Vegan Outreach India’s Richa Mehta joins us this week to talk about the spread of veganism in India. As Director of Programs, Richa tells us how Vegan Outreach is focusing on college students and explains in detail what they are doing to educate those students about the atrocities of the …continue
Enero de 2021. Dos cachorros de menos de tres meses aparecen muertos a golpes en el monte en Arraia-Maeztu, en Vitoria. Su agresor, propietario de la madre de ambos animales, fue condenado gracias a la investigación realizada por el Guarda Forestal de Medio Ambiente Andoni Díaz y a las pruebas …continue
Do non-human animals really laugh? Listen to some samples collected by researchers Greg Bryant and Sasha Winkler from UCLA and decide for yourself. A delightful and insightful conversation about the nuances of play vocalization (and other sounds) that challenges the notion that laughter is a gift exclusive to humans. Plus, …continue
This episode of The Animal That Changed You is not only close to my heart, but it was one that was hard to record. My husband Eric sits down to interview me all about my sweet Ophelia. There comes a time when every pet owner has to say goodbye to …continue
On this episode we talk with Sarah Lazare, who finished writing the novel Testimony after the passing of her father Peter Lazare, who had written the first draft. We discuss how the novel continues political conversations she had held with her father in life, and how to turn wonky topics …continue
In this episode, Georgetown philosophy professor Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò talks to us about his new book, Reconsidering Reparations, which makes the case that reparations must be a forward-looking project aiming to remake the political, economic, and cultural structures built by colonialism and the trans-Atlantic slave trade. He also argues that …continue
For the very first episode I talk with environmental writer Emma Marris about her new book, Wild Souls: Freedom and Flourishing in the Nonhuman World. We discuss why animals matter, whether species and ecosystems do, how to think about non-native creatures, and how to make our way forward in a …continue
