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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...
The Doomsday Clock’s ‘Historic Wake-Up Call,’ With Rachel Bronson
Feb 11, 2021The Doomsday Clock has been set at 100 seconds to midnight—as close to total destruction as we were in 2020. But after a year of increasingly dangerous weather and wildfires, not to mention the COVID-...
Unraveling the Mystery of Life’s Origins on Earth, with Jack Szostak
Jan 28, 2021What are the biggest questions in science today: Can we cure cancer, solve the climate crisis, make it to Mars? For Nobel laureate Jack Szostak, the biggest question is still much more fundamental: Wh...
The Urgent Need to Reinvest in American Research, with Barbara Snyder
Jan 14, 2021Our podcast is all about research. Every episode we investigate what scholars have discovered and why it matters. But we’re going to get meta on this episode and look at what makes this research possi...
Getting Out Of The Lab With John List
Dec 22, 2020Our team is taking some time off to be with their families for the holidays. But, just in case you have a long flight, car ride, or maybe need something to do in-between Zoom calls, we’re re-sharing o...
How Alternate Reality Games Are Changing The Real World with Patrick Jagoda and Kristen Schilt
Dec 10, 2020What is the most popular form of media today: Movies? Music? Books? Nope, it’s video games. With 2.5 billion gamers today, games are set to be the type of media that most defines our world. And two sc...
The Science of Empathy, with Peggy Mason
Nov 25, 2020With so many contentious issues in our deeply polarized world, the real or virtual Thanksgiving dinner table may be a hard place to find a lot of empathy this year. As we take a week off to reconnect...
Big Brains Presents: The "Capitalisn't" Podcast
Nov 20, 2020This week, we’re featuring another University of Chicago Podcast Network show. It’s called Capitalisn’t. Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination to the Supreme Court has many focusing on question about how th...