In The Moment podcast
248 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsListen in on the latest Town Hall conversation, wherever you are! In the Moment is a weekly podcast featuring in-depth interviews curated by Town Hall’s Digital Media Manager, Jini Palmer. Senior Correspondent Steve Scher, along with a host of Seattle journalists and thought leaders, take on topics ranging from science and health, civics and culture, to the arts—and beyond! Join us, In the Moment, for expansive talks from Town Hall’s digital stage.
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98. Seamus McGraw with Agueda Pacheco Flores: The Rise of the American Mass Shooter
May 24, 2021 19:58 - 56 minutes - 53.2 MBSandy Hook Elementary. Las Vegas. Pulse nightclub. Virginia Tech. Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. Sometimes it seems as though time is measured by the distance between mass shootings. But how did we get here? In this week’s episode, correspondent Agueda Pacheco Flores talks with journalist Seamus McGraw about his book From a Taller Tower: The Rise of the American Mass Shooter, which chronicles the answer to that question. He shares how the first mass shooting took place from atop th...
97. Suzanne Simard with Steve Scher: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
May 17, 2021 20:24 - 52 minutes - 49.1 MBFor hundreds of years, trees have lived side by side, evolving, perceiving one another, learning and adapting their behaviors, recognizing neighbors, and remembering the past. They compete and cooperate with one another with sophistication, eliciting warnings and mounting defenses. And at the center of it all are the Mother Trees, mysterious, powerful forces that connect and sustain the others that surround them. So Suzanne Simard, plant communication expert, contends, and she joins us for ...
96. Michela Wrong with Chamidae Ford: The Story of a Political Murder and An African Regime Gone Bad
May 10, 2021 21:07 - 50 minutes - 47.1 MBOn January 1, 2014, Rwanda’s former head of external intelligence Patrick Karegeya was found murdered in the bed of his upscale Johannesburg, South Africa hotel room. His nephew David Batenga became concerned after it had been several days since anyone had heard from him, and demanded the hotel open the door, despite the “do not disturb” sign on the handle. This murder is the entry point for a startling and powerful investigation from veteran journalist Michela Wrong, captured in her book ...
95. Tony Hiss with Steve Scher: Rescuing the Planet
May 03, 2021 20:14 - 50 minutes - 47.2 MBWhat would it look like if we vowed to protect 50 percent of the earth’s land by 2050? Award-winning author and veteran New Yorker staff writer Tony Hiss believes it could be the key to saving millions of species and conserving the planet. Hiss talks with Senior Correspondent Steve Scher in this week’s episode to discuss Rescuing the Planet: Protecting Half the Land to Heal the Earth, where he presents an urgent, resounding call and makes the case for why protecting half the land is the w...
94. Riane Eisler with C.E. Bick: The New Possible
April 26, 2021 20:08 - 48 minutes - 45.5 MBWill pandemic, protest, economic instability, and social distance lead to deeper inequalities, more nationalism, and further erosion of democracies around the world? Or are we moving toward a global re-awakening to the importance of community, mutual support, and the natural world? The New Possible: Visions of Our World Beyond Crisis argues that the future has never been so up for grabs in our lifetime, with unique visions from 28 global leaders. In this week’s episode, contributor Riane Ei...
93. David Williams with Steve Scher: A Human and Natural History of Puget Sound
April 19, 2021 19:51 - 53 minutes - 50.4 MBNot far from Seattle skyscrapers live 150-year-old clams, more than 250 species of fish, and underwater kelp forests as complex as any terrestrial ecosystem. For millennia, vibrant Coast Salish communities have lived beside these waters dense with nutrient-rich foods, with cultures intertwined through exchanges across the waterways. Transformed by settlement and resource extraction, Puget Sound and its future health now depend on a better understanding of the region’s ecological complexiti...
92. Lyric World: Brian Komei Dempster with Shin Yu Pai
April 12, 2021 19:51 - 50 minutes - 47.6 MBHow does being othered in America impact our awareness of difference, and how does that lens affect our lived experience? In this episode of Lyric World, host Shin Yu Pai talks with poet Brian Komei Dempster, whose work explores this othered space both through a national and personal history of anti-Asian bigotry, and his own experiences as a parent of a disabled child. They reflect on Dempster’s work exploring histories of Japanese internment and the lasting legacy on subsequent generation...
91. Davarian L. Baldwin with Steve Scher: How Universities Are Plundering Our Cities
April 05, 2021 20:03 - 56 minutes - 52.7 MBIn cities large and small across America, universities have become the dominant companies—and our cities their company towns. But Davarian L. Baldwin argues there is a cost to those who live in their shadow. In this week’s episode, Baldwin talks with Senior Correspondent Steve Scher about the ever-expanding campuses in America. Drawing upon his book In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities Are Plundering Our Cities, Baldwin explores his journey of conversations with city leaders, l...
90. Maria Reva with Steve Scher: Good Citizens Need Not Fear
March 22, 2021 21:02 - 51 minutes - 48.2 MBIn this week’s episode, writer Maria Reva joins Senior Correspondent Steve Scher to discuss her bitingly funny, satirical collection of stories, Good Citizens Need Not Fear, which unites around a single crumbling apartment building in Ukraine where a bureaucratic glitch omits the entire building and its residents from municipal records. Together, they investigate how the stories, which span the chaotic years leading up to and immediately following the fall of the Soviet Union, explore what ...
89. Sarah R. Coleman with Lilly Fowler: The Politics of Immigration in Modern America
March 15, 2021 19:38 - 45 minutes - 43 MBIn 1965, a new act transformed the American immigration system by abolishing national quotas in favor of a seemingly egalitarian approach. But the intended effect and the actual result were worlds apart. In this week’s episode, historian Sarah R. Coleman talks with local journalist and correspondent Lilly Fowler about her book The Walls Within: The Politics of Immigration in Modern America, her exploration of immigration policy since that 1965 act. Coleman examines the shift in focus, away f...
88. Urban Native Education Alliance with Megan Castillo: Billy Frank Jr. Day
March 08, 2021 20:09 - 49 minutes - 46.5 MBIn 2016, Treaty tribes from across the Puget Sound region came together on March 9 to celebrate the first Billy Frank Jr. Day. The annual environmental day honors the work of Nisqually tribal member Billy Frank Jr., who was a lifelong environmental leader and treaty rights activist, especially tribal fishing rights. Now, JJ, Lailani, and Kayla—members of the Urban Native Education Alliance’s Clear Sky Youth Leadership Council—talk with Town Hall Program Manager Megan Castillo about their eff...
87. Séverine Autesserre with Steve Scher: The Frontlines of Peace
March 01, 2021 21:19 - 1 hour - 56.3 MBWhat strategies have worked to build lasting peace in conflict zones, particularly for ordinary citizens on the ground? Researcher and peacebuilder Séverine Autesserre joins Senior Correspondent Steve Scher to share stories of ordinary yet extraordinary individuals and organizations who are confronting violence in their communities effectively. She examines the well-intentioned but inherently flawed peace industry, and argues against the commonly held belief that building peace requires bil...
86. Véronique Tadjo with Kevin Kibet: In the Company of Men
February 22, 2021 22:06 - 41 minutes - 38.7 MBIn the mid 2010s, the Ebola outbreak devastated West Africa, sending a message that diseases recognize no borders, political parties, or faiths. In this week’s episode, correspondent Kevin Kibet sits in conversation with poet and novelist Veronique Tadjo about her novel In the Company of Men, which presents a timely fable that illustrates the terrible extent of the Ebola epidemic, through the eyes of those affected in myriad ways. Beginning with two boys who venture from their village to hu...
85. Lyric World: Shin Yu Pai with Gary Copeland Lilley
February 08, 2021 20:24 - 38 minutes - 36.4 MBIn this week’s episode, correspondent and poet Shin Yu Pai shares another installment of Lyric World, now in its second year of programming. Lyric World engages poets in conversations about the concerns and themes that preoccupy their work. As part of Black History Month, Pai hosts poet and musician Gary Copeland Lilley in a dialogue about the creative and intellectual influences that have shaped his work. Gary Copeland Lilley is the author of eight books of poetry, the most recent being ...
84. Thomas C. Holt with Mike Davis: The African American Struggle for Civil Rights
February 01, 2021 23:44 - 55 minutes - 51.6 MBThe civil rights movement was among the most important historical developments of the twentieth century and one of the most remarkable mass movements in American history. Yet, despite a vague, sometimes begrudging recognition of its immense import, historian Thomas C. Holt contends, more often than not the movement has been misrepresented and misunderstood. In this week’s episode, Holt talks about his book The Movement: The African American Struggle for Civil Rights with correspondent Mik...
83. Robert Chaney with Steve Scher: The Grizzly in the Driveway
January 25, 2021 21:34 - 41 minutes - 39.2 MBFour decades ago, the areas around Yellowstone and Glacier National Parks sheltered the last few hundred surviving grizzlies in the Lower 48 states. Their population has surged to more than 1,500 under the protection of the Endangered Species Act, and this burgeoning number of grizzlies now collides with the increasingly populated landscape. In this week’s episode, Senior Correspondent Steve Scher is joined by Montana journalist Rob Chaney as he chronicles the resurgence of this charismatic...
82. Jeremy Pressman & Mira Sucharov with Daniel C. Kurtzer: Israel-Palestine conflict
January 18, 2021 18:00 - 1 hour - 56.1 MBFor decades, the conflict between Israel and Palestine has been one that has crossed borders and become of international interest. In this week’s episode, professors Jeremy Pressman and Mira Sucharov share, with singular knowledge, their point of view on the conflict—and the way forward. In conversation with Daniel C. Kurtzer, they examine the default use of military force on both sides. Pressman contends that this force has prevented peaceful resolutions in the past, and asserts that diplom...
81. Judy Samuelson with Steve Scher: The Six New Rules of Business
January 11, 2021 21:36 - 48 minutes - 45.2 MBThe rules of business are changing dramatically, says the Aspen Institute’s Judy Samuelson, and that means profound shifts in attitudes and mindsets that are redefining our notions of what constitutes business success. In this week’s episode with Senior Correspondent Steve Scher, she shares takeaways contained in her book The Six New Rules of Business: Creating Real Value in a Changing World. Based on her unique knowledge and insight, Samuelson lays out how hard-to-measure intangibles lik...
80. Matthew Clair with Marcus Harrison Green: Privilege & Punishment
December 14, 2020 22:04 - 55 minutes - 51.4 MBThe number of Americans arrested, brought to court, and incarcerated has skyrocketed in recent decades. Criminal defendants come from all races and economic walks of life, but they experience punishment in vastly different ways. In this week’s episode, correspondent Marcus Harrison Green talks with sociologist Matthew Clair about his fieldwork in the Boston court system, uncovering how privilege and inequality play out in criminal court interactions. Clair’s book Privilege and Punishment:...
79. Arthur Sze with Shin Yu Pai: Lyric World
December 07, 2020 20:07 - 53 minutes - 49.7 MBIn this week’s episode, correspondent and poet Shin Yu Pai shares the fifth installment of Lyric World, featuring poet Arthur Sze in a conversation about Sze’s forthcoming new and collected poems volume, The Glass Constellation. Fusing elements of Chinese, Japanese, Native American, and various Western experimental traditions, Sze explores experience in all its multiplicities. The Glass Constellation is an invitation to immerse in a visionary body of work, mapping the evolution of one of ou...
78. Medina Tenour Whiteman with Elana Zaiman: The Invisible Muslim
November 16, 2020 20:29 - 1 hour - 66.8 MBMedina Tenour Whiteman stands at the margins of whiteness and Islam. An Anglo-American born to Sufi converts, she feels perennially out of place—not fully at home in Western or Muslim cultures. In this week’s episode, Rabbi Elana Zaiman talks with writer and poet Medina Tenour Whiteman about her searingly honest memoir, The Invisible Muslim: Journeys Through Whiteness and Islam. They discuss being religious women, and Whiteman contemplates what it means to be an invisible Muslim, examining ...
77. Ruth Goodman with Steve Scher: The Domestic Revolution
November 10, 2020 20:10 - 36 minutes - 34 MBIn this week’s episode, Senior Correspondent Steve Scher talks with historian Ruth Goodman, who joins us with a fascinating micro-history of how English women sparked a worldwide revolution from their kitchens. With support from her book The Domestic Revolution: How the Introduction of Coal Into Victorian Homes Changed Everything, Goodman argues that the transition to coal might have kick-started the Industrial Revolution. She traces the move from wood to coal in the mid-sixteenth century—f...
76. Michael Hallsworth & Elspeth Kirkman with Sally James: Behavioral Insights
November 02, 2020 20:52 - 52 minutes - 49 MBIn this week’s episode, Correspondent Sally James talks with Behavioral Insights Team members Michael Hallsworth and Elspeth Kirkman, who present a definitive introduction to the behavioral insights approach, which applies evidence about human behavior to practical problems. With support from their book, Behavioral Insights, Hallsworth and Kirkman describe core features, origins, and practical examples of this particular approach to problem solving. They examine how the approach is ground...
75. Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling with Steve Scher: A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear
October 26, 2020 21:49 - 49 minutes - 46 MBIn this week’s episode, Senior Correspondent Steve Scher talks with journalist Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling, who joins us with a sometimes funny, sometimes terrifying tale of the Free Town Project, a town in New Hampshire, and bears. In A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear: The Utopian Plot to Liberate an American Town (And Some Bears), Hongoltz-Hetling weaves a tale of the small town of Grafton, New Hampshire, and a group of libertarians’ plan to take Grafton over and completely eliminate its gover...
74. PSE’s Tyler O’Farrell with Jini Palmer: Renewable Energy
October 19, 2020 23:50 - 45 minutes - 42.6 MBIn this week’s episode, Correspondent and Town Hall Digital Media Manager Jini Palmer talks with Puget Sound Energy’s Tyler O’Farrell about renewable energy. Town Hall is a PSE Powerful Partner, so for Energy Awareness Month in October, O’Farrell discusses the renewable energy programs at PSE that are designed to keep sustainability within reach. For those with electric power, he explores the solar choice, green power, and customer connected solar options; and for those with gas, he shares ...
73. Kevin C. O’Leary with Steve Scher: Today’s War on the Founders and America’s Liberal Ideal
October 12, 2020 19:45 - 53 minutes - 50.2 MBIn this week’s episode, Senior Correspondent Steve Scher talks with journalist and scholar Kevin C. O’Leary, who argues that the contemporary Republican Party is waging a counterrevolution against the core beliefs of the nation. With insights from his book Madison’s Sorrows: Today’s War on the Founders and America’s Liberal Ideal, he presents an extensive cultural history of the political revolution that he believes has surfaced alarming impulses to embrace exclusion and inequality. He ha...
72. Yona Harvey with Shin Yu Pai: Lyric World
October 05, 2020 20:00 - 44 minutes - 41.9 MBIn this week’s episode, correspondent and poet Shin Yu Pai shares the fourth installment of Lyric World, featuring poet Yona Harvey in a conversation about Harvey’s newest book, You Don’t Have to Go to Mars for Love. Grounded deeply in the resistance of Black women, Harvey writes of ancestry, inheritance, and loss. Of Yona’s work, poet Afaa M. Weaver says, “Her voice is essential to making a cultural wholeness that would otherwise be impossible. This lyric, this unique, multimedia gift is...
71. Wendy R. Sherman with Venice Buhain: Lessons in Courage, Power, and Persistence
September 28, 2020 20:22 - 55 minutes - 51.7 MBIn this week’s episode, Correspondent Venice Buhain talks with Ambassador Wendy R. Sherman about her book Not for the Faint of Heart: Lessons in Courage, Power, and Persistence. Sherman brings listeners inside the negotiating room to show how to put diplomatic values to work in their own lives. With personal experiences, from her own life—from growing up in civil-rights-era Baltimore, to stints as a social worker, campaign manager, and business owner, to advising multiple presidents—she sha...
70. Michael Schuman with Steve Scher: The Chinese History of the World
September 21, 2020 08:00 - 1 hour - 57.6 MBIn this week’s episode, Senior Correspondent Steve Scher talks with Michael Schuman, who has been a foreign news correspondent in Asia for over two decades, to gain insight on the answer to a common question: What does China want? With insight from his book Superpower Interrupted: The Chinese History of the World, Schuman shares his expert opinion of how the Chinese view their own history, and posits that what China wants is a return to the superpower status it always had, but briefly lost....
69. Calvin Baker with Shaun Scott: Race, Integration, and the Future of America
September 14, 2020 20:13 - 56 minutes - 52.2 MBIn this week’s episode, correspondent Shaun Scott talks with acclaimed writer Calvin Baker about his new book A More Perfect Reunion: Race, Integration, and the Future of America. In this conversation about the bracing, necessary book, Baker argues that the only meaningful remedy to our civil rights efforts is integration: the full self-determination and participation of all African-Americans, and all other oppressed groups, in every facet of national life. Don’t miss this call to action in...
68. Shin Yu Pai with Steve Scher: ENSO
September 07, 2020 08:00 - 51 minutes - 48.1 MBIn this week’s episode, Senior Correspondent Steve Scher talks with poet and fellow correspondent Shin Yu Pai about her new book of poetry, ENSŌ. In this tenth collection, Pai presents a hybrid book and digital experience with insights on cultural hybridity, exchange, and appropriation; motherhood; and personal reflections on how systemic racism and misogyny have shaped her practice. Take a look inside the creative process of “one of the most thoughtful poets in the Northwest”—and stay in th...
67. Shin Yu Pai & Koon Woon: Lyric World
August 10, 2020 16:11 - 1 hour - 56.8 MBIn this week’s episode, correspondent and poet Shin Yu Pai shares the third installment of Lyric World, featuring poet Koon Woon. Koon explores the topic of displacement and the role that poetry can have in creating a sense of belonging and home. He reads from his book Water Chasing Water and speaks on his family’s history of immigration to the United States, as well as those who had to be left behind. He reflects on cultural identity and how he and family members adjusted to life in anothe...
66. Prageeta Sharma and afrose fatima ahmed: Lyric World
June 29, 2020 21:14 - 55 minutes - 51.6 MBIn this week’s episode, correspondent and poet Shin Yu Pai introduces a second installment of Lyric World, featuring fellow poets Prageeta Sharma and afrose fatima ahmed. By sharing her own work on grief and grieving, Sharma explores the idea of imagined futures cut short and how a particular loss can awaken memories of previous grief. Sharma delves deeper in conversation with ahmed and Pai about the role of poetry in articulating and transcending complex grief. As our world cries out in gr...
65. Michael Cooperson with Shin Yu Pai: Fifty Rogue’s Tales Translated Fifty Ways
May 25, 2020 17:00 - 41 minutes - 38.7 MBIn this week’s interview, correspondent Shin Yu Pai talks with Arabic language and literature scholar Michael Cooperson about his translation of Iraqi author al-Harīrī’s collection of fifty tales—an essential work of Arabic literature and a masterpiece of wit and wordplay. Often declared to be “untranslatable,” the eleventh-century text follows the roguish wordsmith Abū Zayd al-Sarūjī in his adventures around the medieval Middle East. Cooperson shares deft translations of astoundingly comple...
64. Tom Gauld with Steve Scher: Department of Mind-Blowing Theories
May 18, 2020 17:00 - 39 minutes - 37 MBIn this week’s interview, Chief Correspondent Steve Scher talks with cartoonist Tom Gauld as he engages everyone with a rudimentary recall of their old science classes as well as those who consider themselves buffs of the contemporary physical and natural world. Breaking his pattern of lampooning writers, poets, and literary classics, Gauld skewers hapless scientists, nanobots, and puzzling theorems. Take an uproarious look at the world of science and tech through Gauld’s comics—and get a...
64: Tom Gauld with Steve Scher—Department of Mind-Blowing Theories
May 18, 2020 17:00 - 39 minutes - 37 MBIn this week’s interview, Chief Correspondent Steve Scher talks with cartoonist Tom Gauld as he engages everyone with a rudimentary recall of their old science classes as well as those who consider themselves buffs of the contemporary physical and natural world. Breaking his pattern of lampooning writers, poets, and literary classics, Gauld skewers hapless scientists, nanobots, and puzzling theorems. Take an uproarious look at the world of science and tech through Gauld’s comics—and get a...
63. Gillian Andrews and Katy Sewall: Surviving the Digital Revolution
May 11, 2020 17:00 - 36 minutes - 33.7 MBIn this week’s interview, correspondent Katy Sewall talks with digital security trainer Gillian “Gus” Andrews, who aims to help us relax and overcome our digital helplessness to achieve online mindfulness and escape the feeling that technology is out of our control. Andrews outlines online stressors, from the proliferation of fake news to the threat of identity theft to the overwhelming avalanche of online content. She delves into the reasons media and technology stress us out in the first ...
63: Gillian Andrews and Katy Sewall—Surviving the Digital Revolution
May 11, 2020 17:00 - 36 minutes - 33.7 MBIn this week’s interview, correspondent Katy Sewall talks with digital security trainer Gillian “Gus” Andrews, who aims to help us relax and overcome our digital helplessness to achieve online mindfulness and escape the feeling that technology is out of our control. Andrews outlines online stressors, from the proliferation of fake news to the threat of identity theft to the overwhelming avalanche of online content. She delves into the reasons media and technology stress us out in the first ...
62: Frank Wilderson with Anastacia Renee—Afro-Pessimism And Modern Slavery
May 04, 2020 17:00 - 43 minutes - 40.9 MBIn this week’s interview, correspondent Anastacia Renee talks with Author Frank B. Wilderson III about Afro-pessimism—an intellectual movement that theorizes blackness through the lens of perpetual slavery. Wilderson contends that Black struggles cannot be conflated with the experiences of any other oppressed group. Rather than interpreting slavery through a Marxist framework of class oppression, He asserts that the social construct of slavery—as seen through pervasive, anti-black subjugat...
62. Frank Wilderson with Anastacia Renee: Afro-Pessimism And Modern Slavery
May 04, 2020 17:00 - 43 minutes - 40.9 MBIn this week’s interview, correspondent Anastacia Renee talks with Author Frank B. Wilderson III about Afro-pessimism—an intellectual movement that theorizes blackness through the lens of perpetual slavery. Wilderson contends that Black struggles cannot be conflated with the experiences of any other oppressed group. Rather than interpreting slavery through a Marxist framework of class oppression, He asserts that the social construct of slavery—as seen through pervasive, anti-black subjugat...
61. Michael Shermer with Steve Scher: Giving the Devil His Due
April 27, 2020 17:00 - 35 minutes - 33.5 MBIn this week’s interview, Chief Correspondent Steve Scher talks with bestselling author and skeptic Michael Shermer, exploring a simple question: Who is the Devil, and what is he due? For Shermer, the Devil is anyone who disagrees with you, and his due is the right to speak his mind. Shermer explores the need for unrestricted discourse for the sake of sustaining our freedom of speech, asserting that our own freedom of speech is inextricably linked to that of the “Devils” in our society. In ...
61: Michael Shermer with Steve Scher—Giving the Devil His Due
April 27, 2020 17:00 - 35 minutes - 33.5 MBIn this week’s interview, Chief Correspondent Steve Scher talks with bestselling author and skeptic Michael Shermer, exploring a simple question: Who is the Devil, and what is he due? For Shermer, the Devil is anyone who disagrees with you, and his due is the right to speak his mind. Shermer explores the need for unrestricted discourse for the sake of sustaining our freedom of speech, asserting that our own freedom of speech is inextricably linked to that of the “Devils” in our society. In ...
60: Kevin Hand with Steve Scher—The Search for Life in Alien Oceans
April 20, 2020 17:00 - 49 minutes - 46.1 MBIn this week’s interview, In the Moment Chief Correspondent Steve Scher talks with Kevin Hand—one of today’s leading NASA scientists—about the modern scientific quest to delve beneath the surface of the ice-covered moons of Jupiter and Saturn and search for life in vast oceans that may be as old as the Earth itself. Hand reveals the latest in planetary science, biology, and the adventures of scientists like himself to explain how we know that oceans exist on moons like Europa, Titan, and Enc...
60. Kevin Hand with Steve Scher: The Search for Life in Alien Oceans
April 20, 2020 17:00 - 49 minutes - 46.1 MBIn this week’s interview, In the Moment Chief Correspondent Steve Scher talks with Kevin Hand—one of today’s leading NASA scientists—about the modern scientific quest to delve beneath the surface of the ice-covered moons of Jupiter and Saturn and search for life in vast oceans that may be as old as the Earth itself. Hand reveals the latest in planetary science, biology, and the adventures of scientists like himself to explain how we know that oceans exist on moons like Europa, Titan, and Enc...
59. Neil Shubin with Steve Scher: Decoding Four Billion Years of Life
March 23, 2020 23:44 - 46 minutes - 43.2 MBIn this week's interview, Chief Correspondent Steve Scher talks with evolutionary biologist Neil Shubin about the impact of viruses on our genetic makeup, and the hidden universes inside our DNA. Shubin unpacks the properties of viruses, and the ways they can disrupt our world while simultaneously setting the stage for evolutionary change. With examples of ancient viruses that attacked the human genome and were then repurposed, Shubin delves into the essential role that repurposing has playe...
59: Neil Shubin with Steve Scher—Decoding Four Billion Years of Life
March 23, 2020 23:44 - 46 minutes - 43.2 MBIn this week's interview, Chief Correspondent Steve Scher talks with evolutionary biologist Neil Shubin about the impact of viruses on our genetic makeup, and the hidden universes inside our DNA. Shubin unpacks the properties of viruses, and the ways they can disrupt our world while simultaneously setting the stage for evolutionary change. With examples of ancient viruses that attacked the human genome and were then repurposed, Shubin delves into the essential role that repurposing has playe...
58. Gary Locke with Rich Smith —Census 2020: Why It Matters and What You Can Do
March 12, 2020 08:00 - 28 minutes - 27 MBIn this week's interview, former WA Governor Gary Locke spoke with correspondent Rick Smith about the history and importance of the US Census. He traces the origins of the Census back to 1790, to the Constitution itself, and identifies ways the Census affects our nation—such as granting Washington a new congressional seat in 2010, as well as impacting distribution of federal funds. Smith addresses modern factors discouraging Americans from participating in the Census and underscores the pro...
58. Gary Locke with Rich Smith—Census 2020: Why It Matters and What You Can Do
March 12, 2020 08:00 - 28 minutes - 27 MBIn this week's interview, former WA Governor Gary Locke spoke with correspondent Rick Smith about the history and importance of the US Census. He traces the origins of the Census back to 1790, to the Constitution itself, and identifies ways the Census affects our nation—such as granting Washington a new congressional seat in 2010, as well as impacting distribution of federal funds. Smith addresses modern factors discouraging Americans from participating in the Census and underscores the pro...
58: Gary Locke with Rich Smith—Census 2020: Why It Matters and What You Can Do
March 12, 2020 08:00 - 28 minutes - 27 MBIn this week's interview, former WA Governor Gary Locke spoke with correspondent Rick Smith about the history and importance of the US Census. He traces the origins of the Census back to 1790, to the Constitution itself, and identifies ways the Census affects our nation—such as granting Washington a new congressional seat in 2010, as well as impacting distribution of federal funds. Smith addresses modern factors discouraging Americans from participating in the Census and underscores the pro...
57: Justin Farrell with Tom Teicher—Interviews From The Billionaire Wilderness
March 05, 2020 23:03 - 48 minutes - 45.2 MBIn this week's interview, correspondent Tom Teicher talks with Justin Farrell about environmentalism and region-based wealth inequality. Farrell explores the case of Teton county, Wyoming, the richest county per capita in the US, and the place with the largest gap between rich and poor. Recalling interviews with the ultra-wealthy and the working poor of the region, Farrell examines the efficacy of environmental philanthropy and explores how the rich see themselves—how they respond to social ...