Steam train history derails ideas about extinction in nature
Release Date: 04/03/2023
The online sports-betting boom
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Researcher and gambler Justin Balthrop explains pitfalls of legalized online sports betting, including more credit card debt and fewer sound financial investments.
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In politics, gender still matters
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Author and scholar Mary Banwart discusses her new book chronicling the history of women in U.S. politics, with a newly penned forward following Kamala Harris’ rise to Democratic presidential nominee.
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The history of teaching history
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Stephen Jackson, an education professor who prepares future teachers on instructing students in history, discusses how controversies in teaching history have become part of the culture wars, how teachers are scared and why some have said this era is worse than McCarthyism.
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Police shouldn’t raid newspapers
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A year ago, police officers executed a search warrant on a small-town Kansas newspaper, triggering worldwide outrage over the seizing of newspaper equipment. The stress of the raid is said to have helped lead to the death of the publisher’s mother. Journalist and professor Steve Wolgast discusses why the raid happened and just why it’s so problematic for government to obstruct freedom of the press.
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Taylor Swift is a sociological phenom
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Brian Donovan is teaching a university course on the artistic and sociological influence of Taylor Swift. He outlines how the semester’s lessons mirror the performer’s career from a breakout country music star to the gazillion-selling icon of her recent Eras tour.
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Small-city population health in Kansas
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Mahbub Rashid says his book is the first to examine how spatial qualities impact health issues for people living in areas that aren’t strictly rural or metropolitan.
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The self-driving future of deliveries
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Sara Reed, an expert in transportation logistics, has extensively researched autonomous vehicle delivery. She discusses the technology’s benefits for businesses and whether they’ll outweigh potential drawbacks for customers and human employees — as well as other considerations for society’s driverless future.
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People mimic Southern accents
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Linguist Lacey Wade has discovered many of us shift our speech in expectation of what others might sound like, especially in respect to the U.S. Southern accent.
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Culture shapes how our brains learn (transcript)
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BRENDAN LYNCH, HOST: We live in a time where nothing is true. An era where reality and hoax look the same on the internet. Whoa, wait a second. There are people who actually know what they're talking about — dangerous people. We call them experts. We're giving these experts a megaphone to drop some truth bombs. If you can handle the truth. I'm Brendan Lynch, and I'm the host of “When Experts Attack!.” We used to think you could teach math to a student in the American Midwest just the same as you'd instruct a student on the other side of the world. But Michael Orosco,...
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Culture shapes how our brains learn
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People don’t learn the same way everywhere — in large part this comes down to culture. Guest Michael Orosco says new culturally responsive studies in neuroscience show working memory, executive function and other cognitive functions are influenced by how we grew up, where we were raised and the languages we speak.
info_outlinePaleontologist Bruce Lieberman tracks the history of steam-powered locomotives for answers to huge questions about natural evolution and why species die out.