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The Babblery features conversations about who we are and how we got this way. Modern humans can seem like the ancients building the Biblical Tower of Babel, cursed by God/nature never to understand each other. As Visiting Translators at the Tower of Babel, our guests delve into their work, their research, and their own experiences to try to explain the bits they've learned about Earth's most perplexing species. Though we all speak different languages, here at The Babblery we aim to promote understanding, one conversation at a time.

Location:

United States

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The Babblery features conversations about who we are and how we got this way. Modern humans can seem like the ancients building the Biblical Tower of Babel, cursed by God/nature never to understand each other. As Visiting Translators at the Tower of Babel, our guests delve into their work, their research, and their own experiences to try to explain the bits they've learned about Earth's most perplexing species. Though we all speak different languages, here at The Babblery we aim to promote understanding, one conversation at a time.

Language:

English


Episodes
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Academic Freedom Under Fire with Scholar Bettina Aptheker

9/10/2025
In a speech on academic freedom and the freedom of speech, feminist scholar Bettina Aptheker explores the parallels between her student years and early career and the growing suppression of freedoms in 2025.

Duration:00:57:00

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Minibabble: Americans, vote with your eyeballs

8/27/2025
This morning, a man shot up a Catholic mass full of children. Usually, I don’t write about current events that haven’t been resolved in any way. But as I listened....

Duration:00:08:10

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Listening to Children: In Conversation with Linguist Eve Clark

8/24/2025
Dr. Eve V. Clark has spent a career in academia pursuing one seemingly simple question: How do children learn to talk? The theory in vogue at the beginning of her....

Duration:00:57:02

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Minibabble: How US cuts will devastate global science

8/12/2025
How are the Trump Administration’s cuts affecting the global science system? Dr. Heather Ford is an American climate scientist working in London. In this mini-episode, she explains how scientific research....

Duration:00:14:20

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Minibabble: What we gain from ‘woke’ science

8/1/2025
In conversation with Dr. Heather Ford We hear a lot about the idea of getting ‘woke’ out of science, but what does that mean? In this mini-episode based on a....

Duration:00:14:01

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Minibabble: Wading downstream of the poisonous stew

7/28/2025
All of us are standing by a stream, experiencing the downstream effects of decisions made in Washington. This week, I felt those decisions acutely. Visit Substack to read the text,....

Duration:00:12:39

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Scientist Navigates a Changing Climate: In Conversation with Dr. Heather Ford

7/13/2025
On April 5, 2025 Dr. Heather Ford joined other scientists around the United States to protest the Trump Administration’s witch hunt against his imagined “woke science agenda.” Since World War....

Duration:00:59:26

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Minibabble: Proud to be American in coastal California

7/4/2025
Why are you proud to be American? In these interviews at an Independence Day parade on Coastal California, residents talk about reaching for their pride at a time when our political landscape is so fraught.

Duration:00:15:17

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Minibabble: Claim your creativity with Joanne Foster

7/1/2025
Using Dr. Joanne Foster’s information about creativity, host Suki Wessling investigates the current political climate in the United States as it relates to creativity in education and science. Read the....

Duration:00:11:10

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Minibabble: Creativity in Difficult Times

6/25/2025
When writer and artist Patrice Vecchione found herself crippled by anxiety and despair in early 2025, she responded the only way a creative person can: she wrote. In this mini-episode,....

Duration:00:08:23