Ep 99: New York Underwater: Art and Climate Change – with guest Carolyn Hall
What would it be like if New York City was partially underwater? What would it feel like, what would it taste like? […]
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Ep 85: How Paleolithic is the Paleo Diet? What did our Ancestors Eat Anyways? – with guest Dr. Briana Pobiner
There’s a lot of opinions about the current Paleo diet. Some proponents say eat what our ancestors ate – meat, veggies, fruit, […]
Ep 83: The West: On the Cusp of a MegaDrought – with guest Dr. Kasey Bolles
With the wildfires in California, extreme insect infestations in forests, and the duration between rainstorms lengthening, the western United States is in […]
Ep 82 : The Origins of Language May Go Much Farther Back Than We Thought – with guests Dr. Chris Petkov and Dr. Ben Wilson
When did language originate? It’s a tricky question to answer. We can’t go back in time. We can’t even look at “fossilized […]
Ep 76: How We Found Out Meteors Are Actually Little Rocks From Space Burning Up In The Atmosphere
It sounds crazy when you say it out loud. Meteors are rocks from SPACE burning up in the atmosphere. How did people […]
Ep 61: Technology and the Notre Dame Fire: with guest Dr. Stephen Murray
On the evening of April 15th, the entire world watched with shock and horror as Notre Dame cathedral burned. At the time, […]
Ep 58: Who Are You Anyways? Does Dementia and Alzheimer’s Change Who You Are?: with guest Dr. Nina Strohminger
Millions of people worldwide are suffering from the brain diseases Alzheimer’s and dementia. These diseases take a toll not just on the […]
Ep 49: Ice Cream and Nazis: The Origin of Moral Choices – with guest Dr. P. Kyle Stanford
If someone on the other side of the world uses a different type of spoon to eat their soup than you do, […]
Ep 42: Space Junk, Trash on the Moon, and the Earth’s Copper Ring – with guest Dr. Lisa Ruth Rand
What happens to old satellites? Or to astronauts’ trash? It turns out that the Earth is surrounded by a sphere of garbage […]
Ep. 31: Women in Science – Ruby Payne-Scott – with guest Dr. Miller Goss
Within the last century, things have changed significantly for women in science. At the beginning of the 20th century, women rarely were […]