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 Aug 8, 2021

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Science for people who give a sh*t. Want to feel better AND unf*ck the world? The 6-time Webby nominee delivers deep conversations with the world's smartest people (scientists, doctors, CEO's, farmers, and more!), and digestible news updates every single week, loaded with tips and steps you and we can take to fix this place right up. We're talkin' clean energy and coral reefs, COVID vaccines and pediatric cancer research, clean water and carbon capture tech, asteroid deflection and artificial intelligence ethics. "A vital service in an era where important truths, outright fiction and mere trivia all compete for your attention.” - Craig Mazin, creator, writer, and executive producer of HBO's Chernobyl Hosted by Quinn Emmett

Episode Date
Program The World
Apr 11, 2024
The Social Infrastructure of Water
Apr 08, 2024
The Aftermath
Mar 25, 2024
The Best Depression Treatment For You
Mar 18, 2024
How To Give
Mar 13, 2024
Can Capitalism (Justly) Solve the Climate Crisis?
Mar 04, 2024
How to See The Forest
Feb 26, 2024
Saving Democracy From The Bottom Up
Feb 19, 2024
The Wheels on the Bus Go Round and Round
Feb 14, 2024
If This, Then What Else?
Feb 09, 2024
2024: The Gaps and How to Close Them
Feb 07, 2024
2023 Review: What Just Happened?
Jan 29, 2024
Best of: The End of the Universe
Jan 22, 2024
Best of: Episode X: A Far Out Geek Girl Rises
Jan 15, 2024
Best of: Why We Can't Focus
Jan 08, 2024
Best of: Internal Activism
Jan 01, 2024
How To Make Ethical Decisions
Dec 04, 2023
The Creepy Reality of Consumer Tech (Privacy Not Included)
Nov 27, 2023
🌎 How Does The Brain Work?
Nov 22, 2023
Best of: Life Finds A Way
Nov 20, 2023
The Female Origin of Species
Nov 13, 2023
🌎 Coffee: Back To The Future
Nov 10, 2023
Can Your Gut Predict Alzheimer's?
Nov 06, 2023
🌎 How I think about how to think about what’s next
Nov 02, 2023
What Causes Depression?
Oct 30, 2023
🌎 The Disconnect
Oct 24, 2023
🌎 The Illusion of Choice
Oct 18, 2023
Do You Know Where Your Water Comes From?
Oct 16, 2023
🌎 The coolest year of the rest of your life
Oct 11, 2023
🌎 The Long Defeat
Sep 26, 2023
Turning The Tide On Microplastics
Sep 25, 2023
The Next Big Test
Sep 23, 2023
Did You Hear The One About The Starfish?
Sep 21, 2023
Best of: Peer Pressure Works
Sep 18, 2023
Introducing: Catalyst with Shayle Kann - The Carbon Market's Quality Problem
Sep 11, 2023
🌎 The Best Kinds of Stories
Aug 25, 2023
How To Access Better Maternal Mental Health Care
Aug 21, 2023
What Can You Do With Just 493 Genes?
Aug 14, 2023
Introducing: Degrees: How To Green Any Job
Aug 07, 2023
🌎 Shiny Things
Aug 02, 2023
Introducing: Living Change: A Quest for Climate Leadership
Jul 31, 2023
🌎 Haggling Over The Future
Jul 25, 2023
⚡️Electrify Everything: What Does The Pace of Progress Look Like?
Jul 24, 2023
🌎 Farm to Table
Jul 19, 2023
Transit For A Habitable Planet
Jul 17, 2023
🌎 Why I Don't Eat Animals
Jul 11, 2023
How To Live A Happy Life
Jul 10, 2023
🌎 Life, Liberty, and Solar Panels
Jun 30, 2023
🌎 An Apple A Day Keeps The Doctor Away
Jun 28, 2023
🌎 The Inevitable Future
Jun 26, 2023
🌎 Start Over (Again)
Jun 09, 2023
🌎 10 Questions You Need to Ask Right Now
Jun 07, 2023
Best of: How to Protect Yourself from Wildfire Smoke
May 29, 2023
🌎 Gradually, and then all at once
May 19, 2023
Health Care Is A Human Right
May 17, 2023
🌎 COVID has ended (or has it?)
May 16, 2023
Fighting Food Waste With The iPhone of Trash Cans
May 08, 2023
🌎 Never Tell Me The Odds
May 05, 2023
Check Your Insurance Policy
May 01, 2023
🌎 What Would You Say You Do Here
Apr 26, 2023
Every Climate Action Matters
Apr 24, 2023
🌎 This Isn't Rocket Science (Unless It Is)
Apr 18, 2023
Best of: Black Moms Matter
Apr 17, 2023
Finding the Humanity in Artificial Intelligence
Apr 10, 2023
Best of: What Really Happens When You Just Give People Money?
Apr 03, 2023
Best of: How to Stop School Shootings in the USA
Mar 28, 2023
Where In The World Are All Of The Electricians?
Mar 27, 2023
🌎 ESG is good business (but don't call it ESG)
Mar 24, 2023
The Dive Into Challenger Deep
Mar 20, 2023
🌎 Welcome to the Unknown Unknowns
Mar 17, 2023
Best Of: Is The Ocean Running Out of Oxygen? Is That Bad?
Mar 13, 2023
⚡️Your Home Electrification Questions, Answered
Mar 09, 2023
🌎 A living act of resistance
Mar 08, 2023
Best of: Lessons From Plants
Mar 06, 2023
Best Of: Did A.I. Just Make My Life’s Work Obsolete?
Feb 27, 2023
🌎 How to get sh*t done
Feb 24, 2023
🌎 What Do You Need?
Feb 22, 2023
Clean Air Is An Inside Job
Feb 20, 2023
🌎 How to Survive
Feb 15, 2023
🌎 "Why Do We Exist?"
Feb 13, 2023
Best of: How To Innovate
Jan 30, 2023
🌎 Insurance, for you and me
Jan 27, 2023
Best of: How Do We Rebuild Capitalism in a World on Fire?
Jan 24, 2023
🌎 You Say You Want A Revolution
Jan 23, 2023
Best of: How To Be A Better Ancestor
Jan 17, 2023
🌎 What it all means
Jan 13, 2023
Can Your Poop Predict The Next Pandemic?
Dec 19, 2022
Why You Should Care About Soil Health
Nov 28, 2022
The Future of Aluminum Recycling
Nov 21, 2022
Newsletter #299: How to save 1.3 million lives
Nov 18, 2022
Breaking Bread with the Korean Vegan
Nov 14, 2022
Why is Environmental Justice Journalism Important?
Nov 07, 2022
#298: What they're *not* teaching kids today
Nov 04, 2022
Introducing Climavores: "Our first Climavores guest is a big one: Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack"
Oct 31, 2022
Newsletter #297: Your neighborhood's about to get much cleaner
Oct 28, 2022
You get an XPRIZE, and YOU get an XPRIZE!
Oct 24, 2022
Newsletter #296: Fake meat, fake profits?
Oct 21, 2022
Automated Synthetic Biology (I'm sure it's fine)
Oct 17, 2022
Fight Fire With...Vortex Cannons?
Oct 10, 2022
Newsletter #295: Insurance, for when climate change comes at you fast
Oct 07, 2022
Newsletter #294: Look for the helpers (that's us)
Sep 30, 2022
How to Electrify Your Home
Sep 26, 2022
Newsletter #293: Is COVID "over"?
Sep 23, 2022
When You REALLY Need a Clinical Trial
Sep 19, 2022
Newsletter #292: A love letter to my e-bike
Sep 16, 2022
Introducing "A Matter of Degrees" Season 3
Sep 09, 2022
Newsletter #291: When climate change happens to you
Sep 09, 2022
Newsletter #290: Life at 1.2°C
Sep 02, 2022
Newsletter #289: The new arms race (where everybody wins?)
Aug 26, 2022
Newsletter #288: What $200,000 buys you
Aug 19, 2022
Fellowship of the Climate
Aug 15, 2022
Newsletter #287: France has *how many* EV mail trucks??
Aug 12, 2022
Episode X: A Far Out Geek Girl Rises
Aug 01, 2022
Newsletter #286: Holy sh*t what a week
Jul 29, 2022
Newsletter #285: How to beat the heat and avoid quacks
Jul 22, 2022
Newsletter #284: How to beat plastic
Jul 15, 2022
Vaginas and Friends
Jul 11, 2022
Newsletter #283: What Google's hiding (for you)
Jul 08, 2022
Life Finds A Way
Jul 04, 2022
Newsletter #281: What to eat and where to get it
Jun 24, 2022
Newsletter #280: What's next for Alzheimer's?
Jun 17, 2022
Newsletter #279: Moderna's got a new booster
Jun 10, 2022
COVID: The Update
Jun 09, 2022
Why We Can't Focus
Jun 08, 2022
Newsletter #278: The deal with monkeypox
Jun 03, 2022
Newsletter #277: Why EV batteries are suddenly SO expensive?
May 27, 2022
Black Moms Matter, Redux
May 16, 2022
Newsletter #276: Who gets Long COVID?
May 13, 2022
Newsletter #275: How Hot is it in India?
May 06, 2022
Internal Activism
May 03, 2022
Newsletter #274: Is Wind Power Unprofitable?
Apr 29, 2022
Newsletter #273: Where Batteries Come From
Apr 22, 2022
Newsletter #272: Is carbon removal real?
Apr 15, 2022
A Very Big Deal
Apr 14, 2022
Peer Pressure Works
Apr 04, 2022
Newsletter #271: What is the climate gap?
Apr 01, 2022
Newsletter #270: Did you hear about ecstasy?
Mar 25, 2022
3 Billion Shots, Part Deux
Mar 21, 2022
Newsletter #269: The ESG Bubble
Mar 18, 2022
Fresh Banana Leaves
Mar 14, 2022
Newsletter #268: This is the transition in real time
Mar 11, 2022
Abhishek vs Terminator
Mar 08, 2022
Newsletter #267: What's in the IPCC plan
Mar 04, 2022
The Cure of a Lifetime
Feb 28, 2022
Newsletter #266: What gas means in all of this
Feb 25, 2022
Putin Takes Chernobyl
Feb 25, 2022
Newsletter #265: What Sea Level Rise Means
Feb 19, 2022
Newsletter #264: Where masks are coming off
Feb 11, 2022
Newsletter #263: Michael Scott on vaccines
Feb 08, 2022
3 Billion Shots
Jan 31, 2022
Newsletter #262: Rihanna has entered the chat
Jan 28, 2022
Newsletter #261: How to market climate change
Jan 21, 2022
Newsletter #260: What "Mild" COVID Really Means
Jan 14, 2022
129. Indigenous DNA
Dec 21, 2021
Issue #258: What Omicron Means For You
Dec 13, 2021
So We Can’t Just Blow Up Asteroids, Then?
Dec 07, 2021
Issue #257: McDonald’s Is Lying To You
Dec 06, 2021
128. The Best Olive Oil You’ve Never Had
Nov 29, 2021
Issue #256: Alexa. Knows. Everything.
Nov 22, 2021
127. How To Innovate
Nov 22, 2021
126. Climate Tech $ Above The Fold
Nov 16, 2021
Issue #255: It’s My Birthday, Let’s Ban Coal
Nov 15, 2021
125. Elevating Climate Venture Capital
Nov 08, 2021
Issue #254: Delete Your (Face)Book
Nov 05, 2021
Issue #253: Here’s The Deal
Nov 01, 2021
124. Birth Control 2.0
Nov 01, 2021
Newsletter #252: What Comes After Manchin
Oct 25, 2021
123. Snapchat Runs for Office
Oct 25, 2021
Issue #251: Moderna Made How Much?
Oct 15, 2021
Issue #250: Bye Malaria
Oct 08, 2021
The First Black Female Space Pilot
Oct 04, 2021
Issue #249: It's Climate Day in America (I Hope)
Oct 01, 2021
#248: How We Deal With Facebook
Sep 24, 2021
How We Deal With Drought: From NOVA Now
Sep 13, 2021
Issue #247: Close Your Rings
Sep 10, 2021
Issue #246: Is This The Metaverse?
Sep 03, 2021
Mixtape Vol 2: "When was the first time you had the power of change?"
Aug 30, 2021
Issue #245: Will The Levees Hold?
Aug 27, 2021
Mixtape Vol 1: “Why are you vital to the survival of the species?”
Aug 23, 2021
Issue #244: These Are The Easy Wins
Aug 20, 2021
122. We Are The Algorithm
Aug 16, 2021
121. QueerBrownVegan
Aug 09, 2021
Issue #242: Facebook's Oil Ads Are Killing Us
Aug 06, 2021
120. Welcome to the Discontinuity
Aug 04, 2021
Issue #241: A Different Kind of Thirst Trap, Back to the Mask, Where’s Smokey the Bear when you need him?
Aug 02, 2021
119. How to Protect Yourself from Wildfire Smoke
Aug 02, 2021
Introducing "A Matter of Degrees"
Jul 26, 2021
Issue #240: The Pizza King of Vaccines, Beef: It’s (Still) for Dinner, Investors on Notice
Jul 23, 2021
118. F*cking Mosquitoes
Jul 19, 2021
Issue #239: Go to Farmers’ Markets, Climate Reparations, Held Hostage by Hackers
Jul 16, 2021
117. Keep ‘em Accountable
Jul 12, 2021
Issue #238: Seattle in the Oven, Vaccine Money Grab, Building Biased Robots
Jul 09, 2021
Introducing HERO, from Foreign Policy
Jul 06, 2021
Issue #237: Do the Dew Point, Thanos SNAP Benefits, Putting the AI in Ethical
Jul 02, 2021
116: What Really Happens When You Just Give People Money?
Jun 28, 2021
Issue #236: Amazon Held to Ransom (Not That One), COVID Doesn’t Discriminate (But We Do), Vaccinate the 99%
Jun 25, 2021
Best of the Best: Do We Really Know What’s in that Moisturizer (& Where the Hell Did it Come From?)
Jun 22, 2021
Best of the Best: Legalizing the Other Weed
Jun 14, 2021
Issue #234: Tripping Over Our Bootstraps, Cover My Crops, AI is as Bad as Us
Jun 11, 2021
115: Fossil Fuel Propaganda
Jun 07, 2021
Issue #233: Big Renewable Energy, AI Isn’t All That (Yet), Hot Vax Summer
Jun 04, 2021
114. Carbon Offsets: Not A Get Out of Jail Free Card, TBH
May 31, 2021
Issue #232: These Shrooms Aren’t Fungi, Climate Change Is Costly, Keep the Vaccines Rolling
May 28, 2021
Do Better Better #18: Back to the Future
May 26, 2021
113: Lessons from Plants
May 24, 2021
Issue #231: Electric Truck Boogaloo, Get Your Colon Checked, What’s Your Beef
May 21, 2021
112. The Next Pandemic
May 19, 2021
111: When Your Government Runs on Windows 95
May 10, 2021
Issue #229: Fossil Fuel Funding, MDMA Magic, Leaky Legislation
May 07, 2021
110. The End of the Universe
May 03, 2021
Issue #228: Carbon Offset Upset, the COVID Baby Bust, Man vs. Mosquito
Apr 30, 2021
109. Introducing “What Can I Do?”
Apr 26, 2021
Issue #227: Building a Better Battery, It’s Covid Crunch Time, I Was Promised Waterworld Wouldn’t Suck
Apr 23, 2021
108. Data for Progress
Apr 19, 2021
Issue #226: Show Me Receipts, I Like Those Odds, The Next Frontier in Your Fleshbag
Apr 16, 2021
107. Start a Sustainable Fashion Revolution
Apr 12, 2021
Issue #225: The Cost of Climate Change, Skeptical Evangelists, Algorithms for the Win
Apr 09, 2021
Do Better Better #17: Start Over
Apr 07, 2021
#106: Black Moms Matter
Apr 05, 2021
Issue #224: Biden Steps Up, The Take-Home Test You Hope to Fail, Why Green is Good
Apr 02, 2021
Best of the Best: “‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens”
Mar 29, 2021
Issue #223: Summer’s About to Get a Whole Lot Longer
Mar 26, 2021
#105: Your Smart Fridge Just Overturned Democracy
Mar 22, 2021
Issue #222: Low Hanging vs Game Changing: Why Not Both?, a Strong Cup of Joe, Waiting is the Hardest Part
Mar 19, 2021
#104: Global.Health: Big Data for Good
Mar 15, 2021
Issue #221: Lab Trial & Error, Finding a Pain-Free Way to Treat Pain, How to Lose a Crop in 10 Days
Mar 12, 2021
#103: Black Hearts Matter
Mar 08, 2021
Issue #220: Sunk Costs are Sinking Cities, Finally the Food Chain is Essential, & Putting the “AI” in “Racist”
Mar 05, 2021
#102: Put Your Money Where Your Future Is
Mar 01, 2021
Issue #219: The Social Cost of Carbon, Not Enough Nurses, & Even Trump’s Corporate Bailouts Were Racist
Feb 26, 2021
Do Better Better #16: The Hard Work Starts Yesterday
Feb 23, 2021
Issue #218: How to Help Texas, Catching Our Breath, & Creating Equitable Education
Feb 19, 2021
Issue #217: Capitalism Gonna Capitalism, Vaccines Are Working, & The Secrets Hidden in Your Poop
Feb 12, 2021
Issue #216: Downsides of Living in the Future, Sustainable and Enjoyable Retirements, & Why You Should Upgrade Your Mask
Feb 05, 2021
Do Better Better #15: Overwhelm The System
Feb 02, 2021
Issue #215: Biden isn’t Throwing Away His Shot, COVID-19 Version Control, & Climate Change Christmas
Jan 29, 2021
Do Better Better #14: A Safety Net for America
Jan 28, 2021
Issue #214: Some Honest-to-Goodness Optimism, Keeping Up With COVID, Giving Up the Vape
Jan 22, 2021
Issue #213: Our COVID predictions for 2021
Jan 15, 2021
Do Better Better #13: Flailing, Perfected
Jan 13, 2021
Issue #212: How Ossoff and Warnock will help fight climate change
Jan 08, 2021
Do Better Better #12: 20% For the Future
Dec 31, 2020
Do Better Better #11: The Trick to Unlocking Every Problem
Dec 30, 2020
Do Better Better #10: “Even the smallest person can change the course of the future”
Dec 29, 2020
Do Better Better #9: Georgia On My Mind
Dec 28, 2020
Issue #211: The 80/20 Problem of Our Time
Dec 25, 2020
Do Better Better #8: One Choice Determined the Last 400 Years
Dec 24, 2020
Do Better Better #7: Let's Measure How Exposed You Are, Shall We?
Dec 23, 2020
Do Better Better #6: How to Spend The Next 10 Years
Dec 22, 2020
Do Better Better #5: How to Spend Your Time Right Now
Dec 21, 2020
Issue #210: Checking Your Clean Air Privilege, Fighting COVID Misinformation, & Starving for Capitalism
Dec 18, 2020
Do Better Better #4: How To Pass A Test
Dec 17, 2020
Do Better Better #3: This Is What Makes Us Exceptional
Dec 16, 2020
Do Better Better #2: Why Do We Exist?
Dec 15, 2020
Do Better Better #1: Who Do You Want To Be? And Why?
Dec 14, 2020
Issue #209: This is Definitely Important Probably, Guy Fieri Rescues the Restaurant Industry, When Water Meets Capitalism
Dec 11, 2020
Issue #208: Something new
Dec 04, 2020
#101: Code Blue: Arizona Goes to The Emergency Room
Oct 12, 2020
#100: A Conversation With (A) Future President of the United States
Oct 05, 2020
#99: How You Doin’?
Sep 28, 2020
#98: How to Stop School Shootings in the USA
Sep 21, 2020
#97: How Do We Rebuild Capitalism in a World on Fire?
Sep 14, 2020
#96: A Just Alternative to Climate Disaster *and* Gentrification
Sep 07, 2020
#95: How to Upgrade Your Microbiome
Aug 31, 2020
#94: Wait. Is Climate Science...Fashionable? It Is With Allbirds!
Aug 24, 2020
#93: All The Fun Stuff (That Shouldn’t Be) in Your Drinking Water
Aug 17, 2020
#92: Your Invitation to Climate School at Terra.do
Aug 10, 2020
#91: Why is Drinking Water So Unaffordable for So Many Americans?
Aug 03, 2020
GOOD NEWS: What The Hell Is CRISPR?
Jun 15, 2020
Black Lives Matter: A Letter to My Fellow White Men
Jun 13, 2020
Issue #184: Climate Change Needs More Color, Asthma is Racist, Yakety Yak (MIT Tracks Back)
Jun 12, 2020
GOOD NEWS: What's It Like To Almost Be An Astronaut?
Jun 01, 2020
GOOD NEWS: Food Waste is the Stupidest Thing We Do
May 25, 2020
GOOD NEWS: How to Be A Better Ancestor
May 18, 2020
GOOD NEWS: Can Zebrafish Beat Childhood Cancer?
May 11, 2020
WEBBY NOMINEE: "Who's Fixing The People Fixing The Planet?"
May 04, 2020
Holy Cow We're Nominated For Two Webbys
Apr 29, 2020
GOOD NEWS: Did A.I. Just Make My Life’s Work Obsolete?
Apr 27, 2020
GOOD NEWS: So We Can’t Just Blow Up Asteroids, Then?
Apr 20, 2020
#90: What It’s Like to be a COVID-19 Lab Rat
Apr 13, 2020
BEST OF THE BEST: Air Pollution: The Low Hanging Fruit of Our Hellish Future
Apr 07, 2020
BEST OF THE BEST: Is COVID-19 America’s Chernobyl?
Mar 31, 2020
Special Edition: How You Can Help — And (Mostly) Still Stay Home
Mar 27, 2020
#89: Why Does It Require a PhD in Neuroscience Just to Support a Green New Deal?
Mar 23, 2020
#88: You Voted for Clean Energy… So Where The Hell Is it?
Mar 16, 2020
#87: What's In Your Moisturizer, Anyways?
Mar 09, 2020
Special Edition: How to Survive the Coronavirus (With Your Sanity Intact)
Mar 03, 2020
#86: Farming While Black: The Past and The Future
Mar 02, 2020
#85: A Blueprint for Fighting Food Waste in Your Community
Feb 24, 2020
#84: How is Climate Change (Already) Affecting Immigration to the USA?
Feb 17, 2020
SPECIAL PREVIEW: Issue #169: CRISPR’ing Cancer, BP Oil, & Democrats Campaigning on Soil
Feb 14, 2020
Introducing the Important, Not Important: Sh*t-Giver Edition!
Feb 13, 2020
#83: Knock Knock. Who’s There? Climate Change. Climate Change Who? Climate Change Pooped On Your Head. (A Conversation About Mangroves)
Nov 05, 2019
BONUS: Help Dr. Ghazala Hashmi Flip Virginia
Oct 29, 2019
#82: Sustainable Trees + Death Metal = Climate Progress
Oct 22, 2019
#81: Legalizing the Other Weed
Oct 08, 2019
#80: Mosquitoes. The Serial Killers of Nature. Should We Make Them Go Away?
Oct 01, 2019
#79: Air Pollution: The Low Hanging Fruit of Our Hellish Future
Sep 24, 2019
#78: How to Be A Better Ancestor
Aug 27, 2019
BEST OF THE BEST: Where Does Ebola Go From Here?
Aug 21, 2019