Episode 139: Standardized Testing and the Pretense of Meritocracy
Send us Fan Mail With only 24 of 777 incoming seats in New York’s City’s premier public high school being offered to Black and Hispanic students, even though they make up 62% of the population, standa...
15 Aug 57min
Episode 138: Geoengineering Our Way Out of Climate Disaster
Send us Fan Mail With the world’s progress toward reducing carbon emissions fitful at best, people are slowly waking up to the possibility of not meeting international targets and staring instead at p...
2 Aug 1h
Episode 137: Should Billionaires Exist?
Send us Fan Mail The recent IPO for SpaceX briefly turned Elon Musk into the world’s first trillionaire. One person having a net worth involving 13 digits is staggering to comprehend, leading Joe to a...
13 Juli 56min
Episode 136: Living a Meaningful Life
Send us Fan Mail So much has been written and said about how to live a meaningful life. It’s been the pursuit of philosophers for millennia, a central focus of psychology for the last century and a ha...
27 Juni 57min
Episode 135: Gerrymandering: A Jerry-Built Contraption
Send us Fan Mail In the wake of the Supreme Court’s disemboweling of the Voting Rights Act, many (former?) Confederate states are redistricting away Black members of Congress who aren’t Republicans. W...
14 Juni 52min
Episode 134: The Clock is Ticking to Doomsday
Send us Fan Mail You’ve probably heard of the Doomsday Clock. It’s the clock whose hands move closer to midnight every time humanity is judged to be closer to annihilation. A few months ago, it inched...
31 Maj 1h 3min
Episode 133: What is It About Dogs?
Send us Fan Mail It is thought that somewhere in Eurasia during the Late Pleistocene, an intrepid pack of gray wolves made a fateful decision to approach a human campfire seeking scraps. From that hum...
10 Maj 52min
Episode 132: Who’s Happier: Liberals or Conservatives?
Send us Fan Mail The media images we see of conservative politicians and voters depict people who are angry, fearful, and full of suspicion and outrage. So, why does study after study suggest that the...
26 Apr 1h 4min
