Episode 4
Here Be Dragons
August 19th, 2025
46 mins 53 secs
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About this Episode
Kimberly Rios is Professor of Psychology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She studies intergroup threat and also psychological issues at the intersection of religion and STEM. In this episode, we discuss the psychology of intergroup threat, applications to a salient contemporary case, and also issues involving religion and STEM.
OTHER LINKS
--Informational video on EPIC City
--WFAA story on EPIC City
--Drinking Liberally, Wikipedia page
--"Fairness is Overrated," by Jonathan V. Last, at The Bulwark
--"The World's Muslims: Religion, Politics, and Society," by the Pew Research Center
MUSIC CREDITS (all songs from Free Music Archive, and each song carries the "cc by" license)
--"The Trail," by Unheard Music Concepts
--"Breath," by Kirk Osamayo
--"Funky End," by Pawel Feszczuk
--"Post Drone," by Uuriter
--"Caress me to sleep," by rui