What Rats Can Teach Us About Empathy and Racism, with Peggy Mason
Why do we feel empathy for some people, but not others? Where does this feeling of empathy come from? These questions have been the focus of one University of Chicago neurobiologist’s career. And to f...
10 Mars 202020min
Why the Coronavirus Could Send China’s Economy Back to the 1980s With Chang-Tai Hsieh
The outbreak of the coronavirus in China is a global tragedy. While much of the attention has been on the disease itself, many global experts have been focusing on the economic side-effects. Some econ...
25 Feb 202018min
Why The Doomsday Clock Is Closer To Apocalypse Than Ever With Rachel Bronson
Since its inception following World War II, the Doomsday Clock has measured our time until apocalypse in minutes. This year, for the first time, the clock set our time to midnight in just seconds. Rac...
12 Feb 202025min
Vladimir Putin’s Number One Enemy With Bill Browder
University of Chicago alumnus Bill Browder’s story sounds like the plot of a Hollywood thriller—except it’s all true. He just wanted to be a businessman, but his experience as a foreign investor in Ru...
27 Jan 202025min
How Google and Facebook Are Ruining Capitalism, with Luigi Zingales
University of Chicago economist Luigi Zingales often says that only an immigrant like himself can really appreciate American capitalism. In his native Italy, Zingales says what you know and what you d...
13 Jan 202026min
How Quantum Technology Could Change Our Future With David Awschalom
In October of 2019, Google announced their supercomputer had reached quantum supremacy. With that announcement, and as we take a short break for the holidays, we thought we should replay a prior Big B...
30 Dec 201919min
The Myths Of Millennial Voters With Cathy Cohen
Every election year, poll after poll tries to predict where millennials stand politically. As we head into 2020, we'd like to replay this episode with Prof. Cathy Cohen who says some of our assumption...
16 Dec 201920min
Why Some Nations Prosper and Others Fail, with James Robinson
It’s a simple question to ask, but seems impossible to answer: What causes one nation to succeed and another to fail? What exactly are the origins of global inequality? There are few people who have s...
2 Dec 201927min
