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#36. The People’s Hospital: Better and Less Costly Medical Care, Putting Patients’ Needs Above Profit
Season 1 Episode 36
Ricardo Nuila is a writer, physician, and professor of medicine, medical ethics, and health policy at Baylor College of Medicine, where he teaches the practice of hospital medicine and directs the Hu…
Published on 2 years, 6 months ago
#35. Past Cataclysmic Changes in Climate Across the World Since its Beginning, with Lessons for Today
Season 1 Episode 35
Peter Frankopan is a Professor of Global History at Oxford University with comprehensively wide-ranging interests, including the history and politics of the Mediterranean, Russia, the Middle East, an…
Published on 2 years, 6 months ago
#34. The Hidden Wonders of Human Anatomy
Season 1 Episode 34
Jonathan Reisman is a doctor of internal medicine, pediatrics, and emergency medicine, who recently published his first book, The Unseen Body: A Doctor’s Journey Through the Hidden Wonders of Human A…
Published on 2 years, 6 months ago
#33. On Climbing Everest and Denali
Season 1 Episode 33
Stuart Kelter interviews Las Crucen, Ron Lautenbach, about his experiences of, and life lessons in, climbing Everest and Denali (McKinley). With humor and insight, he conveys his penchant for adventu…
Published on 2 years, 6 months ago
#32. Values in Science? You Bet!
Season 1 Episode 32
Kevin Elliott is a philosophy professor at Michigan State University, who studies the role of values in science and the ethical issues related to science and technology, such as conflicts of interest…
Published on 2 years, 6 months ago
#31. The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism
Season 1 Episode 31
Martin Wolf is Associate Editor and Chief Economics Commentator at The Financial Times, London. He has won numerous awards, including the 2019 Gerald Loeb Lifetime Achievement Award. He was a member …
Published on 2 years, 7 months ago
#30. The History of the Right to Privacy
Season 1 Episode 30
Amy Gajda is a professor of law at Tulane Law School, a former journalist, and a nationally recognized expert in the topic of privacy and the media. She was an award-winning legal commentator on Illi…
Published on 2 years, 7 months ago
#29. The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market
Season 1 Episode 29
Naomi Oreskes is a Professor of the History of Science and Affiliated Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington P…
Published on 2 years, 7 months ago
#28. On the Receiving End of (Six!) Psychiatric Misdiagnoses
Season 1 Episode 28
Sarah Fay is a professor at DePaul and Northwestern Universities, a critic, scholar, and creative writer. Her writing has appeared in many publications including The New York Times, The Atlantic, and…
Published on 2 years, 7 months ago
#27. Womb: The Inside Story of Where We All Began
Season 1 Episode 27
Leah Hazard is an American-Scottish midwife and author, whose recent book is entitled, Womb: The Inside Story of Where We All Began. Leah graduated from Harvard University, working in print journalis…
Published on 2 years, 7 months ago