Beste University Press podcasts (2025)

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1869, Ep. 167 w/ Robyn Klingler-Vidra & Ramon Pacheco Pardo, authors of Startup Capitalism 34:54

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Learn more about Startup Capitalism (and use promo code 09POD to save 30%):https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501781391/startup-capitalism/Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/Tmx6NA_VRaCB-WSUO1lIHbWfO9c?utm_source=copy_urlRobyn Klingler-Vidra is Reader in Entrepreneurship and Sustainability at King's Business School, King's College London.Ram…

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Christopher Hanscom, "Impossible Speech: The Politics of Representation in Contemporary Korean Literature and Film" (Columbia UP, 2024) 1:11:14

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How does art engage with its social context? What does 'the politics of art' even mean? In his new book Impossible Speech: The Politics of Representation in Contemporary Korean Literature and Film (Columbia University Press, 2023), Christopher P. Hanscom takes on these questions in the context of contemporary Korean literature. Moving away from rea…

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Is aggression inevitable? 57:21

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“There is no such thing as a raw, natural, aggressive urge that underlies human violence. While we inherit defense mechanisms, they work only when triggered culturally.” So opens John Protevi’s Regimes of Violence: Toward a Political Anthropology, which takes as its biocultural basis that social practices shape our bodies and minds, and analyzes hu…

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1869, Ep. 166 with Andrew Ofstehage, author of Welcome to Soylandia 27:03

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Learn more about Welcome to Soylandia (and use promo code 09POD to save 30%):https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501780233/welcome-to-soylandiaTranscript: https://otter.ai/u/8TCrPkBnKy2b52Fo2o7NCxkmKfE?utm_source=copy_urlAndrew Ofstehage is Program Coordinator of the Global Academy at North Carolina State University.We spoke to Andrew abo…

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James B. Haile III, "The Dark Delight of Being Strange: Black Stories of Freedom" (Columbia UP, 2024) 1:18:30

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An ambitious genre-crossing exploration of Black speculative imagination, The Dark Delight of Being Strange: Black Stories of Freedom (Columbia University Press 2024) combines fiction, historical accounts, and philosophical prose to unveil the extraordinary and the surreal in everyday Black life. In a series of stories and essays, James B. Haile, I…

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The rural Midwest, foreign policy, and the ways we do history 1:07:14

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Scholars have long challenged the common assumption of midwestern isolationism. In Global Heartland, historian Peter Simons reorients the way we look at the critical period in US history from the 1930s through 1950s, showing how farmers across the Midwest understood their work as contributing to an era of international upheaval, geographical reimag…

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1869, Ep. 165 with Rochelle Rojas, author of Bad Christians and Hanging Toads 22:24

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Learn more about Bad Christians and Hanging Toads (and use promo code 09POD to save 30%):https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501779718/bad-christians-and-hanging-toads/Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/CnB_Cc_KV636TZN-ChfDW0A8OGw?utm_source=copy_urlRochelle Rojas is Assistant Professor of History at Kalamazoo College.We spoke to Rochelle abo…

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Ruth Asawa 20:47

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A conversation with Janet Bishop, co-curator of the exhibition Ruth Asawa: Retrospective.Door Yale University Press

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Why everyone is getting the Bryce Underwood spring game performance wrong 47:08

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Spring football is in the books, and all that anyone can talk about is Michigan football quarterback Bryce Underwood, who made his debut at the Big House last weekend in the spring game. It wasn't smooth sailing for the highly-touted freshman, but the Belleville product showed flashes of why he is so exciting. Tony and Andrew open the show by answe…

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Judith Butler and Talia Mae Bettcher talk philosophy, personhood, resistance 46:46

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Talia Mae Bettcher’s Beyond Personhood provides an entirely new philosophical approach to trans experience, trans oppression, gender dysphoria, and the relationship between gender and identity. Arguing that the tense relation between trans oppression and resistance is mediated through the complex social phenomenon of gender make-believe, Bettcher i…

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Howard Chiang, "After Eunuchs: Science, Medicine, and the Transformation of Sex in Modern China" (Columbia UP, 2018) 1:12:47

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Howard Chiang’s new book is a masterful study of the relationship between sexual knowledge and Chinese modernity. After Eunuchs: Science, Medicine, and the Transformation of Sex in Modern China (Columbia University Press, 2018) guides readers through the history of eunuchs in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the techniques of visualization t…

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1869, Ep. 164 with Andrew Mertha, author of Bad Lieutenants 30:51

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Read Bad Lieutenants for FREE here: (use promo code 09POD to save 30% on the print edition): https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501781025/bad-lieutenants/#bookTabs=1Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/a8G8EDW_TZoMrgdZUjox_q2LKt4?utm_source=copy_urlAndrew Mertha is the George and Sadie Hyman Professor of China Studies and Director of the Schoo…

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Thinking elementally, from the microbe to the vast seafloor 50:52

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"Infrastructure is invisible until it breaks." How do we visualize something that cannot be physically seen? What limitations do existing knowledge structures impose that reverberate through planetary problem-solving processes, including public health and environmental crises? This episode brings together two scholars who think elementally: Lisa Y…

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Bin Yang, "Discovered But Forgotten: The Maldives in Chinese History, C. 1100-1620" (Columbia UP, 2024) 41:30

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Chinese travelers first made their way to the Maldives in the Indian Ocean in the 14th century, looking for goods like coconuts, cowries, and ambergris. That started centuries of travel to the islands, including one trip by famed sailor Zheng He. Then, quickly, the Maldives—and the broader Indian Ocean—vanished as Ming China turned inward. Bin Yang…

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What to make of Michigan basketball's transfer portal moves? Plus, recapping Year 1 under Dusty May and spring football update 43:15

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It wasn't the dream ending anyone in Ann Arbor hoped for, but it sure was a successful season. Michigan basketball was knocked out of the Sweet 16 of the NCAA tournament in Year 1 under Dusty May after looking like it might have just enough to outlast Auburn. That all came crashing down in the second half, as the Wolverines watched the Tigers hit o…

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Becky Yang Hsu, "The Extraordinary in the Mundane: Family and Forms of Community in China" (Columbia UP, 2024) 49:00

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How do individuals address serious challenges in a context where organized gatherings are subject to strict government control? This new edited volume brings together a diverse group of scholars to explore the many ways people in China self-organize and create varied forms of coordination to solve important problems. Through compelling, detail-rich…

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1869, Ep. 163 w/ Joe Meisel, author of The Marlin's Fiery Eye 32:09

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Learn more about The Marlin's Fiery Eye and Other Tales from the Extraordinary World of Marine Fishes (and use promo code 09POD to save 30%):https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501779442/the-marlins-fiery-eye-and-other-tales-from-the-extraordinary-world-of-marine-fishes/#bookTabs=1Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/i-YdpPrFoX17S5AGbb6rguNuXVk…

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1869, Ep. 162 with Ipek Celik Rappas, author of Filming in European Cities 25:15

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Learn more about Filming in European Cities (and use promo code 09POD to save 30%) here:https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501779985/filming-in-european-cities/#bookTabs=1Ipek Celik Rappas is Associate Professor in Media and Visual Arts at Koç University, Istanbul. Her research explores media and marginalized communities in Europe, and t…

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Coral and coralations with Melody Jue and Ann Elias 39:43

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There's living coral, and then there's Coral—the iconicity and imaginary of living coral. As Melody Jue writes in Coralations, coral alternates between signifying an organism and signifying an environment, all too often imagined as a tourist destination. In rethinking the limitations of Coral, Jue opens up possibilities for a more expansive sense o…

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J.M.W. Turner and John Constable 36:00

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A conversation with Nicola Moorby, author of a new dual biography of the painters.Door Yale University Press

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Bin Yang, "Discovered But Forgotten: The Maldives in Chinese History, C. 1100-1620" (Columbia UP, 2024) 50:14

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Discovered but Forgotten: The Maldives in Chinese History, c.1100-1620 (Columbia UP, 2024) examines China's maritime activities in the Indian Ocean, especially as they relate to the Maldives. By weaving together the accounts of a 14th-century Chinese traveler (Wang Dayuan) to the archipelago, archaeological analysis of shipwrecks, maps by both the …

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Michigan is in the Sweet 16! Previewing Auburn game and potential matchup with MSU 45:54

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Michigan basketball is red-hot. After winning the Big Ten tournament, the Wolverines went to Denver for the opening weekend of the NCAA tournament and when the big moments came calling, the Wolverines had all the answers. Andrew and Tony open the show by discussing Michigan's wins over UC San Diego in the first round and Texas A&M in the second rou…

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Book Chat: "A Taiwanese Eco-Literature Reader" with Ian Rowen 24:50

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In this episode, our host, Ti-han, invited one of her co-editors, Dr Ian Rowen, to talk about their forthcoming book publication, A Taiwanese Eco-literature Reader, soon to be published by Columbia University Press. This anthology brings together translations of nine compelling stories from Taiwan, examining Taiwan’s most vibrant literary genre and…

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Super 100th Spectacular! 2:01:06

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University of Minnesota Press, est. 1925, turns 100 this year. Yes, we are twice as old as Saturday Night Live. And just as old as The New Yorker and The Great Gatsby. The Press has had only five directors in its history, and many current staff have been on for more than a few decades. How about another serendipitous milestone: this podcast, est. 2…

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Was Michigan basketball robbed by NCAA committee? And how far can Wolverines go? 48:07

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What a weekend for the Wolverines! After stumbling to the finish line in the regular season, Dusty May's Michigan squad recaptured its magic in Indianapolis and rode it all the way to a Big Ten tournament title. But was it worth it for the Wolverines? Tony and Andrew open the show by talking about how the Wolverines got back on track and the eventf…

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Yingyao Wang, "Markets with Bureaucratic Characteristics: How Economic Bureaucrats Make Policies and Remake the Chinese State" (Columbia UP, 2024) 49:26

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China’s breathtaking economic development has been driven by bureaucrats. Even as the country transitioned away from socialist planning toward a market economy, the economic bureaucracy retained a striking degree of influence and control over crafting and implementing policy. Yet bureaucrats are often dismissed as faceless and inconsequential, thei…

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1869, Ep. 161 with Rachel Midura, author of Postal Intelligence 25:46

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Download and read the FREE open access ebook edition of Postal Intelligence here:https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501779930/postal-intelligence/#bookTabs=1Use promo code 09POD to save 30% on Postal Intelligence:https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501779923/postal-intelligence/#bookTabs=1In the UK, use promo code CSANNOUNCE he…

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Can Michigan recapture magic before tournament time? Plus, what to make of Tre Holloman's push 44:50

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After a mostly awesome season, Michigan basketball appears to be limping into one-and-done time. The Wolverines lost their last three games of the regular season to Illinois, Maryland and Michigan State, where the story became a push from Tre Holloman in the final seconds. It's certainly not how the Wolverines wanted the season to end, but the grea…

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1869, Ep. 160 with Mark Cruse, author of The Mongol Archive in Late Medieval France 28:57

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Learn more about The Mongol Archive in Late Medieval France (and use promo code 09POD to save 30%) here:https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501779350/the-mongol-archive-in-late-medieval-france/#bookTabs=1Transcript here:https://otter.ai/u/DpQJjWenDkr-igT1sysHk231FD4?utm_source=copy_urlMark Cruse is Associate Professor of French at Arizona…

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Lea David, "A Victim's Shoe, a Broken Watch, and Marbles: Desire Objects and Human Rights"(Columbia UP, 2025) 1:17:09

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Everyday items found at the sites of atrocities possess a striking emotional force. Victims’ garments, broken glasses, wallets, shoes, and other such personal property that are recovered from places of death including concentration camps, mass graves, and prisons have become staples of memorial museums, exhibited to the public as material testimony…

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Playhouses and the architecture of childhood. 1:11:06

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Between the 1850s and 1930s, before playhouses for children reached the mainstream, they were often fully functional cottages designed by well-known architects for British royalty, American industrialists, and Hollywood stars. Recognizing the playhouse in this era as a stage for the purposeful performance of upper-class identity, Abigail A. Van Sly…

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Michigan basketball's Big Ten title hopes all come down to this week 41:43

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Plain and simple, Michigan basketball is not playing its best with just two games left in the season. The Wolverines have flashed some of the highest highs in college basketball this season, but even as Dusty May's squad has still found ways to win, it hasn't always been pretty. That finally caught up to the Wolverines on Sunday, who were run out o…

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1869, Ep. 159 with Nitzan Lebovic, author of Homo Temporalis 31:09

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Learn more about Homo Temporalis (and use promo code 09POD to save 30%) here:https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501779565/homo-temporalis/#bookTabs=1Transcript here:https://otter.ai/u/_Mgs3D1W3XxriagGe4E6Sy-7nEg?utm_source=copy_urlNitzan Lebovic is Professor of History and Apter Chair of Holocaust Studies and Ethical Values at Lehigh Uni…

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1869, Ep. 158 w/ Rachel Chin & Samuel Huneke, editors of Reimagining Citizenship in Postwar Europe 31:12

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Download and read the FREE open access ebook edition of Reimagining Citizenship in Postwar Europe here:https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501779206/reimagining-citizenship-in-postwar-europe/#bookTabs=1Use promo code 09POD to save 30% on Reimagining Citizenship in Postwar Europe:https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501779190/reim…

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Michigan and Michigan State set for epic battle: Here’s what you need to know 41:43

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What is this the 2010s? It sure feels like it in the college basketball world, when the Big Ten title often ran through whoever came out on top between the Spartans and Wolverines. More and more, that’s looking like it’ll be the case this year as the Wolverines and Spartans sit in first and second place in the conference respectively. To start the …

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“I want to be a living work of art”: On the Marchesa Luisa Casati 49:03

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“If the public can predict you, it starts to like you. But the Marchesa didn’t want to be liked.” For the first three decades of the twentieth century, the Marchesa Luisa Casati astounded Europe. Artists such as Man Ray painted, sculpted, and photographed her; writers such as Ezra Pound and Jack Kerouac praised her strange beauty. An Italian woman …

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Is Michigan basketball the Big Ten favorite after beating Purdue? 43:18

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After Michigan basketball came out on top in an epic game against Purdue on Tuesday to take the lead in the Big Ten, Tony and Andrew are joined by Free Press sports columnist Shawn Windsor, who was at the Purdue game, to discuss how the Wolverines pulled out the crazy win. The guys talk about what makes this Michigan team unique and how they keep c…

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Sunila S. Kale and Christian Lee Novetzke, "The Yoga of Power: Political Thought and Practice in India" (Columbia UP, 2025) 54:58

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In Indian languages from Sanskrit to Marathi, yoga has an enormous range of meanings, though most often it refers to philosophy or methods to control the mind and body. The Yoga of Power: Political Thought and Practice in India (Columbia UP, 2025) argues for a wider understanding, demonstrating that yoga has long expressed political thought and pra…

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Seungsook Moon, "Civic Activism in South Korea: The Intertwining of Democracy and Neoliberalism" (Columbia UP, 2024) 1:09:33

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Dr. Seungsook Moon’s Civic Activism in South Korea: The Intertwining of Democracy and Neoliberalism was published by Columbia University Press in July 2024. She provides in-depth qualitative studies of three different types of organizations to show how civic organizations that emerged from the democratization movement with a conscious emphasis on s…

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Authors in Conversation, Ep. 8 — Benjamin Coates & Kazushi Minami discuss People's Diplomacy 52:39

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Welcome to the eighth episode of Authors in Conversation, a podcast from the series editors of the United States in the World series from Cornell University Press. This episode features Wake Forest University professor Benjamin Coates (co-editor of the United States in the World series) speaking with Osaka University professor Kazushi Minami about …

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It’s a microbe’s world. We just live in it. 52:47

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Microbes: We can’t see them, but we have no choice but to live with them. Microbes have significant, enduring impacts on human health and remind us to resist the abstraction of crucial forces in our everyday lives. Welcome to a multidisciplinary conversation about microbes, featuring Amber Benezra (Gut Anthro), Gloria Chan-Sook Kim (Microbial Resol…

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The Visual History of Panafricanism 37:40

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Curators and scholars Antawan I. Byrd and Matthew S. Witkovsky discuss the new exhibition and book Project a Black PlanetDoor Yale University Press

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John Beilein, legendary Michigan basketball coach, on the MSU rivalry, Dusty May and how far Wolverines can go this year 30:02

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The Hail Yes crew was thrilled this week to welcome former Michigan basketball coach John Beilein to the show for the first time. Few, if any, can offer the level of insight on the Michigan basketball program that Beilein can, and coming off a clutch late win over Penn State, it was the perfect time to sit down with the former coach. Tony and John …

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Peter Hill, "River Profiles: The People Restoring Our Waterways" (Columbia UP, 2024) 34:12

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Peter Hill has been working as a resource manager with a specialty in stream restoration for over two decades, first for Washington DC and then as a consultant for Great Lakes Watershed Opportunities. Currently, he is Senior Policy Advisor for Green Infrastructure at the Environmental Policy Innovation Center in Milwaukee, WI. His many years of exp…

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1869, Ep. 157 with Felia Allum, author of Women of the Mafia 31:23

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Use promo code 09POD to save 30% on Women of the Mafia:https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501774799/women-of-the-mafia/In the UK, use promo code CSANNOUNCE here:https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/9781501774799/women-of-the-mafia/Transcript here: https://otter.ai/u/66ZHk_WmYWFLUANWFtixUAe64Sc?utm_source=copy_urlFelia Allum is Professor in…

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Dario Fazzi, "Smoke on the Water: Incineration at Sea and the Birth of a Transatlantic Environmental Movement" (Columbia UP, 2023) 50:17

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The U.S. government, military, and industry once saw ocean incineration as the safest and most efficient way to dispose of hazardous chemical waste. Beginning in the late 1960s, toxic chemicals such as PCBs and other harmful industrial byproducts were taken out to sea to be destroyed in specially designed ships equipped with high-temperature combus…

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Michigan basketball's path to upset vs. Purdue: 3 keys and a prediction 25:43

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After an up-and-down week, the Michigan basketball squad will hit the road for its biggest test of the season at Mackey Arena against Purdue on Friday. Both teams should be hungry and desperate for a win as they've both recently suffered frustrating losses and this game will have a big impact on the rest of the Big Ten regular season. Tony and Andr…

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Our shared needs connect us: Writers respond to the science of animal conservation. 44:16

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Humans are one species on a planet of millions of species. The literary collection Creature Needs is a project that grew out of a need to do something with grievous, anxious energy—an attempt to nourish the soul in a meaningful way, and an attempt to start somewhere specific in the face of big, earthly challenges and changes, to create a polyvocal …

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Pierre Sokolsky, "The Clock in the Sun: How We Came to Understand Our Nearest Star" (Columbia UP, 2024) 54:01

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On the surface of the Sun, spots appear and fade in a predictable cycle, like a great clock in the sky. In medieval Russia, China, and Korea, monks and court astronomers recorded the appearance of these dark shapes, interpreting them as omens of things to come. In Western Europe, by contrast, where a cosmology originating with Aristotle prevailed, …

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Bruce Lieberman and Niles Eldredge, "Macroevolutionaries: Reflections on Natural History, Paleontology, and Stephen Jay Gould" (Columbia UP, 2024) 40:54

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One of the twentieth century's great paleontologists and science writers, Stephen Jay Gould was, for Bruce S. Lieberman and Niles Eldredge, also a close colleague and friend. In Macroevolutionaries: Reflections on Natural History, Paleontology, and Stephen Jay Gould (Columbia UP, 2024), they take up the tradition of Gould's acclaimed essays on natu…

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