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The So What? Project
by T. Keith Edmunds
Every day, researchers produce knowledge in a bewildering array of subject areas, much of which never reaches the gneral public.The So What? Project exists to answer a simple question: So what?Why does this research matter? Why should anyone care? What did we learn, and what difference does it make?Each episode features a researcher explaining a recent publication, project, or scholarly contribution in clear, accessible language for a broad audience. Episodes are short, engaging, and designed for listeners with no specialized background.
Episodes
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Postcards from the Future: Polluted Sport in a Changing Climate (H. Thorpe)
Focusing on youth in community sport, this research prompts new questions about how climate change is impacting the next generation. It also raises new questions about the role of sport in the lives of young people in the context of a changing climate. About Our Guest: Holly Thorpe (PhD) is...
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From Highlands to Henge: Refining the Provenance and Transport Pathways of Stonehenge's Alter Stone (A. Clarke)
Earlier work traced the Altar Stone to northeast Scotland, which immediately raised an obvious question: how did a six-tonne stone travel around 700 kilometres to Stonehenge? This project grew from wanting to test whether glaciers could have done some of that work, rather than simply assuming the...
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Getting Learning Right: The Promise of Higher Education (K. Girdharry)
As a book, Getting Learning Right: The Promise of Higher Education asks what higher education could become if colleges and universities organized themselves around how students actually learn. The central thesis is based on a simple idea: if colleges and universities want to fulfill their…
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Discovery of an Active Wind from the Milky'Way's Central Black Hole (M. Gorski)
Black holes are commonly thought of as cosmic vacuum cleaners from which nothing can escape. In reality, before matter crosses the event horizon, it becomes extremely hot. This hot dense matter forms an accretion disk which can blow material at very high spees before it falls into the black hole....
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Paying Off: How Feminist Financial Plans Can Transform Higher Education (S. Lauricella)
More women than men are enrolled in and graduate from institutes of higher education, yet most financial literacy is geared toward men. An undergraduate education is arguably the largest financial decision that a young women will have made – and probably the most significant for a long time – so...
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The So What? Project is a short-form podcast where researchers from around the world and across disciplines talk about their recent research, books, articles, and ideas in plain language. Each episode explores what researchers discovered, what surprised them, and why their work matters beyond the...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Every day, researchers produce knowledge in a bewildering array of subject areas, much of which never reaches the gneral public.The So What? Project exists to answer a simple question: So what?Why does this research matter? Why should anyone care? What did we learn, and what difference does it make?Each episode features a researcher explaining a recent publication, project, or scholarly contribution in clear, accessible language for a broad audience. Episodes are short, engaging, and designed for listeners with no specialized background.
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T. Keith Edmunds
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Every day, researchers produce knowledge in a bewildering array of subject areas, much of which never reaches the gneral public.The So What? Project exists to answer a simple question: So what?Why does this research matter? Why should anyone care? What did we learn, and what difference does it...
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