https://simplecast.com 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 produced at Harvard’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. In each three-episode miniseries of Veritalk, you’ll hear how PhD students from different fields are trying to answer really big questions about the world. The President and Fellows of Harvard College en-us Mon, 16 Dec 2019 12:00:26 +0000 Tue, 27 Feb 2024 17:34:19 +0000 http://gsas.harvard.edu Veritalk https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/7500684a-b488-47f5-b35b-816f7e4a35c7/feaaaff1-65a6-4be3-9555-fc871483ee47/3000x3000/veritalk-series6-3000px.jpg?aid=rss_feed http://gsas.harvard.edu serial 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 produced at Harvard’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. In each three-episode miniseries of Veritalk, you’ll hear how PhD students from different fields are trying to answer really big questions about the world. Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences no https://feeds.simplecast.com/lfB7kTcx harvard, phd, research, science, history, design, higher education, humanities, arts, literature, discovery, curiosity, university, college, innovation Harvard University pmassari@fas.harvard.edu b65defb6-6281-4711-9ed2-42bec450e9f9 Sensing Episode 3: Flavor on the Brain When you taste the subtle flavor of a perfectly brewed cup of coffee, or smell the funk of an aged blue cheese – you don’t just experience those flavors with your taste buds and nose, you experience them with your brain! Neuroscience PhD Jess Kanwal says that our brain’s ability to combine taste and smell is just one example of how our brains are able to mix and match senses – with very interesting results.

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The Veritalk Team:

Host/Producer: Anna Fisher-Pinkert

Sound Designer: Ian Coss

Logo: Emily Crowell

Executive Producer: Ann Hall

Special thanks to Jess Kanwal and the PRX Podcast Garage.

Jess Kanwal’s research is funded by a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Award, and a National Institutes of Health F31 Grant.

]]> Mon, 16 Dec 2019 12:00:26 +0000 pmassari@fas.harvard.edu (Ian Coss, Anna Fisher-Pinkert, Jess Kanwal) http://gsas.harvard.edu When you taste the subtle flavor of a perfectly brewed cup of coffee, or smell the funk of an aged blue cheese – you don’t just experience those flavors with your taste buds and nose, you experience them with your brain! Neuroscience PhD Jess Kanwal says that our brain’s ability to combine taste and smell is just one example of how our brains are able to mix and match senses – with very interesting results.

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The Veritalk Team:

Host/Producer: Anna Fisher-Pinkert

Sound Designer: Ian Coss

Logo: Emily Crowell

Executive Producer: Ann Hall

Special thanks to Jess Kanwal and the PRX Podcast Garage.

Jess Kanwal’s research is funded by a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Award, and a National Institutes of Health F31 Grant.

]]> Sensing Episode 3: Flavor on the Brain Ian Coss, Anna Fisher-Pinkert, Jess Kanwal 00:18:59 When you taste the subtle flavor of a perfectly brewed cup of coffee, or smell the funk of an aged blue cheese – you don’t just experience those flavors with your taste buds and nose, you experience them with your brain! Neuroscience PhD Jess Kanwal says that our brain’s ability to combine taste and smell is just one example of how our brains are able to mix and match senses – with very interesting results. When you taste the subtle flavor of a perfectly brewed cup of coffee, or smell the funk of an aged blue cheese – you don’t just experience those flavors with your taste buds and nose, you experience them with your brain! Neuroscience PhD Jess Kanwal says that our brain’s ability to combine taste and smell is just one example of how our brains are able to mix and match senses – with very interesting results. taste and smell, brains, science of food, phd, brain science, flavor, synesthesia, sensing, science of smell, veritalk, neursocience, neurons, harvard, science, senses, science of taste, experiment, research, gastronomy no full 3 7 c3f319cd-4059-4b1c-baf5-501c7344de06 Sensing Episode 2: Squish Goes the Robot! Can robots ever learn to feel? Our ability to perform delicate tasks, like giving a gentle hug or picking a piece of fruit, is something that robots can't yet mimic.Ryan Truby, an alum of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences has created bioinspired soft robots that can squish, stretch, and feel their way around the world - and they have the potential to change how we understand robotics.

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The Veritalk Team:

Host/Producer: Anna Fisher-Pinkert

Sound Designer: Ian Coss

Logo: Emily Crowell

Executive Producer: Ann Hall

Special thanks to Ryan Truby and Jennifer Lewis. Ryan Truby’s research is supported by the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, National Science Foundation through the Harvard MRSEC, the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship and the Schmidt Science Fellows program, in partnership with the Rhodes Trust.

]]> Mon, 9 Dec 2019 12:00:05 +0000 pmassari@fas.harvard.edu (Ryan Truby, Anna Fisher-Pinkert, Ian Coss) http://gsas.harvard.edu Can robots ever learn to feel? Our ability to perform delicate tasks, like giving a gentle hug or picking a piece of fruit, is something that robots can't yet mimic.Ryan Truby, an alum of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences has created bioinspired soft robots that can squish, stretch, and feel their way around the world - and they have the potential to change how we understand robotics.

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The Veritalk Team:

Host/Producer: Anna Fisher-Pinkert

Sound Designer: Ian Coss

Logo: Emily Crowell

Executive Producer: Ann Hall

Special thanks to Ryan Truby and Jennifer Lewis. Ryan Truby’s research is supported by the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, National Science Foundation through the Harvard MRSEC, the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship and the Schmidt Science Fellows program, in partnership with the Rhodes Trust.

]]> Sensing Episode 2: Squish Goes the Robot! Ryan Truby, Anna Fisher-Pinkert, Ian Coss 00:17:26 Can robots ever learn to feel? Our ability to perform delicate tasks, like giving a gentle hug or picking a piece of fruit, is something that robots can't yet mimic. Ryan Truby, an alum of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences has created bio-inspired soft robots that can squish, stretch, and feel their way around the world - and they have the potential to change how we understand robotics. Can robots ever learn to feel? Our ability to perform delicate tasks, like giving a gentle hug or picking a piece of fruit, is something that robots can't yet mimic. Ryan Truby, an alum of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences has created bio-inspired soft robots that can squish, stretch, and feel their way around the world - and they have the potential to change how we understand robotics. soft robots, octopus, phd, octobot, bio-inspired, robotics, seas, engineering, harvard, science, research, materials science no full 2 7 d7bca138-991d-4b30-a897-f30319350a15 Sensing Episode 1: It's All within Reach From the moment you open your eyes in the morning, your sense of sight helps you navigate and interact with the world. But how do our brains understand what our eyes are telling us? And how do we know what's surrounding us, where we can move, and what objects are within reach? Emilie Josephs, a PhD student at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, is discovering that the way our brain processes vision is even more complex than scientists initially thought.

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The Veritalk Team:

Host/Producer: Anna Fisher-Pinkert

Sound Designer: Ian Coss

Logo: Emily Crowell

Executive Producer: Ann Hall

Special thanks to Emilie Josephs and Phil Lewis, who voiced our brain. Emilie Josephs’ research is supported by the NIH Shared Instrumentation Grant Program.

]]> Mon, 2 Dec 2019 13:00:25 +0000 pmassari@fas.harvard.edu (Ian Coss, Emilie Josephs, Anna Fisher-Pinkert) http://gsas.harvard.edu From the moment you open your eyes in the morning, your sense of sight helps you navigate and interact with the world. But how do our brains understand what our eyes are telling us? And how do we know what's surrounding us, where we can move, and what objects are within reach? Emilie Josephs, a PhD student at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, is discovering that the way our brain processes vision is even more complex than scientists initially thought.

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The Veritalk Team:

Host/Producer: Anna Fisher-Pinkert

Sound Designer: Ian Coss

Logo: Emily Crowell

Executive Producer: Ann Hall

Special thanks to Emilie Josephs and Phil Lewis, who voiced our brain. Emilie Josephs’ research is supported by the NIH Shared Instrumentation Grant Program.

]]> Sensing Episode 1: It's All within Reach Ian Coss, Emilie Josephs, Anna Fisher-Pinkert 00:16:35 From the moment you open your eyes in the morning, your sense of sight helps you navigate and interact with the world. But how do our brains understand what our eyes are telling us? And how do we know what's surrounding us, where we can move, and what objects are within reach? Emilie Josephs, a PhD student at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, is discovering that the way our brain processes vision is even more complex than scientists initially thought. From the moment you open your eyes in the morning, your sense of sight helps you navigate and interact with the world. But how do our brains understand what our eyes are telling us? And how do we know what's surrounding us, where we can move, and what objects are within reach? Emilie Josephs, a PhD student at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, is discovering that the way our brain processes vision is even more complex than scientists initially thought. scientific, cognitive science, fmri, phd, sight, cognition, brain science, psychology, sensing, emilie josephs, neurons, harvard, science, neuroscience, research, vision, reach, graduate school no full 1 7 4b2f1390-b7a8-4231-9aad-48f45d8582cc Monsters Episode 3: King Kong vs. Gravity (Re-Release) Why isn’t King Kong scaling the Empire State Building right now? Should we worry about Godzilla rising from the depths of the Pacific Ocean? Shane Campbell-Staton, co-host of the podcast The Biology of Superheroes and Harvard PhD ’15 in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, talks about our favorite movie monsters, and some of the biological processes that could make them come to life.

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The Veritalk Team:

Host/Producer: Anna Fisher-Pinkert

Executive Producer: Ann Hall

Sound Designer: Ian Coss

Logo Designer: Emily Crowell

Special thanks Shane Campbell-Staton and Graham Ball.

]]> Mon, 28 Oct 2019 11:00:02 +0000 pmassari@fas.harvard.edu (Shane Campbell-Staton, Anna Fisher-Pinkert) http://gsas.harvard.edu Why isn’t King Kong scaling the Empire State Building right now? Should we worry about Godzilla rising from the depths of the Pacific Ocean? Shane Campbell-Staton, co-host of the podcast The Biology of Superheroes and Harvard PhD ’15 in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, talks about our favorite movie monsters, and some of the biological processes that could make them come to life.

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The Veritalk Team:

Host/Producer: Anna Fisher-Pinkert

Executive Producer: Ann Hall

Sound Designer: Ian Coss

Logo Designer: Emily Crowell

Special thanks Shane Campbell-Staton and Graham Ball.

]]> Monsters Episode 3: King Kong vs. Gravity (Re-Release) Shane Campbell-Staton, Anna Fisher-Pinkert 00:19:26 We're working to bring you more episodes of Veritalk very soon. In the meantime, we've got a Halloween treat for all of our listeners. Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water, it's our third episode about Monsters! Why isn’t King Kong scaling the Empire State Building right now? Should we worry about Godzilla rising from the depths of the Pacific Ocean? Shane Campbell-Staton, co-host of the podcast The Biology of Superheroes and Harvard PhD ’15 in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, talks about our favorite movie monsters, and some of the biological processes that could make them come to life. We're working to bring you more episodes of Veritalk very soon. In the meantime, we've got a Halloween treat for all of our listeners. Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water, it's our third episode about Monsters! Why isn’t King Kong scaling the Empire State Building right now? Should we worry about Godzilla rising from the depths of the Pacific Ocean? Shane Campbell-Staton, co-host of the podcast The Biology of Superheroes and Harvard PhD ’15 in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, talks about our favorite movie monsters, and some of the biological processes that could make them come to life. halloween, phd, harvard university, creatures, evolutionary biology, island gigantism, biology, monsters, evolution, harvard, science, superheroes, research, movies, godzilla, king kong no full 3 6 d4307a5d-2b5a-47ee-b840-1194fcede2b0 Monsters Episode 2: Parasites (Re-Release) Some monsters live inside us. PhD candidate in Biological Sciences in Public Health Maddy McFarland studies Trypanosoma cruzi, a parasite that transforms its shape to sneak inside our cells and makes us sick. The scariest part: Our cells can’t signal that they’re infected until it’s too late.

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The Veritalk Team:

Host/Producer: Anna Fisher-Pinkert

Executive Producer: Ann Hall

Sound Designer: Ian Coss

Logo Designer: Emily Crowell

Special thanks to the lab of Barbara Burleigh, professor of immunology and infectious diseases at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and to the National Institutes of Health, which funds the research of the Burleigh lab.

Originally released in 2018.

]]> Mon, 21 Oct 2019 11:00:03 +0000 pmassari@fas.harvard.edu (Maddy McFarland, Anna Fisher-Pinkert) http://gsas.harvard.edu Some monsters live inside us. PhD candidate in Biological Sciences in Public Health Maddy McFarland studies Trypanosoma cruzi, a parasite that transforms its shape to sneak inside our cells and makes us sick. The scariest part: Our cells can’t signal that they’re infected until it’s too late.

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The Veritalk Team:

Host/Producer: Anna Fisher-Pinkert

Executive Producer: Ann Hall

Sound Designer: Ian Coss

Logo Designer: Emily Crowell

Special thanks to the lab of Barbara Burleigh, professor of immunology and infectious diseases at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and to the National Institutes of Health, which funds the research of the Burleigh lab.

Originally released in 2018.

]]> Monsters Episode 2: Parasites (Re-Release) Maddy McFarland, Anna Fisher-Pinkert 00:18:40 We're working to bring you more episodes of Veritalk very soon. In the meantime, we've got an episode slithering around the podcast studio. Take a listen to our second episode about Monsters. Some monsters live inside us. PhD candidate in Biological Sciences in Public Health Maddy McFarland studies Trypanosoma cruzi, a parasite that transforms its shape to sneak inside our cells and makes us sick. The scariest part: Our cells can’t signal that they’re infected until it’s too late. We're working to bring you more episodes of Veritalk very soon. In the meantime, we've got an episode slithering around the podcast studio. Take a listen to our second episode about Monsters. Some monsters live inside us. PhD candidate in Biological Sciences in Public Health Maddy McFarland studies Trypanosoma cruzi, a parasite that transforms its shape to sneak inside our cells and makes us sick. The scariest part: Our cells can’t signal that they’re infected until it’s too late. breakthrough, medical, cell biology, disease, life sciences, phd, nih, public health, harvard university, medicine, monsters, harvard, science, parasitic, chagas, university, shape shifters, parasite, research no full 2 6 a4f5a13c-e71f-4c16-a2d3-9af5402f0a66 Monsters Episode 1: Mermaids (Re-Release) Mermaids: They’re cute, innocent, and great singers, right? Think again! PhD candidate in Celtic Languages and Literatures Greg Darwin explains why you wouldn’t want to meet a mermaid in a dark aquatic alley. He also talks about selkie tales – and legendary creatures that live at the edge of humanity.

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The Veritalk Team:

Host/Producer: Anna Fisher-Pinkert

Executive Producer: Ann Hall

Sound Designer: Ian Coss

Logo Designer: Emily Crowell

Originally released in 2018

]]> Mon, 14 Oct 2019 11:00:06 +0000 pmassari@fas.harvard.edu (Anna Fisher-Pinkert, Greg Darwin) http://gsas.harvard.edu Mermaids: They’re cute, innocent, and great singers, right? Think again! PhD candidate in Celtic Languages and Literatures Greg Darwin explains why you wouldn’t want to meet a mermaid in a dark aquatic alley. He also talks about selkie tales – and legendary creatures that live at the edge of humanity.

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The Veritalk Team:

Host/Producer: Anna Fisher-Pinkert

Executive Producer: Ann Hall

Sound Designer: Ian Coss

Logo Designer: Emily Crowell

Originally released in 2018

]]> Monsters Episode 1: Mermaids (Re-Release) Anna Fisher-Pinkert, Greg Darwin 00:16:44 We're working to bring you more episodes of Veritalk very soon. In the meantime, we've brought our spookiest series out of the podcast crypt. Get a mug of hot apple cider, turn out the lights, and take a listen to the first of three episodes about Monsters. Mermaids: They’re cute, innocent, and great singers, right? Think again! PhD candidate in Celtic Languages and Literatures Greg Darwin explains why you wouldn’t want to meet a mermaid in a dark aquatic alley. He also talks about selkie tales – and legendary creatures that live at the edge of humanity. We're working to bring you more episodes of Veritalk very soon. In the meantime, we've brought our spookiest series out of the podcast crypt. Get a mug of hot apple cider, turn out the lights, and take a listen to the first of three episodes about Monsters. Mermaids: They’re cute, innocent, and great singers, right? Think again! PhD candidate in Celtic Languages and Literatures Greg Darwin explains why you wouldn’t want to meet a mermaid in a dark aquatic alley. He also talks about selkie tales – and legendary creatures that live at the edge of humanity. mermaids, water monsters, celtic languages, phd, selkies, legends, spooky, scotland, mystery, monsters, aquatic, legendary, graduate student, celtic myths, underwater, harvard, universities, history, research, folktales no full 1 6 7604450f-8fdf-41d8-8646-2e953952d6a1 Food Episode 4: Your Body Isn't Broken Can nutrition education solve the obesity epidemic? Hannah Cory asked that question over and over while working as a dietician in a public school system. Now, as a PhD candidate in Population Health Sciences, Hannah’s research seeks to uncover the connection between fat-phobia, racism, and obesity in the US.

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The Veritalk Team:

Host/Producer: Anna Fisher-Pinkert

Sound Designer: Ian Coss

Logo: Emily Crowell

Executive Producer: Ann Hall

Special Thanks: Hannah Cory, Rick Sheiber, Julia King, Noah Leavitt, and the PRX Podcast Garage.

]]> Thu, 9 May 2019 17:00:00 +0000 pmassari@fas.harvard.edu (Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences) http://gsas.harvard.edu Can nutrition education solve the obesity epidemic? Hannah Cory asked that question over and over while working as a dietician in a public school system. Now, as a PhD candidate in Population Health Sciences, Hannah’s research seeks to uncover the connection between fat-phobia, racism, and obesity in the US.

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The Veritalk Team:

Host/Producer: Anna Fisher-Pinkert

Sound Designer: Ian Coss

Logo: Emily Crowell

Executive Producer: Ann Hall

Special Thanks: Hannah Cory, Rick Sheiber, Julia King, Noah Leavitt, and the PRX Podcast Garage.

]]> Food Episode 4: Your Body Isn't Broken Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences 00:16:26 Can nutrition education solve the obesity epidemic? Hannah Cory asked that question over and over while working as a dietician in a public school system. Now, as a PhD candidate in Population Health Sciences, Hannah’s research seeks to uncover the connection between fat-phobia, racism, and obesity in the US. Can nutrition education solve the obesity epidemic? Hannah Cory asked that question over and over while working as a dietician in a public school system. Now, as a PhD candidate in Population Health Sciences, Hannah’s research seeks to uncover the connection between fat-phobia, racism, and obesity in the US. food, racism, food pyramid, harvard school of public health, health policy, phd, education, obesity, obesity epidemic, superfoods, population health sciences, fat-phobia, myplate, diet, health, veritalk, inequality, harvard, nutrition, let's move, bmi no full 4 5 ad16a38e-3f12-4222-a86a-bad315ff792b Food Episode 3: Go with Your Gut What does it mean to have a "healthy gut?" Is it worth drinking kombucha or taking probiotics? What about that gut-brain connection? PhD candidates Cary Allen-Blevins and Vayu Maini Rekdal explore how "good" bacteria help us to break down our food – from our “first food” (breast milk) to meat and veggies.

Love this episode? There are more stories about Harvard scientists' research into microbes on the podcast Proof, from America's Test Kitchen.

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The Veritalk Team:

Host/Producer: Anna Fisher-Pinkert

Sound Designer: Ian Coss

Logo: Emily Crowell

Executive Producer: Ann Hall

Special Thanks to: Cary Allen-Blevins, Vayu Maini Rekdal, the Harvard Museum of Natural History, and the PRX Podcast Garage.

]]> Thu, 2 May 2019 17:00:00 +0000 pmassari@fas.harvard.edu (Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences) http://gsas.harvard.edu What does it mean to have a "healthy gut?" Is it worth drinking kombucha or taking probiotics? What about that gut-brain connection? PhD candidates Cary Allen-Blevins and Vayu Maini Rekdal explore how "good" bacteria help us to break down our food – from our “first food” (breast milk) to meat and veggies.

Love this episode? There are more stories about Harvard scientists' research into microbes on the podcast Proof, from America's Test Kitchen.

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The Veritalk Team:

Host/Producer: Anna Fisher-Pinkert

Sound Designer: Ian Coss

Logo: Emily Crowell

Executive Producer: Ann Hall

Special Thanks to: Cary Allen-Blevins, Vayu Maini Rekdal, the Harvard Museum of Natural History, and the PRX Podcast Garage.

]]> Food Episode 3: Go with Your Gut Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences 00:18:15 Before you pick up that $30 bottle of probiotics, listen to PhD candidates Cary Allen-Blevins and Vayu Maini Rekdal. It’s true that healthy bacteria make for a healthy gut – but scientists are still learning about how microbes help us break down our food – from our “first food” (breast milk) to meat and veggies. Before you pick up that $30 bottle of probiotics, listen to PhD candidates Cary Allen-Blevins and Vayu Maini Rekdal. It’s true that healthy bacteria make for a healthy gut – but scientists are still learning about how microbes help us break down our food – from our “first food” (breast milk) to meat and veggies. probiotics, food science, gut-brain connection, elbulli, bacteria, phd, evolutionary biology, breast milk, yogurt, microbiology, kombucha, health, breastfeeding, good bacteria, veritalk, evolution, harvard, nutrition, science, gut microbiome no full 3 5 894ce2bc-f8ed-46d3-9e0e-65a4b039237f Food Episode 2: Veritalk Goes Vegan In the last few years, the popularity of "plant-based diets" has exploded. Celebrities from Tom Brady to Beyoncé promote eating less meat. Even Burger King introduced a meatless burger. Nina Gheihman, a PhD candidate in sociology, tells us how vegan cultural entrepreneurs, celebrities, and researchers are changing hearts, minds, and dinner plates. She'll also explain why we might all be eating vegan soon - whether we like it or not.

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Host/Producer: Anna Fisher-Pinkert

Sound Designer: Ian Coss

Logo: Emily Crowell

Executive Producer: Ann Hall

Special Thanks to: Graham Ball, Youth Radio Oakland, and Nina Gheihman

]]> Thu, 25 Apr 2019 18:00:00 +0000 pmassari@fas.harvard.edu (Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences) http://gsas.harvard.edu In the last few years, the popularity of "plant-based diets" has exploded. Celebrities from Tom Brady to Beyoncé promote eating less meat. Even Burger King introduced a meatless burger. Nina Gheihman, a PhD candidate in sociology, tells us how vegan cultural entrepreneurs, celebrities, and researchers are changing hearts, minds, and dinner plates. She'll also explain why we might all be eating vegan soon - whether we like it or not.

Full Transcript

Host/Producer: Anna Fisher-Pinkert

Sound Designer: Ian Coss

Logo: Emily Crowell

Executive Producer: Ann Hall

Special Thanks to: Graham Ball, Youth Radio Oakland, and Nina Gheihman

]]> Food Episode 2: Veritalk Goes Vegan Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences 00:18:40 In the last few years, the popularity of "plant-based diets" has exploded. Celebrities from Tom Brady to Beyoncé promote eating less meat. Even Burger King introduced a meatless burger. Nina Gheihman, a PhD candidate in sociology, tells us how vegan cultural entrepreneurs, celebrities, and researchers are changing hearts, minds, and dinner plates. She'll also explain why we might all be eating vegan soon - whether we like it or not. In the last few years, the popularity of "plant-based diets" has exploded. Celebrities from Tom Brady to Beyoncé promote eating less meat. Even Burger King introduced a meatless burger. Nina Gheihman, a PhD candidate in sociology, tells us how vegan cultural entrepreneurs, celebrities, and researchers are changing hearts, minds, and dinner plates. She'll also explain why we might all be eating vegan soon - whether we like it or not. vegan, meatless, forks over knives, ornish, phd, veggie burger, vegetarian, sociology, impossible burger, diet, entrepreneurs, meatless monday, impossible foods, harvard, plant-based, cultural entrepreneurs no full 2 5 59c6ab2b-a8f8-4340-a87e-1999b30764fd Food Episode 1: Turmeric Lattes and Tikka Masala After moving to the US from Mauritius, PhD candidate in Romance Languages and Literatures Nikhita Obeegadoo felt homesick. Her experience eating a bowl of dal (spiced lentils) in the US led her to ask questions about food and diaspora, cultural appreciation, and cultural appropriation through a course she designed and taught called "Translate the Menu, Please."

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The Veritalk Team:

Host/Producer: Anna Fisher-Pinkert

Sound Designer: Ian Coss

Logo: Emily Crowell

Executive Producer: Ann Hall

Special thanks to Nikhita Obeegadoo, and the PRX Podcast Garage.

]]> Thu, 18 Apr 2019 18:00:00 +0000 pmassari@fas.harvard.edu (Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences) http://gsas.harvard.edu After moving to the US from Mauritius, PhD candidate in Romance Languages and Literatures Nikhita Obeegadoo felt homesick. Her experience eating a bowl of dal (spiced lentils) in the US led her to ask questions about food and diaspora, cultural appreciation, and cultural appropriation through a course she designed and taught called "Translate the Menu, Please."

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The Veritalk Team:

Host/Producer: Anna Fisher-Pinkert

Sound Designer: Ian Coss

Logo: Emily Crowell

Executive Producer: Ann Hall

Special thanks to Nikhita Obeegadoo, and the PRX Podcast Garage.

]]> Food Episode 1: Turmeric Lattes and Tikka Masala Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences 00:16:41 After moving to the US from Mauritius, PhD candidate in Romance Languages and Literatures Nikhita Obeegadoo felt homesick. Her experience eating a bowl of dal (spiced lentils) in the US led her to ask questions about food and diaspora, cultural appreciation, and cultural appropriation. After moving to the US from Mauritius, PhD candidate in Romance Languages and Literatures Nikhita Obeegadoo felt homesick. Her experience eating a bowl of dal (spiced lentils) in the US led her to ask questions about food and diaspora, cultural appreciation, and cultural appropriation. food, frozen food, immigration, mauritius, diaspora, phd, chicken tikka masala, turmeric latte, india, culture, golden milk, cultural appropriation, harvard, teaching, identity, haldi doodh, literature no full 1 5 0c3628f3-c76f-45f2-bdae-b63d1f787a08 4.3 Who Owns the Night? When developers try to revitalize the nightlife in Johannesburg, not everyone is invited to the party. PhD candidate Chrystel Oloukoi explores the ways that race, gender, and class shape the nightlife culture in Johannesburg and Lagos. The last episode in our series on the secret life of cities.

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The Veritalk Team:

Host/Producer: Anna Fisher-Pinkert

Executive Producer: Ann Hall

Sound Designer: Ian Coss

Logo Designer: Emily Crowell

Special thanks: Chrystel Oloukoi, Pien Huang, Emma Jacobs, Sarah Montgomery, and Graham Ball

]]> Thu, 7 Feb 2019 18:00:00 +0000 pmassari@fas.harvard.edu (Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences) http://gsas.harvard.edu When developers try to revitalize the nightlife in Johannesburg, not everyone is invited to the party. PhD candidate Chrystel Oloukoi explores the ways that race, gender, and class shape the nightlife culture in Johannesburg and Lagos. The last episode in our series on the secret life of cities.

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The Veritalk Team:

Host/Producer: Anna Fisher-Pinkert

Executive Producer: Ann Hall

Sound Designer: Ian Coss

Logo Designer: Emily Crowell

Special thanks: Chrystel Oloukoi, Pien Huang, Emma Jacobs, Sarah Montgomery, and Graham Ball

]]> 4.3 Who Owns the Night? Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences 00:20:18 When developers try to revitalize the nightlife in Johannesburg, not everyone is invited to the party. PhD candidate Chrystel Oloukoi explores the ways that race, gender, and class shape the nightlife culture in Johannesburg and Lagos. The last episode in our series on the secret life of cities. When developers try to revitalize the nightlife in Johannesburg, not everyone is invited to the party. PhD candidate Chrystel Oloukoi explores the ways that race, gender, and class shape the nightlife culture in Johannesburg and Lagos. The last episode in our series on the secret life of cities. gender, entertainment, cities, nightlife, phd, south africa, johannesburg, humanities, class, veritalk, nigeria, harvard, lagos, race, research, women no full 3 4 49a7ef99-f2ad-4412-b62c-ae76fb9d5c48 4.2 Pothole Politics Potholes are an everyday annoyance for commuters, but they're a really complex problem for cities to solve. Many cities, including Boston, have 311 apps that allow citizens to report potholes in their own neighborhoods. But Elijah de la Campa is curious to know whether those apps are actually improving citizen participation in local government.

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The Veritalk Team:

Host/Producer: Anna Fisher-Pinkert

Executive Producer: Ann Hall

Sound Designer: Ian Coss

Logo Designer: Emily Crowell

Special Thanks: Graham Ball, Elijah de la Campa, the Government Performance Lab at the Harvard Kennedy School, and the What Works Cities Initiative funded by Bloomberg Philanthropies.

]]> Thu, 31 Jan 2019 20:00:00 +0000 pmassari@fas.harvard.edu (Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences) http://gsas.harvard.edu Potholes are an everyday annoyance for commuters, but they're a really complex problem for cities to solve. Many cities, including Boston, have 311 apps that allow citizens to report potholes in their own neighborhoods. But Elijah de la Campa is curious to know whether those apps are actually improving citizen participation in local government.

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Host/Producer: Anna Fisher-Pinkert

Executive Producer: Ann Hall

Sound Designer: Ian Coss

Logo Designer: Emily Crowell

Special Thanks: Graham Ball, Elijah de la Campa, the Government Performance Lab at the Harvard Kennedy School, and the What Works Cities Initiative funded by Bloomberg Philanthropies.

]]> 4.2 Pothole Politics Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences 00:17:32 Everyone hates potholes – except PhD candidate Elijah de la Campa. Elijah uses potholes to understand why some citizens interact with local government, and others don’t. Everyone hates potholes – except PhD candidate Elijah de la Campa. Elijah uses potholes to understand why some citizens interact with local government, and others don’t. bloomberg, neighborhood, politics, cities, apps, citizens, phd, urban planning, 311, design, technology, local politics, government, gsas, veritalk, harvard, local government, boston, potholes, mapoli, research, infrastructure no full 2 4 04a3de96-aede-4368-a302-5554f1848703 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 episode in Veritalk's series on the Secret Life of Cities.

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Host/Producer: Anna Fisher-Pinkert

Executive Producer: Ann Hall

Sound Designer: Ian Coss

Logo Designer: Emily Crowell

Special thanks: Justin Stern, the Harvard Graduate School of Design, Anne Brown, and Graham Ball.

Additional sound recorded by Kevin Luce, whose work you can find at www.freesound.org

]]> Thu, 24 Jan 2019 21:00:00 +0000 pmassari@fas.harvard.edu (Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences) http://gsas.harvard.edu One jetlagged night in Manila leads PhD candidate Justin Stern into the world of business process outsourcing. The first episode in Veritalk's series on the Secret Life of Cities.

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Host/Producer: Anna Fisher-Pinkert

Executive Producer: Ann Hall

Sound Designer: Ian Coss

Logo Designer: Emily Crowell

Special thanks: Justin Stern, the Harvard Graduate School of Design, Anne Brown, and Graham Ball.

Additional sound recorded by Kevin Luce, whose work you can find at www.freesound.org

]]> 4.1 Hello, you’ve reached. . . Manila? Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences 00:17:53 One jetlagged night in Manila leads PhD candidate Justin Stern into the world of business process outsourcing. The first episode in Veritalk's series on the Secret Lives of Cities. One jetlagged night in Manila leads PhD candidate Justin Stern into the world of business process outsourcing. The first episode in Veritalk's series on the Secret Lives of Cities. architecture, gsd, philippines, cities, business, it, outsourcing, night shift, urban planning, design, veritalk, business process outsourcing, harvard, stern, city planning, call centers, work, infrastructure, manila no full 1 4 0d84e571-5e94-4f6a-b081-991e6583bb2f 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 of the Pacific Ocean? Shane Campbell-Staton, co-host of the podcast The Biology of Superheroes and Harvard PhD ’15 in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, talks about our favorite movie monsters, and some of the biological processes that could make them come to life.

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Host/Producer: Anna Fisher-Pinkert

Executive Producer: Ann Hall

Sound Designer: Ian Coss

Logo Designer: Emily Crowell

Special thanks Shane Campbell-Staton and Graham Ball.

]]> Thu, 1 Nov 2018 20:00:00 +0000 pmassari@fas.harvard.edu (Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences) http://gsas.harvard.edu Why isn’t King Kong scaling the Empire State Building right now? Should we worry about Godzilla rising from the depths of the Pacific Ocean? Shane Campbell-Staton, co-host of the podcast The Biology of Superheroes and Harvard PhD ’15 in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, talks about our favorite movie monsters, and some of the biological processes that could make them come to life.

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Host/Producer: Anna Fisher-Pinkert

Executive Producer: Ann Hall

Sound Designer: Ian Coss

Logo Designer: Emily Crowell

Special thanks Shane Campbell-Staton and Graham Ball.

]]> Monsters Episode 3: King Kong vs. Gravity Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences 00:18:46 Why isn’t King Kong scaling the Empire State Building right now? Should we worry about Godzilla rising from the depths of the Pacific Ocean? Shane Campbell-Staton, co-host of the podcast The Biology of Superheroes and Harvard PhD ’15 in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, talks about our favorite movie monsters, and some of the biological processes that could make them come to life. Why isn’t King Kong scaling the Empire State Building right now? Should we worry about Godzilla rising from the depths of the Pacific Ocean? Shane Campbell-Staton, co-host of the podcast The Biology of Superheroes and Harvard PhD ’15 in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, talks about our favorite movie monsters, and some of the biological processes that could make them come to life. halloween, jurrasic park, phd, creatures, evolutionary biology, biology, monsters, evolution, harvard, science, superheroes, research, godzilla, king kong no full 3 3 f6111abe-2c3f-4464-af06-5846503adbbe Monsters Episode 2: Parasites Some monsters live inside us. PhD candidate in Biological Sciences in Public Health Maddy McFarland studies Trypanosoma cruzi, a parasite that transforms its shape to sneak inside our cells and makes us sick. The scariest part: Our cells can’t signal that they’re infected until it’s too late.

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Host/Producer: Anna Fisher-Pinkert

Executive Producer: Ann Hall

Sound Designer: Ian Coss

Logo Designer: Emily Crowell

Special thanks to the lab of Barbara Burleigh, professor of immunology and infectious diseases at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and to the National Institutes of Health, which funds the research of the Burleigh lab.

]]> Thu, 25 Oct 2018 20:00:00 +0000 pmassari@fas.harvard.edu (Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences) http://gsas.harvard.edu Some monsters live inside us. PhD candidate in Biological Sciences in Public Health Maddy McFarland studies Trypanosoma cruzi, a parasite that transforms its shape to sneak inside our cells and makes us sick. The scariest part: Our cells can’t signal that they’re infected until it’s too late.

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The Veritalk Team:

Host/Producer: Anna Fisher-Pinkert

Executive Producer: Ann Hall

Sound Designer: Ian Coss

Logo Designer: Emily Crowell

Special thanks to the lab of Barbara Burleigh, professor of immunology and infectious diseases at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and to the National Institutes of Health, which funds the research of the Burleigh lab.

]]> Monsters Episode 2: Parasites Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences 00:17:58 Some monsters live inside us. PhD candidate in Biological Sciences in Public Health Maddy McFarland studies Trypanosoma cruzi, a parasite that transforms its shape to sneak inside our cells and makes us sick. The scariest part: Our cells can’t signal that they’re infected until it’s too late. Some monsters live inside us. PhD candidate in Biological Sciences in Public Health Maddy McFarland studies Trypanosoma cruzi, a parasite that transforms its shape to sneak inside our cells and makes us sick. The scariest part: Our cells can’t signal that they’re infected until it’s too late. cell biology, disease, life sciences, phd, nih, public health, medicine, monsters, medical breakthrough, harvard, science, parasitic, chagas, shape shifters, parasite, research no full 2 3 3b973d2a-9769-4291-addb-fb0a26fdaf75 Monsters Episode 1: Mermaids Mermaids: They’re cute, innocent, and great singers, right? Think again! PhD candidate in Celtic Languages and Literatures Greg Darwin explains why you wouldn’t want to meet a mermaid in a dark aquatic alley. He also talks about selkie tales – and legendary creatures that live at the edge of humanity.

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Executive Producer: Ann Hall

Sound Designer: Ian Coss

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]]> Thu, 18 Oct 2018 20:00:00 +0000 pmassari@fas.harvard.edu (Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences) http://gsas.harvard.edu Mermaids: They’re cute, innocent, and great singers, right? Think again! PhD candidate in Celtic Languages and Literatures Greg Darwin explains why you wouldn’t want to meet a mermaid in a dark aquatic alley. He also talks about selkie tales – and legendary creatures that live at the edge of humanity.

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Host/Producer: Anna Fisher-Pinkert

Executive Producer: Ann Hall

Sound Designer: Ian Coss

Logo Designer: Emily Crowell

]]> Monsters Episode 1: Mermaids Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences 00:15:31 Mermaids: They’re cute, innocent, and great singers, right? Think again! PhD candidate in Celtic Languages and Literatures Greg Darwin explains why you wouldn’t want to meet a mermaid in a dark aquatic alley. He also talks about selkie tales – and legendary creatures that live at the edge of humanity. Mermaids: They’re cute, innocent, and great singers, right? Think again! PhD candidate in Celtic Languages and Literatures Greg Darwin explains why you wouldn’t want to meet a mermaid in a dark aquatic alley. He also talks about selkie tales – and legendary creatures that live at the edge of humanity. mythology, darwin, mermaids, halloween, ireland, scottish, phd, harvard university, selkies, legends, spooky, scotland, mystery, celtic, monsters, creepy, aquatic, legendary, underwater, harvard, university, research, folktales no full 1 3 d1a979b7-8bb5-45e9-923b-192ac0ad6852 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 of “legal estrangement.” While the press focuses on a “trust gap” between black youth and the police, Monica believes that the issue is far deeper. Her interviews revealed a generation of young Americans who feel both stateless and powerless.

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Host/Producer: Anna Fisher-Pinkert

Executive Producer: Ann Hall

Sound Designer: Ian Coss

Logo Designer: Emily Wilson

]]> Fri, 20 Jul 2018 11:00:00 +0000 pmassari@fas.harvard.edu (Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences) http://gsas.harvard.edu PhD graduate in Sociology Monica Bell’s interviews with poor youth of color in Baltimore led her to formulate the idea of “legal estrangement.” While the press focuses on a “trust gap” between black youth and the police, Monica believes that the issue is far deeper. Her interviews revealed a generation of young Americans who feel both stateless and powerless.

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Host/Producer: Anna Fisher-Pinkert

Executive Producer: Ann Hall

Sound Designer: Ian Coss

Logo Designer: Emily Wilson

]]> Displacement Episode 3: The Estranged Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences 00:17:50 PhD graduate in Sociology Monica Bell’s interviews with poor youth of color in Baltimore led her to formulate the idea of “legal estrangement.” While the press focuses on a “trust gap” between black youth and the police, Monica believes that the issue is far deeper. Her interviews revealed a generation of young Americans who feel both stateless and powerless. PhD graduate in Sociology Monica Bell’s interviews with poor youth of color in Baltimore led her to formulate the idea of “legal estrangement.” While the press focuses on a “trust gap” between black youth and the police, Monica believes that the issue is far deeper. Her interviews revealed a generation of young Americans who feel both stateless and powerless. stateless, trust gap, police, cities, authority, legal estrangement, youth, phd, justice system, black lives matter, poverty, legal aid, baltimore, class, sociology, harvard, race, monica bell, american politics, intersectionality, research no full 3 2 993363bd-bb8d-4603-9d70-ff1f2a82dd41 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 refugees flee violence in the Middle East, and wind up on the shores of Greece. Argyro Nicolaou, a PhD student in Comparative Literature, wants us to take a second look at the literature and art that displaced people produce, particularly in the Mediterranean. Can we find common ground between displaced Greeks in World War II, and displaced Syrians today?

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Host/Producer: Anna Fisher-Pinkert
Executive Producer: Ann Hall
Sound Designer: Ian Coss
Logo Designer: Emily Wilson

]]> Fri, 13 Jul 2018 11:00:00 +0000 pmassari@fas.harvard.edu (Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences) http://gsas.harvard.edu During World War II, many Greek people had to flee their homes and seek safety in the Middle East. Today, Syrian refugees flee violence in the Middle East, and wind up on the shores of Greece. Argyro Nicolaou, a PhD student in Comparative Literature, wants us to take a second look at the literature and art that displaced people produce, particularly in the Mediterranean. Can we find common ground between displaced Greeks in World War II, and displaced Syrians today?

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Host/Producer: Anna Fisher-Pinkert
Executive Producer: Ann Hall
Sound Designer: Ian Coss
Logo Designer: Emily Wilson

]]> Displacement Episode 2: The Shipwreck Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences 00:14:54 Argyro Nicolaou, a PhD student in Comparative Literature, wants us to take a second look at the literature and art that displaced people produce, particularly in the Mediterranean. Can we find common ground between displaced Greeks in World War II, and displaced Syrians today? Argyro Nicolaou, a PhD student in Comparative Literature, wants us to take a second look at the literature and art that displaced people produce, particularly in the Mediterranean. Can we find common ground between displaced Greeks in World War II, and displaced Syrians today? comparative literature, immigration, syria, human flow, phd, refugees, argyro nicolaou, world war ii, mediterranean, europe, migration, middle east, veritalk, turkey, cyprus, harvard, displacement, research, palestine, greece, art, literature no full 2 2 9a682123-9dc0-4b99-9ce0-14a26087cf71 Displacement Episode 1: The Rohingya Almost no outsiders have visited the internally displaced persons camps in Burma where over 140,000 Rohingya Muslims are forced to live. Cresa Pugh, a PhD student in sociology, was able to visit last year. She saw a community in turmoil – but many Burmese people deny that the Rohingya are being persecuted. Cresa asks why marginalized people like the Rohingya are often blamed for their own suffering.

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Host/Producer: Anna Fisher-Pinkert
Executive Producer: Ann Hall
Sound Designer: Ian Coss
Logo Designer: Emily Wilson

]]> Fri, 6 Jul 2018 11:00:00 +0000 pmassari@fas.harvard.edu (Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences) http://gsas.harvard.edu Almost no outsiders have visited the internally displaced persons camps in Burma where over 140,000 Rohingya Muslims are forced to live. Cresa Pugh, a PhD student in sociology, was able to visit last year. She saw a community in turmoil – but many Burmese people deny that the Rohingya are being persecuted. Cresa asks why marginalized people like the Rohingya are often blamed for their own suffering.

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Host/Producer: Anna Fisher-Pinkert
Executive Producer: Ann Hall
Sound Designer: Ian Coss
Logo Designer: Emily Wilson

]]> Displacement Episode 1: The Rohingya Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences 00:17:12 Cresa Pugh, a sociology PhD student, visits the camps in Burma where more than 140,000 Rohingya Muslims are forced to live, and learns how a minority group became marginalized and persecuted. Cresa Pugh, a sociology PhD student, visits the camps in Burma where more than 140,000 Rohingya Muslims are forced to live, and learns how a minority group became marginalized and persecuted. stateless, world events, rohingya, burma, burmese, refugees, harvard university, higher education, higher ed, internally displaced, world politics, veritalk, muslims, cresa pugh, harvard, crisis, rakine, displacement, un, research, international no full 1 2 ac21c02b-460b-44a0-9f57-888f47650303 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 to express gender and status -- and how present-day fashion can bend the "rules" we've come to know.

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Host/Producer: Anna Fisher-Pinkert
Executive Producer: Ann Hall
Sound Designer: Ian Coss
Logo Designer: Emily Wilson

]]> Fri, 23 Feb 2018 05:00:00 +0000 pmassari@fas.harvard.edu (Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences) http://gsas.harvard.edu In our last episode about plumage, Chloe Chapin, PhD student in American Studies, explores how humans have used fashion to express gender and status -- and how present-day fashion can bend the "rules" we've come to know.

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Host/Producer: Anna Fisher-Pinkert
Executive Producer: Ann Hall
Sound Designer: Ian Coss
Logo Designer: Emily Wilson

]]> Plumage Episode 3: Puttin' on the Ritz Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences 00:22:40 Ever wonder why we think of a suit as "masculine" and a dress as "feminine?" American Studies PhD student Chloe Chapin has wondered that, too - and she's digging back into history to figure out where our ideas about human "plumage" began. Ever wonder why we think of a suit as "masculine" and a dress as "feminine?" American Studies PhD student Chloe Chapin has wondered that, too - and she's digging back into history to figure out where our ideas about human "plumage" began. gender, american studies, plumage, chapin, clothing, phd, phd student, design, fashion history, gender bending, veritalk, harvard, university, history, fashion no full 3 1 94018f6f-ea8c-43d8-bb43-22e06f762280 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 still trying to figure out how to replicate some of nature's most impressive plumage.

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Host/Producer: Anna Fisher-Pinkert
Executive Producer: Ann Hall
Sound Designer: Ian Coss
Logo Designer: Emily Wilson

]]> Fri, 16 Feb 2018 05:00:00 +0000 pmassari@fas.harvard.edu (Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences) http://gsas.harvard.edu What if you wanted to recreate the iridescent blue-green of a peacock feather in a lab? It turns out that scientists are still trying to figure out how to replicate some of nature's most impressive plumage.

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Host/Producer: Anna Fisher-Pinkert
Executive Producer: Ann Hall
Sound Designer: Ian Coss
Logo Designer: Emily Wilson

]]> Plumage Episode 2: The Wild Blue Yonder Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences 00:18:13 Victoria Hwang and Annie Stephenson, PhD students in applied physics, use bird plumage as the inspiration for their work on structural color. Victoria Hwang and Annie Stephenson, PhD students in applied physics, use bird plumage as the inspiration for their work on structural color. applied physics, plumage, education, future, light, knowledge, higher ed, physics, veritalk, birds, nature, engineering, harvard, science, color, university, research no full 2 1 1569d102-534f-450d-8366-1565932f7f63 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 have brightly colored feathers. Then she asks an even bigger question: Why did some of these brightly colored birds also develop super-black feathers?

Learn more about Dakota McCoy's research.

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Host/Producer: Anna Fisher-Pinkert
Executive Producer: Ann Hall
Sound Designer: Ian Coss
Logo Designer: Emily Wilson

]]> Fri, 9 Feb 2018 05:00:00 +0000 pmassari@fas.harvard.edu (Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences) http://gsas.harvard.edu Harvard PhD student Dakota McCoy, who studies Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, asks why birds of paradise evolved to have brightly colored feathers. Then she asks an even bigger question: Why did some of these brightly colored birds also develop super-black feathers?

Learn more about Dakota McCoy's research.

Episode Transcript

The Veritalk Team:

Host/Producer: Anna Fisher-Pinkert
Executive Producer: Ann Hall
Sound Designer: Ian Coss
Logo Designer: Emily Wilson

]]> Plumage Episode 1: Love is a Battlefield Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences 00:16:08 In our first episode about plumage, Harvard PhD student Dakota McCoy tries to find out why some birds make super-black feathers. In our first episode about plumage, Harvard PhD student Dakota McCoy tries to find out why some birds make super-black feathers. plumage, phd, ornithology, biology, veritalk, birds, mccoy, harvard, science, university, birds of paradise no full 1 1