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Interchange – Metaphors of Correction: Sheila Jasanoff on Life Science

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 59:00 — 45.6MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreLet’s begin with Emerson’s 1870 lecture “The Natural History of the Intellect.” What is life but the angle of vision? A man is measured by the angle at which he looks at objects. What is life but what a man is thinking of all day? This is …

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Hola Bloomington – July 13, 2018

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 59:00 — 42.2MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreLocutores Luis Hernandez, Luis Fuentes-Rohwer, y Carlos Bakota hablaron sobre las Noticias, Leyes y Politica.  Nos cuentan sobre las nuevas leyes apartir del primero de Julio, nos cuentan un poco sobre Jim Crow, y terminan con una conversacion sobre las demostracion de “Familias Separadas” en Bloomington.   …

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New Law Collects DNA from Arrestees

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 7:40 — 7.0MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreIndiana’s legislature passed a law last session requiring law enforcement to collect DNA from people arrested in connection with a felony. That law went into effect on January first. The DNA, which is collected with a cotton swab from the inside of a person’s mouth, is then …

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Daily Local News – January 11, 2018

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:19 — 11.7MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreBloomington City Council members are working to limit the heights of new downtown development, the Sophia Travis playground at Karst Farm Park is getting a makeover, the Indiana legislature is considering revising Indiana’s alcohol laws, Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb addressed the state legislature in his State of the …

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Standing Room Only: Reconciliation Projects — The Vexed Racial Politics of Genetics Ancestry Testing

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 57:49 — 79.4MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreOn September 14, sociologist Dr. Alondra Nelson spoke about racial politics in DNA testing. Dr. Nelson is a Columbia University professor of sociology and the president of the Social Science Research Council. She was also Indiana University’s Institute for Advanced Study Fall 2017 Branigin Lecturer, which was …

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