S4 EP 9 - Dr. Brooke Rollins / Decisions and Responsibility in Sports and in Life
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In this special episode, Dr. Brooke Rollins, an Associate Professor of English at Lehigh University, joins the Thinking With crew to discuss Derrida's "Nietzsche and the Machine" interview, as well as Brooke's research in risk, gambling, analytics (in sports and in life), and rhetorical theory. 
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