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What Makes us Human?

Cornell University, College of Arts & Sciences

38 episodes

4 months ago

Mildred Warner, professor of city and regional planning, shows how inequality can be tracked across America simply by looking at ZIP codes.

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Mildred Warner, professor of city and regional planning, shows how inequality can be tracked across America simply by looking at ZIP codes.

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Episodes (20/38)

What Makes us Human?

ZIP Codes Matter

Mildred Warner, professor of city and regional planning, shows how inequality can be tracked across America simply by looking at ZIP codes.

5 years ago

5 minutes 1 second

What Makes us Human?

Segregated Education

Noliwe Rooks, professor of Africana studies and director of American studies in the College of Arts & Sciences, explains the history of educational inequities in the U.S.

5 years ago

4 minutes 48 seconds

What Makes us Human?

Climate of Fear

Anna Haskins, assistant professor of sociology in Cornell's College of Arts & Sciences, explores the impact of incarcerated parents on their children’s education.

5 years ago

4 minutes 20 seconds

What Makes us Human?

Lived Experience

Carole Boyce Davies, professor of Africana studies and English in the College of Arts & Sciences, explores global racial hierarchies and their remedies.

5 years ago

5 minutes 36 seconds

What Makes us Human?

Workplace Rankings

Jamie Lyn Perry, assistant professor of management and organization in the SC Johnson College of Business, explores power and status in the workplace.

6 years ago

5 minutes 14 seconds

What Makes us Human?

Closing Achievement Gaps

Peter Lepage, Goldwin Smith Professor of Physics in the College of Arts and Sciences and director of Cornell’s Active Learning Initiative, examines how active learning helps students succeed.

6 years ago

4 minutes 50 seconds

What Makes us Human?

Unequal Parenting

Kelly Musick, director of the Cornell Population Center and professor and chair of policy analysis and management in the College of Human Ecology, examines persistent inequalities in parenting and the earnings penalties that go along with them.

6 years ago

4 minutes 15 seconds

What Makes us Human?

Health Inequities

Jeff Niederdeppe, associate professor of communication in the College of Agriculture and Life Science, explores how “sociological” storytelling can change health outcomes.

6 years ago

4 minutes 49 seconds

What Makes us Human?

Climate Refugees

Historian Maria Cristina Garcia examines how climate change causes economic and political upheaval.

6 years ago

4 minutes 29 seconds

What Makes us Human?

Unequal Representation

Kiowa filmmaker Jeffrey Palmer, assistant professor of performing and media arts at Cornell University, examines how Indigenous stories are misrepresented by the media.

6 years ago

5 minutes

What Makes us Human?

Unequal Happiness

Thomas Gilovich, Cornell University's Irene Blecker Rosenfeld Chair of Psychology, examines the impact of inequality on psychological well-being.

6 years ago

4 minutes 31 seconds

What Makes us Human?

Climate Change Inequality

Linda Shi, assistant professor of city and regional planning, discusses how efforts to adapt to climate change can also worsen inequality.

6 years ago

4 minutes 45 seconds

What Makes us Human?

Ziad Fahmy, associate professor and chair of Near Eastern studies at Cornell University, looks at what the Nile River means to Egypt.

6 years ago

4 minutes 8 seconds

What Makes us Human?

Prabhu Pingali, director, Tata-Cornell Institute for Agriculture and Nutrition, and professor of applied economics and policy and nutritional science in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, explains the impact of clean, piped-in water on women and girls in India.

6 years ago

5 minutes 58 seconds

What Makes us Human?

Interstellar Water

Jonathan Lunine, astronomy professor and director, Cornell Center for Astrophysics and Planetary Science at Cornell University, examines the origin of our planet’s water.

6 years ago

4 minutes 30 seconds

What Makes us Human?

A Water-Filled Journey

Athena Kirk, assistant professor of classics in the College of Arts & Sciences, examines Odysseus’ complex relationship with water.

6 years ago

4 minutes 31 seconds

What Makes us Human?

Charles Geisler, professor of development sociology in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, explores the critical question of who owns our planet’s water.

6 years ago

5 minutes 13 seconds

What Makes us Human?

Water Connections

Eric Tagliacozzo, professor of history in the College of Arts and Sciences, explores the critical role the oceans have played in Southeast Asia.

6 years ago

3 minutes 53 seconds

What Makes us Human?

The Need for Trees

Taryn Bauerle, associate professor in the School of Integrative and Plant Science in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, explores the critical role trees play in the earth’s water cycle.

6 years ago

5 minutes 3 seconds

What Makes us Human?

Waterways of Venice

William Kennedy, Avalon Foundation Professor Emeritus in the Humanities, explains the influence of water on European Renaissance culture.

6 years ago

4 minutes 27 seconds