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Literature May 15, 2024

For our final episode, Omar sits down with his dear friend Lydia Kiesling to discuss something near and dear: literature. What’s it like working as a writer? How do you get your start? Make money? Deal with the advent of AI? All is discussed.

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Growth May 08, 2024

More! More! More! Today, Omar speaks with Jon D. Erickson about society’s seemingly insatiable appetite for growth. Can the scales be tipped to value qualitative expansion of the economy over quantitative?

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Affordable Housing May 01, 2024

“Is the system functioning exactly as it’s meant to?” That’s the question on Omar’s mind in today’s episode–a conversation with Jacob William Faber about the future of affordable housing.

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Advertising Apr 24, 2024

A world without advertising? Wishful thinking. Or is it? Omar’s interrogating how and why ads weave through our lives, and if a world without them is conceivable. Today's episode features two conversations: Ryan Lough discusses his background making ads and his new film You Need This, which interrogates consumerism and hyper-capitalism, and Andrew Oswald shares his perspective as a professor of economics and behavioral science.

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Billionaires Apr 17, 2024

What does the one percent really mean? What do people get wrong when they think about their own wealth? And what the world could look like without billionaires? Omar’s asking these questions in conversation with Rachel Sherman.

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Guns Apr 10, 2024

Is having a gun an expression of some sort of freedom? The ubiquity of guns in the United States certainly suggests so. Today, Omar talks with David Yamane about his changing relationship to firearms, and if a world without them is conceivable.

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Humans Apr 03, 2024

What does the world look like without … us? This week, Omar speaks with David Farrier and imagines what the future could look like for, and perhaps without, humans.

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E.R. Fightmaster, Tien Tran, and Katie Kershaw are talking sports. Namely all things queer and woman-forward in the world of sports. From buzzer beater moments during March Madness to weekly-crowned sports MILFs. Basketball, soccer, Power Slapping, and more. Every week, they're taking one for the team and scoring all the 3-pointers...

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Meat Mar 27, 2024

Today, Omar speaks with Alicia Kennedy about the food-industrial complex, the massive climate footprint of our eating habits, and what the world could look like without meat.

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Fossil Fuels, Part 2 Mar 20, 2024

Resources we use to power our lives aren’t going to be employed in the same way in the very near future. In part-two of our fossil fuel series, we’re speaking with planetary futurist Alex Steffen about what the world could look like without these non-renewable resources.

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Fossil Fuels, Part 1 Mar 13, 2024

Omar sits down with Adam McKay to discuss the state of our environment and society. This is part-one of our series imaging a world without fossil fuels.

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Local Journalism Dec 20, 2023

All over the United States, more and more communities are losing their most important source of information: local newspapers. At the same time, a small group of hedge funds and investors are swooping in to buy these businesses, strip them for parts and make a quick profit.

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Mosquitoes Dec 13, 2023

Mosquitoes and the deadly diseases they carry are a public health crisis. Today, thanks to climate change, they're even starting to show up in parts of the world where they'd never existed previously.

Additional note on episode contents: The research organization Verily Life Sciences is manufacturing incompatible male mosquitoes and is providing them to the Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources and its agents, including Lisa Crampton's team at the Kaua'i Forest Bird Recovery Project.

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Social Security Dec 06, 2023

Social security has provided relief for millions of elderly, bereaved, and disabled Americans, but just about everyone on all sides of the ideological spectrum agrees that if nothing is done, the whole system is going to collapse.

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Glaciers Nov 29, 2023

Thwaites is maybe the most famous glacier on earth. And to get a sense of why, you should also know its nickname: The Doomsday glacier. If Thwaites melts, a lot of water that was once solid will end up in the ocean...and the collapse has already begun.

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Touch Nov 22, 2023

It’s undeniable–touch is growing scarcer in our increasingly digital world. We learn about the physiological importance of touch and speak to the professional cuddlers who are putting touch for sale.

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Drug Laws Nov 15, 2023

According to the CDC, deaths from opioids more than doubled to 105,000 from January 2015 to January 2023. Some states are enacting stiffer penalties for drug dealers, while others are decriminalizing drugs, but neither of these approaches are working. What do we need to make it work?

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Batteries Nov 08, 2023

Whatever going green is – be it using electric cars or installing solar panels – it doesn’t happen without big, expensive batteries. And that’s an issue, because it’s not exactly the most environmentally friendly way to save the world.

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White Rhinos Nov 01, 2023

Today, a whopping one million species are on the verge of extinction, with animals dying off at a rate not seen in the last 10 million years. We tell the story of a single subspecies, of which only two members remain, a number that makes it all but certain this animal will vanish within our lifetime.

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Death Oct 25, 2023

Over the past few years, some of the richest people (mostly men) on the planet have funded all kinds of research labs and institutions whose core mission is to eradicate aging and stave off death. But how close are we really to living forever?

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Libraries Oct 18, 2023

Today, libraries are shouldering societal burdens like addiction, and have become a central battleground in this country’s raging culture wars.

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Prisons Aug 09, 2023

The prison abolition movement has long called for the end of mass incarceration. What are the consequences and why should we care?

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Unions Aug 02, 2023

So much of what we take for granted about the American labor force, from weekends to work hours, comes from union agitation, and yet union participation has dropped to historic lows. How and when did this shift happen, and what does this mean for our future?

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Cash Jul 26, 2023

What does a world without cash look like? Who isn’t able to participate and why is a cashless society something folks pushing for? From Denmark to Peru to Kenya, we examine the possibilities and considerable pitfalls.

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Phosphorus Jul 19, 2023

If we run out of phosphorus, which is what we use to enable massive-scale farming, millions of people will starve to death. There is hope, though, in the form of a growing effort to extract it from human waste.

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Public Space Jul 12, 2023

We have been losing public spaces for years, and though it’s a defining architectural feature of many major cities, we don't seem to be doing anything about it.

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Home Jul 05, 2023

Omar’s birthplace, Qatar, is essentially disappearing, not as a result of climate change, but because it’s become something entirely different. What does it mean to be without home?

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Daylight Saving Time Jun 28, 2023

Politicians, economists, and sleep specialists debate instituting a permanent standard time. Should we keep one time all year, split it in two, or do something else entirely?

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Antibiotics Jun 21, 2023

The last time scientists produced a new batch of effective antibiotics was in 1987. Since then, we've seen virtually no new ones. About 700,000 people die from antibiotic-resistant bacteria worldwide every year and in the next couple of decades, that number is expected to soar.

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Coffee Jun 14, 2023

People love coffee, but climate change is fundamentally altering where and how coffee is grown. Because of the damage being done to the planet, coffee is in trouble. And so are the farmers who grow it.

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Sand Jun 07, 2023

We use sand more than almost any other resource on earth - for everything from glass to concrete – and we're running out so quickly that there's a massive criminal network of folks stealing sand and selling it on the black market.

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Introducing: Without May 08, 2023

Hosted by international bestselling author and journalist Omar El Akkad, every episode of Without is a thought experiment – what would the world look like if something we’ve become used to were no longer around?

Coming June 7th. Listen & follow on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts.

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