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#90: What It’s Like to be a COVID-19 Lab Rat

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BEST OF THE BEST: Air Pollution: The Low Hanging Fruit of Our Hellish Future

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BEST OF THE BEST: Is COVID-19 America’s Chernobyl?

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Special Edition: How You Can Help — And (Mostly) Still Stay Home

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#89: Why Does It Require a PhD in Neuroscience Just to Support a Green New Deal?

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#88: You Voted for Clean Energy… So Where The Hell Is it?

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#87: What's In Your Moisturizer, Anyways?

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Special Edition: How to Survive the Coronavirus (With Your Sanity Intact)

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#86: Farming While Black: The Past and The Future

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#85: A Blueprint for Fighting Food Waste in Your Community

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#84: How is Climate Change (Already) Affecting Immigration to the USA?

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SPECIAL PREVIEW: Issue #169: CRISPR’ing Cancer, BP Oil, & Democrats Campaigning on Soil

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Introducing the Important, Not Important: Sh*t-Giver Edition!

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#83: Knock Knock. Who’s There? Climate Change. Climate Change Who? Climate Change Pooped On Your Head. (A Conversation About Mangroves)

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BONUS: Help Dr. Ghazala Hashmi Flip Virginia

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#82: Sustainable Trees + Death Metal = Climate Progress

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#81: Legalizing the Other Weed

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#80: Mosquitoes. The Serial Killers of Nature. Should We Make Them Go Away?

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#79: Air Pollution: The Low Hanging Fruit of Our Hellish Future

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#78: How to Be A Better Ancestor

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BEST OF THE BEST: Where Does Ebola Go From Here?

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#77: Please, Please, Please Do A Good Job, Colorado

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#76: Save the Corals, Save the World

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BEST OF THE BEST: It’s Getting Hot in Here, and America’s Poor Are Dying Faster Than Everyone Else

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#75: Can Zebrafish Beat Childhood Cancer?

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#74: Incentivizing Those Dirty Capitalists to Solve Climate Change for Us

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BEST OF THE BEST: What’s It Feel Like To Be Asked To Save the World?

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#73: Did A.I. Just Make My Life’s Work Obsolete?

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#72: The Monsoon Is 11 Days Late

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#71: Why Raising the Status of Girls Can Change Everything

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#70: Who’s Fixing the People Fixing Our Planet?

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#69: Rebuilding Los Angeles & L.A.’s Green New Deal

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#68: Let’s Send Our Homework into Space

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#67: Is Climate Change "Flippable"?

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#66: So We Can’t Just Blow Up Asteroids, Then?

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#65: Chernobyl: A Preventable and Rare Accident from the Past or a Vivid Picture of Our Hellish Nuclear Future?

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#64: Sunrise Movement Tour - Live (ish) in LA!

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#63: Green Acres: Farming for Millennials and Other People Who Like Food

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#62: Where Does Ebola Go From Here?

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#61: How Do We Atone for Poisoning Generations of American Minorities?

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#60: Why You Should Run For Something in 2020

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#59: Is Florida the Harbinger of Doom? (Probably)

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#58: Is Faith Sustainable?

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BONUS REPLAY: Is Food Waste the Stupidest Thing We Do (& How Do We Cut it in Half)?

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#57: Make Food Great (Nutritious) Again

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#56: What’s It Feel Like To Be Asked To Save the World?

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#55: What are the Energy Requirements of Well-being?

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#54: The State That’s Not a State is a Hell of a Lot Greener Than Your State

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#53: How the Hell Do We Pull Clean Drinking Water Out of Thin Air?

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#52: What’s the Deal With the Green New Deal?

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#51: Are We Thinking About CRISPR All Wrong (& What the Hell is CRISPR)?

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BEST OF 2018: New Antibiotics in a Post-Antibiotic Era

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BEST OF 2018: He’s Given 200+ Climate Speeches to Congress. What’s Next?

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BEST OF 2018: Is It Harder to Build Clean Power Plants or Play in a Reputable Cover Band?

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BEST OF 2018: Congress Got a Female Air Force Officer / Engineer / Chemistry Teacher / Mom

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#50: It’s Getting Hot in Here & America’s Poor are (Not Surprisingly) Dying Fastest

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#49: How Can HUGE Food & Beverage Companies Contribute to a More Sustainable Future?

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#48: Why Does Childhood Cancer Exist & What Can We Do to Make It Go Away Forever?

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#47: The Future of Digital Health, Part 2: America’s Data

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#46: Is There Nuclear Waste in the Ocean (& Can We Become Super Heroes if There Is)?

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#45: Poop Vs. Cancer

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#44: Is Food Waste the Stupidest Thing We Do (& How Do We Cut it in Half)?

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#43: The Future of Digital Health, Part 1

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#42: What Happens When You’re Almost an Astronaut... And What Comes Next?

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#41: Outsmarting Cholera

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Trailer -- The Most Important Question

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Bonus: The #1 thing you can do to fight climate change

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#40: What Takes a Young Woman from Art School to NASA... & Why Might That Change Everything Forever, for Everyone?

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#39: Is The Ocean Running Out of Oxygen? Is That Bad?

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#38: Is It Harder to Build Clean Power Plants or Play in a Reputable Cover Band?

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#37: Why Does Congress Need a Female Air Force Officer / Engineer / Chemistry Teacher / Mom?

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#36: Can Latinos Save the Planet?

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#35: Can These Scientists Really Save Congress?

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#34: Electrocuting the S#!t Out of Cancer.

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#33: This is Zero Hour... So What The Hell Are You Doing?

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#32: Are You Ready for Some Radical Environmental Justice?

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#31: Can Texas Go (Clean Energy) Independent?

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#30: What’s the Business Incentive for Climate/Clean Energy Action?

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#29: The Pope Has Decided to Defeat Climate Change with His Own Bare Hands.

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#28: Why the Hell is Space Exploration Important When the Planet is Literally on Fire?

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#27: What Happens When the Atlantic Ocean Invades the Arctic Ocean?

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#26: He's Given 200 Climate Speeches to Congress. What's Next?

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#25: Middle School Physics: Lame, or the First Step to Being an Superhero?

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#24: When Will San Francisco Be Underwater?

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#23: Can We Predict the Next Big Earthquake?

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#22: How Does Your Phone Call Become Law?

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#21: The #1 thing you can do to fight climate change

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#20: How the hell are we gonna feed 10 billion people?

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#19: What’s the future of antibiotics?

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#18: A new science foundation in America

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#17: What’s the future of emergency medical systems in the age of climate change?

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#16: Clouds ruin EVERYTHING

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#15: Can carbon capture be a building block in climate action, Part II?

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#14: How do we improve America’s agriculture system?

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#13: A blueprint for suing the pants off fossil fuel companies

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#12: Can algorithms predict the next major pandemic?

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#11: Can carbon capture be a building block in climate action?

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#10: The Tantrum That Saved The World

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#9: How do we stay safe from infectious disease (zombies)?

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#8: How do we safeguard science in American schools?