Kelly Weinersmith, adjunct faculty member in the BioSciences department at Rice University, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss the impracticalities of space colonization and the conflicts it could create back on Earth.
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Kelly Weinersmith, adjunct faculty member in the BioSciences department at Rice University, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss the impracticalities of space colonization and the conflicts it could create back on Earth.
Read moreTexas Monthly writer Dan Solomon joins host Krys Boyd to discuss the progress being made by tech companies producing driverless cars, as well as the safety concerns that still have yet to be addressed.
Read moreJames Tabery, a professor at the University of Utah, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss why precision medicines focused on gene technology benefit only the rich, while average citizens are left behind in this new model of curing disease.
Read moreSola Mahfouz is a quantum computing researcher at Tufts University Quantum Information Group. She joins host Krys Boyd to discuss her life in Afghanistan under the Taliban and her daring escape to the U.S. for a more fulfilling life.
Read moreGanesh Sitaraman, a law professor, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss why he feels unregulated capitalism created a handful of airline competitors and why he feels improvements are possible.
Read moreToday marks the 60th anniversary of President Kennedy’s assassination. Krys Boyd talks with journalist Darwin Payne and former Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings about how the city has evolved since that day.
Read moreDavid Leonhardt of The New York Times joins host Krys Boyd to discuss how a lack of investment in infrastructure has put the U.S. behind in nearly every category from education to even life expectancy.
Read moreApplied mathematician Coco Krumme joins host Krys Boyd to discuss the bear traps we’ve created with systems so tightly wound for efficiency that we’re caught off guard when faced with disruption or uncertainty.
Read moreHealth and science reporter Benjamin Ryan joins host Krys Boyd to discuss how carpal tunnel became an epidemic and what its disappearance says about how seriously we take workplace injuries today.
Read moreMoises Velasquez-Manoff, contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss how Sequoias and Giant Redwoods are falling victim to hotter and drier climates.
Read moreHelena de Bres, a philosophy professor at Wellesley College and a twin herself, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss the endless questions she’s asked about her and her sister – and to reflect upon what being a multiple is really like.
Read moreAlexandra Filindra, associate professor of political science at the University of Illinois, Chicago, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss how 21st Century gun culture is a product of the 18th Century.
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