Is Virtual Reality… Real? with David Chalmers
We spend more time in digital, virtual spaces than ever. But are those places really real? If they are, does that mean we could be living in virtual reality right now? Or does it even make sense to as...
2 Feb 20221h 19min
The Philosophy of Games with C. Thi Nguyen
Playing games is a fundamental human activity. But despite their ubiquity, they’ve never gotten the serious study from scholars they deserve. Why do we play them? And what, exactly, ARE games? On the ...
26 Jan 20221h 16min
Death to Medical Debt! with Allison Sesso
Our abusive, for-profit healthcare system has left Americans swimming in harmful medical debt. On this week’s episode, Adam meets someone who’s doing something about it: Allison Sesso, executive direc...
19 Jan 20221h 6min
How Modern Medicine Has Failed Women with Elinor Cleghorn
A deeply embedded idea in our culture is the sexist notion that men are the “default” human, and women the unknowable “other". Nowhere is this more visible than in the history of medicine, with disast...
12 Jan 20221h 10min
The Downfall of the NRA with Tim Mak
The NRA has been unbelievably successful in achieving its goals. Now, it's falling apart. How is that possible? On the show today is National Public Radio's Washington Investigative Correspondent and ...
5 Jan 202255min
The Mass Disappearance of Insects with Akito Kawahara (Re-Release)
This week on Factually we’re re-releasing one of our favorite episodes. Entomologist and professor Akito Kawahara joins Adam to discuss why insects are disappearing at an alarming rate, how humans mus...
29 Dec 202152min
Does Pfizer Have Too Much Power? with Hannah Kuchler
Even though the COVID-19 vaccines were born of publicly-funded research, our privatized medical system has left them to for-profit companies like Pfizer to distribute, giving these private companies m...
22 Dec 202156min
How Water Shaped Humanity with Giulio Boccaletti
As humans, we like to believe that we shape the natural world. But in reality, its laws and patterns have deeply structured our own society. To tell the story of how water has shaped humanity, on the ...
15 Dec 20211h
