Jim Krane, Wallace S. Wilson Fellow for Energy Studies at Rice University’s Baker Institute, joins us to talk about the collapse of oil futures, what happened to demand, and how problems in the energy sector affect the larger economy.
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Finding Our Way To The New Normal
Atlantic staff writer Ed Yong joins us to explain why instead of asking “when will life get back to normal?”, we should focus our energies on incremental steps to a more livable future.
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The Man Who Revolutionized The Way The World Grows Food
Rob Rapley joins us to talk about Norman E. Borlaug, who won praise for his work on disease resistance crops – which also came with unintended consequences.
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Our 100-Year Battle With Pandemics
Medical historian Mark Honigsbaum joins us to talk about why bacterial and viral disasters continue to take us by surprise.
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In a Crisis, Listen to Your Elders
Dr. Karl Pillemer, professor of gerontology in medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine, joins us to look at our current crisis through the eyes of people who can say from experience that “this, too, shall pass.”
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Vaccine Science, Race And Mathematical Modeling
On today’s show, experts explain some of the more mysterious elements of the coronavirus, including what it will take to develop a vaccine, how epidemiological models work and why black and Latino patients are disproportionately affected.
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In the ‘America First’ Era, Can The U.S. Lead The World?
Former US Ambassador Nicholas Burns joins us to talk about strategies to align the world in the battle for collective public health.
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Will COVID-19 Spell the End of International Cooperation
Abraham Newman joins us to talk about how smoothing out all the bumps in our international supply chains created an unexpected shock in the system.
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Who’s Still Listening To America?
Graham Allison joins us to talk about how this tricky balance of power is maintained – and about what happens when one superpower steps into another’s turf.
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During Social Distancing, We’re All In This Together
NYU sociology professor Eric M. Klinenberg joins us to talk about how making it through Covid-19 will require buy-in from everyone.
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The Role Of Animals In Human Pandemics
Science writer David Quammen joins us to talk about why an animal-to-human zoonotic transmission happens and what the risk is, now and in the future.
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How Covid-19 Attacks Our Immune System
New York Times reporter Matt Richtel joins us to talk about our complicated immune system, which is capable of both healing the body and turning on it.
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