• Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

WAMC Podcasts

All of WAMC's Podcasts

  • Home
  • National Productions
    • 51 Percent
    • The Academic Minute
    • The Best Of Our Knowledge
    • The Book Show
    • The Capitol Connection
    • Earth Wise
    • The Legislative Gazette
    • The Media Project
  • Podcasts
    • A New York Minute In History
    • Any Questions? | WAMC’s Trivia Show
    • Everything Explained
    • Food Friday : Leftovers
    • Listen With The Lights On
    • Postcards From The Road
    • RetConned
    • The Creative Process
    • The Roundtable
    • Vox Pop
    • WAMC’s In Conversation With…
    • WAMC News Podcast
  • Contact
  • Distribution
  • wamc.org
#1523: Dr. Lydia Pyne’s “Genuine Fakes – How Phony Things Teach Us About Real Stuff”

November 26, 2019

#1523: Dr. Lydia Pyne’s “Genuine Fakes – How Phony Things Teach Us About Real Stuff”

Whenever we hear the word fake these days, the mental reflex is to think the word news. But fakes have been a part of society, well pretty much forever. It’s the history of fakes that we’re talking about today with Dr. Lydia Pyne, a writer and historian of science, and currently a visiting researcher at the Institute for Historical Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Her new book is called “Genuine Fakes – How Phony Things Teach Us About Real Stuff”.

https://wamcpodcasts.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/tbook1523.mp3

We’ll also hear how becoming a fitness teacher saved a woman’s mental health…and spend an Academic Minute learning how beer is saving neighborhoods.

Primary Sidebar

Search

Get News Updates From WAMC

Featured Podcast from WAMC

White House Press Corps

#1558: 60 Minutes Misses The Mark & The White House Press Corps Questions The President | The Media Project

https://wamcpodcasts.org/podcast-player/9479/white-house-press-corps.mp3

Download file | Play in new window | Duration: 00:27:30

The Media Project is an inside look at media coverage of current events with WAMC’s CEO Alan Chartock, Times Union Editor-at-Large Rex Smith, Daily Freeman Publisher Emeritus Ira Fusfeld, and Barbara Lombardo, Journalism Professor at the University at Albany and former Executive Editor of The and Saratogian and The (Troy) Record. On this week’s Media Project, Alan, Rex, Ira and Barbara talk about a […]

Copyright © 2021 · WAMC Northeast Public Radio

  • Home
  • Contact
  • Distribution
  • Podcast Team
  • Privacy Policy