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Welcome to The Chemical Show™, where chemicals mean business. If you're looking for insights from business leaders of mid-market to Fortune 50, this is the place to be. Featuring interviews with industry executives, you’ll hear about the key trends impacting chemicals and plastics today: growth, sustainability, innovation, business transformation, digitalization, supply chain, talent, strategic marketing, customer experience and much more. Episodes are published every Tuesday. Host Victoria ...
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A Matter of Degrees

Dr. Leah Stokes, Dr. Katharine Wilkinson

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Give up your climate guilt. Sharpen your curiosity. Join Dr. Leah Stokes and Dr. Katharine Wilkinson as they tell stories about the powerful forces behind climate change — and the tools we have to fix it. This show makes sense of big climate questions and critical topics. Our episodes are filled with stories of bold climate leadership, groundbreaking campaigns, and people doing their best to be part of the solution. A Matter of Degrees is produced in partnership with FRQNCY Media, The 2035 I ...
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This podcast interviews successful entrepreneurs and scientists about newest climate solutions in all sectors (food, agriculture, raw materials, fashion, etc.) to increase awareness to business owners, investors, and private persons. Also to stay positive, engaged and hopeful that this man made problem can be solved by us. Through SUSTAINNOW, listeners learn, get inspired, and get connected with the wider community, and together help build a better future. The podcast was founded in 2021 by ...
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BLAC Re-Membering Podcast

Black Appalachian Coalition

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Welcome to the Black Appalachian Coalitions podcast entitled Black Re-Membering, where we will bring to you the heavy and the hope across the Ohio River Valley. This is a place where we will let our souls wander. A place where we will sit in the ancestral hymns of what continues to be embedded in our soul and keeps us moving. This is a place where we will remind ourselves that we are deeply rooted in the fabric of the Appalachian region and that the Black Voice has something to say. We want ...
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Lux Research is a leading provider of tech-enabled research and advisory solutions, helping clients drive growth through technology innovation. A pioneer in the research industry, Lux uniquely combines technical expertise and business insights with a proprietary intelligence platform, using advanced analytics and data science to surface true leading indicators. With quality data derived from primary research, fact-based analysis, and opinions that challenge traditional thinking, Lux clients ...
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BLAC's Cultural and Narrative organizer, NitaJade, hosts today’s episode of the BLAC Re-Membering Podcast with special guest Dr. Patricia M DeMarco, Author, Activist, Environmental Justice Advocate, and Co-Conspirator. Dr. Patricia M. DeMarco is a Pittsburgh author with a doctorate in Biology from the University of Pittsburgh. She has spent a fifty…
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There are many routes to mental well-being. In this groundbreaking book, neuroscientist Camilla Nord offers a fascinating tour of the scientific developments that are revolutionising the way we think about mental health, showing why and how events--and treatments--can affect people in such different ways. In The Balanced Brain: The Science of Menta…
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Join us at The Chemical Summit on October 8-9, 2024 to engage with great leaders, including many guests of The Chemical Show. Visit thechemicalsummit.com for more information and to register. Explore the dynamic landscape of the chemical industry as host Victoria Meyer delves into six key trends that will shape 2024 and 2025. From ever-changing sup…
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Join us at The Chemical Summit on October 8-9, 2024 to engage with great leaders, including many guests of The Chemical Show. Visit thechemicalsummit.com for more information and to register. Ep 179 Show Notes Geopolitical shifts, economic challenges, and sustainability goals are reshaping the global chemical industry. John Richardson, senior consu…
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The idea of “backwardness” often plagues historical writing on Russia. In Russia in the Time of Cholera: Disease under Romanovs and Soviets (Bloomsbury Academic, 2018), Dr. John P. Davis counteracts this “backwardness” paradigm, arguing that from the early 19th to the early 20th centuries, Russian medical researchers—along with their counterparts i…
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Join us at The Chemical Summit on October 8-9, 2024 to engage with great leaders, including many guests of The Chemical Show. Visit thechemicalsummit.com for more information and to register. Ep 178 Show Notes - How Collaboration, Customers, and Community Contribute to Sustainability Uncover the impactful stories behind the winners of American Chem…
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John Garrison's Red Hot + Blue (33 1/3 Series) (Bloomsbury, 2024) is a meditation on music's capacity to find us, transform us, and help us make sense of our historical moment. In a narrative that blends memoir and history, Red Hot + Blue explores Garrison's coming out at the height of the AIDS crisis alongside the history of the music industry's r…
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Today's episode promises to be a fascinating deep dive into the science of sustainability and the future of livestock. Joining us today is Steve Meller, co-founder of CH4 Global, a company focused on reducing methane emissions from livestock—specifically, the burps and farts of cows. Yes, you heard that right! We’ll be discussing how a unique type …
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Soda Science: Making the World Safe for Coca-Cola (U Chicago Press, 2024) takes readers deep inside the secret world of corporate science, where powerful companies and allied academic scientists mould research to meet industry needs. The 1990s were tough times for the soda industry. In the United States, obesity rates were exploding. Public health …
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Join us at The Chemical Summit on October 8-9, 2024 to engage with great leaders, including many guests of The Chemical Show. Visit thechemicalsummit.com for more information and to register. Discover how necessity is driving sustainable innovation in the chemical industry with host Victoria Meyer and guests Robert Dishman of Cyclx and Matt Adams o…
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Welcome back for a special bonus episode of A Matter of Degrees! In this episode, we are taking a look back at our live conversation with Vice President Kamala Harris. Since we are once again at a pivotal moment for the climate, we wanted to kick off our new season by looking back at this incredible climate leader who has played a key role in getti…
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Join us at The Chemical Summit on October 8-9, 2024 to engage with great leaders, including many guests of The Chemical Show. Visit thechemicalsummit.com for more information and to register. Explore the intersection of digital innovation and chemical distribution with host Victoria Meyer and Austin Nichols, CEO of ChemPoint, on The Chemical Show. …
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In this episode, Tawan Harris shares her journey from growing up in St. Louis to her experiences in the military, shedding light on the challenges faced by Black communities in Appalachia. Her personal encounters with poverty and crime underscore the importance of resilience and community support in overcoming adversity. Tawan's advocacy for system…
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Join us at The Chemical Summit on October 8-9, 2024 to engage with great leaders, including many guests of The Chemical Show. Visit thechemicalsummit.com for more information and to register. Exploring the crucial role of resilience in both personal and professional contexts, host Victoria Meyer delves into how businesses and individuals can adapt,…
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Tracing women’s experiences of miscarriage and termination for foetal anomaly in the second trimester, before legal viability, shows how such events are positioned as less ‘real’ or significant when the foetal being does not, or will not, survive. Invisible Labour: The Reproductive Politics of Second Trimester Pregnancy Loss in England (Berghahn, 2…
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🎙️ Today in SustainNow our guest is Kilian Kaminski: co-founder of Refurbed, one of the fastest growing marketplaces for refurbished products in the DACH region. In this episode, Kilian shares the inspiring story of Refurbed, from its inception in 2017 with his two co-founders Jürgen Riedl, and Peter Windischhofer, to becoming a leading marketplace…
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Is a green future possible? In Petrochemical Planet: Multiscalar Battles of Industrial Transformation (Duke UP, 2023), Alice Mah, a Professor in Urban and Environmental Studies at the University of Glasgow examines the practices of the petrochemical industry, along with the communities living with, and resisting, its impact. Offering ethnographic a…
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In this episode, Caleb Zakarin and Uri Bram dive into the world of effective charitable giving through the lens of GiveWell, an organization known for its rigorous evaluation of charities. Uri explains how GiveWell identifies and recommends high-impact charities, discussing the data-driven criteria and ethical considerations behind their assessment…
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Join us at The Chemical Summit on October 8-9, 2024 to engage with great leaders, including many guests of The Chemical Show. Visit thechemicalsummit.com for more information and to register. Discover how hiring for character and training for skills can cultivate a thriving company culture with Kris Maynard, executive chairman of Essential Ingredie…
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Join us at The Chemical Summit on October 8-9, 2024 to engage with great leaders, including many guests of The Chemical Show. Visit thechemicalsummit.com for more information and to register. Sharing valuable insights on strategic partnerships, Rob van der Meij, a partner at Capricorn Partners joins host Victoria Meyer for the final installment of …
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Fella Benabed's book Applied Global Health Humanities: Readings in the Global Anglophone Novel (de Gruyter, 2024) highlights the importance of global Anglophone literature in global health humanities, shaping perceptions of health issues in the Global South and among minorities in the Global North. Using twelve novels, it explores the historical, p…
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Welcome to the Global Media & Communication podcast series. This podcast is a multimodal project powered by the Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication (CARGC) at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. At CARGC, we produce and promote critical, interdisciplinary, and multimodal research on global medi…
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Distributed to millions of people annually across Africa and the global south, insecticide-treated bed nets have become a cornerstone of malaria control and twenty-first-century global health initiatives. Despite their seemingly obvious public health utility, however, these chemically infused nets and their rise to prominence were anything but inev…
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I'm excited to have Bas van Abel, the founder of Fairphone, with us today In this episode. Bas takes us on the journey of Fairphone from its humble beginnings as an awareness campaign to running the biggest crowdfunding at that time, to its evolution into a pioneering company striving for a systemic change in the smartphone industry. We will explor…
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Join us at The Chemical Summit on October 8-9, 2024 to engage with great leaders, including many guests of The Chemical Show. Visit thechemicalsummit.com for more information and to register. Wondering how venture capital firms support the clean tech startup ecosystem? Explore the intricacies of sustainable investing and leadership dynamics in the …
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Health inequity is one of the defining problems of our time. But current efforts to address the problem focus on mitigating the harms of injustice rather than confronting injustice itself. In Equal Care: Health Equity, Social Democracy, and the Egalitarian State (Johns Hopkins UP, 2024), Seth A. Berkowitz, MD, MPH, offers an innovative vision for t…
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Join us at The Chemical Summit on October 8-9, 2024 to engage with great leaders, including many guests of The Chemical Show. Visit thechemicalsummit.com for more information and to register. Behavioral economics is revolutionizing the business world with Melina Palmer, CEO of The Brainy Business, and Victoria Meyer on The Chemical Show®. Melina de…
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Based on over a decade of research, a powerful, moving work of narrative nonfiction that illuminates the little-known world of the anexos of Mexico City, the informal addiction treatment centers where mothers send their children to escape the violence of the drug war. The Way That Leads Among the Lost: Life, Death, and Hope in Mexico City's Anexos …
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Welcome to another episode in our BLAC Juneteenth Black Jubilee Series! In honor of Juneteenth and the ongoing struggle to enjoy full freedom, we highlight what Black community leaders are doing to liberate Black Appalachian communities. This episode of our BLAC Jubilee Juneteenth series is about the intersection of Queer Liberation & Juneteenth. J…
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Join us at The Chemical Summit on October 8-9, 2024 to engage with great leaders, including many guests of The Chemical Show. Visit thechemicalsummit.com for more information and to register. Discover why methanol has become the number one alternative fuel for ships ordered in 2023 and how the race for environmentally improved methanol is shaping t…
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In this Pandemic Perspectives Podcast, Ideas Roadshow founder and host Howard Burton talks to Michael Gordin, Rosengarten Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at Princeton University, about the differences between science and pseudoscience and how the COVID-19 Pandemic showed that most people don't realize that science is highly dynamic. Go…
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Between the 1920s and 1980s, the choices that Ghanaian women made regarding their reproductive health were defined by development policy and practice. Spanning the colonial and immediate postcolonial periods, Holly Ashford's book Development and Women's Reproductive Health in Ghana, 1920-1982 (Routledge, 2022) demonstrates that whilst the substance…
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John T. Maier's The Disabled Will: A Theory of Addiction (Routledge Press, 2024) defends a comprehensive new vision of what addiction is and how people with addictions should be treated. The author argues that, in addition to physical and intellectual disabilities, there are volitional disabilities - disabilities of the will - and that addiction is…
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Welcome to our BLAC Juneteenth Black Jubilee Series! Today's episode is a celebration of BLAC’s 3rd Anniversary. Join us in this conversation with Founder and Executive Director of BLAC, Bishop Marcia Dinkins and BLAC Federal Grants Navigator Shana Goggins as they: Explore the historical significance and cultural resonance of Juneteenth, uncovering…
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Join us at The Chemical Summit on October 8-9, 2024 to engage with great leaders, including many guests of The Chemical Show. Visit thechemicalsummit.com for more information and to register. Wondering how a unicorn startup in the chemical industry is changing the business of chemicals? Join host Victoria Meyer as she speaks with Gaurab Chakrabarti…
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Today we are re-releasing a very special episode to honor Crystal Cauley, a prominent and cherished Hendersonville, NC Black community leader who recently passed. Crystal will truly be miss and we mourn her loss. We hope this episode will serve to honor her and her work. Read more here about her legacy and her work. The mission of the Black Appalac…
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Welcome to Episode 2 of our BLAC Juneteenth Black Jubilee Series! Today's episode released on Juneteenth features a powerful conversation with Narrative Organizing Fellow NitaJade and Frank X Walker, professor and co-founder of the Affrilachian poets based in Kentucky. Tune in as they: Uncover the overlooked history of Affrilacha and its profound i…
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Join us at The Chemical Summit on October 8-9, 2024 to engage with great leaders, including many guests of The Chemical Show. Visit thechemicalsummit.com for more information and to register. How essential are strong business relationships and how can geopolitical tensions shape chemical industry business strategies? Host Victoria Meyer sits down w…
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The Occasional Human Sacrifice: Medical Experimentation and the Price of Saying No (Norton, 2024) is an intellectual inquiry into the moral struggle that whistleblowers face, and why it is not the kind of struggle that most people imagine. Carl Elliott is a bioethicist at the University of Minnesota who was trained in medicine as well as philosophy…
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Welcome to our BLAC Juneteenth Black Jubilee Series! Today's episode features Narrative Organizing Fellow NitaJade and DeWayne Barton, Founder and CEO of Hood Huggers International based in Asheville, NC. Tune in as they: Explore the transformative impact of Hood Huggers International's work in revitalizing Asheville communities through sustainable…
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Join us at The Chemical Summit on October 8-9, 2024 to engage with great leaders, including many guests of The Chemical Show. Visit thechemicalsummit.com for more information and to register. Ep 167 Show Notes - Carbon Capture and Sustainability with Kevin Norfleet of Celanese Get an insider's view of sustainability in the chemical industry with Ke…
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Each year in India more than two million people fall sick with tuberculosis (TB), an infectious, airborne, and potentially deadly lung disease. The country accounts for almost 30 percent of all TB cases worldwide and well above a third of global deaths from it. Because TB’s prevalence also indicates unfulfilled development promises, its control is …
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In this Pandemic Perspectives Podcast, Ideas Roadshow founder and host Howard Burton talks to Elizabeth Anderson, Max Shaye Professor of Public Philosophy at the University of Michigan, on the need for making increased efforts to explicitly create occasions for people to frankly communicate with each other during a crisis. Ideas Roadshow's Pandemic…
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Join us at The Chemical Summit on October 8-9, 2024 to engage with great leaders, including many guests of The Chemical Show. Visit thechemicalsummit.com for more information and to register. Ep 166 Show Notes Explore the pivotal role data and AI are playing in transforming safety and sustainability at DuPont with Daryl Roberts, Chief Engineering a…
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Dialysis is a medical miracle, a treatment that allows people with kidney failure to live when otherwise they would die. It also provides a captive customer for the dialysis industry, which values the steady revenues that come from critically required long-term care that is guaranteed by the government. Tom Mueller's six year deep dive into the dia…
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Join us at The Chemical Summit on October 8-9, 2024 to engage with great leaders, including many guests of The Chemical Show. Visit thechemicalsummit.com for more information and to register. Ep 165 Show Notes - Achieving Success in Chemicals: Sustainability and Leadership with Bonnie Tully of Evonik Bonnie Tully, North American President of Evonik…
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During the COVID pandemic, billions of dollars in relief aid was sent out to help us ride out the storm, although many people who struggled through it might scratch their heads at such a number, having seen little of it make any concrete impact in their own lives. This discrepancy is indicative of the underlying problem with the contemporary care e…
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Join us at The Chemical Summit on October 8-9, 2024 to engage with great leaders, including many guests of The Chemical Show. Visit thechemicalsummit.com for more information and to register. Discover how BASF, a global frontrunner in the chemical industry, is transforming its commitment to sustainability into innovative practices and leadership. M…
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Ryan Reft is a historian in the Manuscript Division at the Library of Congress, where he oversees collections pertaining to 20th and 21st century domestic politics and policies. He received his PhD in U.S. urban history from the University of California San Diego in 2014, and his writing has appeared all over the place, from edited volumes to acade…
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Global risks present formidable challenges to international law. Although they have long been identified in many other scientific disciplines, they are currently only considered on a sectoral basis in international law in the absence of a legal definition. The aim of Sarah Cassella's book Global Risks and International Law: The Case of Climate Chan…
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