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Veritalk

Do you have a curious mind? Do you sometimes daydream about having a PhD in literature, science, or history? Go inside the minds of PhDs at Harvard University with the Veritalk podcast. Veritalk is pr... Read more

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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

16mins

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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

18mins

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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

22mins

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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

17mins

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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

14mins

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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

17mins

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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

15mins

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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

17mins

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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

18mins

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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

17mins

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