Marine biologist Danna Staaf joins host Krys Boyd to discuss these intelligent and charismatic creatures and the amazing things they can do that no one else in the animal kingdom can.
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How to get better at self-improvement
Adam Grant, an organizational psychologist at the Wharton School, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss strategies for Average Joe’s to excel.
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The legacy of America’s first Black generals
Doug Melville joins guest host John McCaa to discuss his family’s patriarchs – how they were unfairly compensated and faced racism among the ranks, and his quest to bring these extraordinary men’s stories to light.
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Can a democracy survive minority rule?
Harvard government professor Steven Levitsky joins guest host John McCaa to discuss how minority rule undermines democracy and why the U.S. is vulnerable to partisan takeovers from both the left and the right.
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Think America’s too divided? Blame the Founding Fathers
H.W. Brands, professor at the University of Texas at Austin, joins guest host John McCaa to discuss the early days of the Republic, when Federalists and Anti-Federalists battled it out and planted the seeds of our current state of division.
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The family who escaped the Nazis and the Gulag
Daniel Finkelstein, a political columnist for The Times of London, joins guest host John McCaa to discuss his family’s history – a mother who fled Nazi Germany only to be sent to a concentration camp and a father whose family was sent to Siberia.
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What it’s like to survive cardiac arrest
New York University School of Medicine pulmonologist Sam Parnia joins guest host Courtney Collins to discuss his research into cognitive awareness during resuscitation.
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Why are spray tans OK but Botox isn’t?
Wired contributor Sheon Han joins guest host Courtney Collins to discuss lookism – the well-established idea that attractive people get social status benefits.
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People with disabilities don’t need fixing – the world does
Ashley Shew, an associate professor of science, technology, and society at Virginia Tech, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss why the world needs to better adapt to the needs of people with disabilities, not the other way around.
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When social movements march into your relationship
Clinical psychologist Orna Guralnik talks about what she’s seen in her practice, where couples are bringing to the table issues of race and privilege and trauma like she hasn’t seen before.
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For old-school conspiracy theorists, QAnon crossed a line
Conspiracy theory researcher Annie Kelly discusses how old-school skeptics raised on late-night call-in radio fear modern day conspiracy theorists are giving their passion a bad name.
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MDMA’s journey from dancefloor to doctor’s office
Science journalist Rachel Nuwer discusses how MDMA – once a Schedule 1 drug – is now being heralded as a treatment for PTSD and other afflictions.
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