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How to Fight Vaccine Hesitancy

As the government pauses Johnson and Johnson doses, we spoke with Johns Hopkins professor Tara Kirk Sell about why vaccines are safe and how to beat vaccine hesitancy.

April 14, 2021

Don't Know Much

An Interview with David Dunning

The eminent psychology professor and co-discoverer of the Dunning-Kruger Effect on what we know, what we don't, and what we don't know we don't know.

Vol 6, Fall 2020 / September 7, 2020

How to Survive the Next COVID Crisis

We spoke with Judith Matloff, crisis trainer and author of How To Drag A Body and Other Safety Tips You Hope To Never Need, about what survival actually requires.

June 11, 2020

Paul Rome on testing our way out of the COVID crisis

Paul Romer on testing our way out of COVID

Our latest episode features Nobel Prize winner Paul Romer and daring vision for how testing can be a way out of the COVID crisis for the U.S.

April 29, 2020

David Dunning on COVID and cognitive bias

Our latest episode features the discoverer of the Dunning-Kruger Effect. We spoke with him about how cognitive bias hampered our COVID response.

April 23, 2020

Dennis Carroll on Fighting Emergence in Viruses

Dennis Carroll on Taking the Fight to Viruses

The latest episode of our Coronavirus podcast features Netflix sensation Dennis Carroll. We spoke with him about battling emergence and taking the fight to zoonotic viruses.

April 19, 2020

Andrew Roberts on Churchill vs. the Spanish Flu

Winston Churchill vs. the Spanish Flu

Our latest episode features Andrew Roberts talking about the War Secretary's fight with the Spanish Flu.

April 6, 2020

Dr. David Katz on What We're Getting Wrong

Our latest episode features Dr. David Katz, author of a viral New York Times op-ed, talking about what we're getting wrong in our response to coronavirus.

April 3, 2020