The Bioethics Podcast

About The Bioethics Podcast

The Bioethics Podcast is an audio resource exploring the pressing bioethical challenges of our day featuring staff, fellows, and friends of The Center for Bioethics & Human Dignity.

Publisher

The Center for Bioethics & Human Dignity

Category

business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

3 Feb 2006

Latest episode

6 Jul 2026

Latest episodes

24 of 265 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   6 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Bored in a Digital Age

   Dr. Jonathan Lett, PhD, explores the unique nature of boredom in our digital age, offering insights into this pervasive modern experience.

2. 

   6 May 2026TRANSCRIPT

   The Challenge of Pastoral Leadership Today: What Is Our Technological Age Doing to Us?

   Host Scott R. Christensen interviews Kelly Liebengood, Ph.D., exploring how our technological age challenges pastoral leadership and its impact on us.

3. 

   3 Feb 2026TRANSCRIPT

   20 Years of The Bioethics Podcast: The One Who Smiles A Lot

   This episode commemorates the 20th anniversary of The Bioethics Podcast by revisiting its inaugural episode from 2006, offering insights into the project's origins.

Inside a recent episode

Bored in a Digital Age

Published 6 Jul 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] The former has probably always been part of human experience. The latter is a distinctly modern condition, one that entered our emotional vocabulary only in the last few centuries as philosophers, novelists, and social critics gave it a name. We moderns suffer from both. But what exactly is boredom? The phenomenon is both capacious and complex, notoriously difficult to define. Psychologists and neuroscientists tend to view it in functional terms as an evolutionarily driven signal to engage the world in some task. In Out of My Skull, The Psychology of Boredom, James Dankert and John Eastwood argue that boredom is neither inherently negative nor positive. […]

Who has been a guest on The Bioethics Podcast

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Jonathan Lett
• Kelly Liebengood
• Anna Vollema
• Heather Zeiger
• Kirsten

Reach and audience

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Apple Podcasts (US)

4.0 / 5

9 ratings

Spotify

4.4 / 5

14 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 52 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

53

Social presence

91

YouTube

0

Engagement

84

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