in America (Vanderbilt UP, 2025) by Dr. Hector Vera answers these questions by analyzing the political, economic, and international factors that determined the trajectory of the United States as a nation

Let us introduce you to episode 1 of our new series, Darklore, where we explore the creepy, horrific, unsettling darker side of folklore! Please join us as we get lost down twisting paths of lore, myth and macabre tales of dark magic that can never be fully known. In today’s episode we examine dark fairies, from the Unseelie court to fairy abductions and even vampire fairies. You can find Tracy at https://folkloringlife.com/ You can find David at https://www.facebook.com/pr...

Die „America first“-Politik von US-Präsident Donald Trump ist eskaliert. Mit seinen Strafzöllen hebelt er die seit Jahrzehnten geltenden Regeln des freien Welthandels aus. Welche Folgen haben Zölle für die deutsche Wirtschaft? Wie sollte die EU auf die USA reagieren? Und welche Zukunft hat Globalisierung überhaupt noch? Das bespricht Michael Scheppe in der aktuellen Folge von Erststimme mit der Ökonomin Lisandra Flach, die am Ifo-Institut in München das Zentrum für Außenwirtschaft leitet.

In Indigenizing Japan: Ainu Past, Present, and Future (University of Arizona Press, 2025), archaeologist Joe E. Watkins provides a comprehensive look at the rich history and cultural resilience of the Ainu, the Indigenous people of Hokkaido, Japan, tracing their journey from ancient times to their contemporary struggles for recognition.Relaying the deep history of the islands of Japan, Watkins tells the archaeological story from the earliest arrivals some 40,000 years ago to 16,000 years ago when

C'est notre spécial Halloween! On se raconte des histoires d'horreur en IA. De passage dans nos studios, Dimitri Foucault du podcast TunamIA nous propose, en compagnie de mes BaristIAs préférés, sa propre histoire d'horreur! Au programme: L’instrumentalisation politique du slop AIL’hypertrucage (deepfake) et la confiance envers nos médias Cyberpunk et les dystopies du présentDimitri Foucault - Perte de contrôle algorithmique … À Rimouski!Massacre dans les spectres music...

What happens when organizations racing to survive suddenly scrub "equity" and "justice" from their websites—without asking the communities they serve? Dr. Philip Alberti, founding director of the AAMC Center for Health Justice, joins host Corey Dion Lewis for a powerful conversation about the real cost of changing language without changing process.In this episode, Philip breaks down why speed matters, how community engagement isn't optional, and what it really means to build health equity

About Maulik Bhansali:Maulik Bhansali is a senior portfolio manager and co-head at Allspring Global Investments. He grew up in New Jersey, started out as an actuary, then got a master’s in quantitative finance at UC Berkeley. For the last couple decades he’s been in the Bay Area managing bond portfolios. Outside of work, he’s raising a kid in a mixed-culture family, figuring out how to keep Gujarati traditions alive.What was most fun about this conversation:The rapid-fire part was great. When I

Are group boundaries solid, impermeable, and red in tooth-and-claw? Is animosity between groups inevitable? In this episode, we talk to Anne Pisor (U Penn) about all things inter-group from an evolutionary perspective, including the forging of relationships across group boundaries as a way to deal with uncertainty and risk, and the circumstances that increase or decrease inter-group antagonism. More about Anne

In this episode I sit down with Kate Epstein, an associate professor of history at Rutgers University-Camden, as she details her research on the intersection of defense contracting, intellectual property, and government secrecy in Great Britain and the United States. We talk about her process in researching and writing her latest book Analog Superpowers: How Twentieth-Century Technology Theft Built the National-Security State and how breaking the law, historically speaking, has been important for

The so-called “replication crisis” engulfed psychology over the last 10 years, with numerous failures to reproduce canonical studies from the biggest names in the discipline like Dweck’s growth mindset, Baumeister’s willpower as a muscle, and around half of Kahneman’s Thinking Fast and Slow. Interrogation of this failure of replicate led to discoveries of p-hacking, publication bias, a huge disconnect between the theories psychologists were supposedly testing and the cute little studies they ...

We take a closer look at the online world known as the manosphere—a loose network of communities including incels, Men Going Their Own Way (MGTOW), men’s rights activists (MRAs), and pick-up artists (PUAs).These groups may look different on the surface, but they share a common core: resentment toward feminism, nostalgia for traditional masculinity, and a belief that men are the new victims of modern society. With guidance from researcher Havana Mohr-Ramirez, we unpack how these subcultures operate,

A Nautilus Book Awards Gold Medal Winner in LeadershipAre you longing for deeper connection, purpose, and inspiration in your professional and personal life? Do you wish to ignite your inner spark and lead with authentic power and presence? Is there a longing within you to not only uncover your own inspiration, but also the power to inspire itself? Spiritually Intelligent Leadership is your guide to achieving these goals and transforming your leadership from the inside out.This will be your most

Episode 12: Many of us have been chased away from shame, because it seems to cause nothing but pain. However, shame itself is a crucial social emotion that helps you become an upright and empathic person who cares about others and has a strong sense of ethics. The key to working with shame is to understand the difference between shame that helps you maintain your morals and ethics, and shame-blame that is thrown onto you by others. The blaming form of shame is actually, and simply, abuse. Reclaiming

En este episodio nos sumergimos en la experiencia del duelo, reflexionamos sobre cómo nos impacta y cómo podemos acompañarnos —a nosotros mismos y a los demás— en esos momentos. Una conversación sobre la ausencia, la memoria y las distintas formas en que las pérdidas tocan nuestras vidas. Síguenos en Instagram en ajustescreativoselpodcast Para más información sobre el IHPG visita: www.gestalthumanista.com ————————————————— Prelude No. 20 by Chris Zabriskie is licensed under a Creative Commons...

“You cannot have trust without some form of governance. And governance is basically rules.” Tim Bouma has spent two decades inside government building Canada's digital identity framework. He's also building on Bitcoin. This is the conversation about what he's learned straddling both worlds, why centralized architecture creates problems that better policy can't fix, and why the future isn't about choosing between government systems and freedom tech—it's about understanding what each reveals about

What is the relationship between religion and economic development? Does economic development mean fewer people become religious, or more? What causes people to believe, and does organised religion adapt as societies change, and competition from other religions increases?Sara Lowes of UC San Diego, Eduardo Montero on the University of Chicago, and Benjamin Marx of Boston University are the authors of a new review of religion in emerging and developing regions. They talk to Tim Phillips about how

In this conversation from 2020, Alex Aragona speaks with Mustafa Akyol as he explores whether Islam can be compatible with liberalism, and his recent research on freedom in Muslim-majority countries.References from Episode 70 with Mustafa Akyol Mustafa Akyol is the author of Rethinking the Kurdish Question: What Went Wrong, What Next? (Turkish), Islam Without Extremes: A Muslim Case For Liberty, The Islamic Jesus: How the King of the Jews Became a Prophet of the Muslims, and his book set for