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July 22, 2024 - Gautam Mukunda | Anthea Butler | Ben Burgis
Background Briefing with Ian Masters - July 22, 2024 20:05 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 551 ratingsHow the Most Important Hire in the World Has Been Made With, Good, Bad and Ugly Consequences | The Vice Presidential Sweepstakes and the Importance of Swing States | A Democratic Party Reborn backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
July 21, 2024 - Jennifer Mercieca | Will Bunch | Jacob Silverman
Background Briefing with Ian Masters - July 21, 2024 17:13 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 551 ratingsThe Gulf Between Rhetoric and Reality As One Presidential Candidate Drones on Disavowing his Plans While the Other is in a Bunker Not Listening | A Recap of the Republican Convention and What it Tells Us About a Future Trump Presidency | How a Handful of Tech Billionaires Are Poised to Enact Thei...
July 18, 2024 - Alexander Stille | Samuel Moyn | Jacob Heilbrunn
Background Briefing with Ian Masters - July 18, 2024 21:14 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 551 ratingsMounting Pressure From Democratic Leaders on Biden to Step Down Could Overwhelm His Stubbornness | Beyond Biden, America Has a Problem With Gerontocracy | Doubling Down on America First, the Trump/Vance Ticket Will Undermine Democracy and the Rule of Law at Home and Abroad backgroundbriefing.org/...
Chris Baines
Tree Lady Talks - July 18, 2024 19:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsSend us a Text Message. Chris Baines is one of the UK’s leading independent environmentalists. He trained as a horticulturalist at Wye College, Kent and then as a landscape architect in Birmingham. He is an award-winning writer and broadcaster, presented what is considered to be the first env...
Episode 222: What's the Definition of a "Modern Zookeeper"? (with Shane Gorbett)
The TEC Talk Podcast: Presented by Natural Encounters, Inc. - July 18, 2024 09:00 - 1 hourWith Ari away at the IAATE Midyear Meeting, Chris is joined by fellow ABMA Board Member and animal behavior podcaster, Shane Gorbett, to attempt to answer this question: how do we define a "modern zookeeper"? If you have a shout-out you’d like us to share, a question or a topic you’d like us t...
July 17, 2024 - Joshua Shifrinson | Joe Conason
Background Briefing with Ian Masters - July 17, 2024 20:28 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 551 ratingsJ.D. Vance's Foreign Policy Views Plus Trump's Ties to Putin Spell Doom For Ukraine | 75 Years of Rightwing Conmen, Quacks and Charlatans Making Money Attacking Liberals, Influencing the Wider Political Landscape and Moving the Country to the Right backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmas...
July 16, 2024 - Harold Meyerson | Tom LoBianco | Dr. Tatsiana Kulakevich
Background Briefing with Ian Masters - July 16, 2024 21:24 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 551 ratingsThe Disconnect at the RNC Between Trump's Call For Unity and Partisan Speeches From MAGA Warriors | Republicans Pretend to Love Workers While Biden Loses Support Except For Unions | What is Behind Chinese Soldiers Drilling on the Border With Poland and Ukraine? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitt...
July 15, 2024 - Geoffrey Kabaservice | Michael Greenberger | Kim Lane Scheppele
Background Briefing with Ian Masters - July 15, 2024 21:35 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 551 ratingsTrump's Judge Dismisses the Most Winnable Case Against Him Taking Her Cue From Justice Thomas | J.D. Vance, the Authoritarian Brains Behind a Trump Dictatorship | Orban Has Invited China Into Europe as He Acts as a Courier For Secret Messages From Putin and Xi to Trump backgroundbriefing.org/dona...
July 14, 2024 - Robert Baer | Sean Wilentz | Jared Yates Sexton
Background Briefing with Ian Masters - July 14, 2024 17:34 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 551 ratingsAssassinations That Changed the World or Might Have Changed the World | America's Historical Legacy of Presidential Assassinations and Attempted Assassinations | The Inciter of Political Violence Now Calls For Unity as He Moves Closer to Joining the Illiberal Club of the World's Despots and Klept...
Sarah Dodd, Tree Law
Tree Lady Talks - July 13, 2024 13:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsSend us a Text Message. Sarah Dodd, the Tree Hugging Lawyer, discusses various legal aspects related to trees, including neighboring tree disputes, subsidence, and tree preservation orders. She explains the legal rights and responsibilities of tree owners and neighboring landowners, as well as ...
Our Moon
KGNU - How On Earth - July 12, 2024 03:53 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsIn this episode, we talk with journalist and author Rebecca Boyle about her book Our Moon – How Earth’s Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are. We discuss how the Moon impacts all aspects of our lives including the creation of life. It is a key compon...
July 7, 2024 - Gil Duran | Arash Azizi
Background Briefing with Ian Masters - July 11, 2024 21:16 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 551 ratingsA Former Press Secretary to Kamala Harris on Who Could Best Beat Trump as Divisions Among Democrats Intensify While Republicans Can't Get Enough of Their Candidate's Depravity and Dementia | An Assessment of the So-Called Reformist President of Iran and What He Means For Women, Life, Freedom back...
Episode 221: A Journalist's Guide to Training the Human Animal (with Amy Sutherland)
The TEC Talk Podcast: Presented by Natural Encounters, Inc. - July 11, 2024 09:00 - 1 hourWell, this one is certainly a blast from the past! On this episode, we are extremely excited to welcome journalist and author, Amy Sutherland! Chris first met Amy 21 years ago (!) when she came to spend time with him and his classmates at Moorpark College's (then-named) Exotic Animal Training an...
July 10, 2024 - Christopher Whipple | Bhaskar Sunkara | Elle Reeve
Background Briefing with Ian Masters - July 10, 2024 19:24 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 551 ratingsInsight Into Biden's Inner Circle Resisting Growing Calls For Him to Step Down | Shifting the Focus to Trump and His Scary GOP Party Platform | A Journalist Who Has Taken on the Nazis at Charlottesville and Was at Risk Inside the Angry Mob That Stormed the Capitol On Trump's Far-Right Capture of ...
J. P. Mallory: Indo-Europeans found?
Razib Khan's Unsupervised Learning - July 10, 2024 18:17 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 175 ratingsOn this episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib welcomes back a returning guest, J. P. Mallory, to discuss his reaction to the recent preprint The Genetic Origin of the Indo-Europeans. Mallory is the author of In Search of the Indo-Europeans: Language, Archaeology, and Myth, The Oxford Introduct...
July 9, 2024 - Bill Scher | James Goldgeier | Natalie Melnyczuk
Background Briefing with Ian Masters - July 09, 2024 21:24 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 551 ratingsAs Biden and the Democrats Circle the Wagons, Concerns Persist in the Rest of the Country, Meanwhile Trump Gets a Free Pass in the Media | The 75th Anniversary of NATO at a Washington Summit Concerned About Biden and Afraid Trump Could be Reelected | While NATO is Not Ready For Ukraine to Join, W...
July 8, 2024 - Simon Rosenberg | David Andelman | Francis Kagaru
Background Briefing with Ian Masters - July 08, 2024 21:56 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 551 ratingsBiden's Defiance As We Learn a Parkinson's Expert Visited the White House 8 Times in 8 Months | The Far Right Comes in Third In France as Le Pen Joins Forces With Orban to Form the Third Largest Bloc in the European Parliament | An Update From Kenya on the Bloody Demonstrations Against a Governme...
July 7, 2024 - Rick Perlstein | Andrew Feinberg | David Schultz
Background Briefing with Ian Masters - July 07, 2024 17:06 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 551 ratingsShould Biden Follow the Example of George Washington? | The Washington Gerontocracy | Will a Fresh Face Bring Back Younger Democratic Voters? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Julian Forbes-Laird
Tree Lady Talks - July 05, 2024 16:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsSend us a Text Message. In this conversation, Sharon and Julian discuss the concept of biodiversity net gain and its unintended consequences, particularly in relation to the classification of veteran trees. They highlight the discrepancy between the definition of veteran trees in the National P...
July 4, 2024 - Sarah Churchwell | Lawrence Douglas
Background Briefing with Ian Masters - July 04, 2024 18:21 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 551 ratingsA View From Abroad as Biden Stands Between the Survival of Global Democracy and the Rule of Law and Dictatorship | Even If Biden Could be Convinced to Step Down Soon, He Would Be Making Himself a Lame Duck President backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmasters...
Episode 220: We're Scientists! We're Doing It! We're Doing the Thing! (with Jeremiah Shon)
The TEC Talk Podcast: Presented by Natural Encounters, Inc. - July 04, 2024 09:00 - 53 minutesYou know what they say: you send Chris and Ari an email, you end up on the podcast. We're super happy to welcome Jeremiah Shon from John Ball Zoo to the show! Jeremiah is a recent NEI workshop attendee who reached out to share some cool training stuff that he and his team have been doing with th...
July 3, 2024 - Sam Rosenfeld | James Henry
Background Briefing with Ian Masters - July 03, 2024 20:14 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 551 ratingsA Historical Assessment of How the Major Political Parties Have Become Hollow Shells | Will the Conviction of a Former Trump Business Partner Who Laundered Millions Into Trump Real Estate Revive the Trump/Russia Collusion? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ian...
When Scientists Take to the Streets
SAPIENS: A Podcast for Everything Human - July 03, 2024 06:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 196 ratingsMaría Pía Tavella is an Argentine biological anthropologist and science writer. In conversation with host Eshe Lewis, María shares a snapshot of the multiple hurdles the scientific community is facing in Argentina and reflects on the role of science communication. How is scientific rese...
“Compostable” Product Truths & Lies
KGNU - How On Earth - July 02, 2024 22:10 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsMaking “Compostable” Products Truly Compostable (start time: 0:56) You’ve probably wracked your brain at some point trying to figure out whether the compostable-labelled clamshell or the green-tinted plastic cup you got at a restaurant is truly compostable. Many products contain misleading and ...
July 2, 2024 - Robert Hockett | Charles Kupchan | Abner Greene
Background Briefing with Ian Masters - July 02, 2024 20:13 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 551 ratingsThe Supreme Court Has Handed the Criminal Trump a Loaded Gun, Might Biden Also Use it? | How the Shift to the Right in Europe Could Impact the War in Ukraine | The Other Alarming SCOTUS Decision Overshadowed by the Ruling to Give Trump a License to Kill backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/i...
Sean Anthony: the Muhammad of history
Razib Khan's Unsupervised Learning - July 02, 2024 14:56 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 175 ratingsOn this episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib talks to professor Sean Anthony about his book Muhammad and the Empires of Faith: The Making of the Prophet of Islam. Anthony is a historian in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at The Ohio State University. He earned his Ph.D. w...
July 1, 2024 - Jeremi Suri | Lisa Gilbert | Philippe Marliere
Background Briefing with Ian Masters - July 01, 2024 22:13 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 551 ratingsIn the Service of a President Convicted of Crimes, the Supreme Court Allows Presidents to Commit Crimes | Hope in Dark Times as Many Americans Reel From the One-Two Punch of Biden's Debate Performance and Today's Supreme Court Ruling | Alarming Gains by the French Far Right as the Left and Center...
June 30, 2024 - Robert Kuttner | Richard Parker | Allan Lichtman
Background Briefing with Ian Masters - June 30, 2024 17:11 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 551 ratingsIf Biden is Lucky to Be Running Against Trump and Not a Younger Candidate, Does That Mean The Republicans Would be Worse Off Against a Younger Democratic Candidate? | The Impact of Biden's Disastrous Debate on the Democratic Down-Ticket | "Foolhardy Nonsense" Coming From Pundits, the Press, and A...
June 27, 2024 - Aaron Rupar | John Ganz | Thomas Zeitzoff
Background Briefing with Ian Masters - June 27, 2024 19:33 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 551 ratingsWhy Do More Americans in Swing States Think Trump is Better For Democracy? The Answer Might be the Local Influence of Sinclair Broadcast Group | How We Arrived at a Moment Where a Reality TV Right Wing Populist Captured One of America's Two Major Political Parties | The Author of Nasty Politics: ...
Episode 219: Positivity and Leadership in a Field of "Cultures of Silence"
The TEC Talk Podcast: Presented by Natural Encounters, Inc. - June 27, 2024 17:57 - 46 minutesOur hosts dig into all forms of media - print, social, and electronic - to discuss the challenge of "cultures of silence" in the zoo field (which, we beg your pardon, involves us repeating a little salty language), and chat about some good advice about how positivity and leadership behaviors can...
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