Ainissa Ramirez

Podcast #35: Ainissa Ramirez

Science evangelist Ainissa Ramirez takes a look at how major technologies have shaped human culture—both intentionally and not.

Roald Hazelhoff

Podcast #31: Roald Hazelhoff’s Environmental Citizenship

Southern Environmental Center founder Roald Hazelhoff gives us a tour of his unique educational and community-building work.

Father Jim Keenan

Podcast #29: Jim Keenan on Environmentalism, Justice, and Faith

Father Jim Keenan of Boston College discusses Pope Francis’s views on environmentalism and social justice, and how those resonate across belief systems.

Adam Gazzaley

Podcast #26: Adam Gazzaley on Our Distracted Minds

Neurologist Adam Gazzaley discusses how the brain’s attentional system functions–or doesn’t–when buffeted by digital distraction.

Podcast #19: Tim Kasser Talks Materialism

Tim Kasser has spent over two decades studying the relationship between materialism and well-being. As it turns out, they don’t always go together.

David Sax

Q&A with David Sax, Author of The Revenge of Analog

Our own Art Keller chats with author David Sax about the themes in his book The Revenge of Analog.

Catherine Steiner-Adair

Podcast #18: Catherine Steiner-Adair on Tech and Child Development

Catherine Steiner-Adair is a clinical psychologist whose empathic 2013 book The Big Disconnect warned us about the impacts of digital tech on child development and family relationships. She’s been on a non-stop speaking tour ever since.

Cathy O'Neil

Podcast #14: Cathy O’Neil on the problem of algorithms

Mathematician Cathy O’Neil shares her insider’s look at how algorithms are gaming our world, with terrible consequences for those who can least afford them.

Pencil

Tangible Things and Why They Matter

In The Revenge of Analog, David Sax explains how the lure of things like vinyl records and paperback books is on the rise, with good reason.