Episodios

  • UnDisciplined: The art and science of political speech

    UnDisciplined: The art and science of political speech
    May 29 2025
    Emerging research suggests that human attention spans are getting shorter. That’s a problem for people who want to make change in a world in which the issues we’re facing are growing ever more complicated. So now, perhaps more than ever, it’s important to understand the art and science of giving a good speech — and few people in Canada do that better than David Shepherd. But Shepherd says none of this came naturally to him.
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    26 m
  • UnDisciplined: How a tragedy at a fundamentalist commune affected one Biblical scholar

    UnDisciplined: How a tragedy at a fundamentalist commune affected one Biblical scholar
    May 22 2025
    Dan McClellan loves the Bible. He doesn’t always love what it says. But he works hard not to try to mold it into something that he wants it to be — to meet it, he says, on its own terms.
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    26 m
  • UnDisciplined: Does the Bible really say it is the Word of God?

    UnDisciplined: Does the Bible really say it is the Word of God?
    May 15 2025
    Just about 60% of Americans say they identify as Christian. And just about 20% of Americans say they have read the entire Bible.
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    27 m
  • UnDisciplined: What does nature look like at night?

    UnDisciplined: What does nature look like at night?
    Apr 24 2025
    As diurnal creatures, humans often miss out on the natural world at night. And many of us have a natural urge to see the animals that come out at night as inherently worse, scarier, more disgusting, or more dangerous than their daytime counterparts. But if we set aside our distrust of what comes out at night, we’ll find ourselves stunned by what night time nature has to offer. And in his new book, that’s exactly what Charles Hood does.
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    26 m
  • UnDisciplined: How are microorganisms changing the way we understand life?

    UnDisciplined: How are microorganisms changing the way we understand life?
    Apr 17 2025
    What is life? However you answer that question, there is a good chance that it’s limited in some way by something that recent research has shown is not actually a limit. What living things can breathe, how they derive energy, how long they can live, and even whether they must die are all being challenged by what we’re learning from microorganisms. In her new book, “Intraterrestrials,” Karen Lloyd tells the story of exploring those limits among the strangest species on our planet.
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    26 m
  • UnDisciplined: Can holding leaders accountable to truth unlock a climate revolution?

    UnDisciplined: Can holding leaders accountable to truth unlock a climate revolution?
    Apr 11 2025
    In his new book, climate analyst Mike Berners-Lee says there's one shift that would go far toward solving every climate bind we’re in: holding corporate and political leaders accountable to truth.
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    26 m
  • UnDisciplined: Why aren't we using climate phases to predict crop yields?

    UnDisciplined: Why aren't we using climate phases to predict crop yields?
    Apr 3 2025
    For decades, we’ve known that climate cycles like El Niño affect regional crop yields. But even though our food system is increasingly global, we haven’t done a great job of thinking at a planetary scale.
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    26 m
  • UnDisciplined: How can we stay connected with plant life through changing seasons?

    UnDisciplined: How can we stay connected with plant life through changing seasons?
    Mar 27 2025
    Herbs have a wide range of uses. A new book explores how plants connect us to the earth, to each other, and to ourselves.
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    26 m