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#114. Real World Harms Created by Advances in Artificial Intelligence
Season 1 Episode 114
Madhumita Murgia is a writer specializing in artificial intelligence and its impact on society. She was the artificial intelligence editor for Wired …
1 year, 8 months ago
#113. A Renaissance Man Reflects on the Creative Process and the Honing of Artistic Skills
Season 1 Episode 113
Las Cruces’s very own renaissance man, Bob Diven -- an accomplished painter, sculptor, set designer, actor, playwright, composer, actor, satirist, ca…
1 year, 8 months ago
#112. Reclaiming the Vietnamese Heritage Her Refugee Father Never Shared
Season 1 Episode 112
Vietnamese-American Christina Vo is the author of two memoirs. The first, entitled The Veil Between Two Worlds: A Memoir of Silence, Loss, and Findin…
1 year, 8 months ago
#111. The National Park Service, Its Mission, and How it was Co-opted by the South to Celebrate the Confederacy
Season 1 Episode 111
Dwight Pitcaithley, the former Chief Historian of the National Park Service, discusses NPS's history and its three-fold mission of preservation, rese…
1 year, 8 months ago
#110. Research that Proved the Toxic Effects of Lead in Our Gasoline and in Our Drinking Water
Season 1 Episode 110
Joel Schwartz won a MacArthur Award for work that made a major contribution to the phase-out of lead in gasoline. Ronnie Levin worked at the Environm…
1 year, 8 months ago
#109. Finding Meaning After Catastrophic Illness or Injury
Season 1 Episode 109
Dr. Keith Rafal, medical director of the Rehabilitation Hospital of Rhode Island and creator of the non-profit organization and website, Our Heart Sp…
1 year, 8 months ago
#108. The Amazing Auditory World of Sea Creatures
Season 1 Episode 108
Amorina Kingdon is an award-winning science writer, at Hakai Magazine until 2021 and as a contributor to publications at the University of Victoria a…
1 year, 8 months ago
#107. Teaching Social Justice Issues to White Students in a Wealthy Suburb of Boston
Season 1 Episode 107
David Nurenberg is a professor, educational consultant, and writer in the Boston area who teaches courses at both the high school and graduate level…
1 year, 9 months ago
#106. The Incredible Potential and Daunting Risks of Stem Cell Therapy
Season 1 Episode 106
Sheldon Krimsky was a professor of humanities and social sciences at Tufts University and a fellow of the Hastings Center, an independent bioethics r…
1 year, 9 months ago
#105. How Mandela Averted Civil War in South Africa
Season 1 Episode 105
Justice Malala is one of South Africa’s foremost political commentators, both in print and on television. A longtime weekly columnist for The Times o…
1 year, 9 months ago