Justice Stephen Breyer: Understanding What They Meant
When interpreting the Constitution, the dangers of relying solely on the words and what they meant at the time, without taking into account the purpose and values expressed in those words. Hosted by S...
26 Mar 202439min
Shohini Ghose: Women’s Time and Space
A leading physicist herself, Shohini Ghose has wonderful stories about the trials and triumphs of the many mostly unsung women whose work helped open up the universe. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz ...
19 Mar 202439min
Tali Sharot: Take Another Look
We can get used to things to the point where even something we once thought wonderful can lose its luster. More sinister, we can also get used to the drip, drip of falsehoods till we become dulled to ...
12 Mar 202441min
Keith Houston: There’s More to Writing Than Words.
The intriguing stories behind the often weird and baffling origins of punctuation and other symbols we use to communicate. And it’s not just commas, colons and periods. There are pilcrows, octothorps,...
5 Mar 202438min
Terry Greiss: Acting to Connect
The Irondale Ensemble Project, a theater company rooted in improvisation, created a program to help police and community build trust and mutual understanding through theater games. Hosted by Simplecas...
27 Feb 202439min
Robert Sapolsky: You Have No Choice
You may think you were free to choose that chocolate ice cream over the vanilla. But maybe the choice was made for you before you were even born – that the free will you believe you are exercising in ...
20 Feb 202441min
Tom Hanks: Making a Book About Making a Movie
And what a book it is, a rich sprawling novel called The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece, which Tom himself describes as a “primer on the long slog of bringing an idea from somebody...
13 Feb 202438min
Paul Bloom: Can AI be Moral?
Why can’t AI bots be made to be good, to be moral, so they’ll help us and not do harmful or terrible things? But just whose moral values would we want them to have? And what if they become too moral? ...
6 Feb 202441min
