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SCOUT· 61%36m·2026-06-25·ScienceWhat Our Trash Problem Says About Our Culture, with Sarah Newman
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Every day, we throw things away, only to be forgotten forever. But society didn’t always work in the same way. In this episode, we speak with University of Chicago scholar and anthropologist Sarah Newman to discuss her book, Unmaking Waste: New Histories of Old Things. An archaeologist by training, Newman discusses…
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