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James Kimmel Jr., a lecturer in psychiatry at Yale, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss parts of the brain that light up when talking about revenge and what happens when we focus on forgiveness instead.

Journalist Maryn McKenna joins host Krys Boyd to discuss why peanut allergies jumped astronomically since the 1990s and how researchers are zeroing in on cures for a hypervigilant population of allergy sufferers.

Scientist Peter J. Hotez joins host Krys Boyd to discuss how anti-science factions have hijacked the conversation around vaccines.

Climate solutions reporter Nicolás Rivero joins host Krys Boyd to discuss an operation in France using billions of maggots to process food waste and feed cattle.

Journalist Robert T. Garrett joins host Krys Boyd to discuss redistricting and other challenges to the status quo Trump hopes start in Texas and spread from there.

Lauren Larson, senior staff writer at Texas Monthly magazine, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss the difficulty of setting wacky world records today.

Former CDC director and now CEO of Resolve to Save Lives Dr. Tom Frieden joins host Krys Boyd to discuss why we need the political will to transform an ailing system.

Jennifer Wilson, a staff writer at The New Yorker, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss what happens when home DNA kits produce unexpected results and why some call for paternity testing at birth.

Laila Petrie, director general of the charity Future Earth Lab, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss sustainability in fashion and how fast fashion contributes to climate change.

University of Chicago public policy professor Jens Ludwig joins host Krys Boyd to discuss how behavioral economics offers insight into what works to curb gun homicides.

Host Krys Boyd talks with three experts who take on loneliness head on, from why it’s so hard to address, to ways to use our creativity to connect with others, to a guide for making and keeping friends.

Mike Isaac, Silicon Valley and technology reporter for The New York Times, joins Krys Boyd to discuss the transformation of the cushy Silicon Valley work style.

Megan C. Reynolds, editor at Dwell magazine, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss one little word that defines so much of modern speech: like.

Freelance writer Andrea Javor joins host Krys Boyd to discuss her journey using Ozempic, the disappointment that came when the scale didn’t budge for her, and why doctors think GLP-1s can regulate diabetes without the weight loss.

Arthur C. Brooks, a Harvard Professor and columnist at The Atlantic, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss a compendium of his columns about the pursuit of happiness. think.kera.org/2025/08/29/s...

Ross Anderson, staff writer at The Atlantic, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss how Trump administration policies are opening up foreign opportunities for researchers.

Elaina Plott Calabro, staff writer at The Atlantic, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss why the MAID law has made medically assisted death more common in Canada.

Journalist Tekendra Parmar joins host Krys Boyd to discuss how immigration attorneys are approaching their workload.

Rutger Bergman, historian and co-founder of The School for Moral Ambition, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss why so many people feel like their jobs don’t make a difference in the world.

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Nick Keppler joins host Krys Boyd to discuss how narcissistic personality disorder is diagnosed and the people who genuinely want to change.

Eyal Press is a contributing writer for The New Yorker, and he joins host Krys Boyd to discuss why restaurant owners will benefit most from eliminating income taxes on tips.

Enter A.I. Drew Harwell is a technology reporter for The Washington Post, and he joins host Krys Boyd to discuss the rise of obituary-writing artificial intelligence, how funeral homes are eager to embrace it.

Washington Post transportation reporter Ian Duncan joins host Krys Boyd to discuss why the rates of completion for federally funded FAA training programs are so low and the toxic culture in air traffic controller apprenticeships.

Martin Dubin, clinical psychologist, entrepreneur and business coach, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss the skills business school can’t teach you.

Curtis Bram, a political scientist at The University of Texas at Dallas, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss the two sides of modern governing: elitism and populism, and questions whose job it is to actually protect democracy —voters or politicians?

New Yorker staff writer Rachel Aviv joins host Krys Boyd to discuss a woman diagnosed with severe mental illness for years before doctors realized it was an autoimmune response. think.kera.org/2025/08/11/l...

Jennifer Senior, staff writer at The Atlantic, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss sleep anxiety, why we find it so hard to get a good night’s rest.

Ciarán Donnelly, SVP for International Programs with the International Rescue Committee (IRC), joins host Krys Boyd to discuss starvation in the Gaza strip.

Samuel Wang, professor of neuroscience and leader of Princeton”s The Gerrymandering Project, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss gerrymandering efforts in Texas and beyond.

Peter Cappelli is the George W. Taylor Professor of Management at the Wharton School and the director of its Center for Human Resources. He joins host Krys Boyd to discuss why hybrid work holds workers back in terms of promotions.

Viet Thanh Nguyen, professor of literature at the University of Southern California, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss his trip to El Salvador, and how their versions of American greatness differ immensely as they look to immigration and violence in the region.

Martha Barnette, co-host of the popular radio show and podcast “A Way with Words,” joins host Krys Boyd to discuss her love of language and all the myriad ways words bring us joy.

ICYMI: Knowable Magazine contributor Bob Holmes joined @think.kera.org on KERA to discuss his recent article about cancer and companion dogs. It was a great conversation! 🎧 Listen on demand think.kera.org/2025/08/01/h...

Brian M. Rosenthal, investigative reporter at The New York Times, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss how some donors, thought to be deceased, have shown signs of life just before vital organ harvesting.

Bob Holmes, contributor for Knowable Magazine, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss the biomedical bond between dogs and people.

Liel Leibovitz is editor-at-large for Tablet and joins host Krys Boyd to discuss how the very saturated podcast market is making us silo ourselves even further from one another.

Maia Szalavitz, author and contributing opinion writer for the The New York Times, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss children who are behaving in “callous, unemotional” ways.

Tom Zeller Jr. is co-founder and editor-in-chief of Undark, and joins host Krys Boyd to discuss why, with so many billions of people suffering, headache research is not a top priority in medicine.

Environmental journalist Sam Bloch joins host Krys Boyd to discuss how, in a world that faces searing temperatures, shade is a natural resource we should all be striving for.

Stephanie Pappas is a freelance science journalist, and she joins host Krys Boyd to discuss the many issues testosterone therapy claims to fix.

Sigal Samuel is a senior reporter for Vox’s Future Perfect and she joins host Krys Boyd to discuss what would happen if A.I. woke up to its own existence.

Teresa Ghilarducci is professor of economics and policy analysis at the New School for Social Research and she joins host Krys Boyd to discuss what’s happening with the social security funds so many Americans rely on.

Science writer Laura Spinney joins host Krys Boyd to discuss the proto-Indo-European language, how it connects languages as varied as English and Russia.

Matt Richtel, health and science reporter at The New York Times, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss why kids today are more careful physically but need more help mentally.

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Dean Spears is founding executive director of r.i.c.e., a nonprofit that works to promote children’s health, growth, and survival in rural India. He joins host Krys Boyd to discuss a future with far fewer humans in just the next few decades.

Jordan Thomas is a former Los Padres hotshot wildland firefighter and currently an anthropologist and chancellor’s fellow at the University of California, and he joins host Krys Boyd to discuss why climate change doesn’t tell the whole story.

Greg Eghigian, professor of history and bioethics at Pennsylvania State University, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss the history of America’s fascination with UFOs — an obsession that spread globally — and what it all means for our civilization back here on Earth.