Burying Green: Eco-Friendly Death Care On The Rise
Dying, it turns out, isn’t carbon neutral. Like many of the choices we make in our lifetimes, the choice to cremate or preserve our bodies after death comes with tradeoffs as well. With preservation and burial, there’s the carbon cost of cemetery space, the materials to make a coffin, and the chemicals requi ... Show More
May 8
Understanding the gynecological health crisis facing Black women
When Kemi Doll was in medical school, she learned that Black women are twice as likely to die from uterine cancer as white women, and also suffer disproportionately from other uterine-related conditions. What wasn’t explained was why. Now a gynecologic oncologist, Doll has made i ... Show More
17m 54s
May 7
Data about your body is up for sale. Who's buying it?
Cameras and sensors are just about everywhere, recording your face, how you walk, where you go, your heart rate. And AI is making it easy to amass and analyze that data about all of us. Privacy attorney Anne Toomey McKenna joins Host Flora Lichtman to talk about the ubiquity of b ... Show More
11m 53s
May 6
Sci-fi thriller combines aliens, robots, and Cherokee culture
Breaking news out of eastern Oklahoma! A hole in the sky has opened. Through it, an unidentified turtle-shaped craft has descended. Alerts say that this is first contact. So it goes in the sci-fi thriller “Hole in the Sky.” In the book, author Daniel H. Wilson imagines this momen ... Show More
17m 56s
Jun 2025
How Lying In Bed For 60 Days Helps Astronauts
In space, microgravity changes the body. Body fluids shift from the legs toward the head, the back of our eyes flatten, we lose muscle strength, our bones lose some of their density, and even the amount of blood pumped by the heart with each beat drops. To learn more about how mi ... Show More
27m 17s
Sep 2025
Ruth E. Toulson, "Necropolitics of the Ordinary: Death and Grieving in Contemporary Singapore" (U Washington Press, 2024)
Can a state make its people forget the dead? Cemeteries have become sites of acute political contestation in the city-state of Singapore. Confronted with high population density and rapid economic growth, the government has ordered the destruction of all but one burial ground, fo ... Show More
58m 30s
Aug 2021
Meat Disgust, Cosmic Rays for Medicine, Immortal Battery
Learn about how meat-eaters really feel; using cosmic rays in medical diagnoses; and the Oxford Electric Bell mystery.People who eat meat think it's gross, which suggests new ideas for cutting consumption by Kelsey DonkEven Some Meat-Eaters Are Disgusted By Meat — And Encouraging ... Show More
13m 3s
Apr 2025
Stellar Microbes, Titan's Mysteries & the Quest for Life Beyond Earth
This episode of Space Nuts is brought you with the support of Saily. If you love travelling, you need Saily by your side. To find out more and get the special Space Nuts listener discount, visit www.saily.com/spacenuts
pace Nuts Episode 513: Microbial Life in Space, Titan's Secre ... Show More
37m 33s