121 | Cornel West on What Democracy Is and Should Be
This episode is published on November 2, 2020, the day before an historic election in the United States. An election […]
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120 | Jeremy England on Biology, Thermodynamics, and the Bible
Erwin Schrödinger’s famous book What Is Life? highlighted the connections between physics, and thermodynamics in particular, and the nature of
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119 | Musa al-Gharbi on the Value of Intellectual Diversity
In the service of seeking truth, there would seem to be value in intellectual diversity, both in keeping ourselves honest
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118 | Adam Riess on the Expansion of the Universe and a Crisis in Cosmology
Astronomers rocked the cosmological world with the 1998 discovery that the universe is accelerating. Well-deserved Nobel Prizes were awarded to
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117 | Sean B. Carroll on Randomness and the Course of Evolution
Evolution is a messy business, involving as it does selection pressures, mutations, genetic drift, and the effects of random external
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116 | Teresa Bejan on Free Speech, Civility, and Toleration
How can, and should, we talk to each other, especially to people with whom we disagree? “Free speech” is rightfully
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115 | Netta Engelhardt on Black Hole Information, Wormholes, and Quantum Gravity
Stephen Hawking made a number of memorable contributions to physics, but perhaps his greatest was a puzzle: what happens to
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114 | Angela Chen on Asexuality in a Sex-Preoccupied World
Sexuality is, and always has been, a topic that is endlessly fascinating but also contentious. You might think that asexuality
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113 | Cailin O’Connor on Game Theory, Evolution, and the Origins of Unfairness
You can’t always get what you want, as a wise person once said. But we do try, even when someone
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112 | Fyodor Urnov on Gene Editing, CRISPR, and Human Engineering
Not too long ago nobody carried a mobile phone; now almost everybody does. That’s the kind of rate of rapid
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