Journalist Nicola Twilley joins us to talk about the food science that focused not on sugar replacements but instead on actually making sugar better.
Read moreVenture Capitalists Should Be Funding Adaptive Technologies
Devi Lockwood is an assistant editor at Rest of World, and she joins us to talk about significant advancements in technology that can help users hear, see, and talk, and what’s standing in the way of those advancements reaching the people who could use them most.
Read moreComputers Weren’t Designed For Human Bodies
Laine Nooney, assistant professor of media and information studies at New York University, joins us to talk about the ailments brought about computer usage – and about the trouble with shutting down your work computer for the day only to pick up your tablet.
Read moreIt’s OK To Use Emojis With Your Co-Workers
Leadership expert Erica Dhawan joins us to talk about the clues and cues needed for successful online dialogue and how to make working from home work for you.
Read moreWhen Your New Family Member Is A Robot
Kate Darling joins us to talk about how our relationship with animals might serve as a guide to our dealings with robots.
Read moreTherapy Apps Need Some Work
New York Magazine features writer Molly Fischer joins us to talk about her first-person experience trying out these apps, which don’t always deliver on their promise.
Read moreInventing The Wheel (The First Time)
Science writer Cody Cassidy joins us to tell the stories of people who changed how we live in ways big and small.
Read moreFareed Zakaria On Our Post-Pandemic World
Fareed Zakaria, host of Fareed Zakaria GPS on CNN Worldwide and a columnist for The Washington Post, joins us to talk about what experts predict about the future of technology, politics, health and cities once the coronavirus is conquered.
Read moreHow Inventions Change Families
Harvard Business School professor Debora L. Spar joins us to talk about how technological advancement has reshaped the nuclear family.
Read moreLosing Charge: The U.S. Is Trailing In The Race For A Better Battery
ProPublica reporter Lydia DePillis joins us to talk about how we’ve been shut-out of the production of one of the most important components of our modern world — and how that’s currently impacting healthcare.
Read moreThe Influence Of Instagram
Bloomberg News technology reporter Sarah Frier joins us to talk about the fierce Silicon Valley competition to create a dominant social media platform and the ways Instagram has changed our lives in an unexpected way.
Read moreHow VR Connects Us To Real Feelings
Kaitlin Ugolik Phillips joins us to talk about how we should think about using social media – and about the pluses and minuses of substituting in-person connections for virtual ones.
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