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Dark Matters Podcast 12 August 2023

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Margari and Austin continue their discussion of Foundation Season 2. For our science roundup: is climate change unleashing pathogens from permafrost? Forty thousand year old annelids. And why we don’t discuss superhero films, or most anime.

Dark Matters Podcast 5 August 2023

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Austin and Margari discuss the legacy of Henrietta Lacks and the recent judgment awarded against Thermo-Fisher for our science roundup. And the discussion of “Foundation” continues with ep 5.

Dark Matters Podcast 29 July 2023

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Austin and Margari discuss the real legacy of J. Robert Oppenheimer as well as the latest episode of Foundation.

Dark Matters Podcast 22 July 2023

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Austin and Margari discuss the SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes, how Hollywood bought into the techno-optimism of Silicon Valley and why it’s hurting them. And they discuss the latest episode of AppleTV’s “Foundation”

The Beit al-Khalifa museum in Omdurman, Sudan, on Jan. 22, 2023.

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Hidden Black Roots of Dune

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Denis Villenueve’s Dune (2021) opens with indigenous people resisting colonialism. The Black, Brown, and swarthy natives of the desert planet Arrakis contrast with the…