Cited
69 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 3 years ago - ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsExperts shape our world. Sometimes for the better, sometimes for the worse. In every big story, you’ll find one; you’ll find a researcher, scientist, engineer, planner, policy wonk, data nerd, bureaucrat, regulator, intellectual, or pseudointellectual. Their ideas are often opaque, unrecognized, and difficult to understand. Some of them like it that way. On Cited, we reveal their hidden stories.
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#47: Are job stealing robots good or evil?
April 26, 2017 16:10Sam visits Yusuf Altintas’s manufacturing automation lab at the University of British Columbia and then talks to Matt Bruenig (@MattBruenig) about automation, inequality and the future of work.
#46: The End of Civilization Ecovillage
April 19, 2017 01:59Gordon is an environmentalist, but he doesn’t get out of the city very much. So he boarded a ferry and went to a farming co-op on an island off the coast of BC. He found people that say civilization is doomed, so they decided to escape.
#45: Sea Level Rise is the 'Slow Motion Disaster' We Aren't Ready For
April 12, 2017 16:10The seas are rising, but we can’t seem to care. Gordon talks to John Clague “AKA Dr. Doom” about the latest projections, and he talks to Stephen Sheppard about how showing evocative images might help.
#44: Everyone Already Knows About Climate Change
April 05, 2017 16:10Alex talks with Dan Kahan, professor of law and psychology, at Yale Law School.
#43: Are Racists Crazy?
March 22, 2017 16:10Gordon talks with Sander Gilman, a Professor of Psychiatry, at Emory University and the author of Are Racists Crazy?
#42: In Those Genes
March 15, 2017 01:44For years humanities scholars have avoided talking about genes. But now, in the midst of a social genomics revolution, Professors Dalton Conley and Jason Fletcher say it’s time for social scientists to join the conversation.
#41: The Heroin Clinic
March 09, 2017 16:10At Crosstown Clinic, doctors are turning addiction treatment on its head: they’re prescribing heroin-users the very drug they’re addicted to. This is the story of one clinic’s quest to remove the harms of addiction, without removing the addiction itself.
#40: The Activist in the Ivory Tower
February 23, 2017 16:10This week we talk to two community organizers who work from within academia. Gordon talks to Matt Hern about his book What a City Is For and Alex talks to Funmilola Fagbamila about Black Lives Matter and being an Activist-in-Residence at UCLA.
#39: American Eugenics and the Tragedy of Carrie Buck
February 16, 2017 16:10In 1927, the Supreme Court of the United States decided certain “undesirables” could be sterilized against their will. And American academics were all for it.
#38: The Conservative War Against Liberal Sex Education
February 01, 2017 01:30Another chapter in the continuing battle between wonks and Christian conservatives, this time in Canada.
#37: Lawrence Krauss and Carl Zimmer on science in the "post-truth" era
January 26, 2017 16:10Sam asks theoretical physicist Lawrence Krauss about the difference between a good and a bad public intellectual. Alex talks to science journalist Carl Zimmer about tough choices in science storytelling.
#36: What would our world be like without numbers?
January 18, 2017 01:18What are numbers? Did we make them, or were we given them? How do they affect us? Are there people who do not have numbers?
#35: Can Democrats win back the white working class?
January 11, 2017 16:10The Democrats used to count on the white working class. Now they have to fight to win them back.
#34: Nature is Not Natural: Climate Change's Challenge to Democracy
January 05, 2017 16:10It’s the first episode of 2017. Happy new year! Alex interviews Duke University law professor Jedediah Purdy about the political history of nature and its uncertain future.
#33: How Online Retailers Ripped You Off These Holidays
December 22, 2016 16:10Thanks to online marketplaces, consumers are no longer limited to a few brick-and-morter stores to buy their holiday gifts. Now, they can order practically any item from any corner of the Earth. Surely this increased competition means better prices?
#32: The Forgotten Stories of Native London
December 14, 2016 16:10Sam interviews Coll Thrush, Professor of History at the University of British Columbia, about his new book, Indigenous London: Native Travelers at the Heart of Empire.
#31: A Proud Benchwarmer–Kaye Kaminishi & the Vancouver Asahi
December 06, 2016 01:07Kaye Kaminishi is the last surviving member of the Vancouver Asahi, a Japanese Canadian baseball club. The team was disbanded 75 years ago today, when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor.
#30: Exiled Part 2--The Mennonites and the Sex Offenders
November 30, 2016 16:10Across Canada, Mennonite-volunteers are helping high-risk sex-offenders reintegrate after they’re released from prison. Sam Fenn goes to Regina to meet a sex offender and the group of untrained volunteers who spend their free time with him.
#29: Exiled Part 1 -- A Year In New York’s Infamous ‘Sex Offender Motel'
November 24, 2016 16:10Sex offenders are the most reviled and abused criminals in prison. But eventually, most of them will get out. So, what happens next?