Plumage Episode 1: Love is a Battlefield
Plumage Episode 1: Love is a Battlefield
Harvard PhD student Dakota McCoy, who studies Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, asks why birds of paradise evolved to... Read more
9 Feb 2018
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16mins
Plumage Episode 2: The Wild Blue Yonder
Plumage Episode 2: The Wild Blue Yonder
What if you wanted to recreate the iridescent blue-green of a peacock feather in a lab? It turns out that scientists are... Read more
16 Feb 2018
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18mins
Plumage Episode 3: Puttin' on the Ritz
Plumage Episode 3: Puttin' on the Ritz
In our last episode about plumage, Chloe Chapin, PhD student in American Studies, explores how humans have used fashion ... Read more
23 Feb 2018
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22mins
Displacement Episode 1: The Rohingya
Displacement Episode 1: The Rohingya
Almost no outsiders have visited the internally displaced persons camps in Burma where over 140,000 Rohingya Muslims are... Read more
6 Jul 2018
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17mins
Displacement Episode 2: The Shipwreck
Displacement Episode 2: The Shipwreck
During World War II, many Greek people had to flee their homes and seek safety in the Middle East. Today, Syrian refugee... Read more
13 Jul 2018
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14mins
Displacement Episode 3: The Estranged
Displacement Episode 3: The Estranged
PhD graduate in Sociology Monica Bell’s interviews with poor youth of color in Baltimore led her to formulate the idea o... Read more
20 Jul 2018
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17mins
Monsters Episode 1: Mermaids
Monsters Episode 1: Mermaids
Mermaids: They’re cute, innocent, and great singers, right? Think again! PhD candidate in Celtic Languages and Literatur... Read more
18 Oct 2018
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15mins
Monsters Episode 2: Parasites
Monsters Episode 2: Parasites
Some monsters live inside us. PhD candidate in Biological Sciences in Public Health Maddy McFarland studies Trypanosoma ... Read more
25 Oct 2018
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17mins
Monsters Episode 3: King Kong vs. Gravity
Monsters Episode 3: King Kong vs. Gravity
Why isn’t King Kong scaling the Empire State Building right now? Should we worry about Godzilla rising from the depths o... Read more
1 Nov 2018
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18mins
4.1 Hello, you’ve reached. . . Manila?
4.1 Hello, you’ve reached. . . Manila?
One jetlagged night in Manila leads PhD candidate Justin Stern into the world of business process outsourcing. The first... Read more
24 Jan 2019
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17mins