Season 3
Why We Can’t Sleep (And What Actually Works) with Morgan Adams
When it comes to sleep, most of us know what to do, we just don’t do it. We know we should put our phones down, create a bedtime routine, and skip the late-day caffeine. Yet one in eight Americans has chronic insomnia, and ov...
What Death Teaches Us About Living with Micaelah Morrill
What can the dying teach us about living well? In this episode, I sit down with Micaelah Morrill, a death doula who helps people and families navigate the final chapter of life with grace and meaning. We met at a Death Café, ...
Brewing Craft Beer & Bringing People Together: Inside Aeronaut Brewer…
In this episode, we step inside Boston’s Aeronaut Brewing Co. with head brewer Mark Bowers for a behind-the-scenes look at how great craft beer comes to life. Mark shares his journey from PhD chemist to brewmaster, and togeth...
What Should Science Solve in the Next 50 Years? Recorded Live at the …
At this year’s Cambridge Science Carnival , hosted by the MIT Museum, I set up with one big question: “If science could solve one problem for humanity in the next 50 years, what would you choose—and why?” Fourteen curious min...
Engineering Humanity for the Stars: A Geneticist’s 500-Year Plan to S…
In this episode, we’re venturing far beyond Earth with geneticist and computational biologist, Christopher E. Mason, author of The Next 500 Years: Engineering Life to Reach New Worlds. In his ambitious and fascinating book, D...
Talk of the Table: The Mom in The Bear, Power Slap Madness, Liver Kin…
Since starting the podcast in 2023, I’ve made a conscious effort to stay out of the way. I ask questions, I guide guests through their stories, I stay detached. I never wanted to be one of those hosts who dominates their show...
Distant Galaxies, Dark Matter & Our Place in the Cosmos
Ever since I can remember, I’ve been fascinated by space. As a kid, I had a poster of the Eagle Nebula on my bedroom wall and a telescope I used to study the moon. My favorite movie is Contact , based on Carl Sagan’s novel ab...
Why Some People Are Magnetic on Camera (and How to Learn It Without B…
You’ve felt it. You’re scrolling through social media, sitting in a Zoom meeting, watching a political debate. Some people command attention effortlessly. They draw you in with a glance, hold you with their energy, make you f...
The Empathy Academy & Engineering Morality: Can We Genetically Edit E…
In 2022, I joined The Anthony Thomas Podcast to discuss my sci-fi thriller, The Empathy Academy , a novel that explores this exact question. The story follows Montgomery Hughes, a teenager who infiltrates a controversial acad...
Ayurvedic Medicine & Healing the Root Cause: Can Ancient Wisdom Fix W…
What if the reason your health problems keep coming back is because you’ve only been treating symptoms, never the underlying cause? When Katie Concannon was a teenager, she started experiencing health issues related to her me...
Escaping the 9-to-5: How Digital Nomads Actually Make It Work
What if you could work from anywhere in the world—a beach in Bali, a café in Barcelona, a mountain village in Colombia—and never need permission from a boss to buy a plane ticket? The digital nomad lifestyle has become the fa...
I Interviewed AI—ChatGPT Reveals What It Can (and Can't) Do in 2025
Can an AI truly understand us? Does it have thoughts, creativity, or self-awareness? The movie Her was set in 2025—the year we’re living in now. So I decided to interview artificial intelligence itself. In this fascinating 45...