Episodes

  • Season 2, Episode 3: What A Year Of Tweets Can Tell Us About The Pandemic

    Season 2, Episode 3: What A Year Of Tweets Can Tell Us About The Pandemic
    Mar 11 2021
    Computer science researcher Juan Banda and his collaborators have collected nearly 1 billion tweets that capture the global conversation about COVID-19. Banda discusses how he and other researchers across the globe have been analyzing this massive dataset.
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    24 mins
  • Season 2, Episode 2: How Women in the U.S. Vote, and Govern, Differently Than Men

    Season 2, Episode 2: How Women in the U.S. Vote, and Govern, Differently Than Men
    Oct 7 2020
    Political science professor Amy Steigerwalt researches the role of women in politics, the federal judicial selection process and other issues related to American politics.
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    25 mins
  • Season 2. Episode 1: What Psychology and Neuroscience Can Teach us about Criminal Justice in America

    Season 2. Episode 1: What Psychology and Neuroscience Can Teach us about Criminal Justice in America
    Jul 31 2020
    Researcher Eyal Aharoni draws from philosophy, psychology and neuroscience to explore mass incarceration, how jurors make sentencing decisions and who is likely to re-offend.
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    15 mins
  • Episode 8: What Supermassive Black Holes Can Teach Us About the Universe

    Episode 8: What Supermassive Black Holes Can Teach Us About the Universe
    May 28 2020
    Astrophysicist Misty Bentz discusses her research into supermassive black holes. Bentz is leading one of the first teams selected to conduct research using the Webb Space Telescope which is scheduled to launch in 2021.
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    21 mins
  • Episode 7: The Connection Between Racism and Accelerated Aging

    Episode 7: The Connection Between Racism and Accelerated Aging
    Feb 26 2020
    Psychology researcher Sierra Carter talks about her research into the relationship between early life stress from racial discrimination and serious health problems among African Americans.
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    24 mins
  • Episode 6: Can upcycling solve our plastic waste problem?

    Episode 6: Can upcycling solve our plastic waste problem?
    Jan 28 2020
    Biology researcher Eric Gilbert talks about his patent pending technology for turning plastic waste into more valuable materials. The goal is to solve a global environmental problem by making it profitable to upcycle plastic.
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    24 mins
  • Episode 5: How Rap Music can Shape Political Attitudes

    Episode 5: How Rap Music can Shape Political Attitudes
    Dec 16 2019
    Lakeyta Bonnette-Bailey, a researcher in African-American studies and political science, explains the influence of political rap music on racial attitudes, and the relationship between Hip-Hop culture and social justice.
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    24 mins
  • Episode 4: Can Blockchain help creators get paid for their work?

    Episode 4: Can Blockchain help creators get paid for their work?
    Nov 22 2019
    Elizabeth Strickler, the Director of Media Entrepreneurship & Innovation Programs at the Creative Media Industries Institute, explains how blockchain technology could help journalists, photographers, artists and other creators protect their work in the internet era.
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    23 mins