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Readings, debates, lectures and so much more. Hear fascinating talks by authors, intellectuals, officials and regular folks with important stories recorded live all around Seattle.
Episodes
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Human composting: An environmental ending that's gaining ground
‘We really get to return to nature, and I think that’s pretty cool.’
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Beth Macy’s ‘Dopesick’ offers a Seattle audience intimate glimpses of those hit by the opioid epidemic.
“According to The CDC, In 2017, more than 70,000 people died from drug overdoses, making it a leading cause of injury-related death in the United States. Of those deaths, almost 68% involved a prescription or illicit opioid.”
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2018 Smoke Farm Symposium: Watersheds, dementia and 'fake news'
Get out of town for talks on our in-between times
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David Brooks and the moral response to 'a national valley of distrust and disconnection’
David Brooks considers the ways human nature and ingenuity can help us rise above disunion
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Got questions about Alien life? But raiding Area 51 sounds too extreme?...This talk just might be for you
Biologist Mohamed Noor takes a Seattle audience on a journey of exploration to boldly go where no one has gone before...or at least those not a part of the scientist community.
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You butt-dialed your mom with this supercomputer
It took a village to birth the digital revolution
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Three women, many stories about sex and desire
Author Lisa Taddeo was getting questions, such as, “What the f**k are you doing in the middle of Indiana?”
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Killer whales go through menopause, too, but the other orcas respect them
Coming to terms with the millennia-long struggle to normalize and respect menopause
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How social media ate news media’s lunch, and what to do about it
It’s a brave new world for news media. The advertising revenue that kept newspapers afloat has dwindled. Reporters are being laid off.
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She needed answers about pregnancy. So she wrote them herself
So Angela Garbes did her own research and wrote a book about it
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A defense of liberalism in illiberal times
Adam Gopnik waxes philosophical on the historic arc of a high ideal
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They defend the science. But who defends the scientists?
A philosopher fights back against post-truth and science denial