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#6. How Placebo Effects Complicate Medicine
Season 1 Episode 6
Kathryn T. Hall is a researcher at Harvard Medical School’s Program in Placebo Studies and the Therapeutic Encounter. After earning her PhD at Harvard in Microbiology and Molecular Genetics from Harv…
Published on 3 years ago
#4. Race Relations in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Season 1 Episode 4
Eve Fairbanks is a journalist and essayist who grapples with the processes and meanings of change: in cities, countries, landscapes, morals, values, and our ideas about ourselves. A former congressio…
Published on 3 years ago
#3. Recently Disclosed Vatican Records about Pius XII, the Pope During WWII
Season 1 Episode 3
A professor of social science, anthropology, and Italian studies at Brown University, David Kertzer is the author of thirteen books. The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise…
Published on 3 years ago
#5. Early Women Scientists: Their History and a Poem for Each
Season 1 Episode 5
Did you realize there were dozens and dozens of early women scientists? Each one deserves a poem! A conversation and recitations with poet Jessy Randall.
Jessy Randall is curator of special collectio…
Published on 3 years ago
#2. A Promising Approach to Schizophrenia
Season 1 Episode 2
An alternative approach to Schizophrenia: shepherd the young adult through developmental crisis rather than treating the symptoms as the onset of a lifelong brain disease to be forever managed with m…
Published on 3 years ago
#1. The Search for Intelligent Life in the Universe
Season 1 Episode 1
Stuart Kelter interviews Dr. Chris Churchill, a professor of astronomy at New Mexico State University, whose work focuses on the evolution of galaxies using chemical line spectra from the Hubble Spac…
Published on 3 years ago