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• September 30, 2025

  Not Now, But Soon: The Food System is Rigged

  Thin Lei Win, Malka Older

  Investigative journalist Thin Lei Win shares her experience growing up in Myanmar, and how that has shaped how she sees the intersection between food production, climate, and disasters.

• January 10, 2023

  Episode 24: Collaborations on Ice

  Cy Keener, Ignatius Rigor, JD Talasek

  How can scientific data be made more tangible, visceral, and experiential? Collaboration! Over the course of a four-year project, Arctic Ice: A Visual Archive, artist Cy Keener, landscape researcher Justine … Read More

• Fall 2025

  A Brief Note From the Guy on the Table

  Robert Cook-Deegan

  A traumatic brain injury gave Robert Cook-Deegan a crash course in a medical research system tangled in technological dilemma and political paradox, a dysfunctional insurance bureaucracy, and the healing powers of superglue.

• Fall 2025

  Beauty in Every Body

  Theodore C. Smith

  Anatomy has long been recognized as a field at the crossroads of politics, medicine, crime, taboo, professionalism, modesty, racism, sexism, and much else. A new book goes beyond these issues in exploring anatomy’s past, asking if early anatomical illustration could have been a space for the exploration of homoerotic desire, hidden in plain sight. 

• January 17, 2022

  Episode 6: The Marvelous and the Mundane

  The James Webb Space Telescope is expected to reveal secrets of every phase of cosmic history, going all the way back to the Big Bang. In this episode we talk with Washington,… Read More

• Winter 2025

  How Some Universities Translate Inclusive Innovation Into Regional Growth

  Mercedes Delgado, Fiona Murray

  Positioning universities as hubs of inclusive innovation, particularly in less inventive places, can shift local workforce demographics and accelerate growth.

• Spring 2026

  Constructing a New Knowledge Infrastructure

  Shannon Dosemagen, Gwen Ottinger

  An environmental knowledge commons could support evidence-based policymaking, but it will require long-term coordination across the many communities monitoring pollution and local conditions.

• October 28, 2025

  Not Now, But Soon: Losing Your Country

  Nasir Andisha, Malka Older

  Nasir Andisha, ambassador and permanent representative of Afghanistan to the United Nations, shares the story of what it’s like to lose his nation, but continue to advocate for its people. 

• April 30, 2025

  K–12 Education in the Age of AI

  Shuchi Grover

  As powerful AI tools begin to affect our lives, what should learners and teachers understand in order to use them in ways that are empowering and equitable?

• May 21, 2024

  Novel Technologies and the Choices We Make: Historical Precedents for Managing Artificial Intelligence

  Marc Aidinoff, David Kaiser

  Scientific and technological innovations are made by people, and so they can be governed by people. Notwithstanding breathless popular descriptions of disempowered citizens cowed by technical complexity or bowing to the inevitable… Read More

• Summer 2025

  Building Decision Points Into Research’s Slipperiest Slopes

  John H. Evans, Craig Callender, Neal K. Devaraj, Farren J. Isaacs, Gregory E. Kaebnick

  The controversy around a ban on “mirror life” should lead to a more nuanced public conversation about how to manage the benefits and risks of precursor biotechnologies.

• Spring 2025

  The Strange New Politics of Science

  M. Anthony Mills, Price St. Clair

  The polarization of trust in science is a complex phenomenon shaped by—and increasingly also shaping—American political identities.

• May 19, 2026

  You Have 9,870 Unread Messages

  Rebecca Coyne, Jason Lloyd

  Spam—in the form of emails, text messages, junk search results, and now AI-generated content—is a constant, annoying part of online life. But does it have to be this way?

• May 5, 2026

  Kumar Garg Funds Ideas That Are “Big, if True”

  Kumar Garg, Monya Baker

  Kumar Garg, president of Renaissance Philanthropy, shares how he has spent his career finding, funding, and implementing ideas both within the government and outside it via philanthropy, which is uniquely positioned to pilot “big, if true” ideas.

• Spring 2026

  We Created a Survey to Measure Community Well-Being and Activated a “Messy Middle”

  Natalie Bomstad

  How a Wisconsin county realized that systems change requires shared sensemaking as much as innovative metrics.

• Spring 2026

  Roving the Prairies

  Charles N. Herrick

  Charles N. Herrick navigates the science and art of American grassland restoration in his review of George Frazier’s recent book on grassland rivers.

• Spring 2026

  How the American Research University Survives

  Robert A. Brown, Bruce R. Guile

  University leadership needs to shift attention from chasing prestige to crafting strategies for long-term success.

• Winter 2026

  Repurposing Grand Challenges in Tumultuous Times

  Martin Ho, Pramod P. Khargonekar, Eoin O’Sullivan

  As research budgets tighten, priorities evolve, and new funding models emerge, the grand challenge framework can restore coherence, direction, and shared purpose across the scientific enterprise.

• September 16, 2025

  Not Now, But Soon: A Hurricane of Data

  Steven Gonzalez, Malka Older

  Steven Gonzalez compares the dramatic and immediate impacts of Hurricane Maria to the slower, overlooked disasters of environmental destruction and exploitation of human labor that support our data infrastructure.

• Spring 2026

  Who Will Keep Research Data Infrastructure Open and Running?

  Jennifer Gibson, Kaitlin Thaney

  The scientific community urgently needs to consider the longevity and resilience of open research infrastructure—when and why it might fail, what risks failures represent for the broader community, and how to prevent them.

• Summer 2025

  Chakaia Booker: Treading New Ground

  

  Through cutting, coiling, and contorting tires, Chakaia Booker transforms industrial waste into remarkably graceful sculptures that defy their origins.

• April 21, 2026

  Untangling the “Cosmic Coincidence” of the Job Market

  Matt Sigelman, Molly Galvin

  How do employers find good talent? How do people find good jobs and develop skills? On this podcast episode, Burning Glass Institute president Matt Sigelman shares his thoughts on the job market and the future work in the age of AI.

• Fall 2025

  Don’t Forget the Farmers

  Will farmers see a benefit from modernized soil tests that provide more accurate assessments of soil quality—and therefore land value?

• April 7, 2026

  The Future of Making Babies

  Emily Packard Dawson, Jason Lloyd

  Assisted reproductive technologies have helped many people have children, but the egg donors behind this process are often overlooked. Emily Packard Dawson discusses donors and the donation process, along with the ethical and policy challenges raised by advances in reproductive technologies.

• October 14, 2025

  Not Now, But Soon: Who Is Worth Measuring?

  Julisa Tambunan, Malka Older

  Julisa Tambunan explains why gender inequality is a disaster and how collecting better data—both statistics and stories—can help create a better future for everyone. 

• Winter 2026

  Building Bridges—Not Walls—for Technological Sovereignty

  Anwar Aridi, Henning Kroll

  Today’s emerging economies need to carefully manage tradeoffs to achieve technological sovereignty and a globally competitive position.

• February 27, 2026

  What Would Akanda Do?

  An Indian actor in a future Mumbai has authorized politicians, entertainers, and businesses to use his likeness. When he discovers his image is being used as a tool for repression—and when two kids he’s close to disappear—the actor is forced to confront what he really gave away.

• Winter 2026

  How I Learned to Conduct Research That Makes a Difference in the Lives of Arizona’s Kids

  Gabriel Q. Shaibi

  Gabriel Shaibi was trained to gather evidence about diabetes prevention. To have an impact, he learned to gather partners.

• Winter 2026

  Butter Cows and Seed Art and Participatory Spectacles 

  Colleen Sheehy

  

  State fairs create an intersection for rural and urban life, connecting fairgoers with agrarian knowledge and heritage, even though fewer than 2% of Americans are farmers today.

• January 16, 2024

  Generative AI Is a Crisis for Copyright Law

  Kate Crawford, Jason Schultz

  Generative artificial intelligence is driving copyright into a crisis. More than a dozen copyright cases about AI were filed in the United States last year, up severalfold from all filings from 2020… Read More