(Self-)Righteous Anger
March 4, 2018
Judson Brewer— In 2010, I went on a monthlong silent retreat with the aim of working on and possibly stabilizing a special c concentration type of meditation practice (jhana) that… READ MORE
Category: Science
YouTube = MeTube
February 9, 2018
Judson Brewer— “Status Update,” an episode of the podcast This American Life, featured three ninth graders talking about their use of Instagram. Instagram is a simple program that lets people post, comment… READ MORE
Hunting Mobile Shoppers
February 7, 2018
Joseph Turow— “Bricks and mortar is dead; long live bricks and mortar!” This was the surprising theme that emerged from the sprawling 2014 Internet Retailer Conference and Exhibition, reported Laura… READ MORE
Ep. 45 – How Our Senses Work
February 1, 2018
Where do our senses come from and how do they work? What happens when they go wrong? We’ve got the answers to these questions and more with Rob DeSalle from… READ MORE
The Dangers of Controlling Wolf Populations
December 20, 2017
Brandy R. Fogg— Current wolf population management strategies in the U.S are not supported by scientific research and are doing more harm than good. Gordon Haber and Marybeth Holleman’s Among… READ MORE
The First Discovery of Feathered Dinosaurs
December 13, 2017
Alan Feduccia— Before the astounding recent discoveries of avian and dinosaurian fossils from the Mesozoic of China, the only substantial evidence for the earliest evolution of birds from their reptilian… READ MORE
How Do We Know What’s True?
November 28, 2017
Janna R. White & Wendy Hasenkamp— In May 2016 the Wall Street Journal published an interactive online tool called “Blue Feed, Red Feed” that allowed one to see the dueling… READ MORE
Saving Lake Superior
November 26, 2017
Nancy Langston— My goal in writing Sustaining Lake Superior was to write a hopeful book—a narrative of environmental recovery, not just collapse and despair. But holding onto hope can seem… READ MORE
Exploring the Great Pyramid with Cosmic Rays
November 18, 2017
James Owen Weatherall— The Great Pyramid of Giza is more than forty-five centuries old. It has been broken into, explored, and looted by countless civilizations, ancient and modern. But it… READ MORE
Ep. 41 – Saving Lake Superior
November 16, 2017
The story of Lake Superior’s conservation recovery and what it can teach us in the face of climate change
A Conversation with Trudier Harris on Bigger: A Literary Life