Rae Nudson joins us to discuss the power of the powders and creams with which we adorn our skin, and how they’ve created the powerful beauty standards currently being challenged.
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Our 2,000-Year Obsession With Makeup
Author Rae Nudson joins host us to discuss the power of the powders and creams with which we adorn our skin, and how they’ve created the powerful beauty standards currently being challenged.
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It’s Time To Embrace Our Wrinkles
Anna North, senior reporter for Vox, joins us to talk about how embracing aging skin has come part-and-parcel with the relaxing of beauty standards the last year-and-a-half has provided across the globe.
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The People Left Out By The Classical Definition Of Beauty
Philosophy professor Chloé Cooper Jones joins us to talk about the vulnerability and rejection of being “othered” because of a disability while learning to find strength and solace within herself.
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A Missing Girl, A Mystery Girl And The Texas Novel That Brings Them Together
Author Julia Heaberlin joins us to talk about her latest crime novel, which deals with themes of beauty, trauma and grit.
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The Influence Of Instagram
Bloomberg News technology reporter Sarah Frier joins us to talk about the fierce Silicon Valley competition to create a dominant social media platform and the ways Instagram has changed our lives in an unexpected way.
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Why The Lovelist Treasures Are Cultivated By Pain
Writer and editor Katy Kelleher joins us to pull back the curtain on the luxuries we long for.
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Life Lessons From A Black Academic
Black feminist author and associate professor of sociology at Virginia Commonwealth University Tressie McMillan Cottom, joins us to talk about her exploration of black women’s space in culture, affluence, beauty and power.
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Beauty, Evolution And Darwin’s Forgotten Book
Yale ornithologist Richard Prum joins us to talk about how various creatures have changed their physical appearances in order to attract a mate.
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Why The Brain Likes Beauty
We’ll talk about why our species developed the arts – and how we came to value them – with Dr. Anjan Chatterjee, author of “The Aesthetic Brain: How We Evolved to Desire Beauty and Enjoy Art.”
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The Art Of Code
We’ll talk this hour about the intersection between writing for humans and writing for computers with Vikram Chandra, author of Geek Sublime: The Beauty of Code, the Code of Beauty.
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