At Length With Steve Scher. - The House Of Podcasts

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Sinopsis

Interviewer and journalist Steve Scher holds in-depth conversations with authors, thinkers and artists about social. scientific and cultural issues.  Series 2 of the podcast is supported by Town Hall Seattle.

Episodios

  • Save the Bees, Save the Planet

    08/10/2018

    People need bees. Since the first wasp got a taste for pollen 125 million years ago, bees and flowers have co-evolved in a way that brings almonds and apricots to our tables. But honeybees, as well as the less well known but equally critical miner, leafcutter, sweat and mason bees are in trouble, getting slammed by climate change, habitat loss and pesticide use. To figure out how to protect them, biologist Thor Hanson studies them. He is author of the new book, “Buzz: The Nature and Necessity of Bees.” He came to The Summit on Pike for Town Hall Wednesday, September 26, 2018.

  • "The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life" by David Quammen

    18/08/2018

    “The Tangled tree: A Radical New History of Life,” looks new scientific understanding that tangles up human understanding of the tree of life.  Award winning science writer David Quammen says maybe life is more like an elaborate topiary. 

  • Plant A Seed, Build A Community- Seattle Pollinators Week.

    15/06/2018

    Ray WIliams and Allison Rinard are urban farmers. Their goal is to bring communities together around flowers and food.

  • Our Towns: A 10,000-Mile Journey Into The Heart of America

    10/05/2018

    An antidote to our toxic national politics. Local initiatives from citizens living in small cities across America aimed at creating jobs, hope and community.

  • Beeronomics: How Beer Explains The World

    26/01/2018

    Next time you're contemplating the fate of the world over a pint of ale, take a few moments to consider that amber nectar's own role in shaping society. 

  • The Wizard and The Prophet, by Charles C. Mann

    23/01/2018

    Will we innovate our way out of looming crises in climate, water, food and energy? Will cutting back and living within our means save us? Or are we like most species, devouring our resources until it is too late? Charles Mann explores the arguments and the values behind two ways of viewing the future- that innovations will save us or that reducing our impact will.

  • "I Like it Live": Feliks Banel and the Allure of Live Broadcasting

    17/11/2017

    From the 1920’s until television permanently settled into our living rooms in the late 1950’s, radio blasted out comedies, variety shows, adventures and dramas to waiting listeners. Radio launched performers like Jack Benny and Fred Allen into stardom. It offered established stars like Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Jimmy Stewart and Frank Sinatra an audience during lulls in their film careers.  Radio became a second platform for Hollywood screenplays like “The Bishops’ Wife,” a 1947 holiday movie starring David Niven, Cary Grant and Loretta Young that resurfaced with a different cast on the Lux Radio Theater in 1949. Feliks Banel is a local historian, writer and radio producer.  He has been producing a live holiday radio broadcast for the past few years.  This year he is again bringing “The Bishop’s Wife,” starring familiar voices from KIRO radio to a Town Hall stage. KIRO’s Dave Ross leads the cast at University Temple Church Friday December 8th, 2017 at 8 pm, Feliks joined me for a long tal

  • Dan Ariely Has A Few Rules To Help You Think About Money

    05/10/2017 Duración: 47min

    Behavioral Economist Dan Ariely explores human misperceptions about saving and spending, opportunity costs and the subtle attraction of deviant behaviors.

  • What Russia's Return To Totalitarianism Might Teach America

    05/10/2017

    At Length interview by Steve Scher with visiting scholars, authors and artists to Town Hall Seattle.

  • Nancy Pearl Wrote A Novel

    05/10/2017

    At Length Interviews with visiting artists, authors and scholars to Town Hall Seattle

  • Major Margaret Witt on Overturning Don't Ask Don't Tell

    16/09/2017

    Journalist and interviewer Steve Scher talks with authors, thinkers and artists about social, scientific and cultural issues.

  • Analyzing the Economics of Gender Identities

    21/05/2016

    Professor Marieka Klawitter  Over the last few years, the debate in America over the rights of people of different gender identities has become a key civil rights issue. Professor Marieka Klawitter is the final speaker in the UW’s Equity and Difference series. Her widely published research, focuses on poverty,  family savings and the economic impact of public policies on sexual orientation.  Her May 18th lecture, “I’m Coming Out: Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in the U.S.” looked at the ways acceptance and changes to the law have affected LGBTQ equality since the 1969 stonewall riots. We met at her UW office to talk about the social and economic realities for members of the LGBTQ community. Professor Marie

  • Toure on Trump, Demolition Derbies and Being Who You Are

    07/04/2016

    Toure was at the University of Washington talking about Microaggresion, power and privelege

  • Doing Race Better: Race and the Reform of Urban Schools

    24/02/2016

    Scholar Charles M. Payne argues that the realities of race should return to the forefront of this discussion- not to be seen as a problem to overcome, but as a dynamic for empowerment.

  • Why Isn't the U.S. Listening To Indian Country with K. Tsianina Lomawaima

    13/02/2016

    What does U.S. citizenship mean to Native Americans? What does American Indian citizenship mean to the U.S. government? It’s a complex set of questions we take up with UW guest scholar Tsianina Lomawaima.

  • A Muslim Scholar Explores the Holocaust

    07/02/2016

    I-depth interviews with scholars visiting the University of Washington

  • Ralina Joseph "What's the Difference with 'Difference'"

    14/01/2016

    Welcome to At Length, our second season of conversations where we take a little more time and delve a little deeper into the profound issues of our era. As part of the UW Graduate School’s Equity and Difference Series, Associate Professor Ralina Joseph has a public lecture, “What’s the Difference with ‘Difference’?”Her talk is about the power of language to open or close doors to equity and opportunity.On the mission statement page of the website of the Center For Communication Difference and Equity is a quote from American scholar and poet Audre Lorde, “It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.”  Professor Joseph and I took that as the starting point of our conversation.  You c

  • Kathy Najimy on Women and Body Image

    21/05/2015

    Steve Scher talks to producer, actor and activist Kathy Najimy about women and body image. Powerful forces are at work shaping our body image.  Self-esteem, family norms, peer group pressures and the media all influence our feelings about our own bodies. Actor, activist and producer Kathy Najimy wrapped up the UW’s Weight and Wellness lecture series with a talk on “Women and Body Image,” based on her personal story and her years working in Hollywood. Named one of Ms. Magazine's 'Women of the Year’ in 2004, she is producing a new HBO series based on Ms. Magazine and the work of Gloria Steinem and the feminists of the 70’s. In the 80’s, she co-wrote and co-starred with Mo Gaffney in the Obie award winning feminist comedy hit, “The Kathy and Mo Show.”  Two productions were later broadcast on HBO. Kathy Najimy’s breakthrough role was as Sister Mary Patrick in the 1992 Whoopi Goldberg film, “Sister Act.”  She has gone on to a highly successful career on stage, screen and television in a wi

  • Are Human-made Chemicals in the Environment A Cause of Obesity? Part 2

    14/05/2015

     We swim in a sea of chemicals. Some of them are harming our environment, some are harming us. In part two of Steve Scher's conversation with scientist Bruce Blumberg, we hear more about the science of hormone disrupting chemicals, what action the regulatory agencies are taking and whether an approach called green chemistry could keep suspect chemicals from ever entering the environment. Professor Bruce Blumberg spoke at the University of Washington in May 2015, part of the Weight and Wellness series at the UW.Find more interviews on iTunes and Stitcher and at here too.Support for At Length with Steve Scher comes from the University of Washington Alumni Association. and the UW Graduate School.

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