In the age of coronavirus and COVID-19, comparisons are being made to an unusually long-lived and virulent epidemic of influenza that occurred a century ago. …
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Episode 123: Scientific, Geographic & Historiographic Inventions of Colombia
The historian Andre Gunder Frank has theorized that former colonies cannot develop economically until they have overcome the legacy of their colonial past. The …
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Episode 122: The History of Sexual Orientation Conversion Therapy in the U.S.
Sexual orientation conversion therapy, the attempt to change one's sexual orientation through psychological or therapeutic practice, has now been banned in 17 …
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