UnDisciplined

Mar 20 2025 295 ep. 25 mins 53

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Each week, UnDisciplined takes a fun, fascinating and accessible dive into the lives of researchers and explorers working across a wide variety of scientific fields.

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UnDisciplined: Americans may soon see a link between climate change and health problems

Mar 20 2025 25 mins

Rising global temperatures are already impacting human health. One survey suggests that most Americans haven’t yet felt this connection in their own lives or seen it in their own communities. But that might change — and soon.

UnDisciplined: What goes into making this show, and how has it evolved over time?

Mar 13 2025 25 mins

On July 6, 2018, listeners who were tuned into UPR heard UnDisciplined for the first time. Now, nearly seven years later, we’ve shared 300 episodes.

UnDisciplined: This guy bet his father $10,000 that 10 prophecies wouldn’t come true. Who actually won?

Mar 06 2025 25 mins

Zach Mack’s father was falling into the abyss. That’s what it felt like, at least, as Zach watched his dad become more and more susceptible to conspiracy theories and prophecies from religious zealots. But when his dad bet him $10,000 that ten different predictions would come true by the end of 2024, Zach thought he found a way to bring his dad back.

UnDisciplined: Can we really recycle our wastewater?

Feb 20 2025 25 mins

Drought and water shortages are major concerns for many Arizona cities. And there have been many potential solutions approached to try and handle these concerns. Advanced Water Purification (AWP), also known as water reuse or water recycling, is one of them. But it can be a difficult subject to broach. Christy Spackman is using an interesting medium to open the conversation: AWT-r

UnDisciplined: Will the California fires send a shockwave through the economy?

Jan 30 2025 25 mins

The wildfires in Southern California are on track to become the costliest disaster in U.S. history, and a lot of people are already recognizing that this conflagration is going to send a shockwave through the insurance market. But, as it turns out, the economic impact won’t stop there. Wesleyan University economist Gary Yohe says that the fires have the potential to be a contagio

UnDisciplined: What will Trump mean for the climate movement?

Jan 23 2025 25 mins

David Roberts clearly isn’t happy about the political direction of this country especially as it pertains to climate. But if you read his newsletter and listen to his podcast, you’ll realize that there are still a lot of cool people, doing cool stuff, with a chance to cool our world.

UnDisciplined: How far does grace go?

Jan 16 2025 25 mins

Rep. Kera Birkeland spent much of her political career writing and passing legislation aimed at trans Americans — legislation that many people view as cruel. And Birkeland most recent electoral opponent, Kris Campbell, says Birkeland’s actions and words have caused trans people like him to feel fear, anxiety and anger. But while many people have responded to Campbell with conte

UnDisciplined: Does DEI training work?

Jan 09 2025 25 mins

Social psychologist Nilanjana Dasgupta says our bottom-up approach to DEI training is likely ineffective, but there are simple, straight-forward and research-based steps that actually work to create more equitable institutions.

UnDisciplined: The seagull and the snowpocalypse (Part 3)

Dec 15 2024 25 mins

A much publicized warning released in the winter of 2023 said that the Great Salt Lake was at grave risk of disappearing in only five years. Two very wet winters later, it’s now very clear that the worst case scenario is not going to happen. So…what changed?

UnDisciplined: The seagull and the snowpocalypse (Part 2)

Dec 15 2024 25 mins

A much publicized warning released in the winter of 2023 said that the Great Salt Lake was at grave risk of disappearing in only five years. Two very wet winters later, it’s now very clear that the worst case scenario is not going to happen. So…what changed?