Saturday on This is Hell!
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9:20 - Conservation biologist Chris D. Thomas finds new forms of life born into the Anthropocene.
Chris is the author of Inheritors of the Earth: How Nature Is Thriving in an Age of Extinction from PublicAffairs.
10:05 - Journalist Howard Bryant explores the protest politics of Black athletes in America.
Howard is the author of The Heritage: Black Athletes, a Divided America, and the Politics of Patriotism from Beacon Press.
11:05 - Historian Walter Scheidel traces the long twin histories of economic inequality and violence.
Walter is the author of The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century from Princeton University Press.
12:05 - Writer Cyrus Farivar explains why yesterday's privacy laws are no match for today's surveillance technology.
Cyrus is the author of Habeas Data: Privacy vs. the Rise of Surveillance Tech from Melville House.
12:45 - In a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen mourns the passing of a great life.