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Despite godlike technologies, our goals are primitive – sculptor
Pablo Picasso once famously said that sculpture is the art of intelligence. We talked to Sir Antony Gormley, sculptor, intellectual and philosopher. Follow @SophieCo_RT Instagram Sophieco.visionaries...
Jan 14, 2022 06:33
Hypnosis can make you fall in and out of love – behavioral scientist
Hypnosis has always tread the line between trickery and science leaving some fooled while helping others explore their psyche. What's true or false about this somewhat occult practice? We asked Paul McKenna, hypnotist, behavioral scientist, and...
Dec 10, 2021 06:26
We’re parasites like viruses – biochemist
For ages, we've been trying to trace the origins of life on Earth. How did a barren rock turn into something as flourishing, beautiful, and abundant as we know it? We asked Nick Lane, professor of evolutionary biochemistry at University College...
Dec 3, 2021 08:21
On Contact: Sex, women, gender identity
Chris Hedges discusses gender identity with Kathleen Stock, professor of philosophy at the University of Sussex. There are few cultural debates as contentious as the one raging around gender identity. Do we have an inner state called a gender...
Nov 7, 2021 06:34
On Contact: ‘The Young Lords – A Radical History’
On the show, Chris Hedges discusses the legacy of the radical group, the Young Lords, with Professor Johanna Fernandez. In Chicago in 1969, a former gang leader, Cha Cha Jimenez, founded the revolutionary group the Young Lords to fight police...
Nov 5, 2021 07:26
Alan Moore: Death is a perspective illusion of the third dimension
It’s thanks to Alan Moore that comics have ceased to be just funny books with pictures – and instead have become a distinct genre with its own philosophy and culture. The legendary graphic novelist, writer and performer shares his...
Oct 8, 2021 05:20
Social media add to depression and FOMO – visionary entrepreneur
Feel that others are enjoying a better life and you are missing a trick? We all feel this way from time to time, and it turns out science has a name for it. We talk to venture capitalist and the man who coined the term ‘fear of missing...
Oct 1, 2021 06:34
On Contact: Anti-capitalist chronicles, part 2
On the show, the second of a two-part interview, Chris Hedges discusses with Professor David Harvey the social, political, and economic consequences of neoliberalism and globalization, exploring alienation, the rise of authoritarianism, the...
Sep 26, 2021 07:21
On Contact: The second American revolution
On the show, Chris Hedges discusses the Second American Revolution with author David Talbot. The populist uprisings of the Progressive Era, labor militancy of the 1930s, and the sweeping social and cultural transformations of the 1960s and 1970s...
Sep 19, 2021 06:57
By changing the color and shape of food it's possible to change its flavor – experimentalist chef
Crispy lettuce, an airy soufflé and blood-red oranges – it turns out that enjoying the food we eat is not only a matter of taste. How does flavor find its way from the tongue to the brain? And how can it be manipulated? We talked to...
Sep 17, 2021 04:37