#17: The Fox in the Big House
Lee Alan Dugatkin on the world\u2019s cutest science experiment, which transformed wild foxes into cuddlebugs; Ellen Lagemann makes the case for college in prisons; and an underground poetry reading promoting this weekend\u2019s March for Science.
Go beyond the episode:\u2022 The Science Stanzas curated by Jane Hirshfield for the March for Science\u2022 Lee Alan Dugatkin and Lyudmila Trut\u2019s\xa0How to Tame a Fox\u2022 Ellen Lagemann\u2019s\xa0Liberating Minds\xa0and the\xa0Bard Prison Initiative\u2022 Read more about Stalin\u2019s geneticist henchman, Trofim Lysenko, in our review of\xa0Stalin and the Scientists\u2022 Our first\xa0subterranean segment, from our third (!) episode
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