Anthony Fauci On What We Need To Get Over COVID-19
Anthony Fauci has spent the past year trying to curb the worst health crisis the world has seen in a century. In a recent University of Chicago event, Fauci reflected on how the COVID-19 pandemic has...
8 Mar 202128min
The Ethics of COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution, with Laurie Zoloth
The coronavirus pandemic has raised countless ethical questions: How do we balance restricting freedoms with protecting others, how do we ethically distribute vaccines, should we force people to get v...
25 Feb 202132min
The Doomsday Clock’s ‘Historic Wake-Up Call,’ With Rachel Bronson
The Doomsday Clock has been set at 100 seconds to midnight—as close to total destruction as we were in 2020. But after a year of increasingly dangerous weather and wildfires, not to mention the COVID-...
11 Feb 202134min
Unraveling the Mystery of Life’s Origins on Earth, with Jack Szostak
What are the biggest questions in science today: Can we cure cancer, solve the climate crisis, make it to Mars? For Nobel laureate Jack Szostak, the biggest question is still much more fundamental: Wh...
28 Jan 202121min
The Urgent Need to Reinvest in American Research, with Barbara Snyder
Our podcast is all about research. Every episode we investigate what scholars have discovered and why it matters. But we’re going to get meta on this episode and look at what makes this research possi...
14 Jan 202126min
Getting Out Of The Lab With John List
Our team is taking some time off to be with their families for the holidays. But, just in case you have a long flight, car ride, or maybe need something to do in-between Zoom calls, we’re re-sharing o...
22 Des 202027min
How Alternate Reality Games Are Changing The Real World with Patrick Jagoda and Kristen Schilt
What is the most popular form of media today: Movies? Music? Books? Nope, it’s video games. With 2.5 billion gamers today, games are set to be the type of media that most defines our world. And two sc...
10 Des 202032min
The Science of Empathy, with Peggy Mason
With so many contentious issues in our deeply polarized world, the real or virtual Thanksgiving dinner table may be a hard place to find a lot of empathy this year. As we take a week off to reconnect ...
25 Nov 202020min
