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Ep 321: Josh Felman Tries to Make Sense of the World

The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma

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Is There a Cure for the Scarcity of Girls in STEM?

The conventional ways of thinking about these fields and thinking about gender roles can just lead to this cascade where there aren't enough girls in STEM. And what I wonder is that the mainstream and the mainstream way of doing things is gradually crumbling because it was shaped by a response to constraints that once existed and now no longer necessarily do. So I see across whether it's a creator economy, whether it's media, it feels to me that an old way of ordering the world or ordering that profession is no longer relevant, but nothing new has really come to take its place. The conventions of the three minute song or the 40 minute album came about because of physical constraints and those no longer exist and everywhere they

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