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Birdbrained: When Nature and Technology Collide
Episode 122
What happens when technology and competition start to invade our experiences in nature? For example, what if you’re so focused on documenting a bird …
4 months ago
Being Team Human in Crazy Town
Episode 121
Have you ever had that feeling in your gut, when you suddenly realize that the person you’re talking with might have a screw or two loose? What about…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
You Ain’t Gonna Live Forever: The Dos and Don’ts of Legacy Building
Episode 120
Immortality projects represent an often irrational, and sometimes even unconscious, way to tamp down anxiety about death. There are some shocking exa…
5 months ago
Crazy Town Classics - Terror Management Theory
What can we learn about death from the X-Men, small screaming rodents, and unwitting college students in psychology experiments? It turns out that th…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Getting Real about Resiliency with Emily Schoerning
Episode 119
What if there were a news outlet that actually covered the most important environmental stories of our time? Dr. Emily Schoerning and her nonprofit, …
6 months ago
Choose Your AI Adventure: Immiseration or Extinction
Episode 118
Jason and Asher replace Rob with a much more humane and humble co-host, Elon Musk, to explore the feasibility of harnessing the entire sun to power A…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
EVs on Speed: The Jevons Paradox Strikes Again
Episode 117
Mainstream economists and environmentalists share something in common. Both tend to tout efficiency -- think better light bulbs -- as the solution to…
6 months, 4 weeks ago
Sane Town: A Realistic Vision of Life 100 Years from Now
Episode 116
Picture the future 100 years from now. What do you imagine? Flying cars? Space colonies? AI talking toasters?
But if we can’t sustain an endlessly gro…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
Toasting Bread Is WAY Harder Than You Think: The Challenges of a Renewable Energy Future
Episode 115
What does a livable future look like 100 years from now? If we unlocked unlimited green energy, what would we actually do with it? And are our dreams…
8 months, 1 week ago
Worried about the Future? Join the Club
Episode 114
There’s the book club, the Rotary Club, the Mickey Mouse Club, and the club sandwich. Whatever your preference, you might want to think about joining…
8 months, 3 weeks ago