Alondra Nelson: AI chatbots get elections info wrong
Recent elections have shown us the power of bad actors using AI. But what about AI itself that's just...flawed? Dr. Alondra Nelson has investigated this, with surprising results. Nelson was involved i...
28 Mar 202421min
Sen. Joe Manchin: What's at stake when we lose the center
West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin may have a D next to his name, but he's been known to buck his party on major issues, including climate. In November, the Senator announced his retirement from the Se...
21 Mar 202420min
Lee Saunders: Flexing union muscle
U.S. workers today have enormous momentum and leverage. 2023 was a year of walkouts, with the number of U.S. workers on strike more than doubling. Lee Saunders is president of AFSCME, one of the count...
14 Mar 202420min
Dr. Sara Naseri: Menstrual blood as a diagnostic tool
It's estimated only one percent of medical research spending globally goes toward female-specific conditions that aren't related to cancer. But even as underfunding of women's health persists -- compa...
7 Mar 202420min
Sharif El-Mekki: Building the Black teacher pipeline
New laws in at least 14 states are forcing teachers to rethink how they teach history when it comes to race in particular. For the last day of this Black History Month, one education leader on why hav...
29 Feb 202417min
Victor Pickard: A new business model for journalism
Last year was one of the worst in recent memory for layoffs across media. Job losses in digital, broadcast and print news increased almost 71 percent from 2022, according to a recent report. Victor Pi...
22 Feb 202421min
Helen Fisher: How we choose who we love
Anthropologist Helen Fisher has long been trying to answer the question: why do you fall in love with one person rather than another? Her research says we've evolved four basic styles of thinking and ...
15 Feb 202421min
Kristin Kobes Du Mez: Inside the Evangelical MAGA vote
It's harder than ever to define what it means to be evangelical in America. But one constant? The Trump support. "The MAGA base is very real inside these evangelical spaces and it's not accurate to tr...
8 Feb 202421min
