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#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…
2 years, 9 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 Doct…
2 years, 9 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 humo…
2 years, 9 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 sci…
2 years, 9 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…
2 years, 10 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. …
2 years, 10 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 ha…
2 years, 10 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 publicatio…
2 years, 10 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 f…
2 years, 10 months ago
#26. Sixty-Six Years of Figuring Out How the Brain Makes a Mind
Season 1 Episode 26
Stephen Grossberg is one of the principal founders of the fields of computational neuroscience, connectionist cognitive science, and artificial neura…
2 years, 10 months ago