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What can music teach us that science can’t? - MAX COOPER - Musician, Fmr. Computational Biologist
Season 12
How is being an artist different than a machine that is programmed to perform a set of actions? How can we stop thinking about artworks as objects, a…
1 year, 9 months ago
How does a changing climate affect our minds, brains & bodies? - Highlights - CLAYTON ALDERN
Season 12
"I want to be wowed by the world. I want to gaze at it in awe and wonder. And I think when we take a step back and begin to appreciate the complexity…
1 year, 9 months ago
How climate change is making us sick, angry & anxious - CLAYTON ALDERN - Neuroscientist turned Eco-Journalist
Season 12
How does a changing climate affect our minds, brains and bodies?
Clayton Page Aldern is an award winning neuroscientist turned environmental journalis…
1 year, 9 months ago
There’s another side to every war. Satire, War & Hollywood - Co-creator DON McKELLAR on The Sympathizer
Season 12
"Right from the beginning, in talking with Park Chan-wook, we wanted this sort of multiplicity of narrative voices and devices. In a way, it's about …
1 year, 9 months ago
DON McKELLAR on The Sympathizer with Hoa Xuande, Robert Downey Jr., Park Chan-wook
Season 12
What are the stories we tell ourselves to justify our actions in times of war? How can the arts convey complexity and foster understanding?
Don McKell…
1 year, 9 months ago
Do good deeds offset bad deeds? How do our families shape who we become?- Highlights - DAN FUTTERMAN & ADAM RAPP
Season 12
"We ended on such a cliffhanger with Isaac presenting the wrench at the police station to Jeff Daniels' character. It allowed us to sort of start fro…
1 year, 9 months ago
Exploring American Rust: Broken Justice w/ DAN FUTTERMAN & ADAM RAPP - Award-winning Screenwriters/EPs
Season 12
What role do the families we’re born into or the traumas we experience shape the people we become? Do good deeds offset bad deeds? How can the arts i…
1 year, 9 months ago
How has travel contributed to the ecological degradation of the planet? - Highlights - MICHAEL CRONIN
Season 12
“The idea of a kind of inert world that is simply there for our pleasure, enjoyment, and exploitation has proved to be catastrophically mistaken beca…
1 year, 9 months ago
Eco-Travel: Journeying in the Age of the Anthropocene w/ MICHAEL CRONIN - Author, Prof. of Culture, Literature & Translation
Season 12
How has tourism and writing about travel contributed to the ecological degradation of the planet?How does language influence perception and our relat…
1 year, 9 months ago
How can music help us expand our understanding of consciousness & AI? - Highlights - DUSTIN O’HALLORAN
Season 12
"The album 1 0 0 1 is really like a journey from our connection with nature to where we are now, in this moment where we're playing with technology. …
1 year, 9 months ago