SAPIENS: A Podcast for Everything Human

A podcast by SAPIENS

70 Episodes

  1. A Vaccine Will Not Be Enough

    Published: 10/14/2020
  2. We're (Still) Going Viral

    Published: 8/28/2020
  3. The Problem With Abstract Threats

    Published: 7/2/2020
  4. What Pandemics Leave Behind

    Published: 6/18/2020
  5. Police Violence and the Pandemic

    Published: 6/12/2020
  6. Could the Coronavirus Pandemic Be Good for the Environment?

    Published: 5/29/2020
  7. Preppers and the Pandemic

    Published: 5/19/2020
  8. What Does it Mean to be Human? Your Questions, Answered

    Published: 12/3/2019
  9. Does Generosity Come Naturally?

    Published: 11/19/2019
  10. How Belonging Shapes the Vaccination Crisis

    Published: 11/5/2019
  11. The Deep Roots of Navajo Country Music

    Published: 10/22/2019
  12. Are Colors Universal?

    Published: 10/8/2019
  13. Stringing Together an Ancient Empire’s Stories

    Published: 9/24/2019
  14. Do You Dream What I Dream?

    Published: 9/10/2019
  15. What to Expect When You’re Not Expecting Down Syndrome

    Published: 8/27/2019
  16. Where Have All the Denisovans Gone?

    Published: 8/13/2019
  17. Eating Insects and the Yuck Factor

    Published: 7/30/2019
  18. Season 2 is Coming Soon and We Want to Hear From You

    Published: 7/16/2019
  19. Being Afghan in America: In the Field with Morwari Zafar

    Published: 12/18/2018
  20. What’s the Cost of Quinoa?

    Published: 12/4/2018

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What makes you … you? And who tells what stories and why? In the fifth season of the SAPIENS podcast, listeners will hear a range of human stories: from the origins of the chili pepper to how prosecutors decide someone is a criminal to stolen skulls from Iceland. Join Season 5’s host, Eshe Lewis, on our latest journey to explore what it means to be human. SAPIENS: A Podcast for Everything Human, is produced by House of Pod and supported by the Wenner-Gren Foundation. SAPIENS is part of the American Anthropological Association Podcast Library. For more information, visit sapiens.org