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When college is a waste of money

September 27, 2023 Culture, Economics, Education, Think

Paul Tough, a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss why the U.S. is an outlier globally when it comes to college popularity.

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What’s a fishwife, anyway? A history of words about women

September 15, 2023 Education, History, Language, Literature, Race/Identity, Think

Jenni Nuttall teaches medieval literature at the University of Oxford, and she joins host Krys Boyd to discuss how words have influenced how we view female roles in society.

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From foster care to fostering hope

September 14, 2023 Education, Global Issues, Mental Health, Think

David Ambroz joins host Krys Boyd to discuss his life’s work of fighting for child welfare, the subject of his new memoir.

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Treating anxiety has become a cottage industry

September 14, 2023 Education, Mental Health, Think

Julie Wernau of The Wall Street Journal joins host Krys Boyd to discuss why strategies to combat stressors are popular—but sometimes clinically untested.

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In math, there are no dumb questions

August 30, 2023 Education, Science and Technology

Eugenia Cheng joins guest host Courtney Collins to discuss why we should approach math education as a journey of imagination, and why there are no dumb questions in the search for answers.

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How big state schools spend all of that tuition

August 25, 2023 Economics, Education

Wall Street Journal higher education reporter Melissa Korn joins host Krys Boyd to discuss a look into 50 flagship state universities and how inflows of cash are not necessarily benefiting students – and how those schools justify their decisions.

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The dream the Taliban couldn’t kill

August 24, 2023 Education, Global Issues

Sola Mahfouz is a quantum computing researcher at Tufts University Quantum Information Group. She joins host Krys Boyd to discuss her life in Afghanistan under the Taliban and her daring escape to the U.S. for a more fulfilling life.

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Want to strengthen your brain? Learn another language

August 2, 2023 Education, Language, Mental Health

Viorica Marian is a professor of psychology at Northwestern University. She explains why she believes we all have the capacity to be multilingual and how that affects the ways we perceive the world.

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The real beneficiaries of affirmative action

July 7, 2023 Culture, Current Events, Education, Race/Identity

Writer Bertrand Cooper makes the case that race-conscious admissions by universities frequently benefit students who are already from elite backgrounds and that it’s time to also consider socioeconomic status.

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What Holocaust education misses

May 8, 2023 Education, History, Race/Identity

Dara Horn joins host Krys Boyd to discuss why focusing on the atrocities of WWII hasn’t stopped growing antisemitism today – and to offer ways we need to expand education about Jewish life to combat it.

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The science, culture, and history of periods

April 27, 2023 Education, Health

Anthropology professor Kate Clancy joins Krys Boyd to discuss the science of periods, reproductive health, and the ways we hide this simple fact of nature from daily life.

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How learning a new skill helps you appreciate mastery

April 14, 2023 Education, Mental Health

New Yorker staff writer Adam Gopnik joins us to discuss what it takes to master a skill and to explain why the real benefit comes not in becoming a virtuoso but, rather, in just forcing your brain to try something hard.

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