Smarty Pants From The American Scholar

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 • Read more about Stalin’s geneticist henchman, Trofim Lysenko, in our review of