Podcast Episodes

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, and start thinking about them as triggers for exper…

Published on 1 year, 8 months ago

How does a changing climate affect our minds, brains & bodies? - Highlights - CLAYTON ALDERN

Season 12

"Our brain is the organ from which our rich experience of the world arises. Brains are responsible for love, for sadness, and these profound experiences are those in which I sought to investigate."

Cl…

Published on 1 year, 8 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 journalist whose work has appeared in The Atlantic, The Gua…

Published on 1 year, 8 months ago

There’s another side to every war. Satire, War & Hollywood - Co-creator DON McKELLAR on The Sympathizer

Season 12

"What saved me as a young person, I think, was how I connected with the arts. And I was exposed to this sort of world of possibility. What I hope for children is sort of courageous curiosity. I feel …

Published on 1 year, 8 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 McKellar is a highly accomplished writer, director, and …

Published on 1 year, 8 months ago

Do good deeds offset bad deeds? How do our families shape who we become?- Highlights - DAN FUTTERMAN & ADAM RAPP

Season 12

"S. E. Hinton, Susie Hinton wrote The Outsiders when she was 15 and 16. It was published when she was 17. She was told by one editor in particular that she couldn't have any swear words, so she was s…

Published on 1 year, 8 months ago

The Outsiders Musical & American Rust w/ ADAM RAPP & DAN FUTTERMAN - Award-winning Writers/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 increase our capacity for empathy, understanding, a…

Published on 1 year, 8 months ago

How has travel contributed to the ecological degradation of the planet? - Highlights - MICHAEL CRONIN

Season 12

“What I think will stay with you for an entire lifetime is to be equipped with the capacity and the tools to find wonder in the world. And that is to find a language for that world, which is supplied…

Published on 1 year, 8 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 relationship to the more-than-human world?

Michael Croni…

Published on 1 year, 8 months ago

How can music help us expand our understanding of consciousness & AI? - Highlights - DUSTIN O’HALLORAN

Season 12

"I think it's really a crossroads between knowledge and wisdom. And I think that wisdom for me is so connected to nature and the information that we get from nature. We ultimately are part of the nat…

Published on 1 year, 8 months ago