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Aug 3, 2023

Jill Carr-Harris interviews three Indians about the civil unrest in Manipur between the Kuki and Meitei people. Dr. Deben Bachaspatimayum, who lives in the area, explains the historical and demographic background of the struggle over land rights. Rajagopal suggests holding meetings by third parties, not the...


Jun 26, 2023

Peter Wadhams is an expert on Arctic sea ice. He tells us about the extraordinary warming of the oceans this year. Scientists don't have an explanation. Andre Kamenshikov has been traveling in the post-Soviet countries, interviewing the men who fled from Russia to avoid being sent to war. Nivedita Das Kundi was recently...


Jul 22, 2022

Drs. David Heymann and Ronald St. John are epidemiologists who have worked on various forms of the SARS virus, including Covid 19. Here we discuss GPHIN, the system Dr. St. John developed for monitoring the outbreaks of diseases around the world faster than the WHO could do at the time. Similar techniques are being used...


Jul 21, 2022

Whitney Lackenbauer is a professor at Trent University who studies the Canadian North. He is especially enthusiastic about the Rangers who work in their home regions of Canada's Arctic, mainly to provide human security for their local neighbors, but they also support the maintenance of cultural practices, such as the...


May 18, 2022

Brydon Gombay lived in Uganda for several years until the rise of Idi Amin made it necessary to leave. Martin Klein is a retired professor of African History, University of Toronto. Much of his research as a political scientist was in Senegal. We discuss the languages, music, philosophy, religion, and political dynamics...