Kaitlin Ugolik Phillips joins us to talk about how we should think about using social media – and about the pluses and minuses of substituting in-person connections for virtual ones.
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The Man Who Invented CSI
UT-Austin journalism teacher Kate Winkler Dawson joins us to talk about an early criminologist who developed the forensic science we still use today: blood splatter evidence and fingerprinting, among other techniques.
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Pandemics: Then And Now
Frank M. Snowden, the Andrew Downey Orrick Professor Emeritus of History and History of Medicine at Yale University, joins us to talk about how infectious outbreaks — both terrifying and romanticized — have shaped our world.
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Wrapping His Head Around a Defective Heart
Gabriel Brownstein joins host Krys Boyd to talk about his complicated relationship with his own heart.
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Life Is Better with Bugs
John Hainze, an entomologist and ethicist with Seattle University Center for Environmental Justice and Sustainability, joins us to talk about his evolution from pesticide designer to insect advocate.
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How Judges Decide Who’s A Scientific Expert
Reporter Peter Andrey Smith joins us to talk about the standards by which courts decide what scientific evidence is admissible.
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Listen to This Before You Do a DNA Test
Journalist Libby Copeland joins us to talk about the pluses and minuses of opening a door into who is really related to whom.
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The Wild West Of Deep-Sea Mining
Journalist Wil S. Hylton joins us to talk about the dangerous and unregulated push to pull resources from the depths of the Earth.
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Good Math Will Save The World
Matt Parker, host of Science Channel’s “Outrageous Acts of Science,” joins us to talk about the everyday math constantly happening all around us.
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Computational Propaganda is Coming for Your Brain
Samuel Woolley, program director for computational propaganda research at the Center for Media Engagement at the University of Texas at Austin, joins us to talk about the future of destructive tech and ways to combat it.
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Casualities in the War on Science? Children.
Genna Reed, lead science and policy analyst in the Center for Science and Democracy at the Union of Concerned Scientists, joins us to talk about a new report that details how federal government policies are backsliding when it comes to child well-being.
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Does Your Horoscope Add Up? The Math Of Astrology
Data scientist Alexander Boxer talks about the ancient applied mathematics of astrology conceived by some of history’s most brilliant minds.
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