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What Makes us Human?

51 Episodes

5 minutes | a year ago
ZIP Codes Matter
Mildred Warner, professor of city and regional planning, shows how inequality can be tracked across America simply by looking at ZIP codes.
5 minutes | a year ago
Segregated Education
Noliwe Rooks, professor of Africana studies and director of American studies in the College of Arts & Sciences, explains the history of educational inequities in the U.S.
4 minutes | a year ago
Climate of Fear
Anna Haskins, assistant professor of sociology in Cornell's College of Arts & Sciences, explores the impact of incarcerated parents on their children’s education.
6 minutes | a year ago
Lived Experience
Carole Boyce Davies, professor of Africana studies and English in the College of Arts & Sciences, explores global racial hierarchies and their remedies.
5 minutes | a year ago
Workplace Rankings
Jamie Lyn Perry, assistant professor of management and organization in the SC Johnson College of Business, explores power and status in the workplace.
5 minutes | a year ago
Closing Achievement Gaps
Peter Lepage, Goldwin Smith Professor of Physics in the College of Arts and Sciences and director of Cornell’s Active Learning Initiative, examines how active learning helps students succeed.
4 minutes | a year ago
Unequal Parenting
Kelly Musick, director of the Cornell Population Center and professor and chair of policy analysis and management in the College of Human Ecology, examines persistent inequalities in parenting and the earnings penalties that go along with them.
5 minutes | a year ago
Health Inequities
Jeff Niederdeppe, associate professor of communication in the College of Agriculture and Life Science, explores how “sociological” storytelling can change health outcomes.
4 minutes | a year ago
Climate Refugees
Historian Maria Cristina Garcia examines how climate change causes economic and political upheaval.
5 minutes | a year ago
Unequal Representation
Kiowa filmmaker Jeffrey Palmer, assistant professor of performing and media arts at Cornell University, examines how Indigenous stories are misrepresented by the media.
5 minutes | a year ago
Unequal Happiness
Thomas Gilovich, Cornell University's Irene Blecker Rosenfeld Chair of Psychology, examines the impact of inequality on psychological well-being.
5 minutes | a year ago
Climate Change Inequality
Linda Shi, assistant professor of city and regional planning, discusses how efforts to adapt to climate change can also worsen inequality.
4 minutes | 2 years ago
Egypt's Nile
Ziad Fahmy, associate professor and chair of Near Eastern studies at Cornell University, looks at what the Nile River means to Egypt.
6 minutes | 2 years ago
Clean Water
Prabhu Pingali, director, Tata-Cornell Institute for Agriculture and Nutrition, and professor of applied economics and policy and nutritional science in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, explains the impact of clean, piped-in water on women and girls in India.
5 minutes | 2 years ago
Interstellar Water
Jonathan Lunine, astronomy professor and director, Cornell Center for Astrophysics and Planetary Science at Cornell University, examines the origin of our planet’s water.
5 minutes | 2 years ago
A Water-Filled Journey
Athena Kirk, assistant professor of classics in the College of Arts & Sciences, examines Odysseus’ complex relationship with water.
5 minutes | 2 years ago
Water Rights
Charles Geisler, professor of development sociology in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, explores the critical question of who owns our planet’s water.
4 minutes | 2 years ago
Water Connections
Eric Tagliacozzo, professor of history in the College of Arts and Sciences, explores the critical role the oceans have played in Southeast Asia.
5 minutes | 2 years ago
The Need for Trees
Taryn Bauerle, associate professor in the School of Integrative and Plant Science in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, explores the critical role trees play in the earth’s water cycle.
4 minutes | 2 years ago
Waterways of Venice
William Kennedy, Avalon Foundation Professor Emeritus in the Humanities, explains the influence of water on European Renaissance culture.
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