With a Side of Knowledge
On Exile, Literature, and Feeling Small Before the Page—Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi, Author
For our season 3 premiere, we talked with author Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi, an associate professor of English at Notre Dame and the winner of the 2019 PEN/Faulkner Award for...
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On Football Rankings and Measuring Efficiency
Brian Fremeau is the creator of the eponymously named Fremeau Efficiency Index, or FEI, a college football rating system based on opponent-adjusted possession efficiency. (Don’t...
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On Math, Origami, and How No Discipline is an Island
Clare Kim is a doctoral candidate in the Program in History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology, and Society at MIT. She spent the 2018–19 academic year in residence at the...
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On Lowering Barriers and Double Rainbows
Ten years ago, the world was introduced to Kickstarter, the crowdfunding platform that, in the company’s own words, “helps artists, musicians, filmmakers, designers, and other...
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On Enron, Business, and Cover Stories
A contributing editor at Vanity Fair, Bethany McLean was previously a reporter at Fortune, where, in 2000, she received a tip suggesting she look into energy-trading giant...
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A Bold Proposal for the U.S.-Mexico Border
For this special bonus episode, host Ted Fox changed things up a bit. Rather than interviewing someone on the Notre Dame campus, he made the two-hour drive to Purdue University,...
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On Energy and Not Throwing Spaghetti Against the Wall
Rachel Kyte is chief executive officer of Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL), special representative of the UN secretary-general for Sustainable Energy for All, and co-chair of...
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On Publishing and the Love of Books
This is the second of two episodes we recorded while in Brooklyn for On Air Fest 2019. And here, we ventured beyond the festival to meet up with literary agent Jessica Sinsheimer,...
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On Science Podcasting and What Didn’t Happen to the Dinosaurs
With apologies to Jack Kerouac, this is the first of two “on the road” episodes we recorded in Brooklyn, New York, while attending On Air Fest 2019. It features two of our...
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On Heroes and Humanity’s Greatest Invention
The author of some two dozen novels under both his own name and an alliterative pseudonym, John Banville is best known for his book The Sea, which won the 2005 Man Booker Prize....
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On Evolution and Defining Creativity
Agustín Fuentes is the Rev. Edmund P. Joyce, C.S.C., Professor of Anthropology and chair of the Department of Anthropology at Notre Dame. He has published more than 150...
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