Lorraine Daston, director emerita of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss how partnerships are forged in science.
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What do animals need from us?
Kendra Coulter, a fellow at the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss the animal advocates battling abuse and pushing for pro-animal policies in legislatures – and how their work benefits humans, too
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Why we should put women in charge of climate change
Zainab Salbi, co-founder of the nonprofit Daughters for Earth, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss her efforts to empower women to counter climate change with activism.
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Is online privacy even possible?
Atlantic staff writer Charlie Warzel joins host Krys Boyd to discuss the vast and unregulated systems set up to capture our data, and why even stricter data capture policies in the E.U. won’t help repair breaches of our privacy.
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Facing an ethical dilemma? Here’s some help
Philosopher Peter Singer talks about how we can make choices that lead to what he calls “maximum good.”
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Expiration dates don’t mean what you think
Josh Zumbrun of The Wall Street Journal joins host Krys Boyd to discuss why anti-food waste advocates want expiration dates overhauled to minimize confusion.
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Earth has warmed and cooled before. So what’s different now?
University of Pennsylvania professor Michael Mann joins host Krys Boyd to discuss the precarity of human evolution and how previous changes in temperatures have affected life on the planet.
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Where do your online returns really end up?
New Yorker staff writer David Owen joins host Krys Boyd to discuss the enormous volume of returns in this country and the environmental impact of what seems like a harmless action.
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Should presidents be our lone nuclear decision makers?
Science writer Sarah Scoles joins host Krys Boyd to discuss how psychologists want to study what factors into that high-stakes thinking.
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Is the Navy stuck in the past?
Eric Lipton, an investigative reporter for The New York Times, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss new global threats that require change by the U.S. Navy and the resistance by top brass to bend to the future.
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From foster care to fostering hope
David Ambroz joins host Krys Boyd to discuss his life’s work of fighting for child welfare, the subject of his new memoir.
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They’re not stereotypes about Black people — they’re lies
Omékongo Dibinga joins host Krys Boyd to discuss the road to anti-racism by taking on the lies that persist today that undermine Black lives, and to offer ways to reset our thinking toward a future of equality.
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