# Wendy Schmidt

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Food for thought | How do we fix our broken food system?

The food industry is one of the biggest drivers of biodiversity loss and accounts for a third of global greenhouse gas emissions. But what if food could be designed to regenerate nature rather than harming it?  That’s the vision behind the Big Food Redesign Challenge.  In this episode of The Circul…

Shining a Light on Ghana’s Pollution Problem and Solutions: Albert Oppong Ansah

Award-winning journalist Albert Oppong Ansah joins host Michael Asharley to share how powerful storytelling can help Ghana breathe cleaner air. In this episode of Clean Air Report Ghana, Albert — a reporter with the Ghana News Agency and a New Narratives Clean Air Fellow — reflects on his recent wi…

Lessons from Ken Burns' new series, "The American Revolution"

A highly anticipated documentary series launches on PBS this weekend.  Ken Burns' "The American Revolution: An Intimate History" is a six-part series about the men and women who fought and lived through the war for America's independence.  This hour, we're joined by filmmaker David Schmidt and loca…

NASA weighs an early end to Crew 11’s mission.

NASA says it is considering the possibility of an earlier end to Crew-11’s mission due to a medical situation on board the International Space Station. Karman Space and Defense has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Seemann Composites and MSC. PowerBank and Smartlink AI’s Genesis-1 sate…

Star Report with Geoff Clayton of the Maria Mitchell Association – Wendy Schmidt and the Lazuli Space Observatory

Geoff Clayton is an Astronomer at the Maria Mitchell Association. This week Geoff talks about the plans of Schmidt Sciences, run by our own Wendy Schmidt, to build a new space telescope.

Fraud in Alzheimer's research | Charles Piller

Charles Piller, an Investigative Correspondent for Science Magazine, is the author of the 2025 book Doctored: Fraud, Arrogance, and Tragedy in the Quest to Cure Alzheimer's. He has received more than 40 honors or awards from American Association for the Advancement of Science/Kavli Foundation, Nati…

Defining Freedom: An American Revolution Audio Special

America is obsessed with freedom. And a good story. Since the United States founding, we've enjoyed the narrative that America has always stood as a bastion of liberty. It's a good story...if it were entirely true. In this audio special from WMHT Public Media and PBS, we explore the hidden history …

Funding evidence-based applications of AI in education

Kumar Garg is President of Renaissance Philanthropy, the science-and-technology philanthropy he co-founded with Tom Kalil in 2024 to help donors invest in high-impact research across AI, climate, and education. He holds a BA from Dartmouth and a JD from Yale Law School, and cut his teeth over eight…