Alicia Puglionesi holds a Ph.D. in the History of Science, Medicine and Technology from Johns Hopkins University, and she joins host Krys Boyd to discuss a field of study that tried to make a science of the unexplained.
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What’s Really Happening When We Dream
Antonio Zadra, a researcher at the Center for Advanced Research in Sleep Medicine, joins host Krys Boyd to talk about neuroscientific insights into our dreaming minds.
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When Medical Misinformation Goes Viral
Dr. Seema Yasmin, director of the Stanford Health Communication Initiative, joins host Krys Boyd to dispel common rumors and myths about science and medicine, and why facts still don’t tamp down lies.
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Seeing Ghosts Can Actually Be Good For Us
We often hear stories of dead loved ones appearing in dreams to comfort the living. So why isn’t this considered part of normal bereavement?
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Mom May Not Cook (But She Still Loves You)
Sarah Bowen, professor of sociology at North Carolina State University, joins us to take a tour inside the kitchens of everyday American women to uncover the challenges they face in providing even simple meals.
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Humans Didn’t Evolve To Exercise (But We Should Anyway)
Daniel E. Lieberman, professor of human evolutionary biology at Harvard University, joins us to talk about why we exercise and how that’s changed, the myths and realities of its benefits, and helpful motivations for getting off the couch.
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What Must Be Done Before The Next Pandemic
Jennifer Nuzzo, senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, joins us to talk about when politics and science collide during a global pandemic and what an effective response should look like next time.
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How Science Skeptics Create Doubt
Sean B. Carroll, vice president for science education at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, joins us to talk about how science deniers return to the same strategies over and over to create doubt around new discoveries.
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How Work Has Changed During the Pandemic
Even if who’ve been fortunate enough to not contract COVID-19, the pandemic has affected in some way each of our home lives and careers. This hour, we’ll talk about how work has changed during the pandemic.
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What Is Appalachia Without Coal Mining?
Jeff Young is managing editor of Ohio Valley ReSource, a regional journalism collaborative reporting on economic and social change in Kentucky, Ohio and West Virginia. He joins us to discuss his investigations into the struggles of the people and businesses there, and why they don’t bode well for the future of the nation.
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A Covid Vaccine Is Imminent. So Who Should Get It First?
Christopher Cox joins us to think through effective vaccine distribution and if the focus should be on vulnerable populations or super-spreaders.
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Nature’s Greatest Building Material: Your Bones
Roy Meals, clinical professor of orthopedic surgery at UCLA, joins us to talk about the science and wonder of our skeletal framework and explains why bones are invaluable—and have been so since the dawn of recorded time.
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