Safeguarding Sound Science
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S2E9 Star Trek Meets Evolutionary Biology (And Good Things Happen)
Star Trek is one of the greatest science fiction universes ever created, spawning 12 main television series and 13 movies over the last 60 years. Who among us hasn't tried the "live long and prosper"…
S2E8 Teaching Evolution: Challenges, Progress, and the Road Ahead
The understanding of evolution has had a profound positive effect on human existence, from medical advancements to conservation biology, as we have heard from so many of our guests this season. Yet,…
S2E7 Darwin's Reach: How Evolution Shapes Our World Today
Invasive cancers. Antibiotic resistance. Agricultural biodiversity. To better understand these and many other pressing issues of our times, we need to better understand evolution and its…
Are We Ready for the Next Pandemic?
Maybe not, according to Todd Disotell, a biological anthropologist and science communicator from the University of Massachusetts. Among his many research interests, Disotell studies and teaches about…
S2E5 Let's Talk About Sex (Scientifically)
Everything in our lives is related to sex, in one way or another. So says Carin Bondar, one of today's guests. Bondar, a biologist, author, and philosopher who teaches at the University of the Fraser…
S2E4 Baked, Steamed, and Frozen: Human Body Evolution in Changing Environments
In the flop of a movie, Waterworld, Kevin Costner's character (spoiler alert!) develops gills as an adaptation to a flooded planet altered by climate change. This plays into the all-too-prevalent…
S2E3 What Darwin Got Wrong ... and Very Right!
Charles Darwin is one of the most recognizable names in science. His On the Origin of Species is considered to be the foundation of evolutionary biology. In this episode of Safeguarding Sound…
S2E2 Human Evolution: Uncovering our Origins
You know the t-shirt, right? The one that shows the progression from a monkey to a human? In this episode of Safeguarding Sound Science, we talk with two renowned paleoanthropologists, Jeremy DeSilva…
S2E2 Peter Hotez on Vaccines, Evolution, and Your Health
Vaccine skepticism and efforts to curb vaccine access are in the news almost daily. This despite the fact that for decades, vaccines have saved millions of lives and reduced suffering immeasurably…
S2E1 Safeguarding Sound Science Season 2: Evolution Edition
The second season of Safeguarding Sound Science from The National Center for Science Education examines the everyday impacts of evolution, the grand theory that informs our understanding of all life…
S1E8 The New Face of Climate Denial: Online Influencers
Like nearly everything ever created by humans, social media can be used for good or evil. The same goes for podcasting and other streaming media shows. We’ll talk with two experts whose work helps…
S1E7 Hope in the Face of the Climate Crisis: Youth Activism and Leadership
Though climate change represents a clear and present danger for all of us, it is young people who will suffer the most if we don't mitigate global warming. And they understand this. Nearly 70% of…
S1E6 Making Every Classroom a Climate Classroom
What do teachers want and need to know about teaching climate change? And how can they best be prepared to tackle this critical topic, even in places where climate change is considered a taboo…
S1E5 Today's Forecast: Climate Change, Trusted Sources, and a Sprinkling of Local Relevance
In a warming world, poison ivy is becoming bigger and itchier. That's the kind of personally relevant message that resonates with everyone, and helps make the impacts of climate change hit home,…
S1E4 Zombie Theories Must Die! A Conversation with Climate Communicator Marshall Shepherd
Nationally recognized meteorologist, scientist, and author J. Marshall Shepherd describes zombie climate theories as those that live on, no matter how much the science refutes them time and again.…
S1E3 Miseducation in the USA: How Our Kids Are Too Often Denied Climate Facts
Award-winning journalist Katie Worth spent time in schools around the country talking to teachers and students as she attempted to understand the landscape of climate change education in US schools.…
S1E2 A Century of Disinformation: Naomi Oreskes and the Merchants of Doubt
In her critically acclaimed books, Merchants of Doubt and The Big Myth, Harvard historian Naomi Oreskes argues that well-funded interest groups have purposely sowed doubt and confusion about climate…
S1E1 What Climate Change? Michael Mann and Glenn Branch on the Climate Deniers
Scientists nearly unanimously agree that the planet is warming at an unprecedented rate, and that humans are the cause. We see evidence of climate change in the increased frequency and intensity of…
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