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DEAN SPADE - Author of Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of Law
Season 11
“The legal system is a colonial legal system that is designed to preserve capitalist extraction and all the racial dynamics required to produce racia…
2 years, 10 months ago
ANTHONY LEISEROWITZ - Founding Director of Yale Program on Climate Change Communication - Host of Climate Connections
Season 11
"So the why really depends on where you are. People are not all the same. There is no such thing as the public. There are many, many, many different …
2 years, 10 months ago
ALLEN STEELE - Hugo Award-winning Science Fiction Author of the Coyote Trilogy, Arkwright
Season 11
"I'm really very glad. I was happy to see that within my lifetime that the prospects of not just Mars, but in fact interstellar space is being taken …
2 years, 10 months ago
RALPH GIBSON - Award-winning Photographer - Leica Hall of Fame Inductee
Season 11
"The way I measured time for a very large part of my life was I was always in preparation. I remember as a child I was preparing to make my first com…
2 years, 10 months ago
IAN ROBERTSON - Author of How Confidence Works: The New Science of Self-belief - Co-Director of the Global Brain Health Institute
Season 11
“The book probes the science and neuroscience behind the idea that confidence can be learned, or whether it is something you inherit. Optimism, hope,…
2 years, 10 months ago
RICK BASS - Environmentalist & Story Prize Award-winning Author of “Why I Came West”, “For a Little While”
Season 11
"So it's just a great joy to be passing this guitar made from the wood of an 800-year-old tree around to musicians and asking them to play a song of …
2 years, 10 months ago
NAN HAUSER - Whale Researcher - President, Center for Cetacean Research & Conservation - Director, Cook Islands Whale Research
Season 11
"I don't think a lot of people realize how absolutely important whales are, and not just because they're beautiful and they make people happy, but wh…
2 years, 11 months ago
JIM SHEPARD - Author of The Book of Aron, Project X, The World to Come starring Casey Affleck, Vanessa Kirby, Katherine Waterston
Season 11
"In terms of what I'm writing, I'm always trying to make myself a more interesting human being. And so that means I'm coming across these human dilem…
2 years, 11 months ago
LESLEY HUGHES - Lead Author of IPCC 4th & 5th Assessment Reports - Director of Climate Council of Australia
Season 11
"Australia is generally considered one of the most vulnerable developed countries to the impacts of climate change, and I've been in the climate scie…
2 years, 11 months ago
JAMES BROWNING - Founder of F Minus: Calling for Divestment from Fossil Fuel Lobbyists
Season 11
"The lobbyists that represent the fossil fuel companies like ExxonMobil, Koch companies, and the American Petroleum Institute, they knew for years th…
2 years, 11 months ago