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  • Spike Lee featured on The Best of Our Knowledge

    Spike Lee featured on The Best of Our Knowledge

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    As always, host Bob Barrett selects an Academic Minute to air during The Best of Our Knowledge. Each week this program examines some of the issues unique to college campuses, looks at the latest research, and invites commentary from experts and administrators from all levels of education. For this week‘s edition (#1329), Bob has selected Spike…

  • The Academic Minute for 2016.2.22-2.26

    The Academic Minute for 2016.2.22-2.26

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    Academic Minute from 2.22 – 2.26 Monday, February 22 Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon – University of Pennsylvania Slacktivism Sandra González-Bailón is an Assistant Professor at the Annenberg School for Communication, affiliated faculty at the Warren Center for Network and Data Sciences, and research associate at the Oxford Internet Institute. She completed her doctoral degree in Nuffield College…

  • Spike Lee, University of Toronto – A Cultural Look at Moral Purity

    Spike Lee, University of Toronto – A Cultural Look at Moral Purity

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    The definition of purity doesn’t change across cultures, but ideas about the processes of purification do. Spike Lee, associate professor at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto, explores how different cultures consider purity…and morality. Spike W. S. Lee is an Assistant Professor of Marketing at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School…

  • This Week on The Academic Minute (2016.2.22)

    This Week on The Academic Minute (2016.2.22)

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    This Week on The Academic Minute 2016.2.22 Monday, February 22 Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon of the University of Pennsylvania explores if slacktivism online makes a difference in the real world. Tuesday, February 23 Timothy Amukele of Johns Hopkins University discusses how drones can improve medical access in poorer countries. Wednesday, February 24 David Hugh-Jones of the University of…

  • Spike Lee, University of Toronto – Framing Love

    Spike Lee, University of Toronto – Framing Love

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    Flowery depictions of transcendent love have inspired some of the finest art we have. But, is our conceptual idealization of love & romance perhaps hurting us? In today’s Academic Minute, Spike Lee, a marketing professor at The University of Toronto, frames the shared experience of love in a completely different way. Spike W. S. Lee…