Your independent source for Harvard news since 1898 | SUBSCRIBE Log-In | Register Search form Search ARTICLES CURRENT ISSUE ARCHIVES CLASS NOTES CLASSIFIEDS DONATE PODCAST Preview: Ask a Harvard Professor, Season Four 10.28.21 AFTER THREE GREAT SEASONS, we’re delighted to bring you season four of Ask a Harvard Professor, starting this Monday, November 1. Each week, our editors will interview some of the world’s most prominent scholars, discussing subjects from gerrymandering to food waste to COVID-19. Join us for podcasts with Michael Mina, Sandeep Robert Datta and Venkatesh Murthy, Emily Broad Leib, Nicholas Stephanopoulos, Jerrold Rosenbaum, Claudia Goldin, Makeda Best, and Rudy Tanzi. A transcript from the interview (the following was prepared by a machine algorithm, and may not perfectly reflect the audio file of the interview): Jacob Sweet: Hi, I’m Jacob Sweet and I’m an Associate Editor at Harvard Magazine and a co-host of the fourth season of our podcast, Ask a Harvard Professor, brought to you by the Harvard University Employees Credit Union. Each week, our editors will interview some of the world’s most prominent scholars, discussing subjects from gerrymandering to food waste to COVID-19. From Michael Mina on rapid testing… Michael Mina: Unfortunately what we are finding, which isn’t very surprising, is that the vaccines, despite our great hopes around them, just aren’t actually performing as well as we had hoped to stop transmission. I want to be very clear that the greatest benefit and the greatest thing we could ask for of a vaccine is that they stop people from going to the hospital. And so they’re doing a really good job at that. Jacob Sweet: To Emily Broad Leib on confusing date labels on food... Emily Broad Leib: When you look at the U.S., we waste, it’s estimated, between a third and 40 percent of our food supply. So this isn’t a small problem. We’re wasting a huge amount of food, and that is both a huge waste of the resources that go into producing that food—more than 20 percent of our water, for example, goes to water crops that we then throw away. Jacob Sweet: Join us next Monday, November 1, for our fourth season, and subscribe today on Apple Podcasts or your preferred podcast platform so you’ll never miss one of our weekly episodes. We look forward to sharing these interviews with you. On Readers’ Radar Against Delta, Moderna Edges Pfizer, but Omicron Looms China’s Social-Media Smoke Screen The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination Virus-Sized Transistors “Shopping Week” Extended You Might Also Like: Ask a Harvard Professor with Jerrold Rosenbaum Ask a Harvard Professor with Nicholas Stephanopoulos Ask a Harvard Professor with Emily Broad Leib CONTACT/ABOUT CUSTOMER SERVICE DONOR SERVICES E-NEWSLETTERS ADVERTISE MY ACCOUNT FAQ All Content ©1996-2021 Harvard Magazine Inc. All right reserved Privacy Policy Harvard University Digital Accessibility Policy Report Copyright Infringement