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This week: What we know — and more importantly, what we don’t — about what AI is capable of, and how much change we’re capable of absorbing. Plus: the Willow Project, H-1B visas, blueberries, honeybee vaccines, climate disclosure rules, next-gen bed nets, and health insurance in North Carolina Here's What…

Dr. Dawn Wright, or as many in the ocean community know her "Deep Sea Dawn" is an elected member of both the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering. She's the Chief Scientist at ESRI, where she works with other scientists to map the ocean floor in…

What if I told you there was less oxygen in the ocean than there used to be? That's today's big question, and my guest is Dr. Dawn Wright, or as many in the ocean community know her "Deep Sea Dawn." Dawn Wright is an elected member of both the National…

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This week: In response to our ongoing and delightful home electrification series with our friends at Rewiring America, we have received a hell of a lot of questions that are beyond our ability to answer. So we brought in the experts: previous pod guest John Semmelhack, home electrification wiz and…

This week: Can little-old-you really make a difference? Hell yes you can. Plus: cheaper insulin, cleaner camping gear, a new (lidless) coffee cup, good news on BetterHelp, and maybe even some paid leave. Here's What You Can Do: • ⚡️ Help your local farmers sell online (https://link.mail.beehiiv.com/ss/c/0Cf1srzExyTE9bt2YpTLVnpxKuMAKyWqcN1JEOqFG1A/3u6/CLSxUex1SreFa8nzPyY2RQ/h17/Dd2fMW__TXGe6FKM2N1ff6DiZkzU-pIOoPcKLRVO5UI)— not just at…

John Semmelhack is a co-owner of The Comfort Squad LLC, a home performance contracting + consulting firm helping clients create healthy, comfortable homes that run on clean electricity. Joel Rosenberg is here from Rewiring America, he is an educator and entrepreneur focused on helping solve the climate crisis. John has…

What can we learn from trees? That's today's big question, and my guest is Dr. Beronda Montgomery. Beronda's a transformative writer, researcher and scholar who pursues a common theme of understanding how individuals perceive, respond to and are impacted by the environments in which they exist. She recently moved from…

Dr. Madhukar Pai is not only an outspoken advocate for vaccine equity, but also the Canada Research Chair of Epidemiology and Global Health at McGill University, the associate director of the McGill International Tuberculosis Centre, the Commissioner of the Lancet Commission on Diagnostics, the recipient of the Union Scientific Prize…

How many nights have you spent up recently worried that AI is just gonna take your job? That's today's big question, and my guest is Dr. Mohammed AlQuraishi. Almost three years before chatGPT and New Bing really hit the scene, Mohammed showed up to a conference excited to share his…

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This week: Pulled in a million directions? Wondering what the hell you do with your days? Find your north stars (and become devastatingly effective) with one simple question. What We Can Do: • ⚡️ Please don’t use public wifi without a VPN. Please? If you can’t just hotspot, use the…

Dr. Linsey Marr is a renowned scientist and multidisciplinary engineer who pioneered research into a better understanding of the flu’s airborne status, and how humidity plays a role in the flu’s seasonality. She is among a very small group of scientists who truly understand the aerosol transmission of bacteria and…

This week: The future of search and chatbots looks a lot like our ancient past. Why do we keep making the same tools over and over again? What We Can Do: • ⚡️ Addiction is brutal. Help yourself or a loved one or someone you’ve never met with Shatterproof (https://link.mail.beehiiv.com/ss/c/I1vdo-7CUlzCAiV8jz_iiXseu_1O02YIZTkaoMiDHuzPaHuG3TRvw-2qGczUmoPU/3ts/swskyWnCSpSFJRl7Ers9LA/h13/ol_CbXB8870ilPP_5IVYXIc2TameUa2HaRrL5cewU_g).…

Imagine you’re in a sci-fi movie. The one where everything’s on the line. And while dinosaurs or aliens or a virus takes over down on the ground, you’re the scientist unexpectedly riding in the helicopter with the actual president, the scientist who’s run the calculations and asked the questions nobody…

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This week: There are a default group of problems that exist in our society because of the basic needs required to be a human. They are: • Air • Water • Food • Sleep These, our most primal needs, are more or less biologically inarguable, and the good news is,…

Nathaniel Stinnett founded the Environmental Voter Project in 2015 after over a decade of experience as a senior advisor, consultant, and trainer for political campaigns and issue-advocacy nonprofits. Hailed as a "visionary" by The New York Times, and dubbed "The Voting Guru" by Grist magazine, Stinnett is a frequent expert…

This week: For the next few weeks, I’m rewriting and sharing a selection of essays I wrote in 2020 and 2021, so about two hundred years ago. I think they’re more relevant than ever — I can’t wait to hear what you think. This week: What would you say you…