Cele mai bune Theorize It podcast-uri (2024)

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Predator 54:43

1d ago54:43

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Send us a text Katie and Bridget get lost in the jungle as they re-watch the 80's movie: Predator! Come along as we follow a bunch of muscled, sweaty men (not Magic Mikes, unfortunately) who are traveling through the jungle in search of saving some hostages. What they don't know is that they are being hunted by an invisible being. Spoiler alert: it…

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John P. Davis, "Russia in the Time of Cholera" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2018) 1:00:29

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The idea of “backwardness” often plagues historical writing on Russia. In Russia in the Time of Cholera: Disease under Romanovs and Soviets (Bloomsbury Academic, 2018), Dr. John P. Davis counteracts this “backwardness” paradigm, arguing that from the early 19th to the early 20th centuries, Russian medical researchers—along with their counterparts i…

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John S. Garrison, "Red Hot + Blue" (Bloomsbury, 2024) 46:53

4d ago46:53

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John Garrison's Red Hot + Blue (33 1/3 Series) (Bloomsbury, 2024) is a meditation on music's capacity to find us, transform us, and help us make sense of our historical moment. In a narrative that blends memoir and history, Red Hot + Blue explores Garrison's coming out at the height of the AIDS crisis alongside the history of the music industry's r…

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Susan Greenhalgh, "Soda Science: Making the World Safe for Coca-Cola" (U Chicago Press, 2024) 20:11

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Soda Science: Making the World Safe for Coca-Cola (U Chicago Press, 2024) takes readers deep inside the secret world of corporate science, where powerful companies and allied academic scientists mould research to meet industry needs. The 1990s were tough times for the soda industry. In the United States, obesity rates were exploding. Public health …

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Love, Magic and Capitalism with Rob Faure Walker (Theorize and be Damned: Ep. 5) 1:16:55

8d ago1:16:55

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Mike Watson and Bram E. Gieben talk to Rob Faure Walker, author of Love and the Market: How to Recover from the Enlightenment and Survive the Current Crisis.Buy Love and the Market from Bristol University Press here: https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/love-and-the-marketPre-order Bram and Mike's books here: https://www.revolpress.com/Follow Revol…

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Garden State 1:11:58

9d ago1:11:58

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Send us a text Katie and Bridget go and plant some flowers (since this movie doesn't have any) as they re-watch: Garden State! It's a movie that checks all the quirky bingo boxes INCLUDING having your star be Zach Braff! Come along as we meet Andrew, an emotionally stunted man who is traveling back to his home state of New Jersey for his paraplegic…

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Soul Surfer 1:13:04

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Send us a text Katie and Bridget hire Quint from Jaws to keep watch over their surfing competition as they re-watch the inspirational movie: Soul Surfer! Based on the true story of Bethany Hamilton, who had her left arm bitten off by a shark while surfing and lived to tell the tale. Bethany's a competitive pre-teen who gets right back into surfing …

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Blue Crush 1:06:35

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Send us a text Katie and Bridget enter a surf contest where everybody dies as they re-watch the movie: Blue Crush! It's a movie all about how hard work and perseverance will help you win the surfing contest... Even though our main character ABANDONS hard work to hook up with a random man and LOSES the surfing competition but still gets herself on t…

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Aimee Louise Middlemiss, "Invisible Labours: The Reproductive Politics of Second Trimester Pregnancy Loss in England" (Berghahn Books, 2024) 45:16

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Tracing women’s experiences of miscarriage and termination for foetal anomaly in the second trimester, before legal viability, shows how such events are positioned as less ‘real’ or significant when the foetal being does not, or will not, survive. Invisible Labour: The Reproductive Politics of Second Trimester Pregnancy Loss in England (Berghahn, 2…

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Alice Mah, "Petrochemical Planet: Multiscalar Battles of Industrial Transformation" (Duke UP, 2023) 48:17

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Is a green future possible? In Petrochemical Planet: Multiscalar Battles of Industrial Transformation (Duke UP, 2023), Alice Mah, a Professor in Urban and Environmental Studies at the University of Glasgow examines the practices of the petrochemical industry, along with the communities living with, and resisting, its impact. Offering ethnographic a…

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Free Willy 1:00:06

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Send us a text Katie and Bridget break whales out of captivity as they re-watch the 90's movie: Free Willy! It's a story all about how unconditional love for an orphan and/or a kidnapped orca will lead to wholesome moments AND iconic Michael Jackson songs! Come along as we meet Jessie, an orphan who hates everyone and everything, except for his new…

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The GiveWell Method 28:16

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In this episode, Caleb Zakarin and Uri Bram dive into the world of effective charitable giving through the lens of GiveWell, an organization known for its rigorous evaluation of charities. Uri explains how GiveWell identifies and recommends high-impact charities, discussing the data-driven criteria and ethical considerations behind their assessment…

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Point Break 1:03:47

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Send us a text Katie and Bridget go surfing then sky diving then rob a bank as they re-watch the 90's action thriller: Point Break! Come along as we meet Johnny Utah (not a porn star), who begins working for the FBI in California. When he takes on a case looking to catch serial bank robbers (who are suspected surfers), he gets himself in the waves …

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Ep. 21 You Left What, Where In My Body? The Meyers Change a Law. 1:06:44

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Stephanie and Maggie catch you up on their shenanigans: the Super Stupid Troopers of Sports Security tops themselves (yet again) and Bailed on at The Bix (amongst other things). And the story of Joel Meyers battling cancer, surgery, chemo, and Essentia leaving a foreign object in his body, trying to remedy this with a little more than an insult lea…

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Fella Benabed, "Applied Global Health Humanities: Readings in the Global Anglophone Novel" (de Gruyter, 2024) 52:32

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Fella Benabed's book Applied Global Health Humanities: Readings in the Global Anglophone Novel (de Gruyter, 2024) highlights the importance of global Anglophone literature in global health humanities, shaping perceptions of health issues in the Global South and among minorities in the Global North. Using twelve novels, it explores the historical, p…

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Bishnupriya Ghosh, "The Virus Touch: Theorizing Epidemic Media" (Duke UP, 2023) 53:07

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Welcome to the Global Media & Communication podcast series. This podcast is a multimodal project powered by the Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication (CARGC) at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. At CARGC, we produce and promote critical, interdisciplinary, and multimodal research on global medi…

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I Know What You Did Last Summer 1:04:59

1M ago1:04:59

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Send us a text Katie and Bridget become fishermen as they re-watch the 90's slasher: I Know What You Did Last Summer! It's a movie all about how if you accidentally murder someone and try to cover it up, you will get pranked a year later and possibly everyone around you will die! ...Seriously guys just call the police next time, okay? Come along as…

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Kirsten Moore-Sheeley, "Nothing But Nets: A Biography of Global Health Science and Its Objects" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023) 1:02:29

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Distributed to millions of people annually across Africa and the global south, insecticide-treated bed nets have become a cornerstone of malaria control and twenty-first-century global health initiatives. Despite their seemingly obvious public health utility, however, these chemically infused nets and their rise to prominence were anything but inev…

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Seth A. Berkowitz, "Equal Care: Health Equity, Social Democracy, and the Egalitarian State" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2024) 28:56

2M ago28:56

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Health inequity is one of the defining problems of our time. But current efforts to address the problem focus on mitigating the harms of injustice rather than confronting injustice itself. In Equal Care: Health Equity, Social Democracy, and the Egalitarian State (Johns Hopkins UP, 2024), Seth A. Berkowitz, MD, MPH, offers an innovative vision for t…

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Elizabethtown 52:47

2M ago52:47

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Send us a text Katie and Bridget sit outside in lawn chairs on a hot summers night in the middle of nowhere (no actually, this is how they recorded the episode) as they rewatch the rom-com: Elizabethtown! It's a movie all about how road trips can be fun, family can be loud, and meet-cutes can result in 24+ hour phone calls... Oh it's also about gri…

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Ep. 20 (Guest) BK Attests Stalkers Should NOT Have It Their Way! 1:06:27

2M ago1:06:27

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Scratchy Face is on milk cartons! BK guest stars solo and shares stories of stalkers and how he's gtfo'ing the country for a hot minute (or a year). Maggie and Stephanie share tragedies their sister's endured. The rest...well, that's all just things and stuff! The usuz.De către Charlotteademry

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Ep. 19 9-1-1, Jail Bird, Shit Workers, and Surprise Babies; Oh My!! 1:19:07

2M ago1:19:07

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Holy Cannoli! Stephanie might have a new job. But! She's still surrounded by incompetent coworkers: meh, eh, grr and Fun fact...you get it! With another Jail Bird rollercoaster. And Maggie bumps into a girl she used to know who has a BIG surprise of which there is no Hallmark card for! (boy do I love ending a sentence with a preposition!)…

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Adam Turl: Gothic Futurism -- Revolutionary Art and the Working Class (Theorize and be Damned: Ep.4) 1:09:05

2M ago1:09:05

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Mike Watson and Bram Gieben interview Adam Turl, writer of the forthcoming Gothic Futurism: And the Working Class (2025, from Revol Press).See details on that book here: https://www.revolpress.com/gothic-futurismSee Locus Review here: https://www.locustreview.comSupport Revol Press at our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/revolpressAdam Turl is an a…

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The Baby-Sitters Club 1:09:23

2M ago1:09:23

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Send us a text Katie and Bridget start a business (that they label as just a club) as they re-watch the 90's movie: The Baby-Sitters Club! Come along as we meet all of the 10-13 year old girls of the for-profit Baby-Sitters Club - BSC for short. We've got Kristy, the leader of the club, who has to deal with her absentee father attempting to come ba…

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Angela Garcia, "The Way That Leads Among the Lost: Life, Death, and Hope in Mexico City's Anexos" (FSG, 2024) 50:55

2M ago50:55

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Based on over a decade of research, a powerful, moving work of narrative nonfiction that illuminates the little-known world of the anexos of Mexico City, the informal addiction treatment centers where mothers send their children to escape the violence of the drug war. The Way That Leads Among the Lost: Life, Death, and Hope in Mexico City's Anexos …

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The 2nd Sissy Awards 1:08:18

2M ago1:08:18

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Send us a text Katie and Bridget HOST A 2ND AWARDS SHOW!? It's our 200th episode and we're celebrating all of the past 100 movies we've reviewed over the last two years - since our premiere of The Sissy Awards! Come listen to see who gives us the biggest ick, who we all slow clap for, and which movie we think should have been made into a theme park…

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Pandemics Perspectives 15: The Dynamic Nature of Science 1:16:31

2M ago1:16:31

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In this Pandemic Perspectives Podcast, Ideas Roadshow founder and host Howard Burton talks to Michael Gordin, Rosengarten Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at Princeton University, about the differences between science and pseudoscience and how the COVID-19 Pandemic showed that most people don't realize that science is highly dynamic. Go…

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Holly Ashford, "Development and Women's Reproductive Health in Ghana, 1920-1982" (Routledge, 2022) 54:40

2M ago54:40

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Between the 1920s and 1980s, the choices that Ghanaian women made regarding their reproductive health were defined by development policy and practice. Spanning the colonial and immediate postcolonial periods, Holly Ashford's book Development and Women's Reproductive Health in Ghana, 1920-1982 (Routledge, 2022) demonstrates that whilst the substance…

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Problem Child 49:11

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Send us a text Katie and Bridget put on their bow-ties as they re-watch the surprisingly heart-felt, dark comedy: Problem Child! It's a story all about an evil child! ...Well actually he has a tragic backstory that most likely led to his behaviors... And also he's never had an adult support him or like him... And he got abandoned every 2 seconds in…

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John Thomas Maier, "The Disabled Will: A Theory of Addiction" (Routledge, 2024) 49:32

2M ago49:32

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John T. Maier's The Disabled Will: A Theory of Addiction (Routledge Press, 2024) defends a comprehensive new vision of what addiction is and how people with addictions should be treated. The author argues that, in addition to physical and intellectual disabilities, there are volitional disabilities - disabilities of the will - and that addiction is…

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The Lost World: Jurassic Park 1:02:05

3M ago1:02:05

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Send us a text Katie and Bridget go back to the dino island (but not the SAME dino island) as they re-watch the lackluster sequel: The Lost World: Jurassic Park! Hey remember how the first Jurassic Park taught us to fear dinosaurs and never interact with them because man vs. nature blah blah? Well guess what - we're gonna go interact with them caus…

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Matt McManus: Right Wing Radicalism - It's Dangerous (Theorize and be Damned: Ep. 3) 1:17:30

3M ago1:17:30

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We spoke to Matt McManus about the dangers of the Radical right wing, covering Trumpianism, Dostoyevsky, Nietzsche, and much more along the way.We also asked Matt about his writing process, gaining valuable insights into his approach.You can find his book The Political Right and Equality (Routledge) here:https://www.routledge.com/The-Political-Righ…

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Ep. 18 Bitch Bosses & Movie Ramblings 1:17:21

3M ago1:17:21

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Maggie and Stephanie tell the tales or yore....MOM! J/k they tell the tales of working for Bitch Bosses and ramble about movies and shows; no surprise there!De către Charlotteademry

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Superbad 1:01:59

3M ago1:01:59

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Send us a Text Message. Katie and Bridget go to a random house party as they re-watch the movie: Superbad! It's a story all about how your friendship may be tested when there's alcohol, girls, impending college, and possibly a secret gay crush on one another that you are repressing because you were written by a 14 year old boy... (we said what we s…

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Carl Elliott, "The Occasional Human Sacrifice: Medical Experimentation and the Price of Saying No" (Norton, 2024) 50:30

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The Occasional Human Sacrifice: Medical Experimentation and the Price of Saying No (Norton, 2024) is an intellectual inquiry into the moral struggle that whistleblowers face, and why it is not the kind of struggle that most people imagine. Carl Elliott is a bioethicist at the University of Minnesota who was trained in medicine as well as philosophy…

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Andrew McDowell, "Breathless: Tuberculosis, Inequality, and Care in Rural India" (Stanford UP, 2024) 1:27:07

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Each year in India more than two million people fall sick with tuberculosis (TB), an infectious, airborne, and potentially deadly lung disease. The country accounts for almost 30 percent of all TB cases worldwide and well above a third of global deaths from it. Because TB’s prevalence also indicates unfulfilled development promises, its control is …

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Looking Back at Season Five... and the Series

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With the final jump of the spore drive having occurred, PhantasticGeek.com's Pete and Matt take a look back at the five episode journey of Star Trek: Discovery. Thanks as always to everyone who supports the podcast by visiting Patreon.com/PhantasticGeek. Share your feedback by emailing PhantasticGeek@gmail.com, commenting at PhantasticGeek.com, or …

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Pandemic Perspectives 13: The Need for Genuine Communication 48:12

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In this Pandemic Perspectives Podcast, Ideas Roadshow founder and host Howard Burton talks to Elizabeth Anderson, Max Shaye Professor of Public Philosophy at the University of Michigan, on the need for making increased efforts to explicitly create occasions for people to frankly communicate with each other during a crisis. Ideas Roadshow's Pandemic…

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Nostalgic Movie Survivor: Season 2 1:28:09

3M ago1:28:09

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Send us a text Katie and Bridget get back on the island as they play Season 2 of Nostalgic Movie Survivor! 18 nostalgic movie characters (all ones from movies we've reviewed!) are placed on an island and set out to compete to become the ultimate Survivor! Alliances are formed, challenges are faced, with lots of twists and turns along the way. We ca…

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510 "Life, Itself"

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In the series finale, Michael Burnham leads the crew of the USS Discovery in a desperate attempt to prevent the most-powerful technology in the universe from falling into the wrong hands. Matt and Pete contemplate episode 510, “Life, Itself.” Thanks as always to everyone who supports the podcast by visiting Patreon.com/PhantasticGeek. Share your fe…

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Ep. 17 Movie Association Game 2:07:43

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Maggie and Stephanie play a movie/actor association game after Stephanie mistakes a movie Maggie wanted to watch for another. Their Natalie Portman-go to movies are STARKLY different!!De către Charlotteademry

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Conan The Barbarian 1:03:02

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Send us a text Katie and surrogate sisters Eric and Neil from The Retro Video Store Podcast scale a snake tower as they re-watch Neil's favorite movie: Conan The Barbarian! And just so we're clear, this is the 80's Conan - NOT the 2011 one (Eric and Neil will rant and rave if you mention it)! Come along as we meet Conan, the nicest barbarian you've…

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Tom Mueller, "How to Make a Killing: Blood, Death and Dollars in American Medicine" (Norton, 2023) 1:09:18

3M ago1:09:18

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Dialysis is a medical miracle, a treatment that allows people with kidney failure to live when otherwise they would die. It also provides a captive customer for the dialysis industry, which values the steady revenues that come from critically required long-term care that is guaranteed by the government. Tom Mueller's six year deep dive into the dia…

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509 "Lagrange Point"

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Limping to the coordinates of the Progenitors’ secret, Discovery hopes to stave off the Breen. Matt and Pete arrive at episode 509, “Lagrange Point.” Thanks as always to everyone who supports the podcast by visiting Patreon.com/PhantasticGeek. Share your feedback by emailing PhantasticGeek@gmail.com, commenting at PhantasticGeek.com, or tweeting @P…

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The Way Things Are Now 58:41

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Recorded from our FROMily Fridays live episode. If you'd like to participate in the live chat and see our faces, join Jazzy and Kelly on our YouTube channel every Friday at 5pm EST: youtube.com/@cyborgqueenmedia We'll put the first few episodes of our FROM podcast on here, and then you'll have to look up The FROM Series Podcast. At Colony House, Ta…

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Premilla Nadasen, "Care: The Highest Stage of Capitalism" (Haymarket Books, 2023) 1:10:19

3M ago1:10:19

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During the COVID pandemic, billions of dollars in relief aid was sent out to help us ride out the storm, although many people who struggled through it might scratch their heads at such a number, having seen little of it make any concrete impact in their own lives. This discrepancy is indicative of the underlying problem with the contemporary care e…

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Knocked Up 1:11:15

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Send us a text Katie and special guest/surrogate sister JEN-A go deliver a baby as they re-watch the movie: Knocked Up! It's a nostalgic movie for them where they reminisce about endless quotes, former roommates, and their epic college beer pong table - complete with "Julie's Temple"! Okay but the movie itself is a journey alllll it's own! Come alo…

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Theorize and be Damned: Episode 2 -- Fisher, The Limit Experience & Online Culture w/Emma Stamm 1:19:45

4M ago1:19:45

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We talk to Emma Stamm about Mark Fisher, the Limit Experience, Digital Capitalism, internet culture and more. Here are the links to the articles discussed: https://reallifemag.com/who-can-it-be-now/ https://social-epistemology.com/2022/04/18/curiosity-and-anti-economy-a-response-to-florian-jaton-emma-stamm/ http://www.ladeleuziana.org/wp-content/up…

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Sarah Cassella, "Global Risks and International Law: The Case of Climate Change and Pandemics" (Brill/Nijhoff, 2023) 46:43

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Global risks present formidable challenges to international law. Although they have long been identified in many other scientific disciplines, they are currently only considered on a sectoral basis in international law in the absence of a legal definition. The aim of Sarah Cassella's book Global Risks and International Law: The Case of Climate Chan…

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Ryan Reft, "Heroin and Chocolate City: Black Community Responses to Drug Addiction in the Nation’s Capital, 1967-1973" (2024) 55:01

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Ryan Reft is a historian in the Manuscript Division at the Library of Congress, where he oversees collections pertaining to 20th and 21st century domestic politics and policies. He received his PhD in U.S. urban history from the University of California San Diego in 2014, and his writing has appeared all over the place, from edited volumes to acade…

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