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"Listen In, Michigan" is an audio storytelling feature brought to you by the online alumni magazine, Michigan Today. From historical features and alumni dispatches to campus news and provocative opinions, "Listen In, Michigan" will entertain and inform, helping to keep you connected to the University of Michigan — today.
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3M ago
Can we handle the truth?
History's most heinous dictators have long relied on disinformation to destroy free societies and claim absolute power over nations.
Today's agents of chaos tend to be regular citizens, using social and traditional media as well as artificial intelligence to pollute the information ecosystem with lies and conspiracy theories. And in a sinister twist, modern-day extremists living in the U.S. are taking cues from history's worst offenders – Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini – to wreak havoc here at home, says Barbara McQuade, BA ‘87/JD ’91
"For American democracy to su ..read more
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8M ago
In June 2023, the world learned that the notorious "Unabomber" Theodore Kaczynski had died At 81, the domestic terrorist was undergoing cancer treatment while serving multiple life sentences in a high-security North Carolina prison.
For Julie Herrada, news of Kaczynski's death was unexpected but not surprising. What was surprising was the "official pronouncement" he died by suicide. Herrada, the longtime curator of the Joseph A. Labadie Collection at the University of Michigan Library, was dubious.
"I do not believe it," says the archivist, historian, and expert on political activism and socia ..read more
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1y ago
Ward, Wife, Widow by A. Arbour
Music featured in this episode includes
"The Yellow and Blue" performed by the Michigan Men's Glee Club.
"Sweet Leilani" by Bing Crosby, a 1937 hit for Decca Records
One O'Clock Jump by the Count Basie Orchestra, also released in 1937 ..read more
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1y ago
Campus Farm
U-M’s Sustainable Food Program (UMSFP)
Michigan Dining
Maize & Blue Cupboard,
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1y ago
Artists featured in this episode, in order of appearance:
Ann Arbor Street Art Fair
Chris Roberts Antieau
Armando Pedroso
Mark Sudduth
Jack Magurany
Jake Blok
Thomas Wargin
School of Rock Ann Arbor
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2y ago
Spectrum Center website
Spectrum Center Oral Histories Project
Spectrum Center: Jim Toy's Legacy: Video
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2y ago
"Sing to the Colors: A Writer Explores Two Centuries at the University of Michigan" is published by the University of Michigan Press.
Music in this episode includes:
The Yellow and Blue
Varsity
I Wanna Go Back to Michigan
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