Alua Arthur, founder of Going with Grace, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss how she’s devoted her career ushering individuals and families through the process of death and why she believes it’s a sacred moment.
Read moreClimate change and its new ethical dilemmas
Travis Rieder, faculty member at the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss our everyday challenges and the moral quandaries they put us in, and how to do the decent thing in a global and complex world.
Read moreIs there a cure for medical racism?
Uché Blackstock MD, founder of Advancing Health Equity, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss her family how she’s devoted her career to understanding and addressing health inequities of different races.
Read moreHow the science of dying can help us live longer
Venki Ramakrishnan, structural biologist and Nobel Prize winner, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss the quest to live forever, if that’s even ethical, and what it looks like to alter our physiology.
Read moreWhy no third-party candidate has won the White House
Jeffrey Engle, Director of the Center for Presidential History at Southern Methodist University, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss the history of third-party candidates and how they’ve impacted – or not – presidential elections.
Read moreHow probation and parole feed mass incarceration
Vincent Schiraldi, founder of the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice and the Justice Policy Institute, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss parole and probation, which he calls a “recidivism trap,” and make the case that these practices should be abolished.
Read moreKids aren’t weak unless we make them that way
Author and journalist Abigail Shrier joins host Krys Boyd to discuss why, even as more adolescents are receiving mental health care than ever before, the numbers for those suffering continues to rise.
Read moreMedical science is still catching up on women’s health
Dr. Elizabeth Comen, an oncologist specializing in breast cancer, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss the history of sexism in medicine and why lingering stereotypes still affect women’s medical care.
Read moreFrom foster care to fostering hope
David Ambroz joins host Krys Boyd to discuss his life’s work of fighting for child welfare, the subject of his new memoir.
Read moreThe bizarre history of space science
Harry Cliff, a particle physicist based at the University of Cambridge, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss the reasons we only understand about five percent of what makes up the vast reaches of outer space.
Read moreBetween the Earth and the Sun: A guide to the Eclipse
In this special edition of Think, host Krys Boyd will prime listeners to have their best viewing experience and talk through the science of what’s actually happening 223,000 miles above our heads.
Read moreAre you really retired if you’re still working?
Teresa Ghilarducci, professor at the New School, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss why our golden years only look rosy for the wealthiest among us, why social security can’t keep up, and why going back to work is the only option for so many.
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