The Troubling Rise Of Antibiotic-resistant Superbugs, With Christopher Murray
For nearly a decade, public health experts have been warning that bacteria are becoming resistant to antibiotics. In 2014, the World Health Organization even said the post-antibiotic era is near. Desp...
14 Apr 202223min
Is Scientific Progress Slowing? with James Evans
There are far more scientists in today’s world, and they’re publishing research papers at a much faster pace. However, all of this growth hasn’t translated to more scientific progress. As University o...
31 Mar 202229min
Could We Vaccinate Against Opioid Addiction? With Sandra Comer And Marco Pravetoni
The United States recently hit a grim milestone: More than 100,000 Americans died from drug overdoses between May 2020 and April 2021. The majority of those deaths were due to synthetic opioids, which...
17 Mar 202224min
The Man Who Fought To Sanction Putin And Russian Oligarchs, with Bill Browder
As Vladimir Putin continues his invasion of Ukraine, Western nations have come together in unprecedented fashion to condemn his actions, in the form of economic sanctions against Putin and his Russian...
2 Mar 202231min
Why Big Ideas Fail To Scale—And How To Fix It With John List
Solving problems like poverty, education inequality or discrimination require policy interventions that can scale, but they rarely do. Why do some scale, while others have little success? It's not luc...
17 Feb 202228min
Could Personalizing Laws Make Society More Just? With Omri Ben-Shahar
Big data has created a world of personalization. We have personalized medicine, personalized education, personalized advertising. Now, one University of Chicago Law School scholar is asking: Why not p...
3 Feb 202226min
How To Stick To Your Resolutions, With Ayelet Fishbach
Every year many of us set New Year’s resolutions, and almost none of us actually follow through on them. In a year when fulfilling our goals and resolutions feels more pressing than ever while our mot...
20 Jan 202228min
The Overlooked History Of Black Cinema, With Jacqueline Stewart
Prof. Jacqueline Stewart’s career has examined the histories of overlooked Black filmmakers and Black audiences. Last year, the University of Chicago film scholar Stewart won a prestigious MacArthur f...
6 Jan 202231min
