UnDisciplined
Thursdays at 10:30 a.m.
Each week, UnDisciplined takes a fun, fascinating and accessible dive into the lives of researchers and explorers working across a wide variety of scientific fields.
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The most obvious health risk in a warming world is heat — heat stress which can cause heat stroke, which can cause dehydration, which can cause kidney failure, and so on. But that’s not where the intersections between climate change and public health begin or end. And Heidi Honegger Rogers believes that we all need to better understand what’s happening and what is to come.
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For nearly five years, water attorney Emily Lewis has been hosting a podcast on water issues with a special focus on solutions for the water-stressed US West. That podcast, called The Ripple Effect, has given her a view of something lawyers don't usually see — people working together to solve big problems.
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Almost every model of future climate suggests that Western North America will grow substantially drier as global surface temperatures continue to get hotter. And that likely means less water, at least through traditional means. But Anjali Mulchandani thinks we might have some other options.
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Political analysts were concerned about the Bradley Effect, or social desirability bias, in 2008 in regards to Obama—and Anu Gupta says now’s the time to think about how this may impact Kamala Harris.
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It's often assumed that competition and predation drive evolution and ecologies. But Jenn Rudgers says that we should keep mutualism — species benefiting one another without cost or consequence — in mind as we face a world that is being stressed by climate change.
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Marcy Litvak says it’s vital that we try to sort out how carbon behaves in different areas of the world, and research efforts like the New Mexico Elevation Gradient Project are helping do just that.
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When strong beliefs, sometimes century-long beliefs, are disputed, people tend to double down. Dr. Marty Makary suggests that it’s notably present in medicine, and in the way we tend to groupthink.
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In his new book, Combing Through the White House, Theodore Pappas suggests that the hair of American leaders has long conveyed important political and symbolic messages, and has affected the way in which the public perceives them.
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It is sometimes assumed that women, as a group, tend to feel differently about climate and climate change than men. and that’s true — but as it turns out, context matters.
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For centuries, the burning of fossil fuels had produced huge volumes of planet-warming gasses. But now, we may have reached the point in which the emissions responsible for climate change are starting to fall.