Dr. Chris van Tulleken discusses ultra-processed foods and how their manufacturers create products designed for profit over people.
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We don’t talk enough about phosphorous
Brown University professor Stephen Porder joins host Krys Boyd to discuss hydrogen, oxygen, carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus and how these building blocks of life affect the climate.
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Your watery eyes don’t deceive you: Allergies are on the rise
Medical anthropologist Theresa MacPhail discusses why allergies are getting worse and what the world’s best allergy clinicians are doing to combat them.
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Bogus medical research is everywhere
Nature editor Richard Van Noorden talks about how bias, error and, yes, even fraud, infect clinical trials – and what can be done to clean them up.
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Beyond Beyond Burgers: The future of ‘meat’
Annie Lowrey of The Atlantic discusses the new world of “cultivated meat” – animal proteins combined with other chemicals to produce the texture and flavor of meats.
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The new world of fossil biology
Smithsonian researcher Dale E. Greenwalt discusses how the field of paleobiology is opening up new avenues for what we know about ancient life, and the fascinating findings it’s already yielded.
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When it comes to carbon credits, what’s a whale worth?
Wired staff writer Gregory Barber discusses a new way of looking at carbon credits – assigning monetary value to creatures that help offset carbon emissions.
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Do you worry too much about climate change?
Shannon Osaka joins host Krys Boyd to discuss the growing number of people who share a grim view of the future, and how climate scientists are trying to win them back.
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The surprising musicality of animals
New Yorker staff writer Burkhard Bilger joins us to discuss his profile of neuroscientist and musician David Sulzer, who is trying to define what music is and how studying animals’ connection to music is helping in that pursuit.
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The mysteries of memory and how to improve it
Andrew E. Budson discusses his work studying memory, how to control what you remember and how diet plays into this ability.
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The real science of James Bond
Scientist-turned-author Kathryn Harkup joins us to explore the wild world of 007 – from whether gold paint could really kill you to the feasibility of volcano lairs for bad guys.
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Parasites could unlock evolutionary history
Scott L. Gardner, professor of biological sciences, joins us to discuss parasitology around the world and how these tiny creatures offer insight to the evolutionary history of regions.
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