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The Scientista Podcast spotlights women (and allies!) reshaping business, politics, and culture.
Hosted by behavioral scientist Dr. Sweta Chakraborty and former Assistant Secretary of State Monica Medina, this show brings you candid conversations with changemakers and thought leaders from around the world.
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Latest Episodes
Can We Build a Civilization That Lasts a Million Years? Laurie Menoud on Nature, Scale, and Why Cheaper Wins
Industrial civilization is about 250 years old. Life on Earth has been adapting and surviving for four billion. Laurie Menoud wants to know what the first can learn from the second.In this episode of the Scientista Podcast, Sweta and Mon...
What Are We Willing to Sacrifice? Aimée Christensen on Data Centers, Water, and the American West
Idaho has sun, wind, geothermal heat, and wide open land. It also has a shrinking aquifer and data center developers who want its power and water.In this episode of the Scientista Podcast, Monica sits down with Aimée Christensen, founder...
From Prime Video to Net Zero: Sally Fouts on Leading Amazon's Climate Pledge
In this episode of the Scientista Podcast, Sweta and Monica sit down with Sally Fouts, who leads The Climate Pledge at Amazon. Sally started out as a journalism major, worked on the Prime Video and Amazon Studios launches, and moved over to the...
Earth Supremacist: Kate Marvel on Feelings, Physics, and the Only Good Planet
Kate Marvel spent years studying the entire universe. Her conclusion: most of it is garbage, and Earth is the only good planet. So the astrophysicist became a climate scientist, and in this live conversation from Aspen Ideas Climate in Chicago,...
Dr. Amita Gupta on Science Diplomacy, Setbacks, and the Long Haul
Forty-three percent. That's how much research funding Johns Hopkins has lost in the past year, and Dr. Amita Gupta can tell you exactly what disappears with it: HIV treatment programs, clinical trials mid-stream, 600 jobs, and decades of trust ...