A Scientist’s Beef With The Meat Industry, With Impossible Foods’ Pat Brown
Even if you’ve never eaten an Impossible Burger, you’ve probably heard of them. But you may not know the science and story behind those meatless products. Pat Brown is a University of Chicago alum, th...
1 Juli 202123min
A Surprising Economic Solution To Climate Change With Michael Greenstone
When was the last time you heard a positive story about climate change, a story about someone with a new idea or innovative solution to help reduce our carbon footprint? This is that story. Michael Gr...
17 Juni 202125min
Solving The Biggest Mysteries Of Our Universe, With Dan Hooper
Why does our universe work the way it does? What are its laws? How did it start with the Big Bang‚ and how will it end? Scientists like Prof. Dan Hooper from the University of Chicago use something ca...
3 Juni 202129min
Why You’re Likely Paying An Unfair Share of Property Taxes, with Christopher Berry
When’s the last time you thought about property taxes? We mostly accept them as a part of society, and assume that they’re being calculated fairly. But a leading University of Chicago scholar says tha...
20 Maj 202129min
Taking Aliens Seriously, with Avi Loeb
The possibility of alien life has captivated the human imagination for decades and has been at the center of some of our most popular fictional stories. But one scientist has made a controversial clai...
6 Maj 202132min
The ‘Five Horsemen of the Techpocalypse’ with Kara Swisher
The so-called “Big Tech” industry has dramatically improved our daily lives, but at what cost? Few people have gotten a closer look at these companies than Kara Swisher, writer for The New York Times ...
22 Apr 202123min
Fighting Poverty And Pandemics, with Nobel Economist Michael Kremer
The solutions to global poverty can appear obvious, even if they’re difficult to implement. But, as University of Chicago economist Michael Kremer has discovered, interventions that may seem like comm...
8 Apr 202131min
Why Life After Incarceration Is Just Another Prison, with Reuben Jonathan Miller
For the more than 20 million people with a felony record, incarceration doesn’t end at the prison gate. They enter what University of Chicago scholar Reuben Jonathan Miller calls the “afterlife” of ma...
25 Mars 202136min
