Podcast What Makes Us Smart: The Computational Logic of Human Cognition October 08, 2021 At the heart of human intelligence rests a fundamental puzzle: How are we incredibly smart and stupid at the same time? No existing machine can match the power and flexibility of human perception, language, and reasoning. Read More
Podcast Pedias: Beautiful, short books about big, important subjects September 22, 2021 In this podcast, Marshall Poe talks to Robert Kirk, the publisher of the Pedia book series.聽Encyclopedic in nature and miniature in form, these books explore the wonders of the natural world, from A to Z. Read More
Podcast Ice Rivers: A Story of Glaciers, Wilderness, and Humanity September 16, 2021 A riveting blend of cutting-edge research and tales of encounters with polar bears and survival under the midnight sun,聽Ice Rivers聽is an unforgettable portrait of鈥攁nd love letter to鈥攐ur vanishing icy聽wildernesses. Read More
Podcast The Book Proposal Book: A Guide for Scholarly Authors September 15, 2021 The scholarly book proposal may be academia鈥檚 most mysterious genre. You have to write one to get published, but most scholars receive no training on how to do so鈥攁nd you may have never even seen a proposal before you鈥檙e expected to produce your own.聽 Read More
Podcast Moving Up without Losing Your Way August 24, 2021 Upward mobility through higher education has been an article of faith for generations of working-class, low-income, and immigrant college students. While this path usually entails financial sacrifices and hard work, little attention has been paid to the personal compromises such students make as they enter worlds vastly different from their own. Read More
Podcast In Pursuit of the Perfect Portfolio August 19, 2021 Is there an ideal portfolio of investment assets, one that perfectly balances risk and reward?聽In Pursuit of the Perfect Portfolio聽examines this question by profiling and interviewing ten of the most prominent figures in the finance world. Read More
Podcast 脡migr茅s: French Words That Turned English July 16, 2021 Richard Scholar examines the continuing history of untranslated French words in English and asks what these words reveal about the fertile but fraught relationship that England and France have long shared. Read More
Podcast What do the ancients have to teach us? July 15, 2021 Marshall Poe recently had a fascinating conversation with聽Rob Tempio, the talented editor behind the聽Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers series.聽The聽books in this series present聽the timeless and timely ideas of classical thinkers in lively new translations. Read More
Podcast We Are Not Born Submissive: How Patriarchy Shapes Women鈥檚 Lives July 09, 2021 What role do women play in the perpetuation of patriarchy? On the one hand, popular media urges women to be independent, outspoken, and career-minded. Yet, this same media glorifies a specific, sometimes voluntary, female submissiveness as a source of satisfaction. Read More
Podcast The Spirit of Green: The Economics of Collisions and Contagions in a Crowded World June 26, 2021 Solving the world鈥檚 biggest problems鈥攆rom climate catastrophe and pandemics to wildfires and corporate malfeasance鈥攔equires, more than anything else, coming up with new ways to manage the powerful interactions that surround us. Read More
Podcast Taken for Granted: The Remarkable Power of the Unremarkable June 20, 2021 Why is the term 鈥渙penly gay鈥� so widely used but 鈥渙penly straight鈥� is not? What are the unspoken assumptions behind terms like 鈥渕ale nurse,鈥� 鈥渨orking mom,鈥� and 鈥渨hite trash鈥�?聽 Read More
Podcast Things Fall Together: A Guide to the New Materials Revolution June 03, 2021 Things in life tend to fall apart. Cars break down. Buildings fall into disrepair. Personal items deteriorate. Yet today鈥檚 researchers are exploiting newly understood properties of matter to program materials that physically sense, adapt, and fall together instead of apart. Read More
Podcast After Callimachus: Poems May 19, 2021 Callimachus may be the best-kept secret in all of ancient poetry. Loved and admired by later Romans and Greeks, his funny, sexy, generous, thoughtful, learned, sometimes elaborate, and always articulate lyric poems, hymns, epigrams, and short stories in verse have gone without a contemporary poetic champion, until now. Read More
Podcast American feminists and the global fight for democratic equality May 03, 2021 Reclaiming social democracy as one of the central threads of American feminism, Dorothy Sue Cobble offers a bold rewriting of twentieth-century feminist history and documents how forces, peoples, and ideas worldwide shaped American politics. Read More
Podcast Poet of Revolution: The Making of John Milton April 27, 2021 John Milton (1608鈥�1674) has a unique claim on literary and intellectual history as the author of both聽Paradise Lost, the greatest narrative poem in English, and prose defences of the execution of Charles I that influenced the French and American revolutions. Read More
