In this month’s Oxford Comment, we discuss The Paris Agreement, held from 30 November to 12 December 2015, and since hailed as a “historic turning point” in the battle against global climate change.
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In this month’s episode of The Oxford Comment, Leif Wenar, author of Blood Oil: Tyrants, Violence, and the Rules that Run the World, and Dale Jamieson, author of Reason in a Dark Time: Why the Struggle to Stop Climate Change Failed, explore the unseen costs of consumer demand, corporate conduct, and more.
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In this month’s episode, host Sara Levine chats with Alice Hammel, co-editor of Winding It Back: Teaching to Individual Differences in Music Classroom and Ensemble Settings, Taylor Walkup and Adam Goldberg, two music educators in New York City, and Karmen Ross and Hyacinth Heron Haughton, the parents of special needs students. Together, they engage in fascinating conversation about the role of music in special needs education, illustrating its challenges and—most importantly—its rewards.
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In this month’s episode, Sara Levine, Multimedia Producer, sat down with Katherine Connor Martin, head of US Dictionaries, Allan Metcalf, author of From Skedaddle to Selfie: Words of the Generations, and Edmund Weiner, Deputy Chief Editor of the Oxford English Dictionary to solve the season’s most baffling linguistic conundrums.
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As fall deepens, painted faces and packed stadiums abound, with sports aficionados all over the country (and world) preparing for a spectacle that is more than just entertainment. In this month’s episode, Sara Levine, Multimedia Producer for Oxford University Press, sat down to discuss the evolution of sports with Chuck Fountain, author of The Betrayal: The 1919 World Series and the Birth of Modern Baseball, Julie Des Jardins, author of Walter Camp: Football and the Modern Man, Dr. Munro Cullum, a Clinical Neuropsychologist who specializes in the assessment of cognitive disorders, and Paul Rouse, author of Sport and Ireland: A History.
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