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NEW! CAPE Student Representatives Deepti Chatti and Stepha Velednitsky compiled a list of favorite and recommended podcasts for your listening pleasure. Feel free to weigh in on these or suggest your own in the comments field below. (December 2018)

Cultures of Energy (discussions about energy and environmental issues)
The Familiar Strange (anthropology)
Still Processing (New York Times culture podcast)
AnthroPod (cultural anthropology)
Costing the Earth (BBC environment podcast)
Edge Effects (interdisciplinary nature-society)
PhDivas (two women of color Ivy League PhDs talking about academia across the STEM-humanities divide)
The Henceforward (conversations about decolonization, abolition, and the intersections there)
Who Makes Cents? (a history of capitalism podcast)
Always Already (critical theory)
Forecast: climate conversations with Michael White (Nature’s editor for climate science)
Skylines (the politics and workings of cities)
Politico (finance and economics in the U.S. and around the world)
Political Gabfest (political commentary by Slate)
Social Media and Politics (how social media shapes politics)
New Books Network (for interviews with authors or recent academic publications)
Online Gods (digital cultures)
Mothers of Invention (women fighting climate change)
Science Vs (science vs. non-science)
Rough Translation (how current events are being discussed outside of the U.S. context)
99% Invisible (urban design and architecture)
Radiolab (popular science)
Mongabay Newscast (global environmental issues)
Seeing White (Scene on Radio) (a fourteen-part documentary series exploring whiteness in America)
Orbital Path (outer space)
More Perfect (Supreme Court rulings)
Hidden Brain (popular psychology)
Hot and Bothered (economic issues and climate change)
Carnegie Council Audio Podcast (ethics of war and peace, religion in politics, global social justice)
Smithsonian Side Door (exploring the Smithsonian’s vaults)
Democracy Now! (independent left global news)
Future Ecologies (how ecological processes and human design shape the earth)
Good Law/Bad Law (attorney explains the legal side of causes and controversies)
Embedded (about coal)
Revisionist History (reinterpreting the past)
Making Obama (Obama’s story in his own words)
The Caliphate (audio series about the Islamic state)
Living Planet (environmental stories from around the world)
Imagine Otherwise (bridging art, activism, and humanities scholarship)
Media Masters (interviews with media experts)
Talking Politics (self-explanatory)
The New Yorker (various podcasts on politics and literature)

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