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Why discipline and punishment don’t help children—or anyone around them

Sep 30, 2019

Dr. Ross Greene has been working with so-called problem kids for years, and has found what’s really going on with them — and it can’t be solved through punishment, reward or other behavior modification systems. He explains the fundamentals of his successful methods.

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Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Quiara Alegría Hudes' trilogy comes to Santa Fe

Sep 26, 2019

Three Santa Fe theater companies collaborate to bring audiences The Elliot Trilogy by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Quiara Alegría Hudes. We talk to director Alix Hudson.

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Paul Watson and Dave Foreman on pirate ships and monkey wrenching

Sep 23, 2019

Paul Watson’s ships had giant blades on the front to tear open the hulls of illegal whaling ships; Dave Foreman’s stealthy conservationists stood up to loggers, corporations and law enforcement—all in the service of species that cannot protect themselves. We talk to these two controversial, audacious...

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Big data vs. the little virus

Sep 19, 2019

Lauren Ancel Meyers is a professor of both integrative biology and statistics and data science. She combines these fields to make models of epidemics—to help us prevent, mitigate and treat things like influenza, zika and other potentially life-threatening illnesses. She will be giving the Ulam lectures for the Santa...

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So, is there intelligent life beyond earth?

Sep 16, 2019

Paul Davies is an astrophysicist and astrobiologist whose book "The Eerie Silence" is an exploration of the search for intelligent life in the universe. But what is “life,” and what is “intelligence?” And what is the likelihood of life forming on other planets? And if it did, how would we know?

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