Podcast Episodes

What Next TBD: Where Are The Little Kids' Vaccines?

Today on What Next TBD: What is going on with little kids' vaccines? Why don’t they seem to be a priority for the government or the pharmaceutical companies, while parents are stressed to a breaking …

Published on 3 years, 11 months ago

What Next TBD: The Aftermath of Elizabeth Holmes

Elizabeth Holmes was found guilty of defrauding investors this week in federal court. The former CEO, wunderkind, and blood mogul has been the subject of intense legal interest and public fascination…

Published on 3 years, 11 months ago

What Next TBD: The Carbon Capture Fantasy

Using experimental technology to pull gigatons of carbon out of the air and bury it deep beneath the Earth sounds like a bad sci-fi plot point. If things don’t change soon, it also might be one of ou…

Published on 3 years, 11 months ago

What Next TBD: Who Online Justice Leaves Behind

The U.S. civil court system doesn’t get as much attention as the criminal courts, but it would be hard to overstate its importance. In 2018, for example, 47 percent of respondents to a Pew survey sai…

Published on 4 years ago

What Next TBD: Did @jack Ruin Twitter?

On Monday, Jack Dorsey stepped down as CEO of Twitter. It’s not the first time he’s left the job. 

Is this really the end for the man who guided Twitter through the Trump era? And how will the platfor…

Published on 4 years ago

What Next TBD: Best of 2021 | Inside the Subreddit That Blew Up GameStop

This episode originally aired in January 2021

The story of how GameStop went from the verge of a bankruptcy to a $15 billion market value isn’t an easy one to wrap your head around. But it helps to go…

Published on 4 years ago

What Next TBD: Space Junk! (And Space Wars?)

Over the weekend, Russia tested a new weapon​​—a type of missile that can fly into space and destroy a satellite in orbit. 

The test created thousands of pieces of debris, which will hurtle around the…

Published on 4 years ago

What Next TBD: The Kid-Vaccine Holdouts

A recent poll showed that about a third of parents of younger children would get their kids vaccinated, a third would not, and the final third said they wanted to wait and see how the vaccines worked…

Published on 4 years, 1 month ago

What Next TBD: How Schools Surveil Your Kids

In schools across the country, tighter digital controls were put in place to keep kids on task during the pandemic. Are they here to stay?

Guests: Priya Anand, reporter at Bloomberg

Host: Lizzie O’Lear…

Published on 4 years, 1 month ago

What Next TBD: Why Are Bots Buying Sneakers?

The bots aren’t just buying cool sneakers. They’re buying concert tickets. Tickets to basketball games and Broadway shows. At the beginning of the pandemic, they were buying hand sanitizer and face m…

Published on 4 years, 1 month ago