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The Most Important Question

Important, Not Important

You already know things are broken. You read the news, you listen to the analysis, you"ve got the outrage. What you don"t have is a plan. The Most Important Question — 6x Webby-nominated, 2x Signal Award-nominated — is a weekly conversation with one person who stopped asking "what can I do?" and went and found out. Not pundits. Not commentators. The scientists, doctors, nurses, journalists, farmers, activists, and policymakers who are doing the actual work on the frontlines of climate, public

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72:11

Transit For A Habitable Planet

The Most Important Question ·

2023/07/17

Why the hell is America's public transportation so terrible? That's today's big question, and my guest is Nicholas Dagen Bloom. He's the author of the subtly titled new book, the Great American Transit Disaster. Nicholas is a professor of urban policy ...

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35:21

Essay: Why I Don't Eat Animals

The Most Important Question ·

2023/07/11

This week: Why don’t I eat animals? Plus, the news: Carbon capture is (mostly) BS Narcan vending machines save lives The vertical farming boom doesn’t have enough power Hacking EV charging stations And more! Here's What You Can Do: Donate to the Food A...

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76:58

How To Live A Happy Life

The Most Important Question ·

2023/07/10

How can we live happier lives? That's today's big question, and my guest is Dr. Marc Schulz, the co-author with Dr. Robert Waldinger of “The Good Life: Lessons From the World's Longest Scientific Study of Happiness” They're the most recent generation o...

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16:54

Essay: Life, Liberty, and Solar Panels

The Most Important Question ·

2023/06/30

This week: Texans have a huge opportunity to get even MORE liberty — from the sun. Plus: Diabetes is expected to double, the state of carbon removal, A.I. detection tools, future pandemic prepping, BEES?!, and more Here's What You Can Do: ⚡️ It’s getti...

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39:06

Essay: An Apple A Day Keeps The Doctor Away

The Most Important Question ·

2023/06/28

This week: Can Apple help improve mental health? Here's What You Can Do: ⚡️LGBTQ+ youth are 4x more likely to attempt suicide than their peers. Help the The Trevor Project build a safer, more-inclusive world through crisis services, peer support, educa...

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24:38

Essay: The Inevitable Future

The Most Important Question ·

2023/06/26

This week: Is the future inevitable? Plus: A lack of OB-GYN’s in a post- Roe world, some new bills for agrivoltaics, the best in climate journalism, the link between COVID and Alzheimer’s, misinformation, and more Here's What You Can Do: ⚡️ Our algorit...

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20:45

Essay: Start Over (Again)

The Most Important Question ·

2023/06/09

This week: Got fired? Start over. Plus: More young people are getting cancer, the rise of solar power, new YouTube misinformation rules, getting paid to bike to work, and more Here's What You Can Do: ⚡️ If apocalyptic skies and hazardous air quality re...

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15:10

Essay: 10 Questions You Need to Ask Right Now

The Most Important Question ·

2023/06/07

This week: Ask these questions before you click on ANYTHING. Plus: Gut inflammation news, California insurance gets harder to find, 750k adults just lost Medicaid, what (non-vaccinated) COVID actually does to your lungs, and more Here's What You Can Do...

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63:12

Best of: How to Protect Yourself from Wildfire Smoke

The Most Important Question ·

2023/05/29

What's in wildfire smoke and how can you protect yourself from it? Those are today's big questions, and my guest is Dr. Mary Prunicki. Dr. Prunicki is the Director of Air Pollution and Health Research at Stanford University under the Sean N. Parker Cen...

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23:13

Essay: Gradually, and then all at once

The Most Important Question ·

2023/05/19

This week: Things feel pretty out of control. Get used to it. Plus: The Canadian West is burning, Oregon bans PFAS, ChatGPT plugins for everyone, the All We Can Save project is hiring, and more Here's What You Can Do: ⚡️Wildfire smoke exposure is direc...

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67:01

Health Care Is A Human Right

The Most Important Question ·

2023/05/17

Is healthcare a human right? That's today's big question, and it clearly shouldn't be a question, but here we are. My guest to help explain the obvious today is Dr. Sheila Davis, the CEO of Partners in Health. Sheila entered the global health arena in ...

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32:41

Essay: COVID has ended (or has it?)

The Most Important Question ·

2023/05/16

This week: COVID is over (as far as we know it). What did we learn, and what’s next? PLUS: Gay blood donations are a go, wind power in the UK, social media guidelines, millions for Black farmers, water report cards, and more Here's What You Can Do: ⚡️ ...

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54:44

Fighting Food Waste With The iPhone of Trash Cans

The Most Important Question ·

2023/05/08

How much food do you throw away every week? And do you have to? That's today's big question, and my guest is Matt Rogers. Matt is a former Apple iPod and iPhone engineer. The Co-Founder of Nest thermostats, Founder of incite.org, and former Chairman of...

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28:42

Essay: Never Tell Me The Odds

The Most Important Question ·

2023/05/05

This week: Solutions to our biggest problems shouldn’t be so perplexing. On the other hand, washing our hands wasn’t obvious for a couple hundred thousand years, and my kids STILL don't want to do it. Plus: Seasonal allergy news, a new Barbie, non-prof...

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66:47

Check Your Insurance Policy

The Most Important Question ·

2023/05/01

You've got insurance, right? Are you sure? That's today's big question, and my guest is Washington Post reporter Brianna Sacks. Brianna's an extreme weather and disaster reporter for the Post where she explores how climate change is transforming the Un...

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18:15

Essay: What Would You Say You Do Here

The Most Important Question ·

2023/04/26

This week: Is what you’re working on important? Plus: The cleanest produce, a mosquito factory, lots of rooftop solar, autonomous GPT, maybe, and the latest with the Colorado River Here's What You Can Do: ⚡️ Climate change and mental health are inextri...

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74:08

Every Climate Action Matters

The Most Important Question ·

2023/04/24

What can I do? The simple question is the underlying premise of everything we do here. It's often the easiest one to help people answer for themselves, but from the outside, it's often the most imposing. All of which is why we keep coming back to it, a...

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17:29

Essay: This Isn't Rocket Science (Unless It Is)

The Most Important Question ·

2023/04/18

This week: A very basic way to use a mental model, you’re welcome. PLUS: Mosquitoes, overseas abortion pills, healthy ice cream, German nuclear power, electric school buses, and more. Here's What You Can Do: ⚡️ Interested in community solar? Check out ...

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54:53

Best of: Black Moms Matter

The Most Important Question ·

2023/04/17

Why is it so dangerous to have Black babies in America? April 11-17th is Black Maternal Health Week, and so we are replaying one of our favourite episodes from 2021 with guest Representative Lauren Underwood of Illinois, a nurse and former senior advis...

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58:18

Finding the Humanity in Artificial Intelligence

The Most Important Question ·

2023/04/10

If you had all of the data in the world at your hands, what question would you ask first? That's today's big question, and my guest is Dr. Emma Pierson. Emma is an assistant professor of computer science at the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute at Corn...

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