Veritalk
Do you have a curious mind? Do you sometimes daydream about having a PhD in literature, science, or history?Go inside the minds of PhDs at Harvard University with the Veritalk podcast. Veritalk is produced at Harvard’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. In each three-episode miniseries of Verital… read more
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4.3 Who Owns the Night?
February 7th, 2019
When developers try to revitalize the nightlife in Johannesburg, not everyone is invited to the party. PhD candidate Chrystel Oloukoi explores the …
4.2 Pothole Politics
January 31st, 2019
Everyone hates potholes – except PhD candidate Elijah de la Campa. Elijah uses potholes to understand why some citizens interact with local …
4.1 Hello, you've reached. . . Manila?
January 24th, 2019
One jetlagged night in Manila leads PhD candidate Justin Stern into the world of business process outsourcing.
The Veritalk Team:
Host/Producer: Anna Fisher-Pinkert
Executive Producer: Ann Hall
Sound Designer: Ian Coss
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Veritalk Monsters: Episode 3 - King Kong vs. Gravity
November 1st, 2018
Why isn’t King Kong scaling the Empire State Building right now? Should we worry about Godzilla rising from the depths of the Pacific Ocean? Shane …
Veritalk Monsters: Episode 2 - Parasites
October 25th, 2018
Some monsters live inside us. PhD candidate in Biological Sciences in Public Health Maddy McFarland studies Trypanosoma cruzi, a parasite that …
Veritalk Monsters: Episode 1 - Mermaids
October 18th, 2018
Mermaids: They’re cute, innocent, and great singers, right? Think again! PhD candidate in Celtic Languages and Literatures Greg Darwin explains why …
Displacement Episode 3: The Estranged
July 19th, 2018
PhD graduate in Sociology Monica Bell’s interviews with poor youth of color in Baltimore led her to formulate the idea of “legal estrangement.” While …
Veritalk Displacement Episode 2: The Shipwreck
July 12th, 2018
During World War II, many Greek people had to flee their homes and seek safety in the Middle East. Today, Syrian refugees flee violence in the Middle …
Displacement Episode 1: The Rohingya
July 5th, 2018
Almost no outsiders have visited the internally displaced persons camps in Burma where over 140,000 Rohingya Muslims are forced to live. Cresa Pugh, …
Plumage Episode 3: Puttin' on the Ritz
February 26th, 2018
In our last episode about plumage, Chloe Chapin, PhD student in American Studies, explores how humans have used fashion to express gender and status …
Plumage Episode 2: The Wild Blue Yonder
February 15th, 2018
What if you wanted to recreate the iridescent blue-green of a peacock feather in a lab? It turns out that scientists are still trying to figure out how to replicate some of nature's most impressive plumage.
The Veritalk …
Plumage Episode 1: Love is a Battlefield
February 8th, 2018
Harvard PhD student Dakota McCoy, who studies Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, asks why birds of paradise evolved to have brightly colored …
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