Soraya Chemaly, executive director of The Representation Project and co-founder of the Women’s Media Center Speech Project, joins us to talk about big tech’s moral failings that put profit ahead of safe spaces.
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How Cable News Came To Be
Lisa Napoli joins us to talk about how the cable news network transformed how our modern world consumes current events.
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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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Building A Map Of The Universe
Journalist Shannon Stirone talks to host Krys Boyd about the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, which, essentially, gives scientists an MRI of the universe to decode the movement of deep space.
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Why You’re Probably Showering Too Much
Dr. James Hamblin, staff writer at The Atlantic and a lecturer at Yale School of Public Health, joins us to talk about how our skin protects us – and how we can better protect it.
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It All Starts With Algae
Ruth Kassinger joins us to talk about how algae might just be the key to creating a more sustainable future.
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Inside NASA’s Mission To Diversify Its Ranks
Jay Bennett, science editor at National Geographic, joins us to talk about how NASA is pinning its future on a diverse collection of scientists and future astronauts.
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How Your Brain Rewires Itself
Neuroscientist David Eagleman, host of the Emmy-nominated television series “The Brain,” joins us to talk about the latest understanding of how our minds work.
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On The Eve Of The Election, Can Polls Be Trusted?
W. Joseph Campbell joins us to talk about how polling works and why data sometimes fail to predict the future.
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Inventing The Wheel (The First Time)
Science writer Cody Cassidy joins us to tell the stories of people who changed how we live in ways big and small.
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Big Foot, Nessie And The Abominable Snowman And Our Need To Believe
Colin Dickey joins us to talk about why irrational ideas hold so much sway over us.
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Fareed Zakaria On Our Post-Pandemic World
Fareed Zakaria, host of Fareed Zakaria GPS on CNN Worldwide and a columnist for The Washington Post, joins us to talk about what experts predict about the future of technology, politics, health and cities once the coronavirus is conquered.
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