Julie Beck joins us to talk about how Facebook has changed the way we view friendship – and about how we now hold onto friendships long past their expiration date. Her essay “Facebook: Where Friendships Go to Never Quite Die” appears on the website of The Atlantic.
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Harvard anthropologist Richard Wrangham joins us to talk about the evolution of human violence, which he writes about in “The Goodness Paradox: The Strange Relationship Between Virtue and Violence in Human Evolution.”
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Harvard Law professor Susan Crawford joins us to explain why we need to approach fiber with an increased urgency or risk falling behind other developed nations. Her new book is called “Fiber: The Coming Tech Revolution – And Why America Might Miss It.”
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Melanie Warner joins us to talk about why patients are turning away from science – and how the medical field is engaging with alternative medicine. Her new book is called “The Magic Feather Effect: The Science of Alternative Medicine and the Surprising Power of Belief.”
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Eugenia Cheng joins us to talk about how we can use scientific reasoning to navigate an era full of irrational behavior.
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Duke University evolutionary anthropologist Herman Pontzer joins us to discuss how the same drive that led us to leave other species behind is now negatively affecting our health. His story “Humans Evolved to Exercise” appears in the Scientific American.
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Antonio García Martínez joins host Krys Boyd to talk about his story “Used Wisely, the Internet Can Actually Help Public Discourse” in Wired Magazine.
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Science journalist Fran Smith joins host Krys Boyd to talk about a new way of treating disease called precision medicine, in which prevention, diagnosis and treatment are targeted to a patient’s unique biochemical makeup.
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Science writer Dina Fine Maron joins us to explain a fascinating procedure in which edited genes are attached to a virus and snuck by the immune system.
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This hour, we’ll talk about how Chinese researcher He Jiankui opened a Pandora’s Box with his announcement that he’s edited the genes of twin girls.
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Mike Vecchione of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration joins us to talk about these wonders of the sea.
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Clinical trials include a placebo to guard against misleading results. So what should we make of cases when placebo groups also improve?
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