Big Foot, Nessie And The Abominable Snowman And Our Need To Believe

October 20, 2020 Culture, Science and Technology

Colin Dickey joins us to talk about why irrational ideas hold so much sway over us.

Fareed Zakaria On Our Post-Pandemic World

October 7, 2020 Culture, Current Events, Global Issues, Health, Science and Technology

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.

How We Might Fix Election Security

October 1, 2020 Culture, Current Events, History, Politics, Science and Technology

Journalist Benjamin Wofford joins us to talk about Texas election administrator Dana DeBeauvoir, who partnered with the tech world to build a safer election system.

How To Find Your Purpose In Life

September 30, 2020 Culture, Health, Race/Identity, Science and Technology

Philosopher Frank Martela joins us to talk about identifying the essential qualities of happiness.

What Our Secrets Say About Ourselves

September 24, 2020 Culture, Science and Technology

Michael L. Slepian, Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. Associate Professor of Leadership and Ethics at Columbia Business School, joins us to talk about the things we choose to hide and if we should trust others with the secrets we share.

A Mathematician’s Formula For Gender Equality

September 22, 2020 Culture, Race/Identity, Science and Technology

Eugenia Cheng is Scientist in Residence at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a math professor at the University of Sheffield, and she joins us to talk about taking mathematical concepts and applying them to an issue we’ve wrestled with throughout human history.

The Dumbest Ideas In Intelligence History

September 18, 2020 History, Science and Technology

Historian and curator of the International Spy Museum, Vince Houghton joins us to talk about how intelligence service ideas that never came to fruition.

White Parents Need To Talk To Their Kids About Race – Here’s How

September 16, 2020 Culture, Current Events, Race/Identity, Science and Technology

Fordham University psychology professor Tiffany Yip joins us to talk about what an anti-racist conversation with children should sound like and why it’s not happening as often as it should.

How Food Affects Our Mood

September 10, 2020 Culture, Science and Technology

Dr. Uma Naidoo is founder and director of the Nutritional Psychiatry Service at Massachusetts General Hospital and on the faculty at Harvard Medical School. She joins us to talk about how science shows foods like blueberries –-and sadly, not cookies — are keys to mental health and cogitative function.

A Former CDC Director On The U.S. COVID Response

September 8, 2020 Health, Politics, Science and Technology

Tom Frieden, who directed the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from 2009-2017, joins us to talk about the current response to COVID-19 and what America needs to do to prepare for future global outbreaks.

Here’s How The Universe Might End

September 8, 2020 Science and Technology

North Carolina State University theoretical astrophysicist Katie Mack joins us to talk about the math, science and mystery that allows space to predict our demise back here on Earth.

The Wisdom Of Trees

September 4, 2020 Environment, Science and Technology

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.