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Why we need Ruskin now
"He saw the connection between the way we organize our society and the inherent unfairness of it, and the kind of art that gets produced."
Instrumental in providing the liberating spark to re-evaluate the question, what is wealth? Tim Barringer explains why we need Ruskin now.
Nutritional neuroscience: how a better diet can boost women's health
Interview with Billy R. Hammond, a professor in the UGA Franklin College of Arts and Sciences department of psychology behavioral and brains sciences program and co-author of a fascinating new research study that describes how lifestyle choices can help protect us from degenerative diseases later in life, as we age. The study detailed several degenerative conditions, from autoimmune diseases to dementia that, even controlling for lifespan differences, women experience at much higher rates than men.
Expedition to Antarctica
Teaching Kids Philosophy
Along with maintaining a popular website for teaching children philosophy, Wartenberg teaches an innovative course in which his students teach philosophy to elementary school children.
Exploring the Georgia Bight on the RV Savannah
P-Values, Probabilities, and Uncertainty: Statistics professor Nicole Lazar
The entire issue, “Statistical Inference in the 21st century: A world beyond P<.0.05,” contained 43 papers by statisticians around the world calling for an end to using this specific probability value.
Global political trends in Cyberspace and their impact on Security, Privacy and Human Rights
Chadwick Smith on the Trail of Tears and the Unlearned lessons of Populism Today
A major figure in Indian affairs, Smith has advocated on Native issues nationally and internationally, including at the United Nations. Smith served as a professor at Dartmouth College teaching Cherokee History and Native American Law. He is an author of books on leadership, art and Native American worldviews, including “Leadership Lessons from the Cherokee Nation: Learn From All I Observe.”
Conversation with author and journalist Paul Tough
Unscripted interview with UGA professor Barbara McCaskill
On August 6, 2019, the great American writer Toni Morrison passed away at the age of 88. Her extraordinary achievements in fiction – a Nobel Prize in Literature and multiple best-selling novels exploring black identity in America – established a new benchmark not only in American arts and letters, but in literature worldwide.
Alan Flurry spoke with UGA professor of English Barbara McCaskill by phone the day of Morrison’s passing for an article, and now the two expand on that conversation in this episode of the Unscripted podcast.
Unscripted interview with UGA professor Martin Kagel
Alan Flurry and Kagel discuss political, economic and human rights issues from the most recent Berlin seminar including climate change, Brexit, Immigration, nationalism, populism, film, photography, the media, migration, and more.