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#183. A Neuroscientist Tells the Story of his Remarkable Overcoming of Profound Childhood Adversity
Season 1 Episode 183
David Sussillo is an internationally recognized neuroscientist, currently working as a senior research manager at Meta Reality Labs, leading a team t…
9 hours ago
#182. Alternative Approaches to the Philosophy of Ethics
Season 1 Episode 182
Michael Boylan is a philosophy professor at Marymount University and a prolific writer who focuses on a wide range of ethical domains, including publ…
1 week ago
#181. Decisive Breakthroughs in Renewable Energy
Season 1 Episode 181
Nicholas — or Nick — Jelley, is an Emeritus Professor in the Department of Physics and a Fellow of Lincoln College at the University of Oxford, known…
2 weeks, 3 days ago
#180. The Power and Dangers of Digital Self-Surveillance
Season 1 Episode 180
Andrew Guthrie Ferguson is a Professor of Law at the George Washington University Law School, where he teaches Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Evid…
1 month ago
#179. U.S. Efforts to Influence Values and Allegiances in the Middle East
Season 1 Episode 179
Nathaniel Greenberg is an Associate Professor of Arabic in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages at George Mason University, focusing on t…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
#178. An Expedition into the Brazilian Amazon to Establish the Boundaries of a Totally Isolated, Uncontacted tribe.
Season 1 Episode 178
Scott Wallace is an award-winning writer, television producer, and photojournalist, who for over 40 years, has focused on the environment, vanishing …
1 month, 2 weeks ago
#177. What African-Americans Endured Throughout the History of the Mississippi Delta
Season 1 Episode 177
Ralph Eubanks is the former Director of Publishing for the Library of Congress, former editor of the Virginia Quarterly Review at the University of V…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
#176. Exposing How Financial Corruption is Tied to Environmental Destruction, Human-Rights Abuses, and War
Season 1 Episode 176
Patrick Alley is the former executive director and co-founder – along with Simon Taylor and Charmian Gooch – of Global Witness, an award-winning nonp…
2 months ago
#175. Maintaining Love Throughout Her Husband's Dementia
Season 1 Episode 175
Anne-Marie Erickson is the author of the memoir, In the Evening, We’ll Dance: A Memoir in Essays on Love and Dementia, which bears witness to the dem…
2 months, 1 week ago
#174. Conundrums of the Mind-Body Problem and the Ethical Dilemmas of Possibly Conscious A.I.
Season 1 Episode 174
Eric Schwitzgebel is a professor of philosophy at the University of California, Riverside, whose main interests include philosophy of mind, metaphysi…
3 months ago