The 6-time Webby & Shorty nominee for Best Host, Best Science show, and best Podcast Episode returns to bend the motherf’ing arc of the universe towards a radically more livable planet for you, me, and everybody else.
Let’s talk about the Information Era.
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What have we learned from millennia of water insecurity, of climate changes and disasters, of building along freshwater ways and the ocean, that we can apply today?
That's today's big question, and my guest is Dr. Amber Wutich.
Dr. Wutich is an ASU President's Professor, Director of the Center for Global Health, and 2023 MacArthur Fellow.
She's an expert on water insecurity, and directs the Global Ethnohydrology Study, a cross cultural study of water knowledge and management in over 20 countries.
Dr. Wutich’s two decades of community based field work explore how people respond individually and collectively to extremely water scarce conditions. She leads the NSF Action for Water Equity, a participatory convergence study that develops collaborative water solutions with water insecure U.S. communities. Her teaching has been recognized with many awards, including the Carnegie Case Arizona Professor of the Year.
As maybe the most important thing that neither you or I can live without, water is both becoming more scarce in Central America, Northern India, Syria and other places, and more prevalent through sea level rise, flooding and storms where we're not ready for it.
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Bernie decided March 15th is Long COVID Awareness Day, so I thought it was an appropriate moment to try to pull together the threads of why Long COVID pisses me off so much, examples of other self-defeating issues we never learned from, and a blueprint for how to do better, better.
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You know you're stressed. You know you're anxious. Do you have depression? And do you need to know the latest in the biology of how the brain works and depression works or doesn't work and whether the gut is involved in getting meaningful help?
That's today's big question. I promise it's kind of one question, even if there are a ton of different answers, and they're going to be different for everybody.
This conversation is a follow-up to our last couple of conversations about the brain, the gut, and depression. My returning guest is Srijan Sen.
Srijan is still the Francis and Kenneth Eisenberg Professor of Depression and Neurosciences at the University of Michigan and the Director of the Francis and Kenneth Eisenberg and Family Depression Center.
His leading research focuses on the interactions between genes and the environment and their effect on stress, anxiety, and depression.
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There are few problems so simple that a single donation can fix them.
Usually, to turn a problem into a realistic opportunity takes many donations. Over time, spread over a large number of donors.
But all the work before that is kind of exhausting: you’ve gotta make sure your donation goes to the right place, the right organization, the right people — usually the ones closest to the problem — with the most pragmatic intentions.
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The climate clock is ticking faster and faster.
How can we use capitalism to undo the bad stuff that capitalism did and maybe even make things better?
That's today's big (loaded) question, and my returning guest is Akshat Rathi.
Akshat is a London-based senior reporter, newsletter writer, and podcaster for Bloomberg News.
Akshat has a PhD in organic chemistry from the University of Oxford, and a BTech in Chemical Engineering from the Institute of Chemical Technology in Mumbai. Akshat was previously a senior reporter at Quartz and a science editor at The Conversation.
He is here today to talk about his first book, Climate Capitalism.
This wonderful book tells the stories of people building solutions at scale to tackle one of humanity's greatest challenges. Some solutions we've already built, like solar and batteries, and some we're still working on because they take a lot of work, and money, and politics.
In a world where journalism is going bye-bye, and the climate clock is ticking, but we've made so much progress, and we can make so much more, Akshat's reporting in this book couldn't be more timely, as we seek to answer the question, where are we on this timeline?
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Are we in the hardest part of the climate transition?
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What are reverse coattails, and how might they slow climate change, prevent the next pandemic, and keep Nazis off of school boards?
That's today's big question, and my returning guest is Amanda Litman.
Amanda is one of my favorite people. She is the co-founder and co-executive director of Run for Something, which recruits and supports young, diverse progressives running for down-ballot office, state, and local, and all those fun levels.
Since launching in 2017, a thousand years ago, Run for Something has elected more than 1000 leaders across nearly all 50 states, mostly women and people of color.
Politico named Run for Something and Amanda, one of the 50 ideas driving politics in 2018. Bloomberg called her one of the People to Watch in 2019. Fortune named her to their annual 40 under 40 list in 2020. And in 2022, Amanda was one of the Time Next 100, a list of 100 rising stars from around the world.
And look, it's yet another election year in America because it's another year in America, so there is never a better time to invite Amanda back onto the show.
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How are we supposed to navigate this energy transition, AI, and pandemics, if we cannot agree on the most basic, fundamental shit?
We argue about tradeoffs or gently suggest expanding the scope of our moral concern to include other people’s air, water, food, shelter, and health, instead of simply saying some things — like the lives of children — are simply, emphatically, non-negotiable.
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Today’s essay is a bit of a departure — I just wanted to make super clear where I stand vis a vis the next eleven months.
A MAGA party don't stop unless we stop it.
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Today’s essay is my version of a 2024 preview. Unlike other previews, though, it’s less, “This is what is going to happen” and more “These are the table stakes as far as I can tell.”
I think that approach is much more helpful, but you can be the judge.
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