The Ongoing Transformation

By Issues in Science and Technology

Listen to a podcast, please open Podcast Republic app. Available on Google Play Store and Apple App Store.


Category: Science

Open in Apple Podcasts


Open RSS feed


Open Website


Rate for this podcast

Subscribers: 2
Reviews: 0
Episodes: 94

Description

The Ongoing Transformation is a biweekly podcast featuring conversations about science, technology, policy, and society. We talk with interesting thinkers—leading researchers, artists, policymakers, social theorists, and other luminaries—about the ways new knowledge transforms our world. This podcast is presented by Issues in Science and Technology, a journal published by Arizona State University and the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Visit issues.org and contact us at podcast@issues.org.

Episode Date
Kumar Garg Funds Ideas That Are “Big, if True”
May 05, 2026
Untangling the “Cosmic Coincidence” of the Job Market
Apr 21, 2026
The Future of Making Babies
Apr 07, 2026
Edward You Protected America From Bioterror
Mar 24, 2026
Building a Tech Innovation Ecosystem in Newark
Mar 03, 2026
Who Sets the Standard?
Feb 17, 2026
How Cannabis Regulation Became a Giant Experiment
Feb 03, 2026
How Is AI Shaping the Future of Work?
Jan 13, 2026
Science Policy IRL: Bhavya Lal Charts a Future for Humans in Space
Dec 09, 2025
Making AI Chatbots Safer
Nov 25, 2025
Not Now, But Soon: The Art of Portraying War
Nov 11, 2025
Not Now, But Soon: Losing Your Country
Oct 28, 2025
Not Now, But Soon: Who is Worth Measuring?
Oct 14, 2025
Not Now, But Soon: The Food System is Rigged
Sep 30, 2025
Not Now, But Soon: A Hurricane of Data
Sep 16, 2025
Not Now, But Soon
Aug 26, 2025
What Does a Cormorant Feel?
Jul 01, 2025
Neil Chilson Helps Turn Knowledge into Benefits for Humanity
Jun 17, 2025
How ADHD Affects Adults
Jun 03, 2025
Kelvin Droegemeier Articulates a Vision for American Science
May 20, 2025
Using Storytelling to Investigate Scientific Questions
May 06, 2025
Taylor Spicer Empowers Scientists and Engineers to Engage Locally
Apr 22, 2025
Music and Health: Your Brain on Music
Apr 08, 2025
The Rise of Deadly Fungal Pathogens
Mar 25, 2025
Minimizing Cannabis' Harms to Public Health
Mar 11, 2025
Music and Health: Dancing Together
Feb 25, 2025
How Do You Solve a Problem Like Misinformation?
Feb 11, 2025
Music and Health: The Creative Arts and Healing
Jan 28, 2025
Reindeer!
Dec 17, 2024
A Cutting-Edge Bureaucracy
Dec 03, 2024
The Hidden Engineering that Makes New York Tick
Nov 19, 2024
Ending Inequities in Health Care
Nov 05, 2024
Uncovering Hidden Bias in Clinical Research
Oct 22, 2024
How the Octopus Got to the Senate
Oct 08, 2024
Lav Varshney Connects AI Research, Executive Policy, and Public Service
Sep 24, 2024
Cool Ideas for a Long, Hot Summer: Indigenous Sustainability
Sep 10, 2024
Cool Ideas for a Long, Hot Summer: Refugee Communication Networks
Sep 03, 2024
Cool Ideas for a Long, Hot Summer: Solar-Powered Canoes
Aug 27, 2024
Cool Ideas for a Long, Hot Summer: Environmental Justice
Aug 20, 2024
Rashada Alexander Prepares the Next Generation of Science Policy Leaders
Jul 23, 2024
A Road Map for a New Era in Biology and Medicine
Jul 09, 2024
Introducing: What Could Go Right? Climate Capital and a Green Tech Future
Jul 02, 2024
Brent Blevins Makes Mars Policy in Congress
Jun 18, 2024
How Can STEMM Do A Better Job of Caring for Its Caregivers?
Jun 04, 2024
Kei Koizumi Advises the President
May 21, 2024
To Fix Health Misinformation, Think Beyond Fact Checking
May 07, 2024
Amanda Arnold Sees the Innovation Ecosystem from a Unique Perch
Apr 16, 2024
This Eclipse Could Make You Cry–And Make New Scientists
Apr 02, 2024
Science Policy IRL: Walter Valdivia Researches for the White House
Mar 12, 2024
Building Community in the Bayou
Feb 27, 2024
Alta Charo Considers Ethics for Stem Cells and CRISPR
Feb 13, 2024
Zach Pirtle Explores Ethics for Mars Landings
Jan 30, 2024
Turning a Policy Idea Into a Pilot Project
Jan 10, 2024
Science Policy IRL: Apurva Dave Builds Connections Between National Security and Climate
Dec 12, 2023
A Venture Capitalist for Better Science
Nov 28, 2023
Science Policy IRL: Quinn Spadola Develops Nanotechnology With Soft Power
Nov 14, 2023
Sustaining Science for the Future of Ukraine
Oct 31, 2023
The Complicated Legacy of the Green Revolution
Oct 10, 2023
Open Science: Moving from Possible to Expected to Required
Sep 26, 2023
Blue Dreams: Connecting People With Ocean Research
Sep 05, 2023
Secretary Ernest Moniz on the Diplomatic Role of “Cumulative” Science
Aug 01, 2023
Combating the “Multi-Dimensional Beast” of Chronic Pain
Jun 20, 2023
Artificial Intelligence and the Moral Imagination
Jun 06, 2023
Race, Genetics, and a “Most Dangerous Myth”
May 16, 2023
The Microscope and the Metaphor
May 02, 2023
To Solve the AI Problem, Rely on Policy, Not Technology
Apr 18, 2023
Finding Collective Advantage in Shared Knowledge
Mar 28, 2023
Confronting Extreme Heat with the World’s First Chief Heat Officer
Mar 07, 2023
You've Been Misinformed About Sharks
Feb 21, 2023
What’s Driving the Electric Car Revival?
Feb 07, 2023
Collaborations on Ice
Jan 10, 2023
Shirley Malcom: Where Science and Society Meet
Dec 20, 2022
Peaches, Pimentos, and Myths of Innovation
Dec 06, 2022
To Solve Societal Problems, Unite the Humanities with Science
Nov 15, 2022
How to Fix the Bus
Nov 02, 2022
How can Clinical Trials Better Reflect Society’s Diversity?
Oct 04, 2022
The Forgotten Origins of the Social Internet
Sep 20, 2022
Fruitful Communities
Sep 06, 2022
BONUS EPISODE: A Historic Opportunity for U.S. Innovation
Jun 29, 2022
Biotech Goes to Summer Camp
May 24, 2022
Rethinking Hard Problems in Brain Science
May 10, 2022
Demystifying the Federal Budget
Apr 26, 2022
Chasing Connections in Climate Action
Apr 12, 2022
Can Bureaucracy Build a Climate Revolution?
Mar 29, 2022
Creating a “High-Minded Enterprise”: Vannevar Bush and Postwar Science Policy
Mar 15, 2022
Maximizing the Good of Innovation
Mar 01, 2022
Fighting COVID with Art
Feb 15, 2022
Shaky Science in the Courtroom
Jan 31, 2022
The Marvelous and the Mundane: Art and the Webb Telescope
Jan 18, 2022
Dinosaurs!
Jan 04, 2022
The Art of a COVID Year
Dec 21, 2021
Eternal Memory of the Facebook Mind
Dec 07, 2021
Doing Science with Everyone at the Table
Nov 22, 2021
Science Policymakers’ Required Reading
Nov 22, 2021