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Creative Disturbance

Feb 27, 2015

Poe Johnson and Sean B. Carroll discuss the future of the sciences in a seemingly increasing anti-scientific world. What role does the public intellectual scientist have in educating the public on issues concerning the general well-being for...


Feb 24, 2015

We sit down with Adam Bayacal to talk about the fighting game community. We discuss the differences between the scene here in Texas compared to the West Coast and we also talk about DOWN RIGHT FIERCE: A Look Inside Competitive Gaming, the documentary that Adam shot about one of the tournaments held in Dallas and the...


Feb 24, 2015

Margaret Schedel is an Associate Professor of Composition and Computer Music at Stony Brook University. Through her work, she explores the relatively new field of Data Sonification, generating new ways to perceive and interact with information through the use of sound. From a longer in depth article at


Feb 19, 2015

In this podcast, Edleeca and Poe unpack the theoretical underpinnings at work in Kim Kardashian's attempt to "break the Internet." Exploring the historical and scientific contexts within which black racial constructions of difference evolved, they debate the relevance of these contexts and their employment in...


Feb 12, 2015

Charissa Terranova talks to Sean B. Carroll about overlaps in practices between humanists and scientists and his book Brave Genius, focusing on Albert Camus and Jacques...