Welcome, Mother Jones Econundrums readers, to the online home of the Chicago Humanities Festival! At CHF, we create opportunities for people of all ages to support, enjoy, and explore the humanities. As part of this mission, we make talks, ideas, and presentations available as audio and video right here on our web site. We have more than 200 pieces of content available for you to stream for free, right now, representing the best and brightest our festivals have had to offer for over 20 years.
For your first visit to our site, we’ve assembled a sampler platter of our own health, science, and environmental content. Kick back and take a few minutes to browse our mix:
- Sex and advice columnist Dan Savage with his brother Bill in a special CHF version of the Savage Lovecast
- Paul Farmer, medical anthropologist and founding director of Partners in Health, on public health in Haiti and his commitment to global health care
- Neurologist and bestselling author Oliver Sacks on his childhood, family influence, and book Uncle Tungsten: A Chemical Boyhood
- A look at the history and future of the condom with University of Illinois’ Paula Treichler
- Yale’s Paul Bloom, author of How Pleasure Works, on the parallels between the pleasures we derive from artwork and the pleasures we experience from food and sex
- A panel on a community’s food environment and how it affects consumption and health, and how public agencies and consumer packaged goods giants can effect change
This six-item list only scratches the surface of our content. We encourage you to dive more deeply into our site, using the genre categories near the top of our site or the “similar features” recommendations on each piece of CHF content.
