Episode 05: The Secret of the Ooze
From the late 1970s through to the early 1990s, pop culture often gave a starring role to bright green goop. Why?
From the late 1970s through to the early 1990s, pop culture often gave a starring role to bright green goop. Why?
How climate denialists exploited the differences between how scientists talk to each other, and to the public, to deliberately sow confusion.
In the 1970s, a scientist argued that everyone in the world experiences the same six basic emotions. It’s a compelling theory that is shaping new generations of technology—but it might be wrong.
Nobody’s sure who coined the phrase “the hole in the ozone layer,” but it still helped change the world
In Washington D.C., there’s a think tank that designs new metaphors, with the aim of making us think differently about the world’s problems. We speak with writers and cognitive scientists who specialize in hacking language to change minds.
What makes for a good vegan city? Alicia Kennedy travels to Chicago, where chefs and food writers defend their hometown’s meat-free restaurants and diners.
What makes for a good vegan city? Chicago bartender Alicia Arredondo and chef Pat Sheerin talk about food, politics, and the city’s reputation as a bad place to go meat-free.
The James Beard Award-winning chef talks about cooking food to protest the “Religious Freedom Restoration Act” Mississippi.
Members of the Cuir Kitchen Brigade, a collective solidarity group, talk about anarchism and Puerto Rico’s agroecology movement after Hurricane Maria.
The founders of vegan food company Chickpea and Olive talk about cheese, burgers, and the economics of food delivery apps
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