When Experts Attack!
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When Experts Attack!
“When Experts Attack!” fights misinformation, zaps half-truths, and sets the record straight. Each episode is a conversation with a specialist in science, art, society or health, for example. Hear guests answer the question: "Hey, what does everybody get wrong about what you do?"
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Trump’s trade war didn’t come from nowhere
International trade expert Raj Bhala assesses the greatest disruption in trade since the end of World War II and asks whether manufacturing will reall...
Some therapists need musicianship
Maybe the least-known specialty in any music school is music therapy — the clinical and evidence-based use of music to improve health and well-being....
Algorithms amplifying outrage
James Yékú sees social media empowering people to respond to corrupt political leaders in his home country of Nigeria — yet, social media also shuts d...
Tariffs could cost America
Jack Zhang researches the sometimes-hidden complexities of tariffs and says innovation, competition, small business and the pocketbooks of working-cla...
Regalia is for scholars, not just kings
Why do university graduates wear caps and gowns? Steve Wolgast gets medieval explaining how European scholars centuries ago, wearing gowns for warmth...
The online sports-betting boom
Researcher and gambler Justin Balthrop explains pitfalls of legalized online sports betting, including more credit card debt and fewer sound financial...
In politics, gender still matters
Author and scholar Mary Banwart discusses her new book chronicling the history of women in U.S. politics, with a newly penned forward following Kamala...
The history of teaching history
Stephen Jackson, an education professor who prepares future teachers on instructing students in history, discusses how controversies in teaching histo...
Police shouldn’t raid newspapers
A year ago, police officers executed a search warrant on a small-town Kansas newspaper, triggering worldwide outrage over the seizing of newspaper equ...
Taylor Swift is a sociological phenom
Brian Donovan is teaching a university course on the artistic and sociological influence of Taylor Swift. He outlines how the semester’s lessons mirro...
Small-city population health in Kansas
Mahbub Rashid says his book is the first to examine how spatial qualities impact health issues for people living in areas that aren’t strictly rural o...
The self-driving future of deliveries
Sara Reed, an expert in transportation logistics, has extensively researched autonomous vehicle delivery. She discusses the technology’s benefits for...
People mimic Southern accents
Linguist Lacey Wade has discovered many of us shift our speech in expectation of what others might sound like, especially in respect to the U.S. South...
Culture shapes how our brains learn (transcript)
BRENDAN LYNCH, HOST: We live in a time where nothing is true. An era where reality and hoax look the same on the internet. Whoa, wait a second. There...
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Culture shapes how our brains learn
People don’t learn the same way everywhere — in large part this comes down to culture. Guest Michael Orosco says new culturally responsive studies in...
Wrongful convictions are political (transcript)
BRENDAN LYNCH, HOST: We live in a time where nothing is true. An era where reality and hoax look the same on the internet. Whoa, wait a second. There...
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Wrongful convictions are political
Public policy expert Kevin Mullinix discusses how policy reforms to reduce wrongful convictions depend on political sentiments in any given U.S. state...
AI is an elephant in the classroom (transcript)
BRENDAN LYNCH, HOST: We live in a time where nothing is true. An era where reality and hoax look the same on the internet. Whoa, wait a second. There...
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AI is an elephant in the classroom
Kathryn Conrad, University of Kansas professor of English, says artificial intelligence can no longer safely be ignored in academia. It’s better, she...
Incentive resentment
Robert McDonald resents the intrusion of incentives into virtually every facet of modern life, from healthcare to education to the legal system. He la...
AI belongs in the classroom
While many reasonable people fear possible disruptions from artificial intelligence like ChatGPT and its brethren, others look to seize its potential....
Slavic languages and conflict in eastern and central Europe
Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, so much of the news has been focused on events in central and eastern Europe. Marc Greenberg, an expert in Slav...
The blame-China game
China increasingly gets scapegoated for any crisis involving the economy, security or global health in the U.S. Jack Zhang, assistant professor of pol...
Steam train history derails ideas about extinction in nature
Paleontologist Bruce Lieberman tracks the history of steam-powered locomotives for answers to huge questions about natural evolution and why species d...
Virtual reality boosts psychotherapy
What if you could receive counseling and psychotherapy in a forest, log cabin or Sigmund Freud’s office — maybe from a therapist who also happens to b...
ChatGPT didn’t write this podcast
John Symons, professor of philosophy at the University of Kansas, explores social, technological and existential concerns relating to artificial intel...
ChatGPT didn’t write this podcast
John Symons, professor of philosophy at the University of Kansas, explores social, technological and existential concerns relating to artificial intel...
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Archaeology is science, pseudo-archaeology is nonsense
Anthropologist John Hoopes has made it his personal and professional mission to ferret out pseudo-science in the field of archaeology. Specializing in...
Hollywood’s stereotypes of Black male teachers
Moviemakers have pigeonholed Black male teachers into stereotypical tropes for years. Education scholar Daniel Thomas III has researched popular films...
Death of the political apology
Politicians don’t say "I'm sorry" for anything anymore. We explore why with Brett Bricker, a national-champion debater and debate coach who researches...
Kansas once incarcerated women for having sex
Seen by some today as a bastion of women’s rights, Kansas once locked up more than 5,000 women for contracting venereal disease, thanks to a law that...
Good basketball shooting can be coached. Here’s how
Basketball coaches have a million tips on how to be a better shooter. Guest Dimitrije Cabarkapa says scientific evidence shows which are best. Keeping...
Social media isn’t stealing our face-to-face time
There’s been a drop in how much time people around the world spend in face-to-face interaction, but guest Jeffrey Hall says don’t blame social media....
Savvy, lazy or crazy, Putin will soon lose power
According to Valery Dzutsati, visiting assistant professor of political science at the University of Kansas, the attempted conquest of Ukraine has exp...
Resignation nation
It’s been called The Great Resignation or, more poetically, The Big Quit. Since July 2021, more than 20 million Americans have left their jobs volunta...
Don’t fear prudence
Do we act out of a sense of what’s moral or do we act out of self-interest? Dale Dorsey, professor of philosophy at the University of Kansas, argues t...
The media’s meditation monolith
Media tend to cover meditation and mindfulness as potential panaceas that can be good for everyone. But assuming mediation and mindfulness will help e...
Financial transparency isn’t always the answer
Guest Alexander Platt says that in some cases transparency regarding who invests in which companies can stifle economic competition, help defeat corpo...
Is the drug lord the new Robin Hood?
Rafael Acosta Morales, author and University of Kansas associate professor of Spanish language and literature, argues traditional American media stere...
Video games are history teachers
Increasingly, people are learning about historical events via video games. Guest Andrew Denning looks at just what versions of history are depicted in...