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“BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY.” —Time “It is impossible to name a book that had a greater effect on the political and moral consciousness of the late twentieth century.” —David Remnick, The New Yorker The Nobel Prize winner’s towering masterpiece of world literature...

Each week, we tell the story of what happens when individual people confront deeply held American ideals in their own lives. We're interested in the cultural and political contradictions that reveal who we are.

The author describes the experience of being in bombed-out, dangerous, post-war Nuremberg, where she lived for two years while working on the trial. This landmark trial resulted in the establishment of the Nuremberg Code, which sets the guidelines for medical research involving human beings. Doctors from Hell is a significant addition to the literature on World War II and the Holocaust, medical ethics, human rights, and the barbaric depths to which human beings can descend.

Tucked away amongst snow-covered mountains is a tiny Australian town with a dark secret. Journalist Patrick Abboud hears whispers that it was once home to the world’s only 'gay prison'. A prison that specifically incarcerated gay men. His investigation into what happened inside reveals the full story for the first time. This queer true-crime journey takes you from underground nightclubs to hidden sex haunts, to remote parts of New Zealand and England. You’ll find yourself entangled in a police cover up, a case of wrongful conviction and a human experiment that didn’t go to plan.

Have you logged into Facebook recently? Searched for something on Google? Chosen a movie on Netflix? If so, you've probably been an unwitting participant in a variety of experiments - also known as randomized controlled trials - designed to test the impact of different online experiences. In this book, Michael Luca and Max Bazerman explain the importance of experiments for decision making in a data-driven world.

When Communist Party leaders adopted the one-child policy in 1980, they hoped curbing birthrates would help lift China's poorest and increase the country's global stature. But at what cost? Now, as China closes the book on the policy after more than three decades, it faces a population grown too old and too male, with a vastly diminished supply of young workers. Mei Fong has spent years documenting the policy's repercussions on every sector of Chinese society.

In Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, Saidiya Hartman examines the revolution of black intimate life that unfolded in Philadelphia and New York at the beginning of the 20th century. Free love, common-law and transient marriages, queer relations, and single motherhood were among the sweeping changes that altered the character of everyday life and challenged traditional Victorian beliefs about courtship, love, and marriage.

These true selected stories of The Noble Experiment: True Stories & Hard Truths from My Time in the DEA invite listeners to peek at the inside life of a DEA Agent. Working in the volatile "Cocaine Cowboys” era and crack epidemic of the 1980s, Dave Gaddis earned a reputation as a man who could not be compromised. He continued his work during the drug invasion of the US Southwest Border of the 1990s and the methamphetamine, opioid and fentanyl crises of the 2000s.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi one of the greatest men to walk this earth, begins the story of his life with descriptions of his childhood in Porbandar and Rajkot in Gujarat, his schooldays, his early marriage, the lessons he learnt when he tried stealing, told lies and smoked cigrattes, and his...

A U.S. Navy ship vanishes during a secret World War II experiment gone awry. When it re-appears, observers are horrified to see crew members embedded in the deck and steel of the ship. During a sea trial, the ship vanishes and travels through time, setting off a number of events that continue today. It's not science fiction, it's science fact!

Two podcasters. One robot cotton candy vending machine. Zero hype. Basically Passive is a documentary series following Dan and Jennifer as they build a vending machine business from scratch using the Sweet Robo Cotton Candy VX. Every week, we share the real numbers, the real problems, and the real lessons from a cotton candy vending side hustle. No guru nonsense. Just two people figuring it out and showing you what happens. Season 1 covers everything: finding a location, negotiating with venue owners, our first customers, our first breakdown, and exactly how much money we actually make (or ...

The English Experiment with Chantelle invites curious learners to explore English in a natural, reflective way.Through stories, ideas, and real-life experiences, each episode becomes a small experiment in language and communication.This isn’t a traditional lesson. It’s a shared journey of curiosity and self-improvement, where learning English also means discovering new ways to think and connect.

When the American government was founded, the Founders and Framers assumed a government of the people, by the people, and for the people. That government is dying. It is under the authority of not we, the people, but rather a small elite that is trying to snuff out the great experiment of man ruling himself - the common man - the man that within the right system of government can attain his purpose to achieve happiness.

THE FAILED EXPERIMENT is a weekly podcast hosted by Southern California based DP/cinematographer, Kyle Cowling, along with a guest. Each week, in his dining room, Kyle sits down with filmmakers, photographers, musicians, artists, athletes, and individuals from all walks of life to discuss everything from their journey of how they got to where they are today, their goals, accomplishments, failures, mental health, work/life balance and more.TFE is an open and honest exploration in sincere conversation with a new guest each week, sharing laughs and stories to help us better understand the ...

Since grade school, Joseph Osmundson dreamed of being pregnant. As he grew into the queer scientist he is today, the economic precarity of academia and the warming planet led to his decision not to reproduce. That is, until a couple he had known since college, two women, came to him with a proposition: would Joe be a bio-dad and would he co-parent alongside them?

A curious man's journey to figure it all out - through deep conversations with experts, rebels, thinkers, and storytellers. Hosted by Rocky Rauner, The Self Experiment is an ongoing exploration of life, mindset, health, purpose, and human potential. No hype. No shortcuts. Just honest dialogue and a relentless search for better.

Author Byron Williams has written one of the most compelling books of 2023. Through the use of short stories and nonfiction essays, Our American Experiment offers a searing exploration of present-day America, while allowing room for the listener to draw his or her own conclusions.

Stephen C. Richards, an ex-convict who served time in nine federal prisons before earning his PhD in criminology, argues the supermax prison era began in 1983 at USP Marion in southern Illinois, where the first "control units" were built by the Federal Bureau of Prisons. The Marion Experiment, told from a convict criminology perspective, offers an introduction to long-term solitary confinement and supermax prisons, followed by a series of first-person accounts by prisoners....

Welcome to The Reverb Experiment Podcast where we converse about all things concerning black culture! Two close friends engage in a variety of intriguing dialogue such as current events, music reviews, relationships and mental health. There are always interesting guest and transcendent conversations that everyone can relate to! The podcast has moments of both lighthearted banter, as well as candid and intense conversations! Be sure to subscribe and enter in The Reverb Experiment by sharing your thoughts and opinions on the many topics we discuss!

Drei der entscheidenden Entwicklungen, die unsere Zukunft im 21. Jahrhundert bestimmen werden - die der Weltbevölkerung, die des Klimawandels und die von digitaler Hardware - haben etwas gemeinsam. Sie sind Phänomene des exponentiellen Wachstums. Die schlechte Nachricht: Schon immer haben wir Menschen uns schwer damit getan, solche Entwicklungen zu Ende zu denken. Die gute: Wir sind eine lernfähige Spezies... Wird es uns gelingen, die mächtigen technologischen Entwicklungen so einzusetzen, dass sie uns und die Erde retten?