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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Medical anthropologist Theresa MacPhail discusses why allergies are getting worse and what the world’s best allergy clinicians are doing to combat them.
Read moreLixing Sun, a professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at Central Washington University, talks about the role of deceit in the lives of plants and animals.
Read morePhilosopher Peter Singer talks about how we can make choices that lead to what he calls “maximum good.”
Read moreResearcher Manann Donoghoe joins host Krys Boyd to discuss restitution for the environmental racism that has brought pollution and climate change to many of the world’s poorest people.
Read moreClimate reporter Allyson Chiu discusses the pipeline from thrift stores to salvage companies to incineration and landfills to find out where all our clothes ultimately land.
Read moreShannon 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.
Read moreReporter Susan Shain explains how food waste is responsible for twice as many greenhouse gas emissions as commercial aviation.
Read moreLeah Thomas, founder of The Intersectional Environmentalist platform, joins host Krys Boyd to explain the links between racism, environmentalism and privilege.
Read moreScientific American contributing editor George Musser joins host Krys Boyd to discuss how the open-office plan took off, the downsides its designers didn’t anticipate, and what a better office layout might look like.
Read moreNew 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.
Read moreJoan Maloof is the founder and director of the Old-Growth Forest Network and she joins us to discuss the role old-growth forests play in the ecosystem and the different approaches that are being taken to saving them.
Read moreFábio Zuker, a journalist and anthropologist, joins us to discuss his investigation into where collagen originates and how it threatens both the Amazon and the indigenous people who call the rainforest home.
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