Behind Closed Doors | Inside the Harlow Primate Lab
Madeline had always loved animals, so she was thrilled to land a job at UW’s primate lab. But what she discovered inside was nothing like she expected -- and ultimately drove her to fight for greater ...
9 Sep 28min
ELIZA | The Worlds First "AI" Chatbot
At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, one researcher is credited with creating the very first chatbot, a technology that, almost exactly 60 years in the future, would explode into the mainstre...
2 Sep 28min
No Medical Miracle | The Rise and Fall of Paolo Macchiarini
The Karolinska Institute is one of the world’s leading medical universities. When it hired Paolo Macchiarini, it saw a surgeon with a groundbreaking new procedure. But the university ignored warning s...
26 Aug 35min
Bodies Upon The Gears | The Free Speech Movement of 1964 Part 2
After Mario Savio's historic speech, students occupy Sproul Hall, leading to the largest non-war time arrest in US history to that point. The response from administration begins to turn the tide, but ...
19 Aug 28min
Bodies Upon The Gears | The Free Speech Movement of 1964 Part 1
For decades the entire University of California system had strict rules prohibiting all forms of political speech on campus. But after Freedom Summer, a group of students from across the political spe...
12 Aug 33min
Ghost Credits | Academia's Hidden Industry Ties
Academics were in classrooms, at conferences, on stages around the world, defending the safety of GMOs and herbicides. They looked independent. They weren't. Some of the most credentialed voices in ag...
5 Aug 27min
Missing Ole Miss: Lane Kiffin's Dramatic College Football Career
Over the last decade, college football has undergone a dramatic transformation. Universities now have a growing financial stake in the game, blurring the line between college athletics and professiona...
22 Jul 31min
Above the Rules: Baylor's Sexual Assault Crisis
Baylor is the largest Baptist university in the country. The rules there revolve around scripture. For most of its history, the school banned premarital sex. That meant no policy on sexual assault. No...
15 Jul 32min
