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Dr. Jennifer Grandis: Why Women Can't Get Ahead in Science and Health Care
Women continue to face systemic barriers in medicine and science, despite decades of progress. What is happening?
In Harsh Medicine, Dr. Jennifer R. …
1 week, 2 days ago
AI for Good: In Climate, Health and Investing
When should artificial intelligence supplant human intelligence? And when should human intelligence lead? For climate action, for impacts on health, …
1 week, 2 days ago
Ben Rhodes: All We Say, The Battle for American Identity
What does it mean to be American? Who gets to decide?
Americans have debated those questions for 250 years. The issue of what it means to be an Amer…
1 week, 3 days ago
Cleaner Steel is Coming. Will the Communities That Built the Industry Benefit?
Making steel accounts for around 11% of global greenhouse gas emissions. But the industry could reduce that number by removing coal from the steel-ma…
1 week, 4 days ago
Healthy Society Series—America @250: What Kind of America Do You Want?
On July 4, 1776, the Declaration of Independence was issued, and it contains the DNA of the future United States of America.
At the heart of this re…
1 week, 5 days ago
A Story for Everything: An Afternoon with Corey Rosen, Host of ‘The Moth’ EXPLICIT
Come and meet author and master storyteller Corey Rosen for an unforgettable evening as he talks about his new book, A Story for Everything, a practi…
1 week, 6 days ago
Simone Stolzoff: How to Not Know
Famously or infamously, in 2002 Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld told reporters that “[A]s we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know…
2 weeks ago
Humanities West Presents The Etruscans
The Etruscan culture, which flourished from the ninth to the first centuries B.C. in Tuscany, left behind a rich history with many unique traditions …
2 weeks ago
Will It Ever End? San Francisco’s Drug and Homeless Crisis and Overdose Epidemic
San Francisco’s drug and homelessness crisis is impacting everyone, and the community is sounding the alarm. As San Franciscans raise issues of safet…
2 weeks, 1 day ago
Beyond the Rights of Nature: Land that Owns Itself
The “rights of nature” is the idea that if a corporation can have legal standing as a person, why can’t a river or a mountain? Thomas Linzey, one o…
2 weeks, 4 days ago