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.
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When 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.
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Therapy 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.
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Inventing 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.
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Fareed 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.
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How Inventions Change Families
Harvard Business School professor Debora L. Spar joins us to talk about how technological advancement has reshaped the nuclear family.
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Losing 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.
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The 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.
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How 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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Computational Propaganda is Coming for Your Brain
Samuel Woolley, program director for computational propaganda research at the Center for Media Engagement at the University of Texas at Austin, joins us to talk about the future of destructive tech and ways to combat it.
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The Hitmen Of The Dark Web
Technology writer Brian Merchant joins us to talk about the surprising and shadowy world of crowd-sourced contract killers.
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Finding E.T. Won’t Be Cheap
Science journalist Adam Mann joins us to talk about the renewed push and excitement to fund the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, or SETI, despite skepticism and pushback.
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