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Harrison Duran is a field paleontologist whose popular social media accounts document his preparation and excavation in the American West. His videography and storytelling convey the work and skill required by paleontology, as well as its significance to our understanding of the natural world. Species which he has excavated and prepared include Triceratops, Edmontosaurus, and Tyrannosaurus rex.If You Liked This Conversation, You'll Probably Like These Episodes of Where We Go Next:111: The Hidden Forces Driving Our Online Behavior, with Steve Rathje104: The War for Critical Minerals and Our Electrified Future, with Ernest Scheyder97: Climate Change Comes for Small-Town America, with Jonathan Vigliotti89: Harnessing the Revolutionary Power of Nuclear Energy, with Nick Touran71: Rescuing Animals From the Brink of Extinction, with Forrest Galante70: Making Extinction a Thing of the Past, with Ben Lamm & George ChurchFollow Harrison on TikTok: @duranosaurFollow Harrison on Instagram: @duranosaur----------If you liked this episode, consider sharing it with someone you think might like it too.Email: michael@wherewegonext.comInstagram: @wwgnpodcast 

Where We Go Next will be back to its regularly scheduled programming next week. Until then, enjoy this re-release of Episode 68, with the brilliant Richard Reeves. Reeves is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, and writes for a wide range of publications, including the New York Times, the Guardian, National Affairs, The Atlantic, Democracy Journal, and Wall Street Journal.  His book Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do about It, shows how the basic social structures defining masculine maturity and success have been shattered, and how they can — and must — be reinvented.Episode 68: Episode Link & Show NotesThe Where We Go Next Sampler Platter:110: The Mounting Evidence That COVID-19 Leaked from a Lab, with Alina Chan105: Religious Cults, Fringe Science, and the Need for Belief, with Ross Blocher & Carrie Poppy101: Uncovering the Hidden Truths in Political Memoirs, with Carlos Lozada89: Harnessing the Revolutionary Power of Nuclear Energy, with Nick Touran81: Mining Universal Truths From Personal Stories, with Sarah Hepola74: Going to Space, Reusing the Entire Rocket, and Flying Again in 24 Hours, with Andy Lapsa71: Rescuing Animals From the Brink of Extinction, with Forrest Galante63: Choosing Between a Drowning Child and a New Pair of Shoes, with Jay Shapiro60: The Unknown History and Surprising Benefits of Fasting, with Steve Hendricks58: Making Andrew Yang a Household Name, with Zach Graumann40: Great Writers Must Be Vulnerable in Public, with Andrew Sullivan39: Black Culture Is Not a Monolith, with Bertrand Cooper37: A Better Way to Police Communities, with Peter Moskos30: How to Resolve Intractable Conflicts, with Amanda Ripley27: How to Make the Internet Accessible for Everyone, with Jennison Asuncion25: A Robust Defense of Free Speech, with Greg Lukianoff23: Children Need Freedom to Grow Independent, with Lenore Skenazy21: Defending the Rights of the Incarcerated, with Samuel Weiss12: How Tragedy Can Lead to Growth, with Ayishat Akanbi9: The Widening Gap Between the Wealthy and Working Classes, with Rob Henderson(This list could have easily been made with 20 completely different episodes, 3 more times)----------If you liked this episode, consider sharing it with someone you think might like it too.Email: michael@wherewegonext.comInstagram: @wwgnpodcast

Nancy Rommelmann is an investigative journalist, columnist, and author - most recently of To the Bridge: A True Story of Motherhood and Murder. Her work appears in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Reason Magazine, and her Substack, Make More Pie.Sarah Hepola is the author of the bestselling memoir, Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, The Guardian, the Atlantic, Texas Monthly, and Salon. She is a staff writer at the Dallas Morning News.Together, Nancy & Sarah host the Smoke 'Em If You Got 'Em Podcast.8. What Do Women Want? - Smoke 'Em  If You Got 'Em PodcastThe Things I’m Afraid to Write About, by Sarah Hepola for The AtlanticOn John Wayne Gacy, Actor Michael Chernus, and Why We Do the Work We Do - Make More Pie (Nancy's Substack)Was Alice Munro An Art Monster?, by Meghan DaumIf You Liked This Conversation, You'll Probably Like These Episodes of Where We Go Next:115: Spaceships, Silicon Valley, and Psilocybin, with Ashlee Vance110: The Mounting Evidence That COVID-19 Leaked from a Lab, with Alina Chan108: Investigative Journalism Is in Jeopardy, with Nancy Rommelmann105: Religious Cults, Fringe Science, and the Need for Belief, with Ross Blocher & Carrie Poppy104: The War for Critical Minerals and Our Electrified Future, with Ernest Scheyder101: Uncovering the Hidden Truths in Political Memoirs, with Carlos Lozada100: When Victimhood is Leveraged for Personal Gain, with Andrew Boryga91: Free Speech Isn't Just for People We Like, with Kat Rosenfield81: Mining Universal Truths From Personal Stories, with Sarah Hepola 65: Untangling Partisan Narratives and Fixing Political News, with Isaac Saul40: Great Writers Must Be Vulnerable in Public, with Andrew Sullivan33: The Struggle to Stay Heterodox in a Tribal World, with Meghan DaumFollow Nancy on X: @NancyRommFollow Sarah on X: @sarahhepolaFollow Sarah on Instagram: @thesarahhepolaexperience----------If you liked this episode, consider sharing it with someone you think might like it too.Email: michael@wherewegonext.comInstagram: @wwgnpodcast

Carissa Carter is a designer, geoscientist, and the academic director at the Stanford d.school. She's the author of The Secret Language of Maps: How to Tell Visual Stories with Data, and teaches design courses on emerging technologies, climate change, and data visualization. Her work on designing with machine learning and blockchain has earned multiple design awards, including Fast Company Innovation and Core 77 awards. Scott Doorley is a writer, designer, and the creative director at the Stanford d.school. He has overseen everything from books to workspaces to digital products and initiatives focused on the future of learning and design. He co-wrote the book Make Space: How to Set the Stage for Creative Collaboration and teaches courses in design communication. His work has been featured in museums from San Jose to Helsinki and in publications such as Architecture + Urbanism and the New York Times. Assembling Tomorrow: A Guide to Designing a Thriving FutureStanford d.school (The Hasso Plattner Institute of Design)Stanford 2025 - YouTubeGround News gathers news coverage from around the world, empowers free thinking, and makes media bias explicit. Subscribe through my link at https://check.ground.news/Next for 15% off your subscription.If You Liked This Conversation, You'll Probably Like These Episodes of Where We Go Next:111: The Hidden Forces Driving Our Online Behavior, with Steve Rathje102: The Art and Technique of Directing Actors, with Judith Weston99: How to Reset and Retrain Our Brains, with Tali Sharot92: Bayesian Thinking and the Future of Artificial Intelligence, with Max Sklar88: Pursuing Truth, Goodness, and Beauty in Education, with Daniel Scoggin72: A Self-Help Book for Societies, with Tim Urban52: The Amazing and Optimistic Future of Augmented Reality, with David Rose49: Thriving in a World That Wasn’t Designed for You, with Jenara Nerenberg47: A New Philosophy of Progress and Why We Don’t Have Flying Cars, with Jason Crawford27: How to Make the Internet Accessible for Everyone, with Jennison AsuncionFollow the Stanford d.school on X: @stanforddschool----------If you liked this episode, consider sharing it with someone you think might like it too.Email: michael@wherewegonext.comInstagram: @wwgnpodcast

Ashlee Vance is a feature writer at Bloomberg Businessweek, host of the innovator-focused travel show Hello World, and the New York Times bestselling author of two books: Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future, and most recently, When the Heavens Went on Sale: The Misfits and Geniuses Racing to Put Space Within Reach, which was the inspiration for his new HBO documentary Wild Wild Space. Wild Wild Space - Trailerashleevance.comGround News gathers news coverage from around the world, empowers free thinking, and makes media bias explicit. Subscribe through my link at https://check.ground.news/Next for 15% off your subscription.If You Liked This Conversation, You'll Probably Like These Episodes of Where We Go Next:83: Building Autonomous Vehicles to Clean Up Outer Space, with Trevor Bennett78: The Final Frontier Fire Sale: Chronicling the Pioneers Commercializing Space, with Ashlee Vance74: Going to Space, Reusing the Entire Rocket, and Flying Again in 24 Hours, with Andy Lapsa70: Making Extinction a Thing of the Past, with Ben Lamm & George Church64: An Electric Vehicle With 1,000 Miles of Range That You'll Never Need to Charge, with Steve Fambro54: Growing Healthier and Tastier Seafood in a Lab, with Justin Kolbeck13: Nuclear Energy Can Save the World, with Nick Touran Follow Ashlee on X: @ashleevance----------If you liked this episode, consider sharing it with someone you think might like it too.Email: michael@wherewegonext.comInstagram: @wwgnpodcast

Jonathan Turley is a law professor, columnist, television analyst, and litigator. Since 1998, he has held the Shapiro Chair for Public Interest Law at George Washington University Law School. He has served as counsel in some of the most notable cases in the last two decades, representing members of Congress, judges, whistleblowers, five former Attorney Generals, accused spies and terrorists, journalists, protesters, and workers at Area 51. He has written for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post, and has worked as a legal analyst for CBS, NBC, BBC, and Fox.The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Ragejonathanturley.orgGround News gathers news coverage from around the world, empowers free thinking, and makes media bias explicit. Subscribe through my link at https://check.ground.news/Next for 15% off your subscription.If You Liked This Conversation, You'll Probably Like These Episodes of Where We Go Next:95: The Government Is Seizing Innocent People’s Property, with Billy Binion 91: Free Speech Isn't Just for People We Like, with Kat Rosenfield90: In Defense of an Eternally Radical Idea, with Greg Lukianoff65: Untangling Partisan Narratives and Fixing Political News, with Isaac Saul45: Filming the News as It Happens, with Ford Fischer25: A Robust Defense of Free Speech, with Greg LukianoffFollow Jonathan on X: @JonathanTurley----------If you liked this episode, consider sharing it with someone you think might like it too.Email: michael@wherewegonext.comInstagram: @wwgnpodcast

Meghan Daum, an acclaimed author and podcast host known for her commitment to honest discourse, dives into the challenges of fostering genuine conversations in a polarized media landscape. She discusses her efforts with the Unspeakeasy community to empower women and share diverse perspectives. The conversation explores navigating race, managing authenticity in digital media, and the impact of societal pressures on content creation. Daum emphasizes the importance of vulnerability in writing and the necessity of cultivating spaces for open dialogue amid political divisions.

Melissa Kearney is the Neil Moskowitz Professor of Economics at the University of Maryland. She is also Director of the Aspen Economic Strategy Group, a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution.The Two-Parent Privilege: How Americans Stopped Getting Married and Started Falling BehindGround News gathers news coverage from around the world, empowers free thinking, and makes media bias explicit. Subscribe through my link at https://check.ground.news/Next for 15% off your subscription.If You Liked This Conversation, You'll Probably Like These Episodes of Where We Go Next:68: Solving the Crisis of Boys and Men, with Richard Reeves50: America Has Failed Its Working Poor, with Joanne Goldblum and Colleen Shaddox39: Black Culture Is Not a Monolith, with Bertrand Cooper9: The Widening Gap Between the Wealthy and Working Classes, with Rob HendersonFollow Melissa on X: @kearney_melissa----------If you liked this episode, consider sharing it with someone you think might like it too.Email: michael@wherewegonext.comInstagram: @wwgnpodcast

Steve Rathje, a postdoctoral researcher at NYU specializing in social psychology and technology, discusses the interplay of social media and polarization. He reveals how negative online interactions boost engagement and explores the fluidity of group identities. The conversation dives into conformity's power, highlighting its effects on individual behavior. Rathje also addresses the pitfalls of short-form content in psychology education and the challenges of misinformation, emphasizing the importance of media literacy in today's complex digital landscape.

Alina Chan is a molecular biologist at the Broad Institute of M.I.T. and Harvard, and a co-author of Viral: The Search for the Origin of Covid-19. She was a member of the Pathogens Project, which the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists organized to generate new thinking on responsible, high-risk pathogen research.Why the Pandemic Probably Started in a Lab, in 5 Key Points, by Alina Chan for the New York TimesJon Stewart on Vaccine Science and the Wuhan Lab Theory - The Late Show with Stephen ColbertGround News gathers news coverage from around the world, empowers free thinking, and makes media bias explicit. Subscribe through my link at https://check.ground.news/Next for 15% off your subscription.If You Liked This Conversation, You'll Probably Like These Episodes of Where We Go Next:105: Religious Cults, Fringe Science, and the Need for Belief, with Ross Blocher & Carrie Poppy52: The Amazing and Optimistic Future of Augmented Reality, with David Rose47: A New Philosophy of Progress and Why We Don’t Have Flying Cars, with Jason Crawford31: Investigating the Origins of COVID-19, with Alina ChanFollow Alina on X: @ayjchan----------If you liked this episode, consider sharing it with someone you think might like it too.Email: michael@wherewegonext.comInstagram: @wwgnpodcast