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Episode List:
And the immigrant composer who predicted a different future
by Stephanie Bastek | Friday, September 13, 2019
How our hunger for more clothes is killing the environment and exploiting workers
by Stephanie Bastek | Friday, September 06, 2019
What will our dinner tables look like 30 years into the climate crisis?
by Stephanie Bastek | Friday, August 30, 2019
How workers’ voices were silenced in America—and how they’re fighting back
by Stephanie Bastek | Friday, August 23, 2019
How the mosquito changed human history—for better and for worse
by Stephanie Bastek | Friday, August 16, 2019
How belief in biological racial difference pollutes the world of science, from eugenics to genetics
by Stephanie Bastek | Friday, August 09, 2019
Could human partnership be the secret to saving this Asian giant?
by Stephanie Bastek | Friday, August 02, 2019
Linguist Gretchen McCulloch on the new rules of language
by Stephanie Bastek | Friday, July 26, 2019
What one woman’s life between two countries can teach us about the humanitarian crisis at the border
by Stephanie Bastek | Friday, July 12, 2019
Chronicling the disappearance of a remote Papua New Guinean tongue—and everything else that goes with it
by Stephanie Bastek | Friday, June 28, 2019
