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Diplomats & Admirals
August 15, 2023 18:20 - 47 minutes - 32.9 MBLinks from the show: * Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway * Connect with Dale * Rate the show About my guest: Dale Jenkins has had a lifelong interest in the Navy and international affairs. He is a former US Navy officer who served on a destroyer in the Pacific, and for a time was home-ported in Yokosuka, Japan. Pacific Fleet commitments took him to ...
Orwell: The New Life
August 11, 2023 18:15 - 41 minutes - 28.4 MBLinks from the show: * Orwell: The New Life * Connect with D.J. * Rate the show About my guest: D. J. Taylor is the author of The Lost Girls; Derby Day (nominated for the Booker Prize); and Orwell: The Life (2003), winner of the Whitbread Biography Award. D. J. is a book critic for several British newspapers and lives in London. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dispatchesfromthewarroom.substack.com
Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy
August 09, 2023 18:10 - 51 minutes - 35.6 MBLinks from the show: * Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy * Connect with Matt Stoller * Follow Matt on Twitter * Subscribe to Matt’s newsletter * Rate the show About my guest: Matt Stoller is the Director of Research at the American Economic Liberties Project. He is the author of the Simon and Schuster book Goliath: The Hundred Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy, which Business Insider called “one of the year’s best books on how to rethink capita...
Fascinating True Tales from Old California
August 07, 2023 18:02 - 43 minutes - 29.9 MBLinks from the show: * Fascinating True Tales from Old California * Connect with Colleen * Rate the show About my guest: Colleen Adair Fliedner is an award-winning author, journalist, and historian. She has written three nonfiction books, radio and t.v. commercials, screenplays, and hundreds of articles for newspapers, magazines, and online publications. She was a staff writer for the Orange County Register newspaper’s online travel website and was a regular contributor for Talking Trav...
American Whitelash: A Changing Nation and the Cost of Progress
August 04, 2023 17:58 - 53 minutes - 36.6 MBLinks from the show: * American Whitelash: A Changing Nation and the Cost of Progress * Connect with Wesley or follow him on Twitter * Rate the show About my guest: Wesley Lowery is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, best selling author, podcast host and on-air correspondent. At The Marshall Project, he is among the team members working on Testify, an unprecedented effort to examine the criminal courts in his hometown of Cleveland, Ohio. At The Washington Post he led a Pulitzer Prize...
Behold the Monster: Confronting America's Most Prolific Serial Killer
July 25, 2023 20:15 - 35 minutes - 24.5 MBLinks from the show: * Behold the Monster: Confronting America's Most Prolific Serial Killer * Connect with Jillian * Rate the show About my guest: Jillian Lauren is a writer, storyteller, adoption advocate, rock-wife, and lousy kickboxer. She is the New York Times bestselling author of the memoirs EVERYTHING YOU EVER WANTED, and SOME GIRLS: My Life in a Harem, and the novel PRETTY. SOME GIRLS, which recounts her time spent in the harem of the Prince of Brunei, has been translated into ...
The Paradox of Debt: A New Path to Prosperity Without Crisis
July 20, 2023 20:25 - 41 minutes - 28.5 MBLinks from the show: * The Paradox of Debt: A New Path to Prosperity Without Crisis * Connect with Richard * Rate the show About my guest: Following a career that has spanned fields as varied as banking, energy, credit, and the arts, Richard Vague has recently served as Secretary of Banking and Securities for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. He is author of numerous books, including An Illustrated Business History of the United States, also available from the University of Pennsylvania...
Burnt: A Memoir of Fighting Fire
July 11, 2023 21:51 - 48 minutes - 33.6 MBLinks from the show: * Burnt: A Memoir of Fighting Fire * Connect with Clare * Rate the show About my guest: Clare Frank served as the State of California’s first and only female Chief of Fire Protection. She began firefighting at age 17 and worked her way through the ranks, handling all types of fire and rescue emergencies and major disasters in both urban and rural settings. Along the way, she earned a spot on an elite state command team, a bachelor’s in fire administration, a law deg...
Bishop Nathanyel
July 10, 2023 21:26 - 1 hour - 56.1 MBLinks from the show: * Connect with Bishop Nathanyel * Rate the show About my guest: Bishop Nathanyel has been in this truth for over 20 years and has learned at the feet of the seven elders of Israel. He has seen many things in this walk. Great things, both good and bad, but each one played a part in molding him into the leader that he is today. He has seen world scholars confounded by this truth. He has seen gangs and drug dealers either change or moved out the way when the gospel was ...
Self-Made: Creating Our Identities from Da Vinci to the Kardashians
June 29, 2023 21:40 - 41 minutes - 28.8 MBLinks from the show: * Self-Made: Creating Our Identities from Da Vinci to the Kardashians * Connect with Tara website or on Twitter * Rate the show About my guest: Tara Isabella Burton's debut novel, 2018's Social Creature, was named a "book of the year" by The New York Times, New York's Vulture, and The Guardian. Her second novel, The World Cannot Give (Simon & Schuster), was published in March 2022. Her third novel, Here in Avalon, will be published by S&S in January 2024.Her first ...
V Is For Victory: Franklin Roosevelt's American Revolution and the Triumph of World War II
June 28, 2023 21:06 - 34 minutes - 24 MB* V Is For Victory: Franklin Roosevelt's American Revolution and the Triumph of World War II * Connect with Craig * Rate the show About my guest: Craig Nelson is the author of Pearl Harbor: From Infamy to Greatness and the New York Times bestseller, Rocket Men: The Epic Story of the First Men on the Moon, as well as several previous books, including The Age of Radiance (a PEN Award Finalist chosen as one of the year’s best books by NBC News, the American Institute of Physics, Kirkus Revi...
A True American Patriot
June 27, 2023 21:17 - 39 minutes - 26.8 MBLinks from the show: * A True American Patriot * Rate the show About my guest: Daniel J. O’Connor has spent twenty-six years in the CIA as an Executive Senior Intelligence Service (SIS) Officer and was the Chief of Security for Five Different CIA Directors of Intelligence (DCI) and their Deputy Directors (DDCI). He served both at home and overseas ensuring that the Directors were protected while they were in office. He had the distinct honor of working with outstanding DCI/DDCI team memb...
The Madman in the White House: Sigmund Freud, Ambassador Bullitt, and the Lost Psychobiography of Woodrow Wilson
June 26, 2023 21:18 - 43 minutes - 30.1 MBLinks from the show: * The Madman in the White House: Sigmund Freud, Ambassador Bullitt, and the Lost Psychobiography of Woodrow Wilson * Connect with Patrick * Rate the show About my guest: Patrick Weil is Oscar M. Ruebhausen Distinguished Fellow at Yale Law School and a research professor at the National Center for Scientific Research in France. The founder and president of Libraries Without Borders, he is the author of The Sovereign Citizen and How to Be French. This is a public epi...
Troublemaker: A Memoir of Sexism, Retaliation, and the Fight They Didn't See Coming
June 22, 2023 21:15 - 52 minutes - 35.7 MBLinks from the show: * Troublemaker: A Memoir of Sexism, Retaliation, and the Fight They Didn't See Coming * Connect with Lisa on Twitter or Instagram * Rate the show About my guest: Lisa Cornwell spent seven years as an on-air host and reporter for Golf Channel, establishing herself as a respected voice in the game. Prior to Golf Channel, she worked in similar roles for the Big Ten Network as well as local affiliates in Mississippi, Tennessee, and Ohio. Lisa is a four-time Arkansas Wom...
The Myth of Overpunishment: A Defense of the American Justice System and a Proposal to Reduce Incarceration While Protecting the Public
June 21, 2023 21:16 - 52 minutes - 35.7 MBLinks from the show: * The Myth of Overpunishment: A Defense of the American Justice System and a Proposal to Reduce Incarceration While Protecting the Public * Is lethal injection humane? With Dr. Austin Sarat * Rate the show About my guest: For over three and a half decades Barry Latzer was Professor of Criminal Justice at John Jay College, CUNY, where he was a member of the Masters’ and Doctoral faculties. He taught courses on criminal justice, criminal law and procedure, state const...
The Rhetorical Road to Brown v. Board of Education: Elizabeth and Waties Waring's Campaign
June 20, 2023 22:10 - 42 minutes - 29.5 MBLinks from the show: * The Rhetorical Road to Brown v. Board of Education: Elizabeth and Waties Waring's Campaign * About my guest: Wanda Little Fenimore is an award-winning scholar and author whose area of expertise is rhetorical history: the study of historical events through a rhetorical lens. Her research focuses on the legacy of slavery in the US South. The Rhetorical Road to Brown v. Board of Education: Elizabeth and Waties Waring’s Campaign (University Press of Mississippi, 2023)...
Derek Lambert with MythVision Podcast
June 19, 2023 17:39 - 54 minutes - 37.5 MBLinks from the show: * MythVision Podcast * Connect with Derek * Rate the show About my guest: Hear more about Derek here. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dispatchesfromthewarroom.substack.com
Mere Natural Law: Originalism and the Anchoring Truths of the Constitution
June 16, 2023 20:30 - 41 minutes - 28.5 MBLinks from the show: * Mere Natural Law: Originalism and the Anchoring Truths of the Constitution * Connect with Hadley * Rate the show About my guest: Hadley Arkes is the Edward Ney Professor of Jurisprudence Emeritus at Amherst College. He joined the Faculty at Amherst in 1966 and taught for 50 years. He is the author of multiple books with Princeton University Press and Cambridge University Press, including The Philosopher in the City (1981), First Things (1986), Beyond the Constitut...
The Failure of American Conservatism: ―And the Road Not Taken
June 15, 2023 19:43 - 49 minutes - 34 MBLinks from the show: * The Failure of American Conservatism: —And the Road Not Taken * Connect with Claes * Rate the show About my guest: Claes G. Ryn is Emeritus Professor of Politics, Distinguished Senior Scholar, and Founding Director Emeritus of the Center for the Study of Statesmanship at the Catholic University of America, where he was also Chairman of his department. His many books include A Common Human Ground, America the Virtuous, Will, Imagination and Reason, Democracy and th...
Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom
June 15, 2023 00:02 - 40 minutes - 27.7 MBLinks from the show: * Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom * Connect with Ilyon * Find Ilyon on Instagram or Facebook * Rate the show About my guest: Ilyon Woo is the author of The Great Divorce: A Nineteenth-Century Mother’s Extraordinary Fight Against Her Husband, the Shakers, and Her Times and the recipient of a Whiting Creative Nonfiction Writing Grant. Her articles have appeared in venues such as The Boston Globe and The Wall Street Journal, and she ...
Games of Greed: Excess, Hubris, Fraud, and Theft on Main Street and Wall Street
June 13, 2023 23:46 - 41 minutes - 47.7 MBLinks from the show: * Games of Greed: Excess, Hubris, Fraud, and Theft on Main Street and Wall Street * Connect with Torsten * Rate the show About my guest: Torsten Dennin has been a professional investment expert for more than 20 years. He is a member of the management board and the Chief Investment Officer (CIO) of Asset Management Switzerland AG. Torsten was appointed Professor of Economics in 2018 and teaches at universities in Switzerland and Germany. After the international bests...
King: A Life
June 12, 2023 22:09 - 41 minutes - 28.5 MBLinks from the show: * King: A Life * Connect with Jonathan About my guest: Jonathan Eig is the bestselling author of Ali: A Life, winner of a 2018 PEN America Literary Award and a finalist for the Mark Lynton History Prize. He also served as a senior consulting producer for the PBS series Muhammad Ali. His first book, Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig, won the Casey Award. Eig’s books have been translated into more than a dozen languages and have been listed among the best...
The Cultural Memory of Georgian Glasgow
June 09, 2023 19:56 - 49 minutes - 33.7 MBAbout my guest: * The Cultural Memory of Georgian Glasgow * Connect with Craig * Rate the show About my guest: Craig Lamont is a graduate of the Universities of Strathclyde and Glasgow, with a diverse background in Creative Writing, English Literature, and Scottish Literature. His AHRC-funded PhD, ‘Georgian Glasgow: the city remembered through literature, objects, and cultural memory theory’ (2015), was an interdisciplinary body of work central to a collaboration between the University ...
Rethinking Life: Embracing the Sacredness of Every Person
June 08, 2023 21:44 - 45 minutes - 31.2 MBLinks from the show: * Rethinking Life: Embracing the Sacredness of Every Person * Connect with Shane * Follow Shane on Twitter * Red Letter Christians * Rate the show About my guest: Shane Claiborne is a prominent speaker, activist, and best-selling author. Shane worked with Mother Teresa in Calcutta, and founded The Simple Way in Philadelphia. He heads up Red Letter Christians, a movement of folks who are committed to living "as if Jesus meant the things he said." Shane is a champ...
Colonial Mississippi: A Borrowed Land
June 07, 2023 22:07 - 54 minutes - 37.5 MBLinks from the show: * Colonial Mississippi: A Borrowed Land * Connect with Christian * Follow Christian on Twitter * Rate the show About my guest: Christian Pinnen is associate professor of history at Mississippi College. His research and teaching focus on the history of race, slavery, and the law in the American colonial borderlands. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dispatchesfromthewarroom.subs...
The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History
June 06, 2023 21:20 - 41 minutes - 28.6 MBLinks from the show: * The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History * Rate the show About my guest: Serhii Plokhy, Mykhailo S. Hrushevs'kyi Professor of Ukrainian History and director of the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University, is a leading authority on the history of the Cold War. He is the author of Atoms and Ashes: A Global History of Nuclear Disasters and Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis, among many other works. He lives in Burlington, Massachuset...
Walking Among Pharaohs: George Reisner and the Dawn of Modern Egyptology
June 05, 2023 15:35 - 46 minutes - 31.8 MBLinks from the show: * Walking Among Pharaohs: George Reisner and the Dawn of Modern Egyptology * Connect with Peter * Rate the show About my guest: Peter Der Manuelian grew up locally but somehow escaped speaking with a Boston accent. He joined both the NELC and Anthropology Departments in 2010, after teaching Egyptology at Tufts University for ten years. He has also been on the curatorial staff of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, since 1987, and held the position of Giza Archives Proj...
The Nicene Creed: An Introduction
June 03, 2023 00:59 - 48 minutes - 33.4 MBLinks from the show: * The Nicene Creed: An Introduction * Never miss an episode * Rate the episode About my guest: Dr. Cary is a philosopher married to a midwife (he thinks about the mysteries of life; she puts her hands on them). He and his wife have three sons and two grandchildren. His favorite theologian is Martin Luther, which means he feels quite comfortable in a high-church Anglican congregation where they love both Word and Sacrament. Dr. Cary loves Luther because he thinks ...
Nihilistic Times: Thinking with Max Weber
June 01, 2023 15:33 - 47 minutes - 32.5 MBLinks from the show: * Nihilistic Times: Thinking with Max Weber * Connect with Wendy * Never miss an episode About my guest: Wendy Brown is a political theorist who works across the history of political thought, political economy, Continental philosophy, cultural theory, and critical legal theory. Brown investigates the subterranean powers shaping contemporary Euroatlantic polities, with particular attention to the political identities, subjectivities, and expressions they spawn. She i...
Who Gets In: An Immigration Story
May 31, 2023 15:29 - 46 minutes - 31.8 MBLinks from the show: * Who Gets In: An Immigration Story * Connect with Norman * Rate the show About my guest: Norman Ravvin’s recent novel, The Girl Who Stole Everything, is his fourth. It sets out to tell divergent stories of contemporary Poland and Vancouver, which end up crossing in a village northwest of Warsaw. In The Globe and Mail Jade Colbert called it one of the best publications of its year from independent presses (see more below). His previous novels include The Joyful Chi...
Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation
May 30, 2023 19:22 - 53 minutes - 36.5 MBLinks from the show: * Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation * Connect with Kristen * Rate the show About my guest: Kristin Kobes Du Mez is a New York Times bestselling author and Professor of History and Gender Studies at Calvin University. She holds a PhD from the University of Notre Dame and her research focuses on the intersection of gender, religion, and politics. She has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, ...
Verissimus: The Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius
May 29, 2023 14:54 - 59 minutes - 40.9 MBLinks from the show: * Verissimus: The Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius * Connect with Donald Roberston * Rate the show * Never miss a show About my guest: Donald is a writer, cognitive-behavioural psychotherapist and trainer. He is one of the founding members of the Modern Stoicism nonprofit, and the founder and president of the Plato’s Academy Centre nonprofit in Athens, Greece. Donald specializes in teaching evidence-based psychological skills, and known as an expert on the rela...
Trained to Kill: The Inside Story of CIA Plots against Castro, Kennedy, and Ch
May 26, 2023 19:20 - 59 minutes - 40.6 MBLinks from the show: * Trained to Kill: The Inside Story of CIA Plots against Castro, Kennedy, and Che * Connect with Carlos * Never miss an episode * Drop a 5-star About my guest: Carlos Harrison is a former reporter for the Miami Herald, where he won the Pulitzer Prize, and has worked as a national and international correspondent for Fox News. He is the author of fourteen books in English and Spanish, and has written numerous magazine articles and award-winning television documentar...
The Salem Witch Trials
May 25, 2023 16:24 - 47 minutes - 32.5 MBLinks from the show: * The Salem Witch Trials: A Day-by-Day Chronicle of a Community Under Siege * Connect with Marilynne * Never miss an episode * Rate the show About my guest: Marilynne K. Roach works as a free-lance writer, illustrator, researcher, and presenter of talks on historical subjects. She has written for publications as varied as the Boston Globe, the New England Historic Genealogical Register, and the Lizzie Borden Quarterly. She is a member of the Gallows Hill Project th...
The Age of Scientific Wellness: Why the Future of Medicine Is Personalized, Predictive, Data-Rich, and in Your Hands
May 24, 2023 14:19 - 50 minutes - 34.7 MBLinks from the show: * The Age of Scientific Wellness: Why the Future of Medicine Is Personalized, Predictive, Data-Rich, and in Your Hands * Connect with Nathan * More about Thorne * Never miss an episode * Rate the show About my guest: Dr. Nathan Price is Chief Scientific Officer of Thorne HealthTech (NASDAQ: THRN) and author of The Age of Scientific Wellness (Harvard Press/Belknap). Previously he was CEO of Onegevity, an AI health intelligence company that merged with Thorne prior ...
Ilse Koch on Trial: Making the “Bitch of Buchenwald”
May 23, 2023 17:56 - 53 minutes - 36.6 MBLinks from the show: * Ilse Koch on Trial: Making the “Bitch of Buchenwald” * Connect with Tomaz * Rate the show * Never miss an episode About my guest: Dr. Tomaz Jardim is a historian of modern Europe who joined the Department of History in 2011. Prior to his arrival at Toronto Metropolitan University, he taught at Concordia University and was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC. Dr. Jardim has taught courses on the World Wars, moder...
The Bible was Written Backwards
May 22, 2023 16:30 - 56 minutes - 38.6 MBLinks from the show: * Watch Matt’s YouTube Channel * Rate the show * Never miss an episode About my guest: I’m Dr. Matt Monger - though I publish under the name Matthew P. Monger. I am Associate Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Literatures at MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion, and Society in Oslo, Norway. I earned my PhD in 2018 with a dissertation on the Dead Sea Scrolls manuscripts containing text from the Book of Jubilees. I have Bachelors and Masters degrees in Th...
The No Self, No Problem Workbook: Exercises & Practices from Neuropsychology and Buddhism to Help You Lose Your Mind
May 19, 2023 17:27 - 50 minutes - 34.9 MBLinks from the show: * The No Self, No Problem Workbook: Exercises & Practices from Neuropsychology and Buddhism to Help You Lose Your Mind * Connect with Chris * Rate the show About my guest: While in grad school in the early 1990s, Chris Niebauer began to notice striking parallels between the latest discoveries in psychology, neuroscience, and the teachings of Buddhism, Taoism, and other schools of Eastern thought. When he presented his findings to a professor, his ideas were quickly ...
William Levi Dawson: American Music Educator
May 18, 2023 14:13 - 46 minutes - 32.1 MBLinks from the show: * William Levi Dawson: American Music Educator * Never miss an episode * Rate the show About my guest: Mark Hugh Malone has taught in Mississippi at Pearl River Community College, William Carey University, the University of Southern Mississippi, and other institutions during his forty-six-year career in education. As curriculum designer for the Mississippi Arts Commission, he has created numerous arts-integrated curricula focused on the Mississippi Blues Trail, Miss...
Black Ball: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Spencer Haywood, and the Generation that Saved the Soul of the NBA
May 17, 2023 20:52 - 54 minutes - 37.5 MBLinks from the show: * Black Ball: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Spencer Haywood, and the Generation that Saved the Soul of the NBA * Connect with Theresa * Never miss an episode * Rate the show About my guest: Theresa Runstedtler is a scholar of African American history whose research examines Black popular culture, with a particular focus on the intersection of race, masculinity, labor, and sport. Her forthcoming book, Black Ball: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Spencer Haywood, and the Generation That ...
The Gendered and Colonial Lives of Gurkhas in Private Security: From Military to Market
May 16, 2023 13:20 - 50 minutes - 35 MBLinks from the show: * The Gendered and Colonial Lives of Gurkhas in Private Security: From Military to Market * Connect with Amanda * Never miss an episode * Rate the show About my guest: Dr Amanda Chisholm is a Senior Lecturer researching and teaching on gender and security across both War Studies and Defence Studies. She is also the lead diversity and inclusion representative for the School of Security Studies. Her research focuses on the privatisation and decentring of global war...
Rod Serling: His Life, Work, and Imagination
May 15, 2023 15:37 - 47 minutes - 32.3 MBLinks from the show: * Rod Serling: His Life, Work, and Imagination * https://rodserling.com/ * Rate the show About my guest: Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone was the bread and fishes of my early years and one of the major forces leading me to the fantastic as a favorite writing theme. Nick Parisi’s Rod Serling is a wonderfully written and meticulously researched work about one of the premier minds in twentieth-century speculative art. A great study of a fascinating man. This is a publi...
Moralities of Drone Violence
May 12, 2023 17:40 - 47 minutes - 32.7 MBLinks from the show: * Moralities of Drone Violence * Towards an Armed Drone Code of Ethics * Love the show? Leave a review! About my guest: Christian Enemark is Professor of International Relations in the School of Economic, Social and Political Sciences at the University of Southampton. His research and teaching interests include global health politics, international security, arms control, and the ethics of war. Christian has published numerous scholarly articles and chapters, and he...
Visions of Invasion: Alien Affects, Cinema, and Citizenship in Settler Colonies
May 11, 2023 13:29 - 1 hour - 45.9 MBLinks from the show: * Visions of Invasion: Alien Affects, Cinema, and Citizenship in Settler Colonies * Connect with Michael * Support the show * Drop a 5-star rating About my guest: Dr. Michael Lechuga researches and teaches Latina/o/x Studies Communication Studies, Rhetoric, Migration and Settler Colonialism Studies, and Affect Studies. He graduated with an M.A. in Communication Studies from the University of Texas at El Paso in 2007 and with a Ph.D. in Communication Studies from th...
Lee Cronin
May 10, 2023 13:58 - 48 minutes - 33.1 MBLinks from the show: * Connect with Lee * Cronin Lab * Follow Lee on Twitter * Drop a 5-star review About my guest: Leroy (Lee) Cronin is the Regius Professor of Chemistry in Glasgow. Since the age of 9 Lee has wanted to explore chemistry using electronics to control matter. His research spans many disciplines and has four main aims: the construction of an artificial life form; the digitization of chemistry; the use of artificial intelligence in chemistry including the construction of ...
On Borrowed Fame: Money, Mysteries, and Corruption in the Entertainment World
May 09, 2023 16:05 - 50 minutes - 34.9 MBLinks from the show: * On Borrowed Fame: Money, Mysteries, and Corruption in the Entertainment World * Connect with Donald * Never miss an episode About my guest: Don Jeffries was a teenage volunteer with high profile Warren Report critic Mark Lane's Citizens Committee of Inquiry in the mid-1970s. His novel The Unreals was published in 2007, and became a cult classic. His first nonfiction book, Hidden History: An Expose of Modern Crimes, Conspiracies, and Cover-Ups in American Politics,...
Virtual You: How Building Your Digital Twin Will Revolutionize Medicine and Change Your Life
May 08, 2023 19:03 - 44 minutes - 30.4 MBLinks from the show: * Virtual You: How Building Your Digital Twin Will Revolutionize Medicine and Change Your Life * Connect with Roger * Never miss an episode * Rate the show About my guest: Roger Highfield is science director at the Science Museum Group, a member of the Medical Research Council, and visiting professor at University College London and the Dunn School, University of Oxford. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get acce...
Cyberspace and Instability
May 05, 2023 16:57 - 51 minutes - 35.4 MBLinks from the show: * Cyberspace and Instability * Connect with James * Never miss an episode * Rate the show About my guest: James Shires is Assistant Professor in Cybersecurity Governance at the Institute for Security and Global Affairs, Leiden University. He is also a nonresident fellow with the Cyber Statecraft Initiative at the Atlantic Council. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dispatchesfro...
Lethal Tides: Mary Sears and the Marine Scientists Who Helped Win World War II
May 04, 2023 19:34 - 39 minutes - 27.2 MBLinks from the show: * Lethal Tides: Mary Sears and the Marine Scientists Who Helped Win World War II * Connect Catherine * Rate the show * Never miss an episode About the show: Catherine “Kate” Musemeche is a graduate of the University of Texas McGovern Medical School in Houston, Texas and the University of Texas School of Law. Musemeche’s first book, Small, was longlisted for the E.O. Wilson/Pen American Literary Science Award and was awarded the Texas Writer’s League Discovery Prize...
Against All Odds: A True Story of Ultimate Courage and Survival in World War II
May 03, 2023 16:35 - 45 minutes - 31.4 MBLinks from the show: * Against All Odds: A True Story of Ultimate Courage and Survival in World War II * Connect with Alex * Rate the show * Never miss an episode About my guest: Educated at Oxford University, Alex Kershaw is the widely-acclaimed, prize-winning, New York Times best-selling author of twelve books, including The Longest Winter, The Bedford Boys, The First Wave, The Liberator and most recently Against All Odds. He has been a journalist for over thirty years, having writte...