The Racist Roots of America’s Incarceration and Immigration Laws
MacArthur fellow and UCLA professor, Kelly Lytle Hernández, joins Adam to explain how explictly racist policies of the past created the incarceration and immigration systems we still have today. Learn...
19 Feb 202046min
Where Beliefs Come From with Celeste Kidd
Adam sits down with Celeste Kidd, Professor of Psychology and head of the Kidd Lab at UC Berkeley to discuss how humans form beliefs and knowledge, and how easily that process can be corrupted by outs...
12 Feb 20201h 31min
The World Philosophy Made with Scott Soames
Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern California, Scott Soames, joins Adam this week to for a deep dive into how philosophy shaped the modern world, the relationship between philosophy...
5 Feb 202053min
The Flood, the ARkStorm and Why Weather Science is Amazing with Daniel Swain
Climate scientist Dr. Daniel Swain joins Adam this week to shed light on how climate change affects the chances of more extreme weather events, the main misconceptions surrounding weather and climate ...
29 Jan 20201h 15min
Why Search Engines Aren’t Unbiased with Safiya Noble
UCLA Professor Safiya Noble joins Adam this week to discuss how racism is expressed through supposedly neutral algorithms, the real-life “Minority Report” technology that’s being used today in our cit...
22 Jan 20201h 8min
Adam Meets Beakman with Paul Zaloom
On a very special FACTUALLY! Adam sits down with political satirist, puppeteer, former children's show host and personal hero, Paul Zaloom aka Beakman of Beakman's World. Adam and Paul talk about the ...
15 Jan 202039min
Actually Solving the Housing Crisis with Heather Worthington
Think the housing crisis is intractable? Heather Worthington, Director of Long Range Planning for the City of Minneapolis, is here to prove to you that it’s not. She joins Adam to tell us how she help...
8 Jan 202053min
The Truth about Brain Injuries and Football with Dr. Ann McKee
Neuropathologist and Director of Boston University's CTE Center, Dr. Ann McKee, joins Adam to discuss CTE or chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a neurodegenerative disease caused by repeated head injur...
1 Jan 20201h 3min
