Lee Alan Dugatkin on the world’s 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’s March for Science.Go beyond the episode:• The Science Stanzas curated by Jane Hirshfield for the March for Science• Lee Alan Dugatkin and Lyudmila Trut’s How to Tame a Fox• Ellen Lagemann’s Liberating Minds and the Bard Prison Initiative• about Stalin’s geneticist henchman, Trofim Lysenko, in our review of Stalin and the Scientists• Our first subterranean segment, from our third (!) episodeTune in every two weeks to catch interviews with the liveliest voices from literature, the arts, sciences, history, and public affairs; reports on cutting-edge works in progress; long-form narratives; and compelling excerpts from new books. Hosted by Stephanie Bastek.Subscribe: iTunes • Feedburner • Stitcher • Google Play • AcastHave suggestions for projects you’d like us to catch up on, or writers you want to hear from? Send us a note: podcast [at] theamericanscholar [dot] org. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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