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Kelly welcomes Martha Jones back to the podcast. She is the Society of Black Alumni Presidential Professor and professor of history at the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University. We spoke to her last about her book “Vanguard.” Her new book is called “The Trouble of Color: An American Family Memoir.” You write in the book: “I …
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Kelly connects with Dannagal Goldthwaite Young, a professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Delaware. Her research interests include political media effects, public opinion, political satire and the psychology of political humor. Her books include “Irony and Outrage” and “Wrong.” She’s also an improviser. You talk in your book about the right/left schism being …
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Kelly talks to University of Michigan Professor Ethan Cross about his new book: “Shift: Managing Your Emotions – So They Don’t Manage You.” One of the key ideas in your book is that we are looking for single solutions to emotional regulation and there just isn’t one way to do this correctly. “There are …
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Kelly goes behind the scenes of Alzheimer’s research with science writer Charles Piller whose new book is called “Doctored: Fraud, Arrogance, and Tragedy in the Quest to Cure Alzheimer’s.” How did this investigation into fraudulent Alzheimer’s research begin? “Back in December 2021, I was talking with this guy, Matthew Schrag, who’s an investigator and …