Some of our favorite animal experts join us to talk about what we actually know about how animals think and feel – and about the relationship between animals and humans.
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The Expanding Universe
Yale University professor of astronomy and physics Priyamvada Nataraja joins us to talk about current scientific thinking about our ever-expanding universe.
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What Our DNA Says About Us
Alondra Nelson,the dean of social science at Columbia University, joins us to talk about the relationship between contemporary racial issues and DNA.
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The Best Science Stories Of 2016
Michael Lemonick of Scientific American joins us to talk about the many advancements in technology, health and beyond that happened in 2016.
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The Science Of Whiskey
Firestone and Robertson Distilling Company head distiller Rob Arnold and TCU chemistry professor Eric Simanek join us to talk about how grain and water combine to make bourbon, rye and scotch.
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Understanding The Future
Futurist Amy Webb joins us to talk about getting ready for what’s to come, which she writes about in “The Signals Are Talking: Why Today’s Fringe Is Tomorrow’s Mainstream.”
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The Race to Remake Civilization
We’re talking about scientists, elected officials and philanthropists working to save the world with TED science curator David Biello, author of “The Unnatural World: The Race to Remake Civilization in Earth’s Newest Age.”
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The Consciousness Of Cephalopods
This hour, we’ll talk about how the octopus and its close relatives were likely the first to develop a complex nervous system – and about how that evolution took place independent of land animals – with City University of New York professor Peter Godfrey-Smith.
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Hidden Minds
This hour, we’ll talk about how doctors search for brain function with Dr. Nicholas D. Schiff and Dr. Joseph J Fins of Weill Cornell Medicine. Their story “In Search of Hidden Minds” appears in Scientific American Mind.
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Preventing Child Abuse
This hour, we’ll talk about the possibility of using technology to predict when child abuses might happen with Dyann Daley, executive director of the Center for Prevention of Child Maltreatment, and David Sanders, chair of the Presidential Commission to Eliminate Child Abuse and Neglect Fatalities.
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Home Beyond Earth
This hour, we’ll talk about why Mars may not be the most viable option for a space colony – and we’ll talk about the place that is: Titan, a moon orbiting Saturn, with planetary scientist Amanda Hendrix, co-author of “Beyond Earth: Our Path to a New Home in the Planets.”
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Treasures Of The Earth
This hour, we’ll talk about how humans throughout time have turned to the Earth for the materials that power our civilization, the subject of the new NOVA series “Treasures of the Earth: Gems, Metals and Power,” which airs tonight on KERA-TV.
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