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  • Laura Brown Traces Our Love of Animals Through Literature

    Laura Brown Traces Our Love of Animals Through Literature
    2020/02/28
    Professor Laura Brown’s endeavors as a literature reader and critical writer have provided a window into humans’ relationships with various species throughout history. She reveals to host Fred Lawrence what alterity, monkeys, feminist portrayal, and imperialism have to do with each other and what she considers to be the status of the humanities in academia.

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    24 分
  • Alfred Spector: Envisioning the Synergies between the Liberal Arts and Computer Science

    Alfred Spector: Envisioning the Synergies between the Liberal Arts and Computer Science
    2020/01/31
    In this episode, Dr. Alfred Spector offers an optimistic take on the evolving relationship between the liberal arts and computer science. Reflecting on his career experiences in creating a company, working for Google and IBM, and now diving into economic modeling, Spector provides a fascinating account of the evolution of computer science both inside and beyond the academy.

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    29 分
  • 2019 Book Awards Dinner Keynote Roundtable

    2019 Book Awards Dinner Keynote Roundtable
    2020/01/03
    The Phi Beta Kappa book awards are given annually to three outstanding scholarly books published in the United States. 2019’s winners are Imani Perry for Looking for Lorraine: the Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry; Adam Frank, for Light of the Stars: Alien Worlds and the Fate of the Earth; and Sarah Igo for The Known Citizen: A History of Privacy in Modern America. They revealed their thinking behind the works we celebrated and shared stories of unmatched discovery, spoke of love beyond adversity, and fueled our collective imagination with examples of unbound human curiosity.

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    37 分
  • Why Dr. Dava Newman Will Be Among the People to Get Humans to Mars

    Why Dr. Dava Newman Will Be Among the People to Get Humans to Mars
    2019/11/29
    Dava Newman has spent her career figuring out how to get humans to space, and helping them not only to survive there, but also to thrive. She is the Apollo Program Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT and the former NASA Deputy Administrator. Her multidisciplinary work combines aerospace biomedical engineering, control modeling, biomechanics, and human interface technology, and she is a leader in advanced spacesuit design. In this episode, she talks about her journey from her childhood in Montana to college at Notre Dame to her research at MIT to leading role at NASA, in addition to how close she thinks we are to getting humans to land on Mars.

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    27 分
  • Two Philosophers Ponder What It Means to Act Together

    Two Philosophers Ponder What It Means to Act Together
    2019/11/01
    Philosophers Michael E. Bratman, from Stanford University, and Margaret P. Gilbert, from UC Irvine, are this year’s recipients of the Lebowitz Prize for Philosophical Achievement and Contribution, presented by the Phi Beta Kappa Society and the American Philosophical Association. In their respective work, each has expanded on the question of “What is it to act together?” based on sometimes divergent philosophical underpinnings of how two or more individuals interact in a collaborative effort.

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    30 分
  • Celebrated Author Edwidge Danticat Retraces the Arc of Her Literary Genius

    Celebrated Author Edwidge Danticat Retraces the Arc of Her Literary Genius
    2019/10/04
    While promoting her new book, an accomplished short story collection called Everything Inside, the PBK member and noted writer talks about her formative experiences, like imagining herself not as Madeline but the classic’s author, and writing for a high school paper in New York City a mere year after immigrating to the US from Haiti. She opens up about “borrowed memories” in her life and her work, about the role of death and ritual in healing, and the continuity of purpose in her writing

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    30 分
  • How Neuroscientist Susan Birren Is Mapping New Pathways from the Brain

    How Neuroscientist Susan Birren Is Mapping New Pathways from the Brain
    2019/08/29
    The human brain has 100 billion cells, and there’s still so much to discover about it. Brandeis University neuroscientist Susan Birren has dedicated her distinguished career to decoding the mysteries of how the brain functions and how it communicates with the rest of the body. In this episode, she talks to Phi Beta Kappa Secretary and CEO Fred Lawrence about the challenges and triumphs of such a singular pursuit.

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    23 分
  • REPLAY: Economist Paula Stephan on Incentives and Gender Biases

    REPLAY: Economist Paula Stephan on Incentives and Gender Biases
    2019/08/02
    As a college student, Professor Paula Stephan fell in love with economics as a way to understand and influence systems that impacted many people's lives. Years of documenting and analyzing the role of gender in academic performance and the impact of monetary and status incentives on scholars and universities have led her to startling conclusions. In this episode, PBK's Fred Lawrence asks the Georgia State University’s to go beyond the research.

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    25 分