Carissa Véliz discusses the increasingly ever-present A.I. in our lives and what that means for human agency now and far into the future.
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Animals Sometimes Don’t Follow The Rules
Mary Roach joins us talk about when humans and wildlife are in conflict – from errant elephants to rule-breaking moose and life-threatening trees.
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Why are humans so fascinated with animals?
New Yorker staff writer Susan Orlean joins us to discuss her book of essays about the human-animal connection – stories that span the world from New Jersey to Morocco – and the lessons we can learn from the way we interact with these creatures.
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How The Quest For Flavor Drove Evolution
Rob Dunn, professor of applied ecology at North Carolina State University joins us to talk about why we prefer cooked food, the various ways we taste, and how our pursuit of a good meal might’ve led to starting the first fire.
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How We Catch Genes From Other Species
Science journalist David Quammen joins us to explore horizontal gene transfer and discuss whether it redefines our place in nature.
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Home As Natural Habitat
This hour, we’ll talk with neuroanthropologist John S. Allen about how our evolutionary drive to put down roots may have also provided early humans a safe environment for growing their minds.
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Lion Conservation
We’ll talk about how we can better protect lions with minimal intrusion into their worlds with Craig Packer, director of the Lion Research Center at the University of Minnesota.
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Our Robot Future
This hour, we’ll talk about how close we are to a Jetsons-like existence with Pulitzer Prize-winning technology writer John Markoff, author of “Machines of Loving Grace: The Quest for Common Ground Between Humans and Robots” (Ecco).
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The Lives Of Dolphins
This hour, we’ll talk about what we can learn from dolphins – and about how we can better care for them – with the author of Voices in the Ocean: A Journey into the Wild and Haunting World of Dolphins.
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Human Bodies: Then And Now
We’ll talk this hour with Daniel Lieberman, Chair of the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard. His new book is “The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease.”
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