How Diverse Was The Ancient Mediterranean? with Professors Sarah Derbew and Nandini Pandey
This week, we’re traveling back to one of our favorite sites for curiosity: the ancient Mediterranean. Professors Sarah Derbew and Nandini Pandey join Jonathan to discuss how people across the region ...
12 Okt 20221h 10min
What’s In A Scent? with Michelle Pfeiffer
Treat this episode like a spritz of your favorite fragrance. Let the beauty talk consume you. Linger on the film industry stories. Stay for the base notes of Jonathan in disbelief that our guest is li...
5 Okt 202235min
Who Does America’s “Child Welfare System” Serve? with Professor Dorothy Roberts
Each year, more than 250,000 children in America are removed from their families by judicial means—and more than 3.5 million children are investigated by child welfare agencies. Most of these children...
28 Sep 20221h 18min
What’s It Like To Style A More Inclusive Fashion World? with Edward Enninful, OBE
If Getting Curious were a magazine, this week’s episode would be the “September Issue,” and this week’s guest would be the cover star of our dreams. British Vogue’s Editor-in-Chief Edward Enninful, OB...
21 Sep 202254min
How Did Queer People Experience Nazi Germany? with Dr. W. Jake Newsome
In 1871, Germany adopted an anti-sodomy statute called Paragraph 175. Sixty years later, the Nazis broadened that law—and it quickly became the basis for persecuting Germany’s queer population. When W...
14 Sep 20221h 21min
Can Asteroids Rock Our World? with Christina Hernández and Terik Daly
It's a beautiful night—the sky is clear, the stars are twinkling. You see a shooting star! Or is it a comet! Maybe a meteor? Whatever it is, it’s gone in an instant. But what if that whirring bit of s...
7 Sep 20221h 5min
How Did You Develop Such Amazing Taste? (ICYMI) with Sohla El-Waylly
We’re spending this week cooking up some incredible fall programming. To tide you over, here’s a re-air of our episode with Sohla El-Waylly, all about cooking basics, ancient recipes, and Sohla and Jo...
31 Aug 202251min
What’s The Meaning Of “Raizado”? with Mónica Ramírez
There are more than 62 million Latine people living in the United States. Some are US-born, others are recent immigrants, and still more have had family members here for centuries—living on land that ...
24 Aug 20221h 1min
