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The Model For Taking It To The Streets
Episode 370
Just as we saw in America in the 1960s, as we saw when the Berlin Wall fell, as we witnessed in the Middle East, during the Arab Spring, and as we ar…
6 years, 4 months ago
Why Quantum Mechanics Matter and Why You Should Care: A Conversation with Sean Carroll
Episode 369
The great screenwriter William Goldman once said of Hollywood that nobody knows anything. The physicist Richard Feynman once said that no one underst…
6 years, 4 months ago
What Happens to Ancestry Testing DNA?
Episode 368
It’s no surprise that many fear technology is out of control. AI, facial recognition and robotics are the stuff of science fear. But it’s biotechnolo…
6 years, 4 months ago
The Best and the Brightest of America's Diplomats
Episode 367
Clausewitz said that politics or diplomacy was “war by other means.”
Churchill put it more colorfully when he said that “diplomacy is the art of tell…
6 years, 5 months ago
Kickstarting a Better World
Episode 366
The great playwright Arthur Miller once wrote that too often “we know the price of everything and the value of nothing.” Perhaps nowhere is that true…
6 years, 5 months ago
Fake is Sometimes Real
Episode 365
Artificial flavors, fake news, authentic copies, and real replicas. They all sound like oxymoronic gibberish at worst, overzealous marketing at best.…
6 years, 5 months ago
Only Whistleblowers Can Save Democracy
Episode 364
Edward Snowden, Chelsea Manning, Coleen Rowley, and the whistleblower who let us know about the Ukraine call, are just a few whose actions sparked in…
6 years, 5 months ago
Why is Science Under Assault?
Episode 363
Even when we don’t realize it, science is part of our lives. Physics, chemistry, biology...it’s all essential to our survival. So why is the general …
6 years, 5 months ago
The Battle of Mosul - The Last Great Battle Against Isis
Episode 362
While many of you can recite the great battles of WW I and II and even the Civil War, the more recent battle that have been fought in the Middle East…
6 years, 6 months ago
He is a Being Made of Television
Episode 361
There is not a morning that goes by without some story about the impact of social media. The power of Facebook or Twitter, or Instagram. With all of …
6 years, 6 months ago