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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 T...
Cancer has been part of life since the origins of evolution.
Baseball inspires poets and scribes to wax on about some essential baseball-ness that reflects larger values. Maybe baseball is not simply a...
We think of the astronauts, those brave people who took a ride on a giant rocket ship into the unknown on their way to the moon. Charles Fis...
What will the digital world of the future be like? Will humans, or our eternally humming digital simulacra, live in heaven or hell?
Journalist Rachel Louise Snyder has looked at domestic violence around the world in her new book “ No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know Ab...
health, according to Dr. Sandro Galea, isn’t going to actually occur, for individuals or societies, if we stay focused at that level of atte...
After a career of carefully editing so many accomplished writers, language and punctuation remain a joy to Marry Norris, renowned New Yorker...
A broken democracy, perhaps like a broken clock, can be right sometimes. Journalist Hedrick Smith’s new film, “Winning Back Our Democracy,”...
A broken democracy, perhaps like a broken clock, can be right sometimes. Journalist Hedrick Smith’s new film, “Winning Back Our Democracy,”...
Siri Hustvedt talks about scholarship, teaching story to psychiatry residents and her new book about memory and time in her new novel, “Memo...
“Mama’s Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell us About Ourselves” by Frans De Waal raises a troubling question that challenges humans...
Arne Duncan served as President Obama’s Secretary of Education. His assessment of the nation’s efforts to educate children and of his own te...
Octavio Solis is an award-winning working playwright immersed in the culture and politics of our time. His plays tell the stories of rural A...
An extended walk through Seattle’s Chinatown/International District with scholar Marie Wong. “Building Tradition: Pan-Asian Seattle and Life...
An extended walk through Seattle’s Chinatown/International District with scholar Marie Wong. “Building Tradition: Pan-Asian Seattle and Life...
Through their wealth, philanthropists influence society. Is that fair? As it is currently set-up, Rob Reich says it isn’t. Reich (pronounced...
Uber has disrupted the taxi industry around the world. But its way of doing business may be reshaping other industries. Alex Rosenblat is a...
Peter Sagal, the very funny host of NPR’s News quiz “Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me!” has written a serious and funny book about his attraction to...
Pulitzer prize winning journalist, Truthdig columnist and RT TV talk show host Chris Hedges reports on what he sees as a declining empire, w...
The origins of humanity have become less uncertain as scientists like David Reich and his colleagues extract ancient DNA from the bones of o...
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 a...
“The Tangled tree: A Radical New History of Life,” looks new scientific understanding that tangles up human understanding of the tree of lif...
Ray WIliams and Allison Rinard are urban farmers. Their goal is to bring communities together around flowers and food.
An antidote to our toxic national politics. Local initiatives from citizens living in small cities across America aimed at creating jobs, ho...
It is very hard to stamp out a weed.
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 shap...
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...
From the 1920’s until television permanently settled into our living rooms in the late 1950’s, radio blasted out comedies, variety shows, ad...
Behavioral Economist Dan Ariely explores human misperceptions about saving and spending, opportunity costs and the subtle attraction of devi...
At Length interview by Steve Scher with visiting scholars, authors and artists to Town Hall Seattle.
At Length Interviews with visiting artists, authors and scholars to Town Hall Seattle
Journalist and interviewer Steve Scher talks with authors, thinkers and artists about social, scientific and cultural issues.
Professor Marieka Klawitter Over the last few years, the debate in America over the rights of people of different gender identities has beco...
Toure was at the University of Washington talking about Microaggresion, power and privelege
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...
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 o...
I-depth interviews with scholars visiting the University of Washington
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...
Steve Scher talks to producer, actor and activist Kathy Najimy about women and body image . Powerful forces are at work shaping our body ima...
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 wit...
Steve Scher talks with Professor Bruce Blumberg about obesogens , hormone disrupting chemicals that seem to change human metabolism. We eat...
Dr. Ellen Schur talks to Steve Scher about our bodies internal regulatory systems and how they change as we gain weight. She says the body's...
Sonia Nazario on a train in Mexico Sonia Nazario, author of “Enrique’s Journey: the story of a boy’s dangerous odyssey to reunite with his m...
Dr. Regina Benjamin, 18th Surgeon General of the United States, talks with Steve Scher about bringing joy to efforts at losing weight and st...
Steve Scher talks with Dr. Adam Drewnowsk i about the links between obesity and poverty. Simply put, people with more money can pay for bett...
Steve Scher talks with obesity epidemic scholar Shiriki Kumanyika about giving people the tools to understand the health implications of the...
Michael Pollan talks with Steve Scher about our national eating disorder. Michael Pollan has helped move food issues toward the center of Am...
Steve Scher talks with renowned choreographer Mark Morris, who was raised in Seattle and returns in March presenting a performance with his...
Steve Scher talks to former SETI DirectorJill Tarter about the search for life in the universe. Are we alone in the universe? That question...
Steve Scher talks to Christoph Bode about future narratives. Story creates culture, illuminates morality and explores mortality. Stories hav...