Netflix’s “The Great Hack” director Karim Amer on how stolen personal data is abused.

Alexandra Phelan, Gale Sinatra, and Brian Michael Jenkins on COVID, monkeypox, and polio.

Historian Gregory Morgan on his book Cancer Virus Hunters: A History of Tumor Virology.

University of Washington neuroscientist Chantel Prat on her book The Neuroscience of You.”

Wikimedia Foundation CEO Maryana Iskander discusses freedom of information and literacy.

Digital privacy leader Danielle Citron on her forthcoming book “The Fight for Privacy.”

Scientists Rich Wolfson and Ferenc Dalnoki on Nuclear Choices for the Twenty-First Century

Author Virginia Postrel on the history of fabric and contemporary mask-wearing practices

“In Silico” documentarian Noah Hutton on the project to simulate the human brain.

Science journalist Steve Olson on the Manhattan Project, nuclear weapons, the pandemic.

Digital ethicist Carissa Véliz on corporate invasion of personal data.

Medical Humanities Journal editor Brandy Schillace on coping with a generation of death

Cassandra Quave on “The Plant Hunter: A Scientist’s Quest for Nature's Next Medicines.”

Johns Hopkins University’s Anton Dahbura and Joseph Carrigan on hacking and ransomware.

Maia Szalavitz on her book “Undoing Drugs” on harm reduction and the future of addiction.

Biological anthropologist Agustin Fuentes on the pandemic and how culture must evolve.

Neuroscientist Rebecca Schwarzlose discusses her new book “Brainscapes.”

Science journalist Lauren Aguirre discusses her new book “The Memory Thief."

Cornell University trade economist Eswar Prasad on cryptocurrencies.

Bioethicist Nir Eyal discusses how equity should be applied to the future of medicine.