Mario Livio, astrophysicist and author, joins us to talk about Galileo Galilei, who revolutionized science and, because of it, endured condemnation and accusations of heresy.
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The Wisdom Of Trees
Valerie Trouet, associate professor in the Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research at the University of Arizona, joins us to talk about what we can learn by looking inside tree trunks – everything from the science of climate change to momentous occasions in human history.
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In An Italian ER, A Doctor Soldiers On
Filmmaker Sasha Achilli joins us to tell the story of one ER doctor in Nothern Italy and her battle to save a daily swarm of incoming patients inside a besieged hospital.
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Even Silly Scientific Questions Have Answers
Randall Munroe joins host Krys Boyd to talk about all the ways you can reach the wrong conclusion – and how we can get to the correct answer.
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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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Fear Is Natural–But It Can Be Controlled
Eva Holland, correspondent for Outside magazine, joins us to talk about her own battle with fear and the methods she employed to overcome it.
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Losing Charge: The U.S. Is Trailing In The Race For A Better Battery
ProPublica reporter Lydia DePillis joins us to talk about how we’ve been shut-out of the production of one of the most important components of our modern world — and how that’s currently impacting healthcare.
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The Rise Of Antibiotic-Resistant Superbugs
Muhammad H. Zaman, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor of Biomedical Engineering and International Health at Boston University, joins us to talk about antibiotic-resistant superbugs and why he’s worried we could face yet another public health threat.
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When Every Day Is Groundhog Day
Shayla Love, a senior staff writer at Vice, joins us to talk about the psychology of why we’re all a little disoriented since our 9-to-5 routine disappeared.
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When Science Misses The Forest For The Trees
Lulu Miller, co-founder of NPR’s “Invisibilia,” joins us to talk about her study of the first president of Stanford University, a taxonomist obsessed with fish, and how his discoveries — and ultimately his intellectual myopia — helped her to make sense of her own world.
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How To Live Better As We Live Longer
Daniel Levitin is a professor of psychology and neuroscience at McGill University, and he joins us to talk about what he calls human life’s two stages: “healthspan” and “diseasespan,” and explain how brain science can promote the former.
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The Adolescence of Animals
Dr. Barbara Natterson-Horowitz, visiting professor in the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard and president of the International Society for Evolution, Medicine and Public Health, joins us to talk about how all animals — humans included — transition into adulthood.
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