Paul Tough, a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss why the U.S. is an outlier globally when it comes to college popularity.
Read more
Paul Tough, a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss why the U.S. is an outlier globally when it comes to college popularity.
Read moreJenni Nuttall teaches medieval literature at the University of Oxford, and she joins host Krys Boyd to discuss how words have influenced how we view female roles in society.
Read moreDavid Ambroz joins host Krys Boyd to discuss his life’s work of fighting for child welfare, the subject of his new memoir.
Read moreJulie Wernau of The Wall Street Journal joins host Krys Boyd to discuss why strategies to combat stressors are popular—but sometimes clinically untested.
Read moreEugenia Cheng joins guest host Courtney Collins to discuss why we should approach math education as a journey of imagination, and why there are no dumb questions in the search for answers.
Read moreWall Street Journal higher education reporter Melissa Korn joins host Krys Boyd to discuss a look into 50 flagship state universities and how inflows of cash are not necessarily benefiting students – and how those schools justify their decisions.
Read moreSola Mahfouz is a quantum computing researcher at Tufts University Quantum Information Group. She joins host Krys Boyd to discuss her life in Afghanistan under the Taliban and her daring escape to the U.S. for a more fulfilling life.
Read moreViorica Marian is a professor of psychology at Northwestern University. She explains why she believes we all have the capacity to be multilingual and how that affects the ways we perceive the world.
Read moreWriter Bertrand Cooper makes the case that race-conscious admissions by universities frequently benefit students who are already from elite backgrounds and that it’s time to also consider socioeconomic status.
Read moreDara Horn joins host Krys Boyd to discuss why focusing on the atrocities of WWII hasn’t stopped growing antisemitism today – and to offer ways we need to expand education about Jewish life to combat it.
Read moreAnthropology professor Kate Clancy joins Krys Boyd to discuss the science of periods, reproductive health, and the ways we hide this simple fact of nature from daily life.
Read moreNew Yorker staff writer Adam Gopnik joins us to discuss what it takes to master a skill and to explain why the real benefit comes not in becoming a virtuoso but, rather, in just forcing your brain to try something hard.
Read more