Myanmar's Coup
If Myanmar’s history has been a long march towards democracy, the Southeast Asian nation faced a major setback earlier this year. The military recently ousted the de facto leader of Myanmar, Aung San ...
2 Jul 202132min
Putin's Russia
Understanding and sparring with Russia has been a goal of American diplomacy since the 1950's. But Putin has brought his country to a new level of post-Soviet grandeur. The largest nation in the world...
11 Jun 202130min
Digital Vaccine
This is a vaccine you've never heard about. University of Cambridge Professor of Social Psychology Sander van Der Linden on inoculating the public against misinformation, and the battle for truth in c...
22 Jan 20211h 5min
Carbon Capture
In America, regulation is often pitted as the enemy of economic growth. But Dr. Graciela Chichilnisky (that's two PhD's to be exact) disagrees. The author of over 300 publications and 15 books, the d...
19 Nov 202030min
Space Exploration
The final frontier has long fascinated humanity. Why humans are exploring, how emperor penguins breathe, how the Big Bang happened, and what a year in space feels like, on this installment of Extempor...
19 Okt 202046min
Food Inequity
Guess who didn't cause this climate change problem? The places with the highest population growth. They didn't do it- it was me. Dawn King is the Director of Undergraduate Studies and a Senior Lecture...
15 Sep 202047min
Redefining Climate
Is there such thing as a perfect climate? Will we ever solve climate change? What even is climate change? Oh, and how did it enable Donald Trump to get elected? Mike Hulme, Professor of Human Geograph...
6 Sep 202045min
School Reopening
On August 20th, one of the largest and oldest public universities in the United States, the University of Georgia, opened its doors to 50,000 students and staff. Spotlighting student and faculty advoc...
25 Aug 202047min
