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Why We Actually Do Need Space Force

December 9, 2020 Culture, Current Events, Global Issues, Politics, Science and Technology

W.J. Hennigan covers the Pentagon and national security for Time Magazine, and he joins us to talk about the new military branch charged with defending American GPS, communications, weather and missile-warning systems – and why battling its critics is currently job number one.

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What If Sugar Had All The Sweetness Without The Calories?

December 8, 2020 Economics, Environment, Science and Technology

Journalist Nicola Twilley joins us to talk about the food science that focused not on sugar replacements but instead on actually making sugar better.

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Big Tech Doesn’t Care About Your Safety

December 3, 2020 Culture, Current Events, Politics, Science and Technology

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

December 2, 2020 Culture, Current Events, Politics, Science and Technology

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

December 1, 2020 Health, Science and Technology

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

November 18, 2020 Science and Technology

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

November 18, 2020 Health, Science and Technology

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

November 12, 2020 Economics, Environment, Science and Technology

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

November 9, 2020 Culture, Race/Identity, Science and Technology

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

November 6, 2020 Culture, Health, Science and Technology

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?

November 2, 2020 Culture, Current Events, Politics, Science and Technology

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)

October 22, 2020 History, Science and Technology

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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