We all giggled when we first learned of Homo erectus, right? But we also learned that there were other humans before Homo sapiens. So what’s next? We talk to Dr. Donald Simborg, the author of “What Comes After Homo Sapiens?: When and How Our Species… Read More »One Giant Leap for Mankind with Dr. Donald Simborg
In the second part of our chat with Cathy O’Neil, author of “Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy,” we dissect how teachers are unfairly affected by a subject they might actually teach. Links:
Math is supposed to be black and white, right? Numbers are pretty sound. What about when they’re used in algorithms that are based on assumptions about specific groups of people? We find out how that works with Cathy O’Neil, author of “Weapons of Math Destruction:… Read More »Weapons of Math Destruction with Cathy O’Neil Part 1
Dava Sobel, author of “The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars,” shares the stories that inspired her latest book. Links:
Science education to supplement at home learning, or, in the case of Sal Khan’s actual son, a way to keep up his education while out of the country during the school year. We chat with Sal Khan, of the Khan Academy, about his school and… Read More »Don’t Neglect Your Kids Education While On the Road with Sal Khan
A Homemade hover-bike, a backseat Jacuzzi, and TONS of rockets: all things you’ll find on Colin Furze’s YouTube channel. Now he has a book and a YouTube Red (read subscription) series and we get the skinny on all that. Plus: rapid fire with Margot. Links:
Will the robots “kill all humans?” or is that not a pressing priority? We talk to Zach Weinersmith, half of the writing team behind “Soonish: Ten Emerging Technologies That’ll Improve and/or Ruin Everything” about what they discovered while writing this book. Links:
Would you like to swing from a star? How about just view the Earth from space? We find out what it’s like to do just that from Terry Virts, an astronaut and a photographer who put together one-of-a-kind aerial images of Earth in his book… Read More »View From Above with Terry Virts
The Good: Jonathan Rochelle, a Google Education expert, defines how Google Classroom is helping kids explore outside their normal geographical range using tools Google provides teachers, and how they get their hands on them. The Bad: You know that Anti-Diversity Manifesto by James Damore? We… Read More »The Good, the Bad, and the Google with Jonathan Rochelle, Andi Simon
In part 2 of our chat with Becky Chambers, author of “A Closed and Common Orbit,” we ask the very tired but still necessary question: Aren’t you sick of people asking you what it’s like to work in sci-fi as a woman? We also get… Read More »A Space Story with Becky Chambers Part 2
