Cancer has been part of life since the origins of evolution. 

At length with Steve Scher. - The House of Podcasts

Athena Aktipis on The Cheating Cell: How Evolution Helps Us Understand And Treat Cancer.

Baseball inspires poets and scribes to wax on about some essential baseball-ness that reflects larger values. Maybe baseball is not simply a game, but something grander, a philosophy that might help people order the broader human experience?Alva Noë is a writer and a philosopher who thinks about baseball. His latest book is Infinite Baseball: Notes from a Philosopher at the Ballpark

At Length with Alva Noë

We think of the astronauts, those brave people who took a ride on a giant rocket ship into the unknown on their way to the moon. Charles Fishman got to thinking about the more than four hundred thousand working people who actually invented the space program, switch by switch, stitch by stitch, making the dream a reality. 

At Length with Charles Fishman, "One Giant Leap: The Impossible Mission That Flew Us To The Moon."

What will the digital world of the future be like? Will humans, or our eternally humming digital simulacra, live in heaven or hell?

At Length with Neal Stephenson, "Fall; or, Dodge in Hell"

Journalist Rachel Louise Snyder has looked at domestic violence around the world in her new book “ No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us.”

At Length with Rachel Louise Snyder, author of "No Visible Bruises: What We Don't Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us."

health, according to Dr. Sandro Galea, isn’t going to actually occur, for individuals or societies, if we stay focused at that level of attention and care.Health should be considered how everyone lives in their neighborhoods, the opportunities that exist in education and employment.Sandro Galea is an innovator in epidemiology. He is Dean and Professor at Boston University School of Public Health. 

At Length with Dr. Sandro Galea, "Well: What We Need To Talk About When We Talk About Health."

After a career of carefully editing so many accomplished writers, language and punctuation remain a joy to Marry Norris, renowned New Yorker Copy Editor. Her first book, “Between You and Me: Confessions of AComma Queen,”was nominated for a Thurber Prize for American Humor.In her follow up,“Greek To Me: Adventures of The Comma Queen,” Norris shares her love for the Greek language, culture and land.

At Length with Mary Norris, author of "Greek To Me: Adventures of The Comma Queen

A broken democracy, perhaps like a broken clock, can be right sometimes. Journalist Hedrick Smith’s new film, “Winning Back Our Democracy,” profiles citizen activists around the United States who are making a difference. As one Florida activist put it, if it can happen in their state, maybe community by community, an end to gerrymandering and a commitment to one person one vote can become a reality.

Copy of At Length with Hedrick Smith, Winning Back Our Democracy

At Length with Hedrick Smith, Winning Back Our Democracy

Siri Hustvedt talks about scholarship, teaching story to psychiatry residents and her new book about memory and time in her new novel, “Memories of the Future.”

At Length with Siri Hustvedt

“Mama’s Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell us About Ourselves” by Frans De Waal raises a troubling question that challenges humans place in the world. If animals, from mice and fish to apes and birds, have emotional intelligence, can recognize happiness or distress in themselves and in others, then aren’t we humans obligated to at least allow them to live decent lives. Science, unyoked from the stimulus-response view of animals as automatons is discovering that animals order their worlds as we do, around fairness, power and accommodation with one another. Knowing this, will we make a place for animals on the planet?

At Length with Frans De Waal

Arne Duncan served as President Obama’s Secretary of Education. His assessment of the nation’s efforts to educate children and of his own tenure in federal office is “How Schools Work: An Inside Account of Failure and Success from One of the Nation’s Longest-Serving Secretaries of Education.”

At Length with Arne Duncan

Octavio Solis is an award-winning working playwright immersed in the culture and politics of our time. His plays tell the stories of rural America, of Latino America, of border America.He comes to Town Hall Seattle December 4th,the Rainier Arts Center, to read from his new book, a collection of short dream-like stories of his life growing up along the US Mexico Border, “Retablos: Stories From a Life Lived Along the Border.”

At Length with Octavio Solis, "Retablos."

An extended walk through Seattle’s Chinatown/International District with scholar Marie Wong. “Building Tradition: Pan-Asian Seattle and Life in the Residential Hotels”is the Seattle University professor’s historical examination of this vibrant Seattle neighborhood.The interview came out of an assignment for Seattle Magazine, published in the December 2018 issue.

At Length with Marie Wong Part 2

An extended walk through Seattle’s Chinatown/International District with scholar Marie Wong. “Building Tradition: Pan-Asian Seattle and Life in the Residential Hotels” is the Seattle University professor’s historical examination of this vibrant Seattle neighborhood.The interview came out of an assignment for Seattle Magazine published in the December 2018 issue focused on Wong’s work and the future of the ID.

At Length with Marie Wong on Seattle's International District

Interviewer and journalist Steve Scher holds in-depth conversations with authors, thinkers and artists about social. scientific and cultural issues.    Series 2 of the podcast is supported by Town Hall Seattle.