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#16. The Transition of Hong Kong to Chinese Rule
Season 1 Episode 16
Karen Cheung is a writer and journalist from Hong Kong, who has written about politics, music, and books for The New York Times, Foreign Policy, The Rumpus, This American Life, The Offing, and others…
Published on 2 years, 10 months ago
#15. Ethical Complexities in Assisted Dying
Season 1 Episode 15
Katie Engelhart is a writer and producer based in Toronto and New York, whose recent work has focused on healthcare and bioethics. She has been interviewed on major television networks and produced d…
Published on 2 years, 10 months ago
#14. A Neuroscientist Challenges the Prevailing Model of Physiological Regulation
Season 1 Episode 14
Peter Sterling is a senior professor of neuroscience at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, whose research focused on the three-dimensional microanatomy of the retina. He has also deve…
Published on 2 years, 10 months ago
#13. Human-Wildlife Conflict: Ill-Fated Attempts at Control vs. Cultivating an Attitude of Coexistence
Season 1 Episode 13
Bethany Brookshire is a science writer and a host of the podcast, Science for the People. From 2013 to 2021, she was a staff writer with Science News magazine and Science News for Students, a digital…
Published on 2 years, 11 months ago
#12. Congressman Jamie Raskin’s Inspiring Response to Two Unthinkable, Juxtaposed Traumas: The Insurrection of January 6th, the Day after Burying His Beloved Son
Season 1 Episode 12
Jamie Raskin represents Maryland’s Eighth Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives and in 2021 was the Lead Manager in the second impeachment of Donald Trump, in response to the Ja…
Published on 2 years, 11 months ago
#11. How Does the Brain Enable Us To Perceive, Make Sense Of, and Learn From Sound?
Season 1 Episode 11
Nina Kraus is a scientist, inventor, and amateur musician who studies the biology of auditory learning, its connection to other sense modalities, to physical and mental health, and especially to musi…
Published on 2 years, 11 months ago
#10. Coming Soon(ish): Human Hibernation!
Season 1 Episode 10
Kelly Drew, is a professor in the department of chemistry and biochemistry at the University of Alaska at Fairbanks and the Director for Transformative Research in Metabolism, whose lab focuses on hi…
Published on 2 years, 11 months ago
#9. An Audacious Vehicle for Fostering Math Appreciation and Fascination
Season 1 Episode 9
Manil Suri, is a distinguished university professor of mathematics at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County and is also the author of three internationally acclaimed novels set in his native I…
Published on 2 years, 11 months ago
#8. The Momentous Lawsuit that Determined Who Owns Your DNA
Season 1 Episode 8
Jorge Contreras is a law professor at the University of Utah, specializing in the areas of intellectual property law, technical standardization, and antitrust and science policy. In 2020 he received …
Published on 3 years ago
#7. Civilization and Water
Season 1 Episode 7
Giulio Boccaletti is one of the world’s foremost experts on the interface between geophysical and ecological science, world history, and economics as they pertain to water security. As a global cons…
Published on 3 years ago