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Hakeem Oluseyi performs at the I F-ing Love Science Channel event

The Cosmologist who left the streets behind

April 25, 2022 Culture, Education, Race/Identity, Science and Technology

Hakeem Oluseyi joins host Krys Boyd to talk about his early life, when he struggled with inequality, poverty and addiction, and how he found his way out by studying the stars.

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Art can open our minds to new solutions

March 28, 2022 Culture, Education

Amy E. Herman explains her method for training leaders to look to works of art to mend what’s broken in their organizations.

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The power of banned books

March 3, 2022 Education, Literature

Kate Cohen considers why naming books as illicit increases demand, and why that means the written word still resonates with today’s youth.

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What do we really know about spacetime?

February 16, 2022 Education, Science and Technology

Adam Becker joins us to discuss theories about the space-time continuum and why they are important if we want to achieve a much deeper understanding of how the universe works.

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The pressure to act happy when your child has special needs

February 9, 2022 Education, Health, Mental Health

Heather Lanier joins us to discuss the personal struggles she faces parenting her daughter, a child with a very rare genetic disorder, while navigating a world that expects parents to raise high-achieving children.

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Why day care centers are on the verge of collapse

December 8, 2021 Current Events, Economics, Education

Bloomberg Businessweek columnist Claire Suddath explains why daycare centers struggle with staffing and profit margins, and why, despite the demand, the industry is struggling to survive.

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Brandon Fleming instructs a class.

From Drug Dealer To Harvard Debate Coach

November 5, 2021 Education, Mental Health, Race/Identity

Brandon P. Fleming joins us to discuss his childhood surrounded by poverty and crime, his dreams shattered by injury, and his ultimate redemption, which he found in teaching himself and others to be express themselves.

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How To Become More Open-Minded

October 22, 2021 Culture, Education

Wharton School organizational psychologist Adam Grant joins us to talk about how sometimes growth comes through unlearning ideas we’ve always thought to be true.

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School classroom with school desks and blackboard

Teach students to think for themselves

October 19, 2021 Education, Think

José Antonio Bowen talks about why he believes education doesn’t do enough to foster independent thinking and why he’d rewrite the 3 R’s to relationships, resilience and reflection.

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How to lie with maps

October 6, 2021 Culture, Education, Environment, Science and Technology, Think

New York Times editorial board member Greg Bensinger joins us to discuss the gaps between what maps represent and real-life knowledge.

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Why Men Are Skipping College

September 29, 2021 Education, Think

Wall Street Journal reporter Douglas Belkin joins us to discuss the widening gap between men and women in higher education.

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School classroom with school desks and blackboard

Fictional Teens Vs. Real-Life Monsters

September 22, 2021 Education, History, Literature, Race/Identity

Author and educator Liza Wiemer joins us to talk about her YA novel featuring students who must use Nazi propaganda in a debate, the courage it takes for two teenagers to confront anti-Semitism, and the real-life examples the author drew from.

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