Johns Hopkins University Great Ideas Podcast
Summary: Great Ideas is a monthly podcast featuring Johns Hopkins University researchers and scholars in lively conversations about the most interesting ideas in science and technology, the humanities and the social sciences.
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Podcasts:
Johns Hopkins communications faculty member Erika Falk discusses what happened to women candidates, and especially how they were covered in the news media, in eight prior presidential elections.
Johns Hopkins political scientist Kellee Tsai discusses the explosive growth of capitalism in China and its political implications, particularly whether capitalism must inevitably lead to democracy in the world's most populous nation. Tsai recently published "Capitalism without Democracy: The Private Sector in Contemporary China."
Engineer James West discusses noise in hospitals: why it's so loud, what problems the din causes for patients and staff, and what his research shows can be done about it.
According to JH political scientists, Matthew Crenson and Benjamin Ginsberg, the American presidency is out of control and there may be little hope of restoring the traditional balance of power in Washington.
It makes the universe grow at an ever-expanding rate. It accounts for as much as 70 percent of the energy/mass total in the universe. But it's only recently been discovered and no one really knows what it is. Astrophysicist Adam Riess discusses "dark energy." Riess led the team that published the first scientific paper on the phenomenon.
