Wanna go to Mars? Or at least remotely control a science buggy up there?
Nina Lanza does. We talk about what Mars is like and whether there is, or has ever been, life there.
Why do some people survive and others not?
Journalist Laurence Gonzales tells stories about natural and man-made disasters, who survives, and why.
Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned
A conversation with computer scientists Ken Stanley about the value of exploration and serendipity…and the data backing it up.
What happens when polar ice melts? (Hint: it’s not good.)
Geomorphologist Cathy Wilson on thawing permafrost in the arctic.
Does language affect how we think?
Linguist John McWhorter on his book The Language Hoax: Why the World Looks the Same in Any Language
The process of treating and eradicating a disease
Nancy Owen Lewis on her book, book Chasing The Cure in New Mexico: Tuberculosis and the Quest for Health
Charles Darwin and shifting paradigms in science
Simon DeDeo External faculty at the Santa Fe Institute and Professor at Carnegie Mellon University, talks about the life and science of Charles Darwin