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A Scientist’s Beef With The Meat Industry, With Impossible Foods’ Pat Brown
Jul 01, 2021Even 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, t...
A Surprising Economic Solution To Climate Change With Michael Greenstone
Jun 17, 2021When 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 G...
Solving The Biggest Mysteries Of Our Universe, With Dan Hooper
Jun 03, 2021Why 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 c...
Why You’re Likely Paying An Unfair Share of Property Taxes, with Christopher Berry
May 20, 2021When’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...
Taking Aliens Seriously, with Avi Loeb
May 06, 2021The 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...
The ‘Five Horsemen of the Techpocalypse’ with Kara Swisher
Apr 22, 2021The 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 ...
Fighting Poverty And Pandemics, with Nobel Economist Michael Kremer
Apr 08, 2021The 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...
Why Life After Incarceration Is Just Another Prison, with Reuben Jonathan Miller
Mar 25, 2021For 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...
Anthony Fauci On What We Need To Get Over COVID-19
Mar 08, 2021Anthony Fauci has spent the past year trying to curb the worst health crisis the world has seen in a century. In a recent University of Chicago event, Fauci reflected on how the COVID-19 pandemic ha...
The Ethics of COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution, with Laurie Zoloth
Feb 25, 2021The coronavirus pandemic has raised countless ethical questions: How do we balance restricting freedoms with protecting others, how do we ethically distribute vaccines, should we force people to get v...