During 2020, a year of enormous public health crisis as the COVID-19 pandemic took hold, the United States spent $37.4 billion dollars improving and updating its nuclear weapons arsenal and […]
Re-Imagining the World Post-Pandemic and Wildlife During Quarantine
For today’s show, we try to look for silver linings to the COVID-19 crisis. What can we learn from this moment to build a better world? First up, we talk […]
Academic Failure: Falling off the Shoulders of Giants
It is said that if every experiment worked the first time, a graduate student could earn a PhD in under a year. However, we make the best of our mistakes […]
A groundbreaking study of Sakurajima volcano
Producer Will Cushman speaks with geophysicist James Hickey, of the Camborne School of Mines in the UK. Hickey is a co-author of a study published in the journal Scientific Reports […]
Art in the Arctic – February 4, 2016
In this episode, reporter Matthew Zmudka spoke to, and made a cyanotype with, local artist Anders Zanichkowsky. Preparing for a three-week expedition to the Arctic, Zanichkowsky takes a research approach […]