lecture
May 19, 2015
At Length with Regina M. Benjamin, M.D., M.B.A., 18th Surgeon General
Benjamin discusses rediscovering “the joy in being healthy,” the inevitable controversies of thinking outside the box and the origins of public health missions in America.
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.”
May 15, 2015
At Length with Shiriki Kumanyika
Dr. Kumanyika discusses the evolving landscape and presence of obesity within African-American demographics and giving people the tools to understand the health implications of their personal choices.
At Length with Bruce Blumberg
In this conversation with Steve Scher, Dr. Blumberg discusses obesogens, the hormone-disrupting chemicals that seem to change human metabolism.
At Length with Sonia Nazario
Nazario discusses her fraught and illuminating journey accompanying Central American minors atop Mexican freight trains and how U.S. policy will decide the fate of these children.
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 7, 2015
At Length with Marc Rotenberg
Rotenberg discusses the balancing privacy and practicality, contemplating the constitution in times of fear and unrest and the “incredibly creepy” picture emerging through violations of data privacy.
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.
At Length with Michael Levitt
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
At Length with Steve Scher
At Length host Steve Scher speaks with some of the world’s leading minds about a variety of topics and issues, ranging from politics, science, art, culture and beyond.
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