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After a two-year hiatus, the Undark podcast returns with a new format and a new name: Entanglements. Join science journalists Brooke Borel and Anna Rothschild as they invite guests with both expertise and divergent opinions on some of the most contentious and politicized areas of science today, from vaccines and GMOs to deep sea mining, AI, and the origins of Covid. Their goal: To see if they can break through the discord and find common ground. Far from an exercise in false balance, Entanglements, like Undark, seeks to bring civil discussion — and a bit of fun and wonder — back to the intersection of science and culture.
Episodes
Nov 30, 2017
Nov 30, 2017
24 min
The environmental price of clean energy in the Balkan states and the rise of predatory journals. Plus, Part 1 of a two part series on what it means to be "alive."
Nov 2, 2017
Nov 2, 2017
37 min
A campaign to wipe out polio in a corner of Nigeria where it stubbornly hangs on, issues in science journalism, and growing your own produce at home.
Sep 29, 2017
Sep 29, 2017
41 min
Threats to the national parks, a controversial editorial in Nature, and a rare genetic disorder afflicting descendants of New Mexico’s Spanish settlers.
Sep 1, 2017
Sep 1, 2017
30 min
The ethical debate surrounding a New York Times reporter hired by the Manhattan Project to be its chronicler and cheerleader, as well as an effort to increase science communication in the public sphere.
Jul 27, 2017
Jul 27, 2017
37 min
A program to stop deforestation and protect wildlife in Kenya, a controversial literature review on gender identity, and whirling disease in Banff National Park.
Jun 30, 2017
Jun 30, 2017
39 min
An effort to monitor public health in North Korea by studying refugees who defected to the South, media coverage of health care and addiction, and the effects on your body from being buried at sea.
May 30, 2017
May 30, 2017
37 min
A visit with the virus hunters of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the state of long form science journalism, and a tool for treating obsessive hair-pulling.
Apr 27, 2017
Apr 27, 2017
36 min
The future of the Great Plains ecosystem, the downside of conservation in East Africa, and a recap of the March for Science.
Mar 31, 2017
Mar 31, 2017
38 min
The toxic legacy and uncertain future of Ohio's former Great Black Swamp, why you should be skeptical of scientific studies you read about, and the fight to restore some of North America’s greatest rapids.
Feb 28, 2017
Feb 28, 2017
32 min
The movement and evolution of the global leather tanning and textile trades, science journalism in the Trump era, and improving hospital food.