UnDisciplined: What can theatre teach us about kindness?
For years, comedy thrived on cynicism. The world was a mess, people were selfish, and anyone who believed otherwise was the punchline.But fr...
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20 of 326 episodesUnDisciplined: Learning relevance from relegated soccer teams
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 g...
UnDisciplined: How science fiction reflects science fact
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...
UnDisciplined: How athletes change their perception of time
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 ca...
UnDisciplined: How A.I. is remaking the university experience
There is no denying it: A.I. has changed higher education, and teachers are trying to catch up — to figure out how to live in this new world...
UnDisciplined: What Animals Know About Us
Scott Simon has spent a lifetime telling other people’s stories on national public radio. But every now and then, along the way, he’s found...
UnDisciplined: Why we ‘reward’ motivated employees with more work
In workplaces everywhere, the most engaged employees often become the go-to for extra work. It feels logical, but management scholar Sangah...
UnDisciplined: The Joy of Polymathy
A geologist, a planetary scientist, a NASA mission leader, and an expert on team-building walk into a bar. The bartender says, “hey, Lindy,...
UnDisciplined: The Future of Meat Is Clean, Climate-friendly, and Moral
For decades, the case against industrial animal farming has been framed as a moral one—and it hasn’t slowed consumption. As countries grow w...
UnDisciplined: Return to the Moon
Jani Radebaugh, a planetary scientist at Brigham Young University, has spent her career studying the landscapes of other worlds — and for de...
UnDisciplined: The Climatologist and the Dendrochronologist
This winter’s snow drought may leave a mark that lasts for centuries. Justin DeRose, a dendrochronologist and assistant professor of silvicu...
UnDisciplined: What does climate migration really look like?
For years, many people have assumed that climate change will send massive waves of “climate refugees” across borders around the world. But J...
UnDisciplined: Building a future with climate-conscious architecture
In 2011, an EF-5 tornado ripped through Joplin, Missouri, claiming 161 lives. Almost immediately researchers like Marc Levitan, from the Nat...
UnDisciplined: Is climate change funny?
Is the greatest existential threat our species has ever faced really something to joke about? Aaron Sachs thinks so. And, in fact, he thinks...
UnDisciplined: Social inequality on a rapidly heating planet
We’ve long found different ways to explain that the world is made up of haves and have-nots. We live in the developed world or the developin...
UnDisciplined: Why do we drink?
For a very long time it was thought that some alcohol, in moderation, could be healthy for us. The latest research suggests that’s simply no...
UnDisciplined: What do we learn from aging?
Ten years after publishing This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism, activist and writer Ashton Applewhite reflects on what a decade of...
UnDisciplined: Why Do Scientists Attack Other Scientists?
We know that, throughout history, society hasn’t always appreciated revolutionary scientific findings — and sometimes scientists find themse...
UnDisciplined: The new Disney reality — everyone (rich) is a VIP
Historically, an “everyone is a VIP” philosophy made good business sense for Disney amusement parks. But now Disney is embracing tiered serv...
UnDisciplined: The Patterns of Life, Part 2
Again and again, similar patterns show up in nature in different creatures at different times in their evolutionary histories—even when thos...