Delving In with Stuart Kelter
Stuart Kelter
Show overview
Delving In with Stuart Kelter has been publishing since 2022, and across the 4 years since has built a catalogue of 203 episodes. That works out to roughly 190 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a weekly cadence.
Episodes typically run thirty-five to sixty minutes — most land between 55 min and 57 min — and the run-time is fairly consistent across the catalogue. None of the episodes are flagged explicit by the publisher. It is catalogued as a EN-language Science show.
The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed 6 days ago, with 28 episodes already out so far this year. The busiest year was 2024, with 66 episodes published. Published by Stuart Kelter.
From the publisher
Knowledge-seeker and psychologist Stuart Kelter shares his joy of learning and “delving in.” Ready? Let’s delve... Join Chris Churchill on the possible reasons why the search for intelligent life in the universe is coming up empty. Let’s hear from Israeli psychiatrist Pesach Lichtenberg about a promising approach to schizophrenia—going mainstream in Israel—that uses minimal drugs and maximal support through the crisis, rejecting the presumption of life-long disability. Find out what Pulitzer Prize winning historian, David Kertzer learned from recently opened Vatican records about Pius XII, the Pope During WWII. We explore the fascinating and intriguing... What did journalist Eve Fairbanks learn about race relations in post-Apartheid South Africa? Did you realize there were dozens and dozens of early women scientists? Let’s find out about them through a sampling of poems with poet Jessy Randall. How shall we grapple with the complexities of the placebo effect in drug development and medical practice? Harvard researcher Kathryn Hall confirms just how complicated it really is! But beware: increasing one’s knowledge leads to more and more questions. If that appeals to you, join us on “Delving In”! The interviews of the Delving In podcast were first broadcast on KTAL-LP, the community radio station of Las Cruces, New Mexico. The full archive of well over 100 interviews can be found at https://www.lccommunityradio.org/archives/category/delving-in. Please send questions and comments to [email protected].
Latest Episodes
View all 203 episodes#202. New Religious Movements (a.k.a. "Cults")
#201. Conceptual Difficulties in Psychiatric Diagnosis and Practice
#200. Escaping the Life of a Taliban Fighter
#199. The Legal and Cultural History of Hate Speech
#198. Parenting Children in the Digital Age
#197. The Future of the Arctic
#196. Understanding the Perpetrators of Brutal Crimes, Rather than Demonizing Them as Monsters
#195. Conspiracy Theories and How to Inoculate Against Them
#194. On Deriving Gratification From Everyday Experiences
#193. The Opportunities and Perils of Setting Up the First Foreign Law Firm in Russia After the Fall of the Soviet Union
#192. A.I. and Artificial Neural Networks: Inspired By a Deeper Understanding of the Human Brain
#191. On Growing Up in Revolutionary Iran
#190. The History of the Opioid Trade, Legal and Illegal
#189. One of Ancient Rome's Most Powerful Women
#188. A Memoir that Explores the Tensions Between Devotion to Parents and Building One's Own Life
#187. Attachment Theory: A Cornerstone for Understanding Our Most Intimate Relationships
#186. The Death of Her Parents at Fourteen Years Old
#185. A Humane and Effective Method for Helping Disruptive Students
S1 Ep 184#184. The Conditions and Challenges of Post-War Europe
Richard Bessel is a professor emeritus of twentieth century history at the University of York and a former member of the editorial boards of German History and History Today. He is a specialist in the social and political history of modern Germany, the aftermath of the two world wars, and the history of policing. He is the author of several books, published between 1984 and 2004, about the Nazi and post-Nazi eras of German history. His book, Violence: A Modern Obsession, published in 2015, explores how Western perceptions of violence have evolved over the last 150 years. This interview will focus on his recently published, Postwar Europe: A Very Short Introduction, part of The Oxford Very Short Introduction series.Recorded 3/17/26.
S1 Ep 183#183. A Neuroscientist Tells the Story of his Remarkable Overcoming of Profound Childhood Adversity
David Sussillo is an internationally recognized neuroscientist, currently working as a senior research manager at Meta Reality Labs, leading a team that is developing brain-machine interfaces for next-generation computer technologies. He is also an adjunct professor in the electrical engineering department at Stanford University, where he conducts research in computational neuroscience and neural dynamics. This interview will focus on his soon-to-be published book, Emergence: A Memoir of Boyhood, Computation, and the Mysteries of Mind, about his remarkable overcoming of profound childhood adversity, including his earliest years growing up with drug-addicted parents, followed by nearly a decade in orphanages. In this interview we will try to imagine what it was like for David during his childhood, including the hardships, the sources of engagement and hope, and what it took to achieve the improbable: a highly successful life, both professionally and personally.Recorded 3/10/26.