at length with steve scher

May 19, 2015

At Length with Adam Drewnowski

Drewnowski discusses the correlation between food, money and health, the strategies of “nutritional resilience,” and the “growing body of evidence that obesity in America is largely an economic issue.”

April 14, 2015

At Length with Michael Pollan

Michael Pollan has helped move food issues toward the center of American politics. His books and articles have focused on how the foods we eat shape our health, environment and culture.

March 31, 2015

At Length with Christoph Bode

Bode discusses growing up in a book-loving German anglophile family, the purpose of “difficult” novels and literature and how one should “never approach a book with too much respect.”

In this conversation with Steve Scher, Avila discusses the Freeway Revolts of the 1960s, the “coded, tacit” terminology of racism today and the meaning of George Clinton’s song “Chocolate Cities.”

Morris discusses his influences, how he runs the Mark Morris Dance Center as “an open buffet of dancing and music,” how all music “doesn’t automatically make you want dance to it” and more.

March 23, 2015

At Length with Jill Cornell Tarter

Tarter talks about the struggle in bridging public imagination and public funding, how SETI is “archaeology of the future,” and why we need to stop expecting to find extraterrestrial intelligent life on dry land.

March 6, 2015

At Length with Dolores Huerta

Huerta speaks about what inspired her to become an organizer, solidarity with Japanese-Americans in the wake of WWII’s internment camps and founding the United Farm Workers Association with Cesar Chavez.

Levitt expands on the staggering possibilities for medical advancement brought about by computing power, the surprising link between video games and microbiology and the extraordinary value of being “kind and good.”

February 27, 2015