Anthropologist Agustín Fuentes joins us to talk about how some of our terrible social media behavior is actually partly a result of our evolution.
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Drones: A Tool, A Toy, A Threat?
Alex Fitzpatrick of Time magazine joins us to talk about the many ways that drones have infiltrated our lives.
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Forever A Temp
Sarah Kessler joins us to talk about how the gig economy is transforming the places people live, the hours they work and their ability to plan their lives.
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Teaching Computers To Ask Why Will Change Everything
UCLA computer scientist Judea Pearl joins us to talk about the science of cause and effect.
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The Sun Had A Mother
Science journalist Rebecca Boyle joins us to talk about how astronomers are gaining a better understanding of the sun’s 4.6 billion years in existence.
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Tech Dreams That Might Come True
Zach Weinersmith talks about technology dreams that could one day become reality.
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Don’t Believe Everything You See
Franklin Foer joins us to talk about how manipulation of digital video is chipping away what we consider to be real.
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Close Encounters With Pluto
Alan Stern led the planning of the mission to Pluto for NASA, and he joins us to talk about the years of work that went into sending the New Horizon more than 3 billion miles from Earth.
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What Your Dog’s Really Thinking And Feeling
Evolutionary biologist Marc Bekoff joins us to talk about the curious habits of our four-legged friends.
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We Can’t See Them, But They’re Everywhere
Eugenia Bone studies microbes, and she joins us to talk about their outsized impact on our daily lives.
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How Bad Science Becomes Government Policy
David Randall joins us to talk about why many studies are filled with flaws – making them unable to be repeated – and about how that bad science is making its way into government policy.
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The Upside Of Change
Leonard Mlodinow joins us to talk about how we can train our brains to embrace change – and how we can nurture creativity.
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