Twin Pandemics

… sciences, history, and public affairs; reports on cutting-edge works in progress; long-form narratives; and compelling excerpts from new books. Hosted by Stephanie Bastek.
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Preaching the Floral Gospel

… sciences, history, and public affairs; reports on cutting-edge works in progress; long-form narratives; and compelling excerpts from new books. Hosted by Stephanie Bastek.
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I Feel Your Pain (or Not)

… asked to describe the feelings of four adult women (two smiling, two frowning), after receiving the empathy prompt. People were especially empathetic when they received real-time feedback that their perceptions of other people’s feelings were accurate.
Inzlicht cautions against over-interpreting the results of these experiments, which occurred at single moments in time …

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Read Me A Poem, Won’t You?

… all our lives with weekly poems.

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Robert Browning, “The Pied Piper of …

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Whale Song

… edge works in progress; long-form narratives; and compelling excerpts from new books. Hosted by Stephanie Bastek and sponsored by the Phi Beta Kappa Society.
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Founding Falsehoods

… edge works in progress; long-form narratives; and compelling excerpts from new books. Hosted by Stephanie Bastek. Follow us on Twitter @TheAmScho or on Facebook.
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Sheltering in Place with Sei Shōnagon

… an entity that was half my mother and half Shōnagon.
Both women had loved flowers and clothes, equally drawn to nature and artifice. Shōnagon, who included “sparrows feeding their young” on her list of “Things That Make One’s Heart Beat Faster,” never encountered a hummingbird—there are no hummingbirds in Japan—but if she …

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The Antebellum Feminine Mystique

… edge works in progress; long-form narratives; and compelling excerpts from new books. Hosted by Stephanie Bastek. Follow us on Twitter @TheAmScho or on Facebook.
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Still Junk Science

… edge works in progress; long-form narratives; and compelling excerpts from new books. Hosted by Stephanie Bastek. Follow us on Twitter @TheAmScho or on Facebook.
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Guardian of the Glaciers

… other mountains that have their own cultural significance. Each mountain has its own story. Each mountain is a character, is a personality.”
The mountains do more than feed the spirit. They also provide people a livelihood— mountaineering and tourism have opened up opportunities for many Sherpas and other Nepalis. “I am not saying that everyone …

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