Entanglements, by Undark

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Welcome to Season 3: Should We Put AI-Enabled Tech in Our Brains? Sep 25, 2026

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We're back again! This week on Entanglements: Should we allow AI technology to be put in our brains? It sounds like something out of science fiction, but our hosts discuss the current research on neural implants with a professor of neurology and neuroethics at the University of British Columbia and a physician scientist and medical ethicist at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York.

How to Cover Science Under Trump Oct 08, 2025

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In the Season 2 finale, our hosts talk to Tom Zeller Jr., Undark’s editor-in-chief, about covering science under the Trump administration. While the podcast's topics are always politically charged, they have become even more so in the current political climate.

Do We Know Enough to Use Psychedelics As Medicine? Oct 01, 2025

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This week on Entanglements: Do we have enough scientific evidence to approve psychedelics as medicine? Our hosts unpack the data with Albert Garcia-Romeu, an associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and Bertha Madras, a professor of psychobiology at Harvard Medical School.

What Should We Risk to Settle Space? Sep 24, 2025

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This week on Entanglements: Should we live on Mars, and beyond? Our hosts talk to Tiffany Vora, a biologist and space advocate who has done three analog Mars simulations, and Kelly Weinersmith, a biologist and the co-author of the book “A City on Mars."

Should Companies Decide Our Tech Future? Sep 17, 2025

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This week on Entanglements: Should tech companies — and the billionaires that often run them — decide for the rest of us how artificial intelligence is deployed? Our hosts dig into the topic with two book authors who have covered AI from essentially opposing perspectives: Greg Beato and Adam Becker.

Should We Revamp Our Voting System? Sep 10, 2025

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This week on Entanglements: Should we switch all U.S. elections to ranked choice voting? Our hosts discuss the pros and cons with Deb Otis, director of research and policy for Fair Vote, a non-profit that works on election reform, and David McCune, a professor of mathematics at William Jewell College in Missouri.

Should We Change Our Planet's Climate...On Purpose? Sep 03, 2025

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This week on Entanglements: Should we run outdoor geoengineering experiments? Our hosts dive into this fiercely debated topic with an atmospheric chemist from Harvard University and a planetary physicist from Oxford University.

Should We Try to Prevent Autism? Aug 27, 2025

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This week on Entanglements: Should we try to prevent autism? Our hosts speak with Jill Escher, a philanthropist, president of the National Council on Severe Autism, and parent of two young adults with severe nonverbal autism, and Eric García, the Washington bureau chief at The Independent, who himself is autistic.

Kicking Off Season 2: Should We Make Viruses More Dangerous – For Science? Aug 20, 2025

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We're back! This week on Entanglements: Should we make viruses more dangerous? Our hosts discuss this question, and its contentious history, with a microbiologist from the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and a virologist from the Pasteur Institute in Paris.

Wrapping Up Season 1 Dec 30, 2024

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This week on Entanglements: What did we learn from our first season? What’s on deck for the future? Our hosts explore these questions and more in conversations with a special guest.

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