Ellen Jovin discusses her travels around the nation answering grammar questions, why people are so keen to reveal what they don’t know and don’t understand, and how written language connects us all.
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How poverty steals peoples’ dreams
Professor Karen A. Cerulo joins us to discuss the impact socioeconomic status, gender and race can have on your dreams.
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Misunderstanding math has real-world consequences
James C. Zimring, an experimental pathology professor, discusses percentages, probabilities, and the other data that can confound and even deceive us – and how to not fall into familiar, time-worn traps.
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The case for talking about race at work
Y-Vonne Hutchinson joins us to talk about how employees can have frank and honest conversations with management about race and achieve real results.
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The power of statues for those who take them down
Historian Samuel Biagetti joins us to talk about the historical patterns of iconoclasm and why he believes many statues honoring controversial figures have been torn down in recent years.
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Why do we blame scam victims for what happened to them?
We all think we’re smarter than scammers… until one gets the best of us. Writer Hannah Zeavin joins us to talk about why we’re so quick to judge scam victims we’ve deemed weak or ignorant.
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Your kids make the best philosophers
Philosophy professor Scott Hershovitz joins guest host Courtney Collins to discuss the philosophical debates he has with his two boys, Rex and Hank, and why it’s important to take on deep questions with young minds.
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Why your boss wants you back at the office
Rani Molla, senior data reporter for Recode joins us to discuss how corporate America might move forward after Covid shutdowns.
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Uncovering family secrets can set you free
Linda Holmes from NPR joins guest host Courtney Collins to discuss Holmes’ novel, “Flying Solo,” in which a wooden duck goes missing and a woman looking to find herself ends up in the center of a mysterious caper.
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Are we showing too much love on social media?
Author Caitlin Macy joins host Krys Boyd to discuss why emotional overreaction has become the norm – even expected – and how that’s given rise to overflowing anger in daily life.
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How white women let women of color down
Kimberlee Yolanda Williams is an educator and DEI administrator, and she discusses a series of 40 letters she wrote to a fictional white sister about her experiences as a Black woman facing discrimination and microaggressions.
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Were we wrong about Tracy Flick in “Election?”
Tracy Flick was the ambitious upstart of her high school in the book “Election,” later played by Reese Witherspoon in the movie. So, whatever happened to her? Author Tom Perrotta talks about his follow-up novel that follows Tracy’s life as an adult.
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