The Shape of the World

Recent Episodes

EPISODE 23: Cutting Through the Noise On Climate: How to Do Something That Matters, Do It Consistently, and Then Move On with Your Life

Posted July 24, 2020 • 00:46:22

Climate change is scary. The magnitude of the problem makes it hard for people to commit to direct action to solve it, hoping instead (reasonably but...

Episode 22: The Grace of Going Unseen

Posted May 27, 2020 • 00:25:32

Akiko Busch is well-known for her writing on design, culture and the natural world. Her essays continue to touch on those subjects although increasingly,...

Episode 21: The Coat & the Goat

Posted May 13, 2020 • 00:31:35

Andrew Robichaud explores the peculiar coexistence of people and farm animals in America’s cities. In the 1800s, it wasn’t unusual for men wearing...

Episode 20: The Weirdest Way

Posted May 6, 2020 • 00:26:44

Dr. Katy Greenwald has a longstanding interest in puzzling out the success and persistence of North America's "gene thieves," the unisexual (all female)...

Episode 19: Different Kinds of Aliveness

Posted April 29, 2020 • 00:42:22

David Sibley started drawing birds at age five and never stopped. Having an ornithologist father and being around his father’s friends, all of whom...