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The Shape of the World

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Back in the Swim of Things (Ep. 44)

July 09, 2026 5:00am 35 min

Over the past 30 years, the quality of water in rivers has improved tremendously in many major cities across Western Europe, Australia, the United States, and Canada. So much so that what once seemed impossible has now b...

Nighthawk: The Voice of Twilight (Ep. 43)

June 18, 2026 5:00am 39 min

We often notice more of the visual world than we do the auditory world, yet many of our experiences are defined by sound. The memory of a significant summer evening may suddenly be brought back by our hearing the call of...

How to Make a Myth, and Then Debunk It (Ep. 42)

May 28, 2026 5:00am 44 min

Non-human primate societies originally were described by male scientists largely as dramas of alpha males: battles, heroics, and constant dominance over females. Those mid-20th-century men’s findings were riddled with re...

Where Did All of Our Rivers Go? (Ep. 41)

May 07, 2026 5:00am 30 min

Humans are incredibly intelligent creatures, and we have been smart enough to rely on the power of rivers for as long as we’ve been alive on this planet. Over a quarter of people dependent on them, yet in most cities, pe...

Friendship, Bushtits, and the Vastness of Everything (Ep. 40)

April 22, 2026 5:00am 37 min

Sophie Lucido Johnson, cartoonist for The New Yorker and the author of Kin: The Future of Family. Jill Riddell speaks with her colleague, Sophie Lucido Johson, about comedy, community, and the social science of friendshi...

The Warm Glow of Helping (Update)

December 18, 2025 5:00am 30 min

On the occasions when we humans go out of our way to help another person who is in distress, we are acting out our biological inheritance. And if we don’t help someone in trouble, that’s because we’ve had to actually act...

How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Change the World (Update)

November 20, 2025 5:00am 34 min

In 2020, we sat down with structural geologist Marcia Bjornerud on the Shape of the World for a conversation that reshaped how we think about time. We decided to revisit and re-release that episode. Marcia has continued ...

Is the Earth Alive? (Ep. 39)

August 21, 2025 12:00am 21 min

Ferris Jabr, author of Becoming Earth, claims that it is alive: that Earth is a vast interconnected living system and we humans (and all other living things) don’t just live on the earth– we are the Earth. We’re an outgr...

Zoned Out: Race, Property, and Ownership in America (Ep. 38)

July 31, 2025 12:00am 28 min

Dr. Adrienne Brown reads cities the way professors read novels: carefully, and with lots of attention to what’s written between the lines. Adrienne teaches in the departments of English and Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneit...

Existential Risk: A User’s Guide (Ep. 37)

July 10, 2025 5:08pm 30 min

Daniel Holz studies black holes, gravitational waves, and cosmology, all while also running the Existential Risk Laboratory at the University of Chicago. In this episode, Daniel helps us shed light on some of the biggest...

The Secret Lives of Fireflies (Ep. 36)

June 19, 2025 5:43am 33 min

Biologist Sara Lewis doesn’t just study fireflies—for her, fireflies are a living reminder that the world is pure magic. In this episode, the author of Silent Sparks: The Wondrous World of Fireflies unpacks the science o...

Cities and Wildlife: Frenemies or Friends? (Ep. 35)

May 29, 2025 12:00am 34 min

Biologist Dr. Seth Magle wants to rethink what a city is – and who it’s for. As part of an alliance with 50 cities around the globe, Seth and other wildlife researchers have discovered an overlooked truth: that our large...

Can a Tiny Organism Transform Human Relations? (Ep. 34)

May 09, 2025 12:03am 28 min

Artist Laurie Palmer believes they can. In her book, The Lichen Museum, Laurie explores what we can gain from learning to see life the way a lichen does. Laurie explains how our understanding of the world is filtered con...

Season Six Coming Soon

May 05, 2025 8:16am 1 min

Season Six will launch this Friday, May 9th New episodes, new guests, and new insights about nature and our built environments coming soon with season 6 of Shape of the World. And more on how we can live together–with na...

Can Listening Be a Political and Moral Act? (Ep. 33)

December 21, 2022 11:00pm 1:02

The world is full of sound. Yet we happen to be a species who, at the moment, is directing most of our attention to our own voices and not so much to the voices of other living things. Biologist David George Haskell says...

What Should We Fix First? (Ep. 32)

November 17, 2022 11:00pm 28 min

Many of us are anxious about everything related to nature and climate—and also worried about a slew of other social and political challenges. But what should we fix first? Author and New York Times columnist Margaret Ren...

Who Trashed My River? (Ep. 31)

October 12, 2022 12:00am 23 min

Humans started trashing rivers 7,000 years. Since then, century after century, the water quality of many rivers deteriorated. At first, changes occurred slowly. But by the time the Industrial Revolution rolled around, hu...

Episode 30: Privilege & Inequality in Animals

August 02, 2022 12:00am 33 min

“We see privilege popping up across the tree of life, not just in humans. When there are these legacies of exclusion within human societies, there needs to be some structural change to be able to address these issues.” D...

Privilege & Inequality in Animals (Ep. 30)

August 02, 2022 12:00am 33 min

Guest Jenn Smith says that human concepts of intergenerational wealth and inequality occur also in the behaviors of animals. Privilege itself isn’t new–but it’s novel and shocking to learn that humans aren’t the only spe...

Disruption & Resilience (Ep. 29)

July 25, 2022 8:52am 25 min

When Jane Watson encountered a ruined meadow of seagrass in the ocean, instead of getting furious, she grew curious. As a marine biologist, Jane knew that hidden in the story of decimated seagrass, there had to be someth...

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