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  • UnDisciplined: Surviving a wildfire evacuation

    UnDisciplined: Surviving a wildfire evacuation
    2026/08/14
    When wildfire threatens a community, what determines who makes it out safely? Emergency managers, firefighters, and weather all play critical roles, but so do the choices we make before and during an evacuation. After three decades of studying fast-moving fires, University of Utah researcher Tom Cova explains what he has learned about preparation, quick decisions, and why neighbors helping neighbors can save lives.
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    26 分
  • UnDisciplined: How should we think about cancer?

    UnDisciplined: How should we think about cancer?
    2026/08/06
    When we think about cancer, we tend to think about what doctors can do. But what about what patients can do? How much of that is hope? How much of it is science?
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    26 分
  • UnDisciplined: What can marine microorganisms tell us about the ocean?

    UnDisciplined: What can marine microorganisms tell us about the ocean?
    2026/07/09
    The ocean takes up roughly 70% of the planet, but we still don’t know too much about everything that is out there. Most ocean life is very small, and tends to change based on the ocean’s conditions. So even if you took a sample of ocean water right now, there’s really no guarantee that it would resemble a sample taken later.A recent study by Sarah Tucker and her team offers some direction for filling in that gap.
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    26 分
  • UnDisciplined: The power of noticing

    UnDisciplined: The power of noticing
    2026/07/02
    Twenty years ago, Richard Louv helped us begin to think differently about childhood and nature.Now, he's asking a related but perhaps even more provocative question: what happens when we really notice the world around us? What do we experience in terms of attention, awe, loss, and what it means to love a very complex world?
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    26 分
  • UnDisciplined: What can theatre teach us about kindness?

    UnDisciplined: What can theatre teach us about kindness?
    2026/06/18
    For years, comedy thrived on cynicism. The world was a mess, people were selfish, and anyone who believed otherwise was the punchline.But from Ted Lasso, to Paddington, to Come From Away, some of our most beloved stories are finding humor, heart, and even heroism in empathy, earnestness, and human decency.This summer, Lyric Repertory Company is producing Gutenberg! The Musical! It’s a delightfully ridiculous show about two aspiring theater makers who are convinced they have created a masterpiece. They haven't, but their unwavering enthusiasm is part of what makes the show so charming.And it's not the only production in Lyric's season that seems interested in the power of human decency.
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    26 分
  • UnDisciplined: Learning relevance from relegated soccer teams

    UnDisciplined: Learning relevance from relegated soccer teams
    2026/06/11
    In the United States, we tend to celebrate people who pick a destination, set a goal, believe in themselves, and refuse to quit until they get exactly where they always knew they’d be.But real life is messier than that. Dreams change. and sometimes careers stall — we get relegated to something less than what we dreamed of.That's what happened to Todd Smith, a part-time sports writer and full-time landscape supplier.Then he found himself watching an English football match between a billion-dollar giant and a club that most people, even in England, have never heard of, and he fell down a rabbit hole.
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    26 分
  • UnDisciplined: How science fiction reflects science fact

    UnDisciplined: How science fiction reflects science fact
    2026/06/04
    If one of the most important roles of science fiction is that it makes unfamiliar ideas emotionally legible, what are the ideas that we need to be reading about right now?
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    26 分
  • UnDisciplined: How athletes change their perception of time

    UnDisciplined: How athletes change their perception of time
    2026/05/28
    A few years back, we had David Sinclair on the program. David is one of the world’s top researchers working on the question of whether we can extend human lifespans.A couple years after that, Nate Price was with us. Nate is also looking at this question, though from a different angle: he wants to know how we can pack more healthy years into the lifespans we already have.But here on the program, we find ourselves returning to another version of that same question: what does it actually mean to lengthen a life?Brett Popplewell has been thinking about that too — about whether a life can feel longer not only through years added, but through attention, novelty, memory, movement, and the refusal to let the days become interchangeable.
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    26 分