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Back to SearchJelani Cobb: Journalism at a Crossroads
Season 31
The Dean of the Columbia School of Journalism talks about how social media is overtaking traditional newspapers and television as most people’s sourc…
9 months, 1 week ago
The MASH Gang: How a Television Show Changed Us
Season 31
MASH changed Alan’s life as well as the lives of the rest of the MASH cast. In this revisit of a free-wheeling conversation recorded in 2019 Alan, an…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
Michael J Fox: Looking Back with Attitude
Season 31
Alan revisits a conversation he had with Michael seven years ago, at a time when Fox had been grappling with Parkinson’s Disease for 27 years and Ala…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
Bill McKibben: Tomorrow Will be Sunny
Season 31
A confident prediction from the man who first brought our warming planet to public attention some 35 years ago. Energy from solar and wind is now che…
9 months, 4 weeks ago
Kate Marvel: Feeling For Our Planet
Season 31
In a surprising shift in how we communicate about the climate crisis, Kate Marvel explores the feelings evoked by her research. Her new book tackles …
10 months ago
Justin Evans: Data Heroes
Season 31
Data: dry and boring, right? Not in the hands of Justin Evans, a data expert himself, who set out to show that data is not only the lifeblood of toda…
10 months, 1 week ago
Melanie Kaplan: Travels With a Beagle
Season 31
After adopting a beagle that had spent the first four years of his life as an experimental subject in a laboratory, she set out – with Hammy the beag…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
Erica Chenoweth: A Better Way to Protest?
Season 31
Not only are non-violent protests more effective than armed resistance, but a surprisingly small percentage of the population – around three and a ha…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
Nicky Clayton: Why Crows Are “Feathered Apes”
Season 31
With long memories and the ability to figure out what other crows are thinking – then plot to outdo them, using what Nicky Clayton calls “sleight of…
11 months ago
Steven Pinker: When You Know That I Know That You Know…
Season 31
It then becomes “common knowledge,” and can be both beneficial – like cementing friendships or empowering peaceful protests – or destructive, causing…
11 months, 1 week ago