Oct 13, 2020
In this episode, we hear from Dr. Andrew Briggs, a professor of nanomaterials at the University of Oxford, and Dr. Dominic Burbidge, a lecturer in politics at the University of Oxford and director of the Canterbury Institute. Along with a team of scholars, their study of citizenship in a networked age has led to a...
Oct 6, 2020
How can we listen to people we don’t agree with? Rebuild trust in an era of “fake news” and “alternative facts”? Create social cohesion, cooperation, and healthy, safe, inclusive societies?
If you find yourself asking, “What are our rights as citizens, and what are our responsibilities?,” you’ll want to...
Sep 29, 2020
In the final episode of our
second season, we meet three scientists who are creating a
community of people who see the world differently, bringing
together scholars from around the globe who are passionate about
collaboration and exploration of the myriad intelligences
throughout the planet and the cosmos.
Richard...
Sep 23, 2020
Today, we speak with an ethicist, a computer scientist, and a neuroscientist who have teamed together at Duke University to research how we might build human morality into an artificially intelligent machine. Drs. Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Jana Schaich Borg, and Vincent Conitzer also tell us about a surprising outcome...
Sep 16, 2020
In this episode, we hear from Dr. Denise Herzing, Research Director and Founder of the Wild Dolphin Project and Affiliate Assistant Professor at Florida Atlantic University in biological sciences. For the last 25 years, Dr. Herzing has been on a quest to crack the code — to discover the keys to the secret language of...