Episodios

  • UnDisciplined: The new Disney reality: Everyone (rich) is a V.I.P.

    UnDisciplined: The new Disney reality: Everyone (rich) is a V.I.P.
    Sep 26 2025
    For most of the history of the Disney brand of amusement parks, an “Everyone is a V.I.P.” philosophy made good business sense. With limited exceptions, Walt Disney and his successors resisted tiered services that gave extra privileges to those who could afford them. But if you’ve been to a Disney park lately, you know that’s no longer the case. In his recent op-ed for The News York Times, Daniel Currell examines why that is, and what’s to come.
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    26 m
  • UnDisciplined: The Patterns of Life, Part 2

    UnDisciplined: The Patterns of Life, Part 2
    Sep 18 2025
    Again and again, similar patterns show up in nature in different creatures at different times in their evolutionary histories—even when those life forms have evolved on much different paths for hundreds of millions of years. And when they show up, as it turns out, we often perceive them as beautiful. So, the question is: Why?
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    26 m
  • UnDisciplined: The Patterns of Life, Part 1

    UnDisciplined: The Patterns of Life, Part 1
    Sep 16 2025
    Again and again, similar patterns show up in nature in different creatures at different times in their evolutionary histories. And when they show up, we often perceive them as beautiful. Why?
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    26 m
  • UnDisciplined: Under the sea

    UnDisciplined: Under the sea
    Sep 4 2025
    Deep in the ocean, jellyfish, shrimp, fireworms and other creatures use multi–colored lights for defense, luring food, attracting mates, and communication. In their new book, Steven Haddock and Sönke Johnsen explore the nature of underwater light—investigating the varieties of transparency, pigmentation, iridescence, bioluminescence, and fluorescence found in the watery beyond.
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    26 m
  • UnDisciplined: What do budget cuts mean for NASA's future?

    UnDisciplined: What do budget cuts mean for NASA's future?
    Aug 29 2025
    The Trump administration is seeking an across-the-board 20% cut to NASA's total funding, and nearly all of that reduction is concentrated in science mission directorate.
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    26 m
  • UnDisciplined: The art and science of political speech

    UnDisciplined: The art and science of political speech
    May 29 2025
    Emerging research suggests that human attention spans are getting shorter. That’s a problem for people who want to make change in a world in which the issues we’re facing are growing ever more complicated. So now, perhaps more than ever, it’s important to understand the art and science of giving a good speech — and few people in Canada do that better than David Shepherd. But Shepherd says none of this came naturally to him.
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    26 m
  • UnDisciplined: How a tragedy at a fundamentalist commune affected one Biblical scholar

    UnDisciplined: How a tragedy at a fundamentalist commune affected one Biblical scholar
    May 22 2025
    Dan McClellan loves the Bible. He doesn’t always love what it says. But he works hard not to try to mold it into something that he wants it to be — to meet it, he says, on its own terms.
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    26 m
  • UnDisciplined: Does the Bible really say it is the Word of God?

    UnDisciplined: Does the Bible really say it is the Word of God?
    May 15 2025
    Just about 60% of Americans say they identify as Christian. And just about 20% of Americans say they have read the entire Bible.
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    27 m