Madeline Leung Coleman, a features writer for New York magazine, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss the expensive and sometimes brutal treatments pets can be subjected to in order to extend their lives – and how to know when it’s time to say goodbye.
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The head of the Dog Cognition Lab at Barnard College joins host Krys Boyd to discuss the new and unregulated industry of pet cloning, its hit-or-miss successes, and if this is even something that we should be doing.
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Krys Boyd talks with experts on dogs and cats – plus we’ll hear from a veterinarian about how her job requires her to care for the well-being of people, too.
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Jonathan B. Losos joins us to discuss the evolution of our feline friends and explore the relationship we humans have with Felis catus.
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Science writer Bethany Brookshire talks about why some animals are demonized over others and why we choose certain furry companions as pets.
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Animal expert Jules Howard talks about advancements in dog research, what we know about dog cognition and emotion, and the decades of study that brought us to where we are today.
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Wired senior editor Tom Simonite discusses breakthroughs in doubling lifespans of animals, how this could lead to better aging therapies for humans, and why the FDA has not gotten involved yet.
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Writer Yudhijit Bhattacharjee discusses the mental abilities of animals and how they might have emotions as complex as our own.
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SMU sociologist Andrea Laurent-Simpson joins us to talk about how our pets became our “fur babies” and what that tells us about the dynamics of what it is to be a modern family.
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New Yorker staff writer Nick Paumgarten joins us to talk about the animals we acquired to comfort us and why leaving them at home alone is now going to be a big problem.
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Kate Darling joins us to talk about how our relationship with animals might serve as a guide to our dealings with robots.
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Alexandra Horowitz, who runs Barnard College’s Dog Cognition Lab, joins us to talk about our continued canine obsession.
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