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SCOTUS Decides 2024
Episode 496
The Supreme Court has issued another series of controversial and consequential decisions this term, fueling discussion on the current state of the ju…
1 year, 11 months ago
Unleashing Your Brain’s Potential: Science, Lifestyle and Longevity
Episode 495
People and families suffering from Alzheimer’s and dementia often feel desperate for a cure and will try anything. Unfortunately, no cure exists and …
2 years ago
Can You Design a Good Death?
Episode 494
Death is understandably difficult – and for some people, nearly impossible – to conceive of and talk about. Especially our own. It may seem like ther…
2 years, 1 month ago
The Pursuit of a Good Death
Episode 494
Death is understandably difficult – and for some people, nearly impossible – to conceive of and talk about. Especially our own. It may seem like ther…
2 years, 1 month ago
Katharine Hayhoe on Fighting Climate Change
Episode 493
Climate change is demanding an extraordinarily rapid transformation of human society, and we don’t have a manual. The people who have done the least …
2 years, 2 months ago
What Makes a Life Worth Living?
Episode 492
For years, Yale undergraduate students have lined up to take a wildly popular course called Life Worth Living. Bucking the highly competitive tone yo…
2 years, 2 months ago
Fighting HIV Around the World
Episode 491
In the late 1990s, HIV and AIDS was killing people in Sub-Saharan Africa at an astonishing rate. Generations of children were growing up without pare…
2 years, 2 months ago
Our Changing World with Thomas Friedman
Episode 490
The world seems to be moving and evolving faster than ever before, and democratic ideals are under threat in many countries around the globe. New Yor…
2 years, 3 months ago
Forging a Path to Ethical A.I.
Episode 489
It doesn’t look like we’re going to be able to put the generative artificial intelligence genie back in the bottle. But we might still be able to pre…
2 years, 3 months ago
Redemption Song?
Episode 488
History has the power to teach us what to do in the present, but do we actually make good use of that tool? Many events in our recent past might sugg…
2 years, 4 months ago