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#1664: How Russians culled the whale population during the 20th century
Aug 12 2022 • 00:29:58
Science, politics and the natural world all collide in the writing of Ryan Tucker Jones. “Red Leviathan: The Secret History of Soviet Whaling,” his...
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#1663: Is the teaching profession in peril?
Aug 05 2022 • 00:29:58
The past few years have resulted in seismic disruptions of society, from economic and political schisms to changes in interpersonal relationships. Tea...
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#1662: This program helps women re-enter the workforce after prison
Jul 29 2022 • 00:29:58
Almost two million people are incarcerated in United States’ prisons and jails, according to a March report by the Prison Policy Initiative. And while...
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#1661: American teens threatened by 'The Inner Pandemic'
Jul 22 2022 • 00:29:58
Matt Richtel is an author and reporter at The New York Times, who’s been pretty busy of late. “The Inner Pandemic,” an examination of American teen...
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#1660: Mass timber buildings could be a part of the climate solution | The Best of Our Knowledge
Jul 15 2022 • 00:29:58
Jason Korb, the principal architect and namesake of Korb + Associates Architects, makes an interesting distinction about mass timber buildings, struct...
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#1659: School libraries and free speech | The Best of Our Knowledge
Jul 08 2022 • 00:29:58
PEN America, a nonprofit focused on free speech and expression through the written word that was founded in 1922, has been at the forefront of the deb...
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#1658: Professors and free speech | The Best of Our Knowledge
Jul 01 2022 • 00:29:55
From the consternation over books in public school libraries — which will be the focus of next week’s episode of The Best of Our Knowledge — to claims...
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#1657: The developing landscape of psychedelics in medicine | The Best of Our Knowledge
Jun 24 2022 • 00:29:58
The history of psychedelics, and mind and mood altering substances in the United States is a complicated one, rife with bizarre turns and at least a d...
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#1656: Gender equity in jazz education | The Best of Our Knowledge
Jun 17 2022 • 00:29:58
Terri Lyne Carrington has been playing and recording music in the company of rarified jazz talent for more than 40 years. A part of that career has be...
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#1655: Snowpack and drought in the West | The Best of Our Knowledge
Jun 10 2022 • 00:29:59
There’s a spot atop California’s Sierra Nevada Mountains where research on snowpack and drought began more than 70 years ago. At one point, there wer...