Everything ends some time, but why are we so obsessed with apocalyptic narratives? All week long, The Takeaway is partnering with our friends at Scientific American to talk about The End. We’re talking about the mass extinctions the planet is facing, how we can keep ancient cultures alive, what happened when Scientific American’s editors asked their contributors how the world would end – and our listeners will weigh in with what inventions they wish had never been created in the first place.
All week long, in partnership with our friends at Scientific American, we’ve been talking about "the end" on The Takeaway. The end of the world, the end of our own lives, or, today, t...
All this week, we've been talking with our friends from Scientific American about endings — how cultures fade, and natural resources dwindle. Today, we’re focusing on something even b...
All this week we’re talking with our friends from Scientific American about endings: in nature, culture and science. For most of human history the clearest, most black and white endin...
We talked this morning about the loss of so-called “indigenous cultures” in our series, "The End." The fact that industrialization is driving certain cultures to extinction isn't new....
All week long, in partnership with our friends at Scientific American, we’re talking about "the end" on The Takeaway. Whether it’s melting glaciers, the falling water table, or even h...
Is it the end of the world as we know it? This year, we’ve seen terrible flooding, glaciers melting, and deep oil wells breaking. In light of these catastrophic events, we're launchin...
All week long, we'll be talking with our friends at Scientific American about things ending – good things, bad things, materials, animals, people and more – and how all of our lives w...
