Podcast Episodes

From the Lab to Your Kitchen: Growing Tomorrow’s Dinner

David Kaplan believes that the food he and other scientists are growing in their labs can eventually feed a hungry world.

At least one in nine of the almost eight billion people who live on earth are…

Published on 3 years, 4 months ago

Worth Repeating: Are You Listening?

Too many people seem voiceless or, at least, don’t think their voices are heard by those whose decisions shape their lives. Is the problem that too many are voiceless or that too many are not listeni…

Published on 3 years, 4 months ago

Can Tech Save Us?

Can innovations be transformed into practical realities at the necessary speed and scale, and in ways that allow mankind to flourish?

Our world has become a weird combination of dangerous, existentia…

Published on 3 years, 4 months ago

Worth Repeating: Sweden Burning? Really?

Listen as Lars Åberg explains what Sweden has done right, but also what it has done wrong.

We live in the age of the refugee—and the numbers of people fleeing their homes are almost certainly going t…

Published on 3 years, 4 months ago

Worth Repeating: Welcome to the End of Democracy

Joel Kotkin argues that the withering of democratic process and institutions reflects the deeper transformation of American and European societies.

"We may remain, as we are now, nominally democratic…

Published on 3 years, 4 months ago

Worth Repeating: Save the Seas

Do you care about the future of the oceans? Oceanographers Sylvia Earle and Asha de Vos talks about water, the oceans, threats, and solutions.

Do you care about the future of the oceans? Are you worr…

Published on 3 years, 5 months ago

Should We Be Celebrating Erdogan’s Leadership?

What President Biden calls leadership Michael Sahlin, former Swedish diplomat with deep experience in Turkey, thinks is more like a cat landing on its feet after falling out a window.

At the recent N…

Published on 3 years, 5 months ago

Worth Repeating: The Whole World is Watching!

Back in March we talked to Russian journalist Yevgenia Albats at the beginning of Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine. Listen to her tell it like it is!

In August, 1968 American anti-war protesters c…

Published on 3 years, 5 months ago

Code Red: not for Earth, for Humanity?

Human pressures on earth have reached dangerously high levels" which could imperil humanity’s survival,

“For the first time in human history, we face a planetary emergency.” Those words were written …

Published on 3 years, 5 months ago

Worth Repeating - Them vs Us: What Ukraine Is Really About

Leopoldo López, a Venezuelan patriot, explains how the fight to save Ukraine reflects a much bigger, existential fight for freedom everywhere.

As Russia's war on Ukraine grinds on with no end in sigh…

Published on 3 years, 6 months ago