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Why do Jews play a "ridiculously disproportionate" role in the sciences?
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55 minutes
Released:
Oct 30, 2014
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Podcast episode
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Why do Jews play a "ridiculously disproportionate" role in the sciences?
Dr. Noah Efron, the founding chair of the Program in Science, Technology, Society at Bar-Ilan University, and a fellow TLV1 broadcaster, recently published in English by Hebrew Union College Press and John Hopkins University Press. He will give his original take on a generations long question: Why are Jews so smart?
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Released:
Oct 30, 2014
Format:
Podcast episode
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