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UnDisciplined

UnDisciplined

By: Utah Public Radio
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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. Science
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  • UnDisciplined: What does climate migration really look like?

    UnDisciplined: What does climate migration really look like?
    Mar 26 2026
    For years, many people have assumed that climate change will send massive waves of “climate refugees” across borders around the world. But Jan Freihardt, a political scientist at ETH Zurich, says the reality is far more complicated. Studying communities along the Jamuna River in Bangladesh—where floods and erosion regularly destroy homes and farmland—Freihardt has followed families trying to decide whether to stay, move a little, or start over somewhere else. Distant migration is the option of last resort — and often not an option at all.
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    26 mins
  • UnDisciplined: Building a future with climate-conscious architecture

    UnDisciplined: Building a future with climate-conscious architecture
    Mar 19 2026
    In 2011, an EF-5 tornado ripped through Joplin, Missouri, claiming 161 lives. Almost immediately researchers like Marc Levitan, from the National Institute of Standards and Technology, began working to understand why it was so devastating. The results of that investigation are now being implemented into building codes around the world. And the result is that we’re more ready for the next huge twister.
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    26 mins
  • UnDisciplined: Is climate change funny?

    UnDisciplined: Is climate change funny?
    Mar 16 2026
    Is the greatest existential threat our species has ever faced really something to joke about? Aaron Sachs thinks so. And, in fact, he thinks that, in many cases, we’re not joking about it enough.
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    26 mins
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