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Jun 19

Episode 56: Jim Phelan & Fritz Breithaupt — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s “The Two Strange Children”

In this episode of the Project Narrative Podcast, Jim Phelan and Fritz Breithaupt discuss a segment from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s novel, Elective Affinities. That segment is entitled “The Two Strange Children,” and it was translated by George Barry in 1885. Elective Affinities was Goethe’s third novel, published in 1809. Fritz Breithaupt is Professor of German in the Department of Francophone, Italian and Germanic studies, and also Professor of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania. Among his other duties at Penn, Breithaupt directs the Experimental Humanities Laboratory. In the course of his career, Breithaupt has produced a substantial and highly influential body of work in both German and English across the fields of Germanic studies, empathy studies, and narrative studies. Three of his books include: Jenseits der Bilder: Goethes Politik der Wahrnehmung (in English, Beyond Images: Goethe’s Politics of Perception), The Dark Sides of Empathy, and The Narrative Brain. Breithaupt’s most recent book is on the first-time experience and transformative experience, which has been published in German but not yet in English.

Jun 19

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53 min
Jun 17

Steve MacEachern: Odds Were Always Good He’d Work in Statistics

Steve MacEachern, distinguished professor of statistics, discusses his field, how he got into statistics, and what feature he has to have in his job. MacEachern earned a doctorate at the University of Minnesota, researching Bayesian methods, a way to use probability to represent uncertainty via prior and posterior distributions informed by data. He sees statistics as different from data science/analytics because statistics emphasizes modeling and inference, while data science adds large-scale data capture and wrangling, often from computer science. MacEachern discusses modern statistics’ growing focus on prediction in platforms like search and e-commerce, contrasts hard-science versus human-centered data, and outlines current research challenges driven by AI and massive predictor sets.

Jun 17

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32 min
May 15

Episode 55: Jim Phelan & Jonathan Culler — Edith Wharton’s “Roman Fever”

In this episode of the Project Narrative Podcast, Jim Phelan and Jonathan Culler discuss Edith Wharton’s “Roman Fever,” which was first published in Liberty Magazine in 1934, and then included in her 1936 collection, The World Over. Jonathan Culler is the class of 1916 Professor Emeritus at Cornell University. Culler has been one of the most distinguished and productive literary and critical theorists of his generation. Among his 11 single-authored books are: the 1975 volume, Structuralist Poetics: Structuralism, Linguistics, and the Study of Literature, which won the MLA’s James Russell Lowell Prize for the best book by an MLA member in that year; the 1982 volume, On Deconstruction: Theory and Criticism After Structuralism, which lucidly explicated the then still emerging movement called deconstruction; and the 1997 book, Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction, which has been translated into more than 25 languages. Throughout his career, Culler has conducted extended engagements with narrative, narrative theory, and lyric theory, and in 2015, he published Theory of the Lyric. Among Culler’s many recognitions are his elections to several distinguished scholarly groups, including: the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2001; the American Philosophical Society, 2006; and the British Academy, 2020. The International Society for the Study of Narrative has selected Culler as the winner of the Wayne C. Booth Lifetime Achievement Award for 2026.

May 15

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49 min
Jun 8

Rick Kaun, Rockwell Automation

Manufacturers are connecting more of their plant floors to enterprise systems and the internet — and in doing so, they’re opening doors they may not know how to close. Today’s guest has spent more than two decades at the intersection of industrial operations and cybersecurity, and he has seen what happens when those doors stay open. Rick Kaun is the Global Director of Cybersecurity Services at Rockwell Automation, one of the world’s largest industrial automation companies, headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. At Rockwell, Rick leads the SecureOT practice — a unified suite of professional and managed security services designed to protect the complex, aging, and highly regulated systems that keep factories running. Before joining Rockwell, he served as VP of Solutions at Verve Industrial Protection and as Global Business Manager for Industrial IT Solutions at Honeywell Process Solutions. Today we’re talking about why operational technology security is fundamentally different from protecting your office network, what makes patchwork plant floor environments so vulnerable, and what small and mid-sized manufacturers can actually do about it — even without a dedicated security team. Keywords: OT cybersecurity, industrial automation, IT/OT convergence, ransomware, manufacturing security

Jun 8

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18 min
2023-02-17

Polycystic Ovary Syndrome

Today on MedNet21, we’re going to discuss Polycystic Ovary Syndrome. Link to transcript

2023-02-17

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58 min
Jun 10

Dale Gnidovec: Dinosaurs Are Like Measles

“I’ve loved dinosaurs since I was a little kid. A lot of kids like dinosaurs. It’s sort of like measles: most kids get it, most kids get over it. I never got over it. I still love dinosaurs.” Dale Gnidovec, collections manager and curator of the Orton Geological Museum, received the Ohio Department of Natural Resources 2025 Cardinal Award, which recognizes individuals and organizations who have made significant contributions to conservation and environmental education in Ohio. This episode features Gnidovec giving David Staley a tour of the Orton Museum, something you can do in person almost any weekday or any time at all online.

Jun 10

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30 min
Jun 12

Cervical Cancer

This program will discuss Cervical Cancer. The presenter will discuss risk factors, diagnosis and management of cervical cancer. Link to transcript [Link to transcript](https://podcast.osu.edu/osumednet21/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2026/06/CervicalCancer_transcript.pdf)

Jun 12

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54 min
Jun 8

Episode 188 – One Thing After Another

Our last weather update at the beginning of March had us talking about lingering drought across the state. Well we can say that has been taken care of and then some. This spring has left some lingering impacts and, in some areas, multiple replants. With crops struggling through emergence and the first few growth stages, we are looking ahead to see what the summer will bring. How much impact will the super El Nino have on our crops? We talk with Dr. Aaron Wilson to get an idea of what may be instore. Sign up to receive monthly and quarterly updates from the State Climate Office: climate.osu.edu. Check out mrcc.purdue.edu to find useful tools such as the GDD calculator and freeze predictor. You can also reach out to Aaron at wilson.1010@osu.edu.

Jun 8

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28 min
2023-10-20

Shoulder Instability, Rotator Cuff Tears, and Shoulder Arthritis

The webcast will discuss Shoulder Instability, Rotator cuff Tears, and Shoulder Arthritis. The program will share how to effectively diagnose and treat common shoulder conditions. Link to transcript

2023-10-20

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59 min
Apr 24

Episode 54: Jim Phelan & Alison Booth — Grace Paley’s “A Conversation with My Father”

In this episode of the Project Narrative Podcast, Jim Phelan and Alison Booth discuss Grace Paley’s “A Conversation with My Father,” first published in the New Review in 1972 and then republished in her 1974 collection, Enormous Changes at the Last Minute. Alison Booth is the Brown-Forman Professor in the Department of English at the University of Virginia. In addition to narrative theory, Booth has expertise in the digital humanities, Victorian fiction, women writers of the 19th and 20th centuries, travel writing, and biography. For nearly a decade, Booth served as the Faculty Director of the University of Virginia’s Scholars’ Lab, currently called the Digital Humanities Center, and in 2005, she served as President of the International Society for the Study of Narrative. Booth’s books include Greatness Engendered: George Eliot and Virginia Woolf, How to Make it as a Woman, and Homes and Haunts: Touring Writers’ Shrines and Countries. Booth’s projects in digital humanities include Collective Biographies of Women, an extensive database built from an online bibliography of more than 1,250 such collective biographies.

Apr 24

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54 min

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