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- We talk with infectious disease expert and Director of the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, Andrew Read, about vaccine escape, when new variants spread that can infect people who are already vaccinated.
- Jessica Brinkworth on the perceived and actual risks of trick-or-treating. Explore the actual risks of gathering ghouls for Halloween, versus the perceived anxieties that truly never die-razorblades in apples, anyone?
- Episode: (2020)2020–TV EpisodeAre you getting enough sleep? Neither are we. If you're worried that sleep deprivation will compromise you in the ZA, you're probably right. You'll learn why it's dangerous if you don't sleep. And even more dangerous if you do.
- Grow, fish, and forage your holiday meal for a very merry hyperlocal holiday. Erica and Rob talk to anthropologist, ecologist and localist Keith Tidball about how to have a festive free-range holiday even when you're stuck at home.
- 2020–TV EpisodeWe discuss the 1964 holiday special "Rudolph the red nosed reindeer," and chat about how horrifyingly traumatic this ostensible children's Christmas special actually is.
- Ann Barwich and Peter Todd join to discuss anosmia (when you can't smell), paraosmia (when things smell like something they're not) and the importance of our sense of smell in triggering memories and traditions during the holiday season.
- Carl Flink talks about how we can literally and metaphorically move forward by embracing the bizarreness that is our current world: outlasting and out-dancing the apocalypse by frolicking in hazmat suits, for example.
- Ilana and Liz talk to Dr. Jason Scott about how dystopian and utopian science fiction gives creators the freedom to imagine liberal (or, liberatory) landscapes in which queerness is celebrated, or, even better, not tokenized.
- Even if you survive the apocalypse, could you build a shelter, stay warm, and find food? After spending two years discussing this idea from the safety of civilization, we're going to give it a try.
- 2020–TV EpisodeToday we discuss the hope that comes with a renewal of democracy and the rolling out of vaccines against a deadly virus, but we also ask the question on everyones minds: Is the shit show really over?
- 2020–TV EpisodeWhen the apocalypse hits, how will you connect with your audience, protect your brand, and capture the attention of the media? Marvin Stockwell, Dir. of Media Relations at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, discusses these challenges.
- How can animals help shape our response to the zombie apocalypse? Jo Shaw, The Equus Projects Artistic Director, discusses working with horses and interspecies collaboration to help us survive the ZA and forge meaningful connections.
- 2020–TV EpisodeGroundwater levels are plunging . Are we running out of water? Are we running out of time? We talk with Civic/Environmental Engineering Student Brook Thompson about how we can best manage (or fight for) both. Tune in to see if Dave dies.
- 2020–TV EpisodeJohn Rudolph and anthropologist Meredith F. Small and unschooling researcher Kevin Currie-Knight discuss and debate how kids should and can learn in times of calm and in times of crisis.
- Esma Gel and infectious disease expert Jessica Brinkworth discuss the hidden logistics behind getting the country vaccinated, the loopholes that people find in the system and the ethical challenges that arise along the way.
- Biologist and epidemiologist Michael Metzger on transmissible cancer in clams: how they arise, why they spread, and why we humans don't have to worry about transmissible cancer (except if you're being chased by zombies).
- Are you part of a system that exploits free labor, perpetuates existing power structures and has been completely zombified by corporate interests? So are we. Jeremy Sykes reveals how skewed incentives no longer match rewards.
- 2020–TV EpisodeWe talk about whether endotoxin is fundamentally an agent of destruction, a regulator of our immune systems or an indestructible zombie party crasher that just knows how to trigger us.
- We talk with Britt Bunyard, editor in chief of Fungi magazine, about the magical, mystical, and mind-bending abilities of fungi and what this means for the apocalypses of the past and future.
- Rebecca Wragg Sykes, of "Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art," and Anna Burges-Lumsden, writer and food stylist, discuss how Neanderthals prepared and enjoyed their meals as Anna walks us through a Neanderthal-inspired meal.
- 2020–TV EpisodePreparing for emergency scenarios is hard enough for adults, but what happens when children enter the equation? Emily chats with comedy author and father of four James Breakwell, and author and psychologist Dr. Steven Kirsh .
- Now that we're all getting vaccinated against the zombie virus, does this mean the apocalypse is over? Today we talk with apocalypse experts about what the future holds and how they plan to stay safe over the coming months.