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10 Episodes 2019 - 2020
Episode 1
Tue, Oct 8, 2019
Glad You Asked follows Cleo Abram as she examines the question of whether life can survive on Mars. She looks at popular perceptions of life on Mars throughout history and talks to scientists who are examining the feasibility of people living on Mars and terraforming the planet.
Episode 2
Tue, Oct 8, 2019
Glad You Asked follows Joss Fong as she investigates why we cry. She talks to experts about the physiology of crying and its function in the body. She keep track of a variety of times that she cried in the past ans shows moving videos to her fellow hosts to see whether they result in tears.
Episode 3
Tue, Oct 8, 2019
Glad You Asked follows Alex Clark as he investigates what happens when a person dies. He examines why brain death qualifies as clinical death according to medical science. He then looks at the phenomena of near-death-experience and talks to doctors who are trying to understand death.
Episode 4
Tue, Oct 8, 2019
Glad You Asked follows Christophe Haubursin as he examines internet memes. He talks to people who are the subject of internet memes and looks at the origin of the word 'meme' in the work of Richard Dawkins. He interviews meme-makers and discusses the aesthetics of memes.
Episode 5
Tue, Oct 8, 2019
Glad You Asked looks at a growing phenomenon in video gaming where players can purchase in-game items for cash. It follows Alex Clark as he examines the economy of virtual items where individuals can pay thousands of dollars for skins, weapons, and equipment that can only be used in the virtual game world.
Episode 6
Wed, Jan 8, 2020
Glad You Asked examines whether it is immoral for you to fly on commercial airplanes. Joss Fong discusses how air travel accounts for more than 5% of global warming emissions. She looks at the carbon footprint of her and her co-hosts' air travel and examines how much sea ice is destroyed by that footprint. She also discuss the growth of the flight shame movement and battery powered airplanes.
Episode 7
Wed, Jan 8, 2020
Glad You Asked looks at online beauty culture and how people are obsession with beauty can effect people. Joss Fong and Cleo Abram looks at online beauty influencers and examines the democratization of beauty culture. They visit a beauty convention and later look at how social media can influence a person's self-satisfaction. It also examines the phenomena of beauty sickness.
Episode 8
Wed, Jan 8, 2020
Glad You Asked looks at the loneliness crisis facing Americans and examines why people feel so lonely. Alex and Christophe discuss loneliness and historical trends about whether loneliness has become an epidemic. They discuss Dunbar Numbers and how many people a person can have a meaningful relationship with. They talk with men of the Romeo Club who have lunch in an effort to curb loneliness and look at an evolutionary theory of loneliness.
Episode 9
Wed, Jan 8, 2020
Glad You Asked looks at the physical architecture that supports the internet. Cleo Abram looks at the different parts of the internet and discusses how one bit of data goes from one person's phone to another. She visits data centers and looks at the physical location of an internet hub and looks at the cables that make up the internet backbone. She also examines efforts to improve internet access for people who can't get online.
Episode 10
Wed, Jan 8, 2020
Glad You Asked examines the controversy over genetically modified food. GMOs may help us provide food for the growing world's population, but are they safe? Christophe Haubursin explores the issue looking at the first GMOs including the Flavr Savr tomato and golden rice. He looks at the research and scientists argue that there isn't anything wrong with GMOs despite their unpopularity with the general public. He looks at some GMO successes as insecticides and herbicides.