Wondering what happened to Quibi? Roku bought âem... and now the little dongle that could is in 54M homes. Papa Johnâs just defied every carby expectation thanks to Epic premium-ized pizza (literally). And Oura raised $100M for a fitness tech ring with a formula for scalability.
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Omar Alshogre survived years of detainment in Syria when he was just a teenager. Now, heâs in the U.S. and is telling his story of survival so you donât look away.
Guest: Omar Alshogre, a Georgetown Student and the Director of Detainee Affairs at the Syrian Emergency Task Force.
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"Thatâs such a hard question,â Gina Neff, a sociologist at the Oxford Internet Institute, responds when asked what social science research or thinker most influenced her. âItâs like a busmanâs holiday for an academic, because so many things have influenced my thinking.â Her answer, by the way, was Ulrich Beckâs concept of the risk society, as explained in this 1986 book.
In this montage drawn from the last two years of Social Science Bites podcasts, interviewer David Edmonds poses the same question to 25 other notable social scientists.
For many of the guests, the answer proves difficult to pin down to just one person or work (âThatâs like asking whoâs your favorite kid,â was David Halpernâs first response). For a few guests, the response is instant.
âA simple answer, really,â replies Rupert Brown, naming a fellow social psychologist, Turkish-American Muzafer Sherif, and his work in the 1950s. And sociologist Les Back, too, answers instantly: âDonât even have to think about it: WEB DuBoisâs The Souls of Black Folk. DuBois is the writer who captures both the heat and the passion of life and also the cool historical perspective and analysis in the most extraordinary compound of literary expression.â
Back, in turn, was mentioned by one scholar: Kayleigh Garthwaite as her great influencer.
A number of the guests cited titans from the early days of social science â Max Weber, Karl Marx, Pierre Bourdieu, Emile Durkheim, while others named modern-era titans like Stephen Pinker, Daniel Kahneman, Jonathan Haidt or Jean Piaget. And many named creators of the new canon â Jim Scott cited A.P. Thompsonâs Making of the English Working Class, Alondra Nelson picked Troy Dusterâs Backdoor to Eugenics, and Gurminder Bhambra tabbed Danielle S. Allenâs Talking to Strangers: Anxieties of Citizenship since Brown v. Board of Education.
And no such list would be complete without a wild card, and for that we turn to Michelle Gelfand, who turned to Herodotusâ The Histories and the lessons a 2,500-year-old post-mortem of an ancient war can teach us today: âHe was a brilliant cross-cultural psychologist ⌠he also had a really interesting observation â that all humans are ethnocentric. They donât just think that their culture is different, they think itâs better.â
This is the fourth collection in this series (and the 100th Social Science Bites podcast).
The Sackler name is more often associated with philanthropy and lavish donations in the arts and sciences. But the investigative reporter Patrick Radden Keefe tells another story in Empire of Pain. He questions how much of the Sackler wealth was made from the making and aggressive marketing of the painkiller, Oxycontin. He tells Amol Rajan of the misery that has unfolded in todayâs opioid crisis â an epidemic of drug addiction which has killed nearly half a million people in the US.
The direct marketing to GPs and advertising campaigns in the US helped to make Oxycontin a hugely popular drug. But in the UK too there are concerns about the over-prescribing of painkillers for long periods of time. Dr Zoe Williams is a GP in South London and presenter of the BBC show, Trust Me Iâm a Doctor. As a founding member of the British Society of Lifestyle Medicine sheâs pioneering changes to reduce dependency on drugs, and increase take-up of alternative treatments, like exercise.
What happens when people start to mistrust medical authorities is at the heart of Heidi Larsonâs work as Director of the Vaccine Confidence Project at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. In her latest book, Stuck, she looks at how vaccine reluctance and refusal is no longer limited to the margins of society. As mistrust of the official message and messenger grows so does rumour, conflict and hesitancy.
The Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines are the first authorized vaccines in history to use mRNA technology. The pandemic might've set the stage for their debut, but mRNA vaccines have been in the works for more than 30 years. Host Maddie Sofia chats with Dr. Margaret Liu, a physician and board chair of the International Society for Vaccines, about the history and science behind these groundbreaking vaccines. We'll also ask, what we can expect from mRNA vaccines in the future?
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Providing one of the first comprehensive, cross-cultural examinations of the dynamic market for sexual services, this book presents an evidence-based look at the multiple factors related to purchasing patterns and demand among clients who have used the internet.
The data is drawn from two large surveys of sex workers' clients in the US and UK. The book presents descriptive baseline data on client engagement with online platforms, demographics and patterns of frequency in different markets, information on smaller niche markets and client reactions to exploitation, safety and changes in the law.
Teela Sanders, Barbara G. Brents and Chris Wakefield's book Paying for Sex in a Digital Age: US and UK Perspectives (Routledge, 2020) makes clear that a variety of situational as well as individual factors affect the willingness and ability to purchase sexual services. The view that emerges shatters the stereotypes and generalistions on which much policy is based and demonstrates the complexities surrounding who pays for sex and the contours of sexual consumption in consumer culture.
Rachel Stuart is a sex work researcher whose primary interest is the lived experiences of sex workers.
The good news: things are starting to open back up. The bad news: it’s going to feel weird. Dr. Bob is joined by Lucy McBride and Craig Spencer for this toolkit all about how to navigate the "new normal." From taking off your mask in public to dealing with anxiety to navigating post-vaccine life with unvaccinated kids... this toolkit’s got something for everyone.
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With more and more Americans becoming fully vaccinated against COVID-19, officials have signaled a willingness to revise mask wearing rules again for those who have gotten their shots. Globally, the Biden administration has finally gotten behind the idea of waiving patents on vaccines so that generic versions of the drugs can be produced abroad, especially in places that are experiencing extreme surges in coronavirus cases. To answer the most pressing questions we have about this new phase of the pandemic, we spoke with Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, an epidemiologist, physician, and former health commissioner of Detroit.
And in headlines: Israel's Supreme Court delays a decision regarding planned evictions of Palestinian families, a piece of a rocket from China lands in the ocean by the Maldives, and the winner of the 2021 Kentucky Derby may have been doping.
