Emory University psychologist Frans de Waal joins us to talk about the natural evolution of animal intelligence research, which looks into how animals feel. His new book is called “Mama’s Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves.”
Read more
Physicist and entrepreneur Safi Bahcall joins host Krys Boyd to talk about strategies for breaking through the conventional group think to turn bold ideas into reality.
Read more
Harvard genetics professor David Reich joins host Krys Boyd to talk about how studying our ancestor’s DNA has opened the door to understanding how humans have evolved.
Read more
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. His new book is called “An Elegant Defense: The Extraordinary New Science of the Immune System.”
Read more
Amy Webb, professor of strategic foresight at the NYU Stern School of Business and founder of the Future Today Institute, joins us to talk about how nine tech companies first and foremost serve the corporations that created them. Her new book is called “The Big Nine: How the Tech Titans & Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity.”
Read more
Brian Switek joins us to talk about the many ways bones have assumed identities outside our bodies, which he writes about in “Skeleton Keys: The Secret Life of Bone.”
Read more
Edward Tenner, distinguished scholar at the Smithsonian’s Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation, joins us to talk about how algorithms and artificial intelligence lead to missed opportunities and wasted effort.
Read more
Jamie Shreeve joins us to talk about how technology and next generation telescopes have scientists closer than ever to making contact with life beyond Earth.
Read more
Skip Rizzo, research professor with the USC Davis School of Gerontology, joins us to talk about how virtual reality is now being used to place veterans and other PTSD sufferers back into stressful situations in an effort to confront traumatic moments head on.
Read more
Ross Andersen joins us to talk about how researchers are now operating from an assumption that all animals are conscious until proven otherwise, which he writes about for The Atlantic.
Read more
Julie Beck joins us to talk about how Facebook has changed the way we view friendship – and about how we now hold onto friendships long past their expiration date. Her essay “Facebook: Where Friendships Go to Never Quite Die” appears on the website of The Atlantic.
Read more
Harvard anthropologist Richard Wrangham joins us to talk about the evolution of human violence, which he writes about in “The Goodness Paradox: The Strange Relationship Between Virtue and Violence in Human Evolution.”
Read more