7 min read Epidemiologist Jonna Mazet, Professor at the University of California, talks about the importance of understanding the animal connection in infectious diseases. This is a fascinating Q&A.
Kamadia interviews leading historian Christian W. McMillen to see if paying attention to history might have spared us from excessive suffering
Kamadia interviews leading historian Susan Kingsley Kent to see what sort of lessons history can offer us while we fight COVID-19. This is a must read.
"The major politicians charged with creating the peace settlement after World War 1 —Woodrow Wilson, David Lloyd George, and George Clemenceau—all fell victim to the flu," explains historian Susan Kingsley Kent, in this bonus interview question
3 min read Katherine Seley-Radtke, Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Maryland, addresses the hydroxychloroquine issue
4 min read Danny Dorling, Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography at the University of Oxford, discusses some coronavirus numbers that might be a good sign
"Probably the most interesting thing we have learned is how contagious revenge can become, across people and time," says Michele Gelfand, University of Maryland (Nov. 27th, 2019)
"In his new book Politics and the Anthropocene (Polity), Duncan Kelly, Professor of Political Thought and Intellectual History at the University of Cambridge, considers how this new geological era could shape our future by engaging with the recent past of political thought and the potential for democratic politics to negotiate this challenge. In this interview he speaks to Robert McLachlan, Distinguished Professor in the School of Fundamental Sciences, Massey University." (Oct. 30th, 2019)
"Obama doesn’t like conflict. He has a smooth manner and an agreeable manner and a decent disposition. I think if you tell young people to look at Obama as an ideal of a president – you know, he looks like a president. He’s an admirable sort of model. But his temperament was really better for a president in peaceful times, when there was comity between the parties," says David Bromwich, Yale University (Oct. 16th, 2019)