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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…
2 years, 1 month 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 …
2 years, 1 month 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…
2 years, 1 month 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…
2 years, 1 month 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…
2 years, 1 month 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…
2 years, 2 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…
2 years, 2 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. …
2 years, 2 months ago
Consciousness, AI & Creativity with DUSTIN O’HALLORAN - Emmy Award-winning Composer
Season 12
What will happen when Artificial General Intelligence arrives? What is the nature of consciousness? How are music and creativity pathways for reconne…
2 years, 2 months ago
How to Live a Good a Life - Stoic Wisdom & the Founding Fathers - Highlights - JEFFREY ROSEN
Season 12
"That idea of planting seeds for future generations came from the Tusculan Disputations. There’s something especially empowering about Cicero. And it…
2 years, 2 months ago