By this time, we are waaay sick of Zoom meetings and videochats devoid of emotion and human connection. But how can we stay connected with one another while apart? Is distance the enemy of vulnerability and intimacy?? Theater director Kari Barc

COVID19 E2: Everyone is our neighbor

Apr 14th, 2020 47m 24s

Kat invites Mary-Catherine Anderson to the show to share her perspective on the homelessness crisis and COVID19. MC researches social and environmental determinants of health and conducts community-engaged research in Nashville. In a global pa

COVID19 E1: Totally different from homeschooling

Mar 28th, 2020 1h 10m

This is actually nothing like homeschooling. For the first episode in this special series--Life the University, and COVID-19--Kat welcomes Colette and Joel to the show to talk about their previous experiences being home-schooled. Colette Kelly

S1E4: "It's Always Sunny in Palo Alto?"

Jan 7th, 2020 53m 36s

Last time we asked, "What even is home?", and this week we're going a little deeper. Today we chat with Emily Lacroix, a PhD candidate studying soils! Emily chats with us about her life geography and sense of place, challenges of belongingness

S1E3: "What even is Home?"

Oct 1st, 2019 1h 8m

Do our ideals make us lonely? What does belonging feel like? Aldis and Kat discuss Home, Belonging, Loneliness, Ideals, and Suffering. Aldis Petriceks is a medical student at Harvard and was a research assistant at Stanford Medicine until summe

S1E2: "Why are we building this??" Part 2

Jun 11th, 2019 51m 12s

In this series, Kat and Dean sit down and talk about purpose and stuff. Part 2: Dean shares about his shift from engineering to social science, what important research questions are, thoughts on how to reform academia...and why we might even wa

S1E1: "Why are we building this??" Part 1

Jun 4th, 2019 38m 23s

Our guest is engineer-turned-anthropologist Dean Chahim. Kat and Dean sit down and talk about changing the world and reforming academia and stuff. But first, tea. Part 1: Dean shares his early years living in Seattle as a first generation Afgha

Pilot: the tea is brewing

May 22nd, 2019 19m 45s

Welcome to our podcast of (mostly) academics talking about life, the university, and (almost) everything! No answers, just (brewing, sipping, spilling) tea.In this episode, we introduce ourselves and our plans for the podcast, brainstorm what's

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