Wired senior editor Richard Dorment joins us to talk about whether or not we should fear everything from a robot apocalypse to internet trolls.
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Are We Born Evil?
Yudhijit Bhattacharjee joins us to talk about how researchers are trying to find the origins of malicious impulses.
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When The Machines Are Smarter Than Us
MIT physics professor Max Tegmark joins us to talk about tapping into the positives of artificial intelligence while protecting our humanity.
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Forged In Fire: The Origins Of Life On Earth
David Deamer joins us to talk about what studying volcanoes can tell us about the planet’s ecosystem.
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In The Shadow Of The Moon
David Baron joins us to talk about his book, “American Eclipse: A Nation’s Epic Race to Catch the Shadow of the Moon and Win the Glory of the World.”
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All The Light We Cannot See
Science writer Bob Berman joins us to talk about the many kinds of light we cannot see – how they are crucial for life and how they can kill us if we’re not careful.
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Where Memories Live In The Mind
Alcino J. Silva of the UCLA Brain Research Institute joins us to talk about the latest research into memory storage.
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Brain Damage And The Future Of Football
Neurologist Jesse Mez joins us to talk about a new study of former NFL player’s brains and what the findings might mean for the future of football.
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How We Catch Feelings
Science journalist Lee Daniel Kravetz joins us to talk about why we sometimes mimic one another.
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What Siri Won’t Tell You
Brian Merchant joins us to talk about how arguably the 21st Century’s most significant piece of technology came to be.
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A Bug’s Life
David MacNeal joins us talk about the world’s bug-lovers – the people who study them and learn how we can benefit from their presence.
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Why Humans Imagine
Columbia College Chicago professor Stephen Asma joins us to talk about how creativity works in the brain – and about how we can visualize a reality that doesn’t yet exist.
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