UnDisciplined

About UnDisciplined

Each week, UnDisciplined takes a fun, fascinating and accessible dive into the lives of researchers and explorers working across a wide variety of scientific fields.

Publisher

Utah Public Radio

Category

science

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

5 Jul 2018

Latest episode

15 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

337 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   15 Oct 2026

   UnDisciplined: Searching the past for future solutions

   Throughout human history, civilizations have lost touch with knowledge, traditions, and practices that their ancestors developed over thousands of years — a phenomenon that has been called “the Great Forgetting.” Now, author June Cohen believes we’re overdue for a “Great Remembering."

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   8 Oct 2026

   UnDisciplined: What does it mean to be alive?

   For centuries, we have tended to associate consciousness with the most sophisticated things our brains can do: thought, reason, language, memory. But Antonio Damasio argues that we should be looking somewhere much more ancient, and much more humble: Hunger. Thirst. Warmth. Cold. Pleasure. Pain.His argument is that consciousness begins with a living organism sensing the condition of its own body. At some point in the history of life, being alive began to feel like something.

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   1 Oct 2026

   UnDisciplined: Shoot for the moon (and then some), pt. 2

   Moonshots are big, audacious ideas that have the potential to change the world. Today, they've become synonymous with Silicon Valley and vast corporations.But Salima Bhimani, who worked at Alphabet, Google’s parent company, helping its famous “Other Bets” arm, believes we've made the concept of moonshots too simple and too insular. Some of the most consequential innovations in human history didn't require billion-dollar startups, and some of the people with the most important ideas today may live thousands of miles from Silicon Valley, without access to its money, networks or privilege.

Who has been a guest on UnDisciplined

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

• David Shepherd
• Rep. Kera Birkeland
• Kris Campbell

Reach and audience

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Apple Podcasts (US)

4.3 / 5

9 ratings

Spotify

3.7 / 5

3 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 53 / 100

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Quality

73

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

84

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