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1) The Plague Year
https://repository.library.northeastern.edu/files/neu:ww72bc39w/audio.mp3 It’s been an entire year since the pandemic hit with full force, an anniversary that gives us a chance to reflect on what we h...Show More
2) Connecting Through Stories
In our fragmented and polarized world, we have few opportunities to talk to people beyond our immediate circle of family, friends, and work. And yet those rare conversations with others can have a pos...Show More
3) The Women Writers Project
Since the dawn of the printing press, women have written and published works of prose, poetry, science, and philosophy, and yet these texts have almost always received less attention than books writte...Show More
4) Interviewing Pop Stars
As listeners of popular music, we can’t help but wonder: What is it like to be up there on that stage, playing for thousands of fans? And what is the creative process like behind the scenes? We’...Show More
5) Young Researchers on the Environment, Energy, and Cancer
Our first episode of 2021 features the winners of the Three-Minute Thesis Contest at Northeastern University, sponsored by the Graduate Women in Science and Engineering and the Northeastern University...Show More
6) Data and Public Health
It is far too early to understand what happened in this historic year of 2020, but not too soon to grasp what we will write that history from: data—really big data. Dan was recently on an extremely re...Show More
7) Identity and Self-confidence
There has been a notable change in the view of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, and other queer people in the United States, with growing social acceptance. But there remain struggles with identity in t...Show More
8) The Great News Divide
The 2020 election is finally over in the United States, but the polarization of the country continues to grow. We used to be a nation that read the same papers and watched the same evening news progra...Show More
9) The Last Kings of Shanghai
We have long been told that this will be the Chinese century, as the most populous nation in the world achieves economic dominance and as it extends its political influence across the globe. But that ...Show More
10) The World Health Organization and Pandemics
This year, as the global pandemic rapidly spread, President Trump took the extraordinary step of withdrawing the United States from the World Health Organization. There was a fierce backlash to this d...Show More