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#154. The Hazards and History of Forever Chemicals
Season 1 Episode 154
Mariah Blake is an investigative journalist whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Mother Jones, and The New Republic. She was a Murrey Marder Nieman Fellow in Watchdog Journali…
Published on 6 months, 1 week ago
#153. Jessy Randall's New Poems on Women in Science, The Path of Most Resistance
Season 1 Episode 153
Jessy Randall is curator of special collections at Colorado College and the author of several poetry collections, including: Suicide Hotline Hold Music, (which includes her own accompanying comics), …
Published on 6 months, 1 week ago
#152. How Games and Game Theory Shape Our Social World
Season 1 Episode 152
Kelly Clancy is a neuroscientist who has held research positions at M.I.T., Berkeley, the University College London, and the A.I. company, DeepMind, focusing on biological information processing and …
Published on 6 months, 2 weeks ago
#151. The Successful Struggle to Organize the First Union at Starbucks
Season 1 Episode 151
Jaz Brisack is a experienced union organizer, starting with the United Autoworkers campaign at the Nissan factory in Canton, MS and volunteering as a Pinkhouse Defender at the state’s last abortion c…
Published on 7 months, 2 weeks ago
#150. Out of My Skull: The Psychology of Boredom
Season 1 Episode 150
James Danckert is a cognitive scientist at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada, focusing on the neuroscience of attention and the consequences of strokes. He has written numerous journal ar…
Published on 7 months, 3 weeks ago
#149. A Mother and Five Children, Upwardly Striving and Homeless
Season 1 Episode 149
Jeff Hobbs is the author of five books, including a novel, The Tourists, and four books that apply a novelist writing style to the struggles of individuals striving to overcome racial, class, and soc…
Published on 8 months, 1 week ago
#148. Nearly Dying While Giving Birth, Followed by Seven Years of Recovery
Season 1 Episode 148
Samina Ali teaches fiction writing at Stanford University and is an award-winning author, whose debut novel, Madras on Rainy Days, published in 2004, won several literary awards, including Poets & Wr…
Published on 8 months, 2 weeks ago
#147. Fraud in Alzheimer's Research that Underpins the Dominant Model of the Disease
Season 1 Episode 147
Charles Piller is an award-winning investigative journalist for Science magazine, reporting on such topics as public health, biological warfare, and infectious disease outbreaks. In addition to artic…
Published on 8 months, 3 weeks ago
#146. The History of Antisemitism in the Arab World
Season 1 Episode 146
Omar Mohammed was the previously anonymous blogger who courageously reported on the atrocities he witnessed that were perpetrated by the Islamic State, also called ISIS, when in 2014 it took over Mos…
Published on 8 months, 4 weeks ago
#145. The Case for Government Supported Housing
Season 1 Episode 145
Jonathan Tarleton is a writer, urban planner, and oral historian. He previously served as the chief researcher for Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas, as editor in chief of the online magazine…
Published on 9 months, 1 week ago