Category: podcast
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Someday Is Today: 22 Simple, Actionable Ways to Propel Your Creative Life by Matthew Dicks: Book Review
This was supposed to be a podcast episode I did with Matthew Dick, but my audio file was damaged, so I am sharing my opinion of the book. About Matthew Dicks Matthew Dicks is a novelist, storyteller, columnist, playwright, blogger, and teacher. His first novel, Something Missing, was published in 2009. He has since published Unexpectedly, Milo (2010), Memoirs of an…
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526 Joan DeJean: How French Convicts Became Founding Mothers The of Louisiana
in podcastAbout Joan DeJean Joan DeJean has been Trustee Professor at the University of Pennsylvania since 1988. She previously taught at Yale and at Princeton. She is the author of eleven books on French literature, history, and material culture of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Her most recent book is: Mutinous Women: How French Convicts Became Founding…
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525 Frans de Waal: Biology offers no justification for gender inequalities
in podcastAbout Frans de Waal Dr. Frans B. M. de Waal is a Dutch/American biologist and primatologist known for his work on the behavior and social intelligence of primates. His first book, Chimpanzee Politics (1982) compared the schmoozing and scheming of chimpanzees involved in power struggles with that of human politicians. Ever since, Frans de Waal has drawn parallels between primate and human…
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524 Rick Detweiler defends Liberal Arts Education
in podcastAbout Rick Detweiler Dr. Richard A. Detweiler (Rick), the founder and managing director of HigherEdImpact, a non-profit network providing research-based knowledge to assist colleges and universities employ impactful educational practices. He is a social psychologist specializing in intercultural relations, and earned his MA and PhD from Princeton University. With years of experience as a college president, professor,…
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523 Oded Galor: Why is there so much wealth inequality?
in podcastAbout Oded Galor Oded Galor is Herbert H. Goldberger Professor of Economics at Brown University and the founding thinker behind Unified Growth Theory, which seeks to uncover the fundamental causes of development, prosperity and inequality over the entire span of human history. He has shared the insights of his lifetime’s work in this field at…
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522 Daisy Pitkin: A portrait of the American labor movement
in podcastDaisy Pitkin has spent more than twenty years as a community and union organizer, working first in support of garment workers around the world, and then for US labor unions organizing industrial laundry workers. Her essays have been awarded the Montana Prize, the Disquiet Literary Prize, the New Millennium Award, and the Monique Wittig Writer’s Fellowship. She grew…