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AT#650 - Travel to Rajasthan, India

Description: Audio recording of a podcast episode from Amateur Traveler. This episode contains a discussion of travel ito the northern India state of Rajasthan.
Date: March 30, 2019
Duration: 50 minutes 24 seconds
Creator: Christensen, Chris & Jain, Pankaj
Partner: UNT College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences
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America Losing its Religion?

Description: Audio recording of a news segment from News Radio KFB. This episode discusses results from the General Social Survey in relation to religion and spirituality.
Date: April 9, 2019
Duration: 13 minutes 18 seconds
Creator: Mendonsa, Cristina & Jain, Pankaj
Partner: UNT College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences
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Altitudinal gradients in Magellanic sub-Antarctic lagoons: the effect of elevation on freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and distribution

Description: In this article, freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity associated with lakes and ponds along the altitudinal gradient of a Magellanic sub-Antarctic watershed are assessed. A monotonic decline in species richness was observed with increasing elevation, with simpler and more even community composition at higher altitude. This pattern differs from the mid-peak trend found in streams of the same watershed. Functional feeding group structure also diminished with increasing elevation.
Date: July 29, 2019
Creator: Rendoll Cárcamo, Javier; Contador, Tamara; Gañán, Melisa; Pérez Troncoso, Carolina; Maldonado Márquez, Alan; Convey, Peter et al.
Partner: UNT College of Science

Dharmic Ecology for Mother Earth

Description: Presentation for the Dallas Philosophers Forum. This presentation discusses the intertwining of environmentalism in the dharmic practices of traditional grass-roots rural communities such as Bishnois, Bhils, and Swadhyaya.
Date: January 8, 2019
Creator: Jain, Pankaj
Partner: UNT College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences
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Environmental History of Dharmic Communities

Description: Presentation for the Dallas Philosophers Forum. This presentation discusses the intertwining of environmentalism in the dharmic practices of traditional grass-roots rural communities such as Bishnois, Bhils, and Swadhyaya.
Date: January 8, 2019
Duration: 57 minutes 22 seconds
Creator: Jain, Pankaj
Partner: UNT College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences
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Hermeneutics, Environments, and Justice

Description: Recent years have seen a growing interest in and the publication of more formal scholarship on philosophical hermeneutics and environmental philosophy--i.e. environmental hermeneutics. Grasping how a human understanding of environments is variously mediated and how different levels of meaning can be unconcealed permits deeper ways of looking at environmental ethics and human practices with regard to environments. Beyond supposed simple facts about environments to which humans supposedly rationa… more
Date: August 2019
Creator: Utsler, David
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Breeding strategies of open-cup-nesting birds in sub-Antarctic forests of Navarino Island, Chile

Description: Article describing the breeding strategies (i.e., nest dimensions, nest height from the ground, egg laying rhythm, clutch size, length of the developmental periods, breeding phenology, and diversity of nesting substrate) of five passerine birds that inhabit sub-Antarctic ecosystems.
Date: May 30, 2019
Creator: Jara, Rocío Fernanda; Crego, Ramiro D.; Arellano, Francisco Javier; Altamirano, Tomás A.; Ibarra, J. Tomás; Rozzi, Ricardo, 1960- et al.
Partner: University of North Texas
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Episode 13: Dr. Pankaj Jain

Description: Interview with Dr. Pankaj Jain for the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) podcast. In this episode, Susan speaks with Dr. Pankaj Jain, Associate Professor in UNT's Department of Philosophy & Religion. They discuss Dr. Jain's interest in connecting ancient practices with contemporary issues, and how he is exploring the connections between religious traditions and sustainability in the US and in India. They also discuss his recent trip to Nepal, where he recorded an episode of National Geog… more
Date: March 7, 2019
Duration: 25 minutes 38 seconds
Creator: Supak, Susan & Jain, Pankaj
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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The Art of Non-Violence in a Violent World

Description: Video recording containing audio of a podcast episode from Grim News. This episode includes a discussion on the principles of non-violence and its relationship with Jainism
Date: April 5, 2019
Duration: 28 minutes 05 seconds
Creator: Sengupta, Hindol & Jain, Pankaj
Partner: UNT College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences
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