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Correcting History: Native Americans Tell Their Own Stories
Oct 01, 2020Since their inception, natural history museums have struggled with how to represent Native Americans and their culture. People from these communities are often not included in the conversation, and th...
The Future of Voting And The 2020 Election, with Anthony Fowler
Sep 17, 2020The 2020 presidential election this November is happening amid an unprecedented pandemic. As states scramble to scale up mail-in voting, President Trump claims it will lead to widespread fraud. But wh...
Why The Quantum Internet Could Change Everything, with David Awschalom
Sep 03, 2020Imagine a new technology that could create unbreakable encryption, supercharge the development of AI, and radically expedite the development of drug treatments for everything from cancer to COVID-19. ...
How Loneliness and Isolation Affect Your Health, with Prof. Linda Waite
Aug 27, 2020The quarantine to stem the tide of the coronavirus pandemic has left many people trapped inside, alone. Loneliness and isolation were already a major health crisis in our country before COVID-19, and ...
The Way You Talk—And What It Says About You, with Prof. Katherine Kinzler
Aug 13, 2020The way we talk is probably not something most of us spend a lot of time thinking about, but when it comes to communicating, what we’re saying may only be as important as how we say it. That’s what P...
From LSD to Ecstasy, How Psychedelics Are Altering Therapy, with Prof. Harriet de Wit
Jul 30, 2020People have been taking psychoactive drugs since the beginning of human history, but there hasn’t been a lot of good scientific study of these substances. One person who has been trying to turn a scie...
How Can We Achieve Real Police Reform?
Jul 16, 2020What are we going to do about police misconduct? Many are calling for a total defunding of the police, while others are looking for systems to enhance accountability through reform. Many have pointed ...
Why We're Obsessed With Conspiracy Theories
Jul 02, 2020There have always been, and probably always will be, conspiracy theories, but we’ve certainty seen a dramatic increase this year. Misinformation around the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic have cr...
Black Lives Matter Protests: Hope for the Future?
Jun 18, 2020In the last few weeks, our country has been rocked by nationwide protests following the killing of George Floyd, and many other black people, at the hands of police. To be true to the mission of our s...
What Historic Pandemics Could Teach Us About Coronavirus, with Ada Palmer
Jun 08, 2020What happens to the world after a pandemic? Lots of experts have been talking about what we may be able to expect after COVID-19 from the 1918 Spanish flu and The Black Death. But, as any historian wi...