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PRETTY CURIOUS | How Do You Paint Your Face? with Danessa Myricks

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What Was Going On In The Middle Ages? with Dr. Janina Ramirez

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Could A Single Vote Save Abortion Rights? with Sister District

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What’s It Like To Be A Jeopardy! Icon? with Amy Schneider

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PRETTY CURIOUS | How Are You Serving Bombshell Beauty? with Trace Lysette

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What’s The Cultural History Of The Calorie? with Dr. Athia N. Choudhury

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How Has TikTok Changed Elections? with Annie Wu Henry

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Who Are The Women Of The Far Right? with Dr. Eviane Leidig

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PRETTY CURIOUS | What Is Beauty Beyond The Binary? with David Yi

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How Can I Be A Good Plant Parent? with Christopher Griffin aka Plant Kween

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How Can We Support Intersex Rights? with Alicia Roth Weigel

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What’s The History Of Pockets? with Dr. Hannah Carlson

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What’s Happening With The Supreme Court? with Strict Scrutiny

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Are Killer Whales Misunderstood? with Dr. Deborah Giles

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How Cool Are Caves? with Professor Kathleen R. Johnson

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What’s The Science Of Sleep? with Dr. Gina Poe

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Who Were History’s Queer Seamen? with Dr. Seth LeJacq

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Who Are Hollywood’s Paparazzi? with Dr. Vanessa Díaz

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Are Parasites Out To Get Us? with Dr. Sebastian Lourido

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How Can We Ease Eco-Anxiety? (ICYMI) with Dekila Chungyalpa

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How Do Cops Get Away With Robbery? (ICYMI) with Professor Saleema Snow

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How Does The Universe Get It On? with Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

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What’s It Like To Be Gay In China? with Dr. Travis S. K. Kong

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What's Haitian Vodou? (Part Two) with Professor Eziaku Nwokocha

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What's Haitian Vodou? (Part One) with Professor Eziaku Nwokocha

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What Are The Global Politics Of Drag? with Professor Kareem Khubchandani

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How Many Hard Rights Can One Supreme Court Take? with Professor Melissa Murray

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What Makes Gems So Precious? with Dr. Gabriela Farfan

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How Did New Orleans Become New Orleans? (Part Two) with Dr. Kathryn Olivarius

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How Did New Orleans Become New Orleans? (Part One) with Dr. Kathryn Olivarius

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Why Do We Gossip? with Dr. Meltem Yucel

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How Do Great Apes Go Wild? with Dr. Laura Simone Lewis

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How F$^*#d Up Is Fatphobia? (ICYMI) with Dr. Sabrina Strings

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Why Is The Titanic So Iconic? with Dr. Meaghan Walker

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Where Did All The Malls Go? with Alexandra Lange

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How Are Iranians Making History? (Part Two) with The Iranian Diaspora Collective

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How Are Iranians Making History? (Part One) with The Iranian Diaspora Collective

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What’s It Like To Be Young And Queer In America? with Queer Youth Assemble

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Whose Land Is This Land? with Dr. Elizabeth Rule

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How Have You Changed Reality TV As We Know It? with Fenton Bailey

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How Smart Is AI? (Part Two) with Meredith Broussard

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How Smart Is AI? (Part One) with Meredith Broussard

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What’s Happening In East Palestine? with River Valley Organizing

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What Happened To Separation Of Church And State? with Dr. Lauren Turek

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Who Wins When Everyone Plays? with Verity Smith

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Who Are The Fab Five Of The Great Ape Family? with Dr. Laura Simone Lewis

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How Does Dust Impact Earth’s Climate? with Dr. Sarah Aarons

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What’s The Steamy History Of Valentine’s Day? with Dr. Sally Holloway

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Why Are We So Obsessed With Dogs? with Dr. maythe han

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What Can Queer Arab American History Teach Us? with Dr. Charlotte Karem Albrecht

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Can You Even Believe It’s Our 300th Episode? with Jonathan Van Ness

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Are Plant-Based Diets For Everyone? with Dr. Aviaja Lyberth Hauptmann

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What’s The Sordid History Of U.S. Trash Collection? with Professors Patricia Strach and Kathleen S. Sullivan

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Do Beauty Standards Need A Glow Up? (ICYMI) with David Yi

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Hair Variation, What’s Her Story? (ICYMI) with Dr. Tina Lasisi

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How Stunning Are Our Listeners? with Jonathan Van Ness

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What’s The Cold, Hard Truth About Ice In Hawaiʻi? with Hiʻilei Julia Kawehipuaakahaopulani Hobart

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Does Groundwater Go With The Flow? with Dr. Marsha K. Allen

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How Can We Show Up For Mutual Aid? (ICYMI) with Dean Spade

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Can You Say Cheese? with Carlos Yescas and Lee Hennessy

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Why Are Toxic Products (Still) On Our Shelves? with Dr. Norah MacKendrick

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How Did You Become An All-Around Legend? with Jordan Chiles

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What’s At The Heart Of Black Disability Politics? with Professor Sami Schalk

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How Do Cults Fashion Themselves? with Sarah C. Byrd

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How Diverse Was The Ancient Mediterranean? with Professors Sarah Derbew and Nandini Pandey

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What’s In A Scent? with Michelle Pfeiffer

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Who Does America’s “Child Welfare System” Serve? with Professor Dorothy Roberts

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What’s It Like To Style A More Inclusive Fashion World? with Edward Enninful, OBE

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How Did Queer People Experience Nazi Germany? with Dr. W. Jake Newsome

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Can Asteroids Rock Our World? with Christina Hernández and Terik Daly

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How Did You Develop Such Amazing Taste? (ICYMI) with Sohla El-Waylly

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What’s The Meaning Of “Raizado”? with Mónica Ramírez

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How Legendary Is The Milky Way? with Dr. Moiya McTier

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Can State Legislatures Save Us? with Gaby Goldstein and Lala Wu of Sister District

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When Viruses Spread, Who’s Most Vulnerable? with Dr. Steven W. Thrasher
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Are We Scammers? A Scam Goddess Special with Laci Mosley

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If Faith Moves Mountains, Can It Also Move Climate Action? with Dekila Chungyalpa

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How Has White Supremacy F*cked With Reproductive Justice? with Professor Jacki Antonovich

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Who Built The Panama Canal? (ICYMI) with Professor Kaysha Corinealdi

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How Do You Take Pride In Farming? with Lee Hennessy

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What The Actual F*ck? Life After Roe v. Wade

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How Are You Lighting Up The Runway For Representation? with Munroe Bergdorf

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What Stories Do America’s Monuments Tell? with Dr. Elizabeth Alexander

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Are Mushrooms Truly Magic? with Dr. Patty Kaishian

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How Queer Is The Animal Kingdom? with Eliot Schrefer

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What’s It Like To Return To Downton Abbey? with Laura Carmichael and Allen Leech

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How F$^*#d Up Is Fatphobia? with Professor Sabrina Strings

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What’s The Power Of Labor Organizing? with Kim Kelly

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Does Curiosity Grow On Trees? with Professor Beronda Montgomery

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Who Were History’s “Female Husbands”? with Professor Jen Manion

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How Did You Become A Superstar? with Molly Shannon

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What’s A Day In The Life Of A Coral Reef? with Dr. Juli Berwald

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What Was It Like To Get Loved Up In Georgian England? with Dr. Sally Holloway

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Can’t Wait For “Love That Story”? Here’s A Preview!
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What’s The Power of Trans Joy? with Adri Pèrez and Chase Strangio of the ACLU

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How Ranging Is The Eastern Himalaya? with Dr. Mona Chettri

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What’re The Adventures of Frogs and Toads? with Professor Kelly Zamudio

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Does Old MacDonald Need A Makeover? with Professor Gabe Rosenberg

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Why Is Olive Oil So Extra? with Professor Selina Wang

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Hair Variation, What’s Her Story? with Dr. Tina Lasisi

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