The 7th Avenue Project Podcast
1) Remembering Comedian Garry Shandling with Paul Provenza
There are a lot of comedians whose work I'm partial to, but I have a special place in my pantheon for Garry Shandling. He was funny, unsparing, compassionate, psychologically acute and epistemological...Show More
2) Gravity Waves Explained by Physicist Anthony Aguirre
If the news coverage of recently discovered gravitational waves left you with lingering questions, you've come to the right place. Theoretical physicist Anthony Aguirre, our go-to guy on all things ge...Show More
3) Gwendolyn Mok: Pianist and Musical Medium
Gwendolyn Mok may have flunked her first Juilliard audition at the age of 5, but that was just a speed bump en route to a distinguished recording and concert career. Gwen sees herself as a kind of med...Show More
4) George Yancy: Philosophizing While Black
“As a black male in the United States,” says George Yancy, “to do philosophy in the abstract would be to deny the reality of my own existence.” Yancy grew up in a tough North Philadelphia housing proj...Show More
5) Molecular Biologist Kevin Esvelt: Gene Drives, CRISPR Critters and Evolutionary Sculpting
It's one thing to genetically modify an organism in the lab. It's another thing entirely to spread those modifications in the wild, altering whole populations or even species. A new technology, the “C...Show More
Molecular Biologist Kevin Esvelt: Gene Drives, CRISPR Critters and Evolutionary Sculpting
1:25:37 | Nov 15th, 2015
6) Comic Book Artist Dean Haspiel: Superheroes, Antiheroes, Fantasy and Autobiography
If you're going to tell cool stories in comic books, it helps to have had a colorful life and interesting friends. Dean Haspiel has had both. His dad was a writer, occasional street vigilante and conf...Show More
Comic Book Artist Dean Haspiel: Superheroes, Antiheroes, Fantasy and Autobiography
1:00:03 | Oct 11th, 2015
7) Jonathan Gottschall: "The Professor in the Cage: Why Men Fight and Why We Like to Watch"
Jonathan Gottschall's career as a college English prof was on the rocks, and he was desperate to do something completely different. So in his late 30s he left the classroom for the cage, taking up mix...Show More
Jonathan Gottschall: "The Professor in the Cage: Why Men Fight and Why We Like to Watch"
1:21:08 | Sep 27th, 2015
8) Jonathan Ames: From Writer to Sitcom Showrunner
“I was an obscure novelist and then I was given the keys to this production, and I had to learn on the spot.” And learn he did, helming HBO's "Bored to Death" for three hilarious seasons and now "Blun...Show More
9) Is Most Scientific Research Wrong? Psychologist Mike Frank on the "Reproducibility Crisis"
It's been called the "decline effect," "the proteus phenomenon," and "the reproducibility crisis": the startling realization that a lot of seemingly solid scientific research doesn't pan out under rep...Show More
Is Most Scientific Research Wrong? Psychologist Mike Frank on the "Reproducibility Crisis"
1:20:47 | Sep 13th, 2015
10) Policing: Myths Vs. Realities with Seth Stoughton
Cop shows and tough-on-crime rhetoric often depict a world so brutish that police have no choice but to play rough and kick butt, but Seth Stoughton says we've been misled. The former cop turned law p...Show More