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#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…
3 years, 6 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 …
3 years, 6 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 …
3 years, 6 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 Transformati…
3 years, 6 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 in…
3 years, 6 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 …
3 years, 6 months 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 a…
3 years, 6 months ago
#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 Harvar…
3 years, 7 months 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, …
3 years, 7 months 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 Mus…
3 years, 7 months ago