Vann Newkirk, senior editor at The Atlantic, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss the Fisk Jubilee Singers, who sang songs that evoked passion and heartbreak, and in doing so, saved an American art form.
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We have trashed innerspace
Jaime Green, editor of “The Best American Science and Nature Writing,” joins host Krys Boyd to discuss space trash and what can be done about it.
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When will Millennials start having kids?
Andrew Van Dam, a date columnist for The Washington Post, joins host Krys Boyd to talk about why Millennials are not having children even though they still want them.
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Where avocados are illegal
Harper’s contributor Alexander Sammon joins host Krys Boyd to discuss how drug cartels are getting into the avocado business – and how one town is fighting back to protect both its safety and natural resources.
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You don’t want to live on Mars
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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The rough road to driverless cars
Texas 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.
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What personalized medicine promised, and what it delivered
James 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.
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The dream the Taliban couldn’t kill
Sola 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.
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Hate flying? Blame deregulation
Ganesh 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.
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How the Kennedy Assassination made Dallas what it is today
Today 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.
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Why your commute just keeps getting longer
David 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.
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Optimization may not be the best we can do
Applied 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.
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