Sex, Trauma & a Vibrator That Learns

Gabriel Badejo has broken bones and been in car accidents, but he says none of it comes close to the pain of a sickle cell crisis. The filmmaker joins Jeremie, Brian and Taylor to unpack a lifetime with a disease that can make even describing the pain feel impossible. He opens up ...  Show more

A date is going great until someone’s foreskin refuses to cooperate. In the second edition of Second Opinion, Jeremie, Brian and Taylor return to Reddit for a sex accident that turns a promising night into an emergency-room bonding exercise. Then, a nursing student gets kicked ou ...  Show more

Covid: Laurie Taylor explores the financial impact of the coronavirus & asks if it represents an opportunity, as well as a crisis. He's joined by Lisa Suckert, Senior Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne, whose recent study examines the way ...  Show more

We explore the science, scalability, and (of course) economics surrounding the global vaccine race. Guests include the chief medical officer of the first U.S. firm to go to Phase 3 trials with a vaccine candidate; a former F.D.A. commissioner who’s been warning of a pandemic f ...

Covid: Laurie Taylor explores the impact of the pandemic on our working and home lives. Will Davies, Professor in Political Economy at Goldsmiths, University of London, suggests it has revealed the politics of our economy, offering prosperity to some and hardships to others. He’s ...  Show more