Apr 12, 2019
Stat: 20 percent. The share of Americans who find the concept of machines doing most human jobs in the future extremely realistic.
Story: Will robots take our jobs? They’ll need a key human skill first—the ability to think. To find out just how near such a future is, we visited Ashley J. Llorens, chief of...
Mar 29, 2019
Stat: 48%—Almost half the members of Generation Z—age 22 or younger—are racial or ethnic minorities.
Story: Step aside, Millennials. There’s a new, younger group out there: Generation Z, which includes anyone born after 1996. To learn more about this generation, we sat down with Kim Parker, director of social...
Mar 15, 2019
Stat: 844 million. The amount of people worldwide who lack even a basic drinking-water service, according to the World Health Organization.
Story: For many of us, it can be easy to take water for granted. Turn on the tap and it’s there. But today, the world faces a tipping point, with water...
Mar 1, 2019
Stat: 40%—Across Africa, the number of giraffes has declined by 40 percent since 1979.
Story: Giraffes are dying, and experts are trying to figure out why. Host Dan LeDuc speaks to two giraffe experts, ecologist David O’Connor and researcher Jenna Stacy-Dawes of the San Diego Zoo, who are trying to learn more about...
Feb 15, 2019
Stat: 1919—the year President Woodrow Wilson signed a bill establishing the Grand Canyon as a national park.
Story: The Grand Canyon was dedicated as a national park 100 years ago. This anniversary commemorates the canyon’s legacy, but it has been around longer than that—at least 6 million years. Our host explores...