Big Brains
By University of Chicago Podcast Network
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Translating groundbreaking research into digestible brain food. Big Brains, little bites. Produced by the University of Chicago Podcast Network & Winner of CASE "Grand Gold" award in 2022, Gold award in 2021, and named Adweek's "Best Branded Podcast" in 2020.
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Why We Die—And How We Can Live Longer, with Nobel Laureate Venki Ramakrishan
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Apr 18, 2024 |
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What Dogs Are Teaching Us About Aging, with Daniel Promislow
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Apr 04, 2024 |
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Where Has Alzheimer’s Research Gone Wrong? with Karl Herrup
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Mar 21, 2024 |
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Why Breeding Millions of Mosquitoes Could Help Save Lives
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Mar 07, 2024 |
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Why Shaming Other Countries Often Backfires, with Rochelle Terman
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Feb 22, 2024 |
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Can Trump Legally Be President?, with William Baude
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Feb 06, 2024 |
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What Our Hand Gestures Reveal About Our Thoughts, with Susan Goldin-Meadow
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Jan 25, 2024 |
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Psychedelics Without Hallucinations: A New Mental Health Treatment? with David E. Olson
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Jan 11, 2024 |
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The Science Of Happiness
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Dec 28, 2023 |
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Do We Really Have Free Will? With Robert Sapolsky
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Dec 14, 2023 |
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A Radical Solution To Address Climate Change, with David Keith
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Nov 30, 2023 |
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How PFAS “Forever Chemicals” Are Harming Our Health, with Linda Birnbaum
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Nov 16, 2023 |
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Are We Worse People Than We Used To Be? With Adam Mastroianni
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Nov 02, 2023 |
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Freakonomics’ Steven Levitt On The Secret To Making Tough Choices
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Oct 19, 2023 |
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Will Political Violence Destroy Our Democracy?, With Robert Pape
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Oct 05, 2023 |
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Defending Campus Free Speech In A Polarized Age, with Paul Alivisatos and Tom Ginsburg
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Sep 22, 2023 |
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Why The Secret To Health Lies In The Mind-body Connection, with Ellen Langer
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Sep 07, 2023 |
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Phonics Vs. Whole Word: The Science Of Reading, With Adrian Johns
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Aug 24, 2023 |
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How AI Is Transforming Scientific Research, With Rebecca Willett
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Aug 10, 2023 |
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How AI Could Change The Law
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Jul 27, 2023 |
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How AI Can Predict Future Scientific Discoveries
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Jul 20, 2023 |
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The Uncovered History of Space Travel & Its Privatized Future
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Jul 13, 2023 |
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The Health Costs of Air Pollution
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Jul 06, 2023 |
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How Your Brain Benefits From Music, With Larry Sherman
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Jun 29, 2023 |
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Magic words: Can What You Say Help You Get Your way? with Jonah Berger
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Jun 15, 2023 |
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Providing Basic Health Insurance For Every American, With Katherine Baicker
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Jun 01, 2023 |
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Why We Fight, With Christopher Blattman
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May 25, 2023 |
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The Hidden Truths About Sexuality And Gender In The Medieval World, with Roland Betancourt
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May 11, 2023 |
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How We Could Regrow Limbs And Organs, with Michael Levin
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Apr 27, 2023 |
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A Nobelist’s Controversial Approach To Solving Inequality, With James Heckman
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Apr 13, 2023 |
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How The Food Industry Created Today’s Obesity Crisis, With Marion Nestle
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Mar 30, 2023 |
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Why Your Gut Health Is So Important, With Cathryn Nagler And Eric Pamer
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Mar 16, 2023 |
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Why Mourning Is Essential To Our Well-Being, With Jonathan Lear
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Mar 02, 2023 |
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The History of Black Cinema Re-examined, With Jacqueline Stewart
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Feb 16, 2023 |
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The Scientific Secret To A Happy Life, With Marc Schulz
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Feb 02, 2023 |
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Unraveling Sleep’s Greatest Mysteries: The Day Tomorrow Began
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Jan 19, 2023 |
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Is The U.S. Headed Toward Another Civil War? Feat. William Howell
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Jan 05, 2023 |
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Follow Through On Next Year's Resolutions Using Science With Katy Milkman
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Dec 22, 2022 |
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Why Quantum Tech Will Change Our Future: The Day Tomorrow Began
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Dec 08, 2022 |
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Fighting Global Hunger Through Genetics With Chuan He
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Nov 24, 2022 |
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The Origins Of Civilization And The Future Of Archaeology: The Day Tomorrow Began
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Nov 10, 2022 |
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Can We Predict Your Capacity To Focus? With Monica Rosenberg
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Oct 28, 2022 |
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The 'Legendary' Discovery Of Black Holes: The Day Tomorrow Began
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Oct 13, 2022 |
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Celebrating Our 100th Episode
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Sep 29, 2022 |
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The Science Of Speech & Identity With Katherine Kinzler
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Sep 22, 2022 |
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Life’s Mysterious Origins With Jack Szostak
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Sep 15, 2022 |
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The Afterlife Of Mass Incarceration With Reuben Jonathan Miller
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Sep 08, 2022 |
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The Imbalance In Our Society With Raghuram Rajan
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Sep 01, 2022 |
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Does Welfare Reduce Crime? With Manasi Deshpande
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Aug 18, 2022 |
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The Crucial Race To Build A Better Battery With Shirley Meng
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Aug 04, 2022 |
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Do Animals Dream? With David M. Peña-Guzmán
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Jul 21, 2022 |
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Extreme Heat Waves: Why Are They Surging? with Noboru Nakamura
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Jul 07, 2022 |
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Why Air Pollution Is Cutting Years Off Our Lives, With Christa Hasenkopf And Anant Sudarshan
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Jun 23, 2022 |
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How Tax Dodging And Corporate Secrecy Found A Home In Delaware, With Hal Weitzman
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Jun 09, 2022 |
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Why Countries Choose War Over Peace, With Chris Blattman
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May 26, 2022 |
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How Death In America Is Changing With Shannon Lee Dawdy
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May 12, 2022 |
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Why We Need To Invest In Parents During A Child's Earliest Years, With Dana Suskind
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Apr 28, 2022 |
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The Troubling Rise Of Antibiotic-resistant Superbugs, With Christopher Murray
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Apr 14, 2022 |
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Is Scientific Progress Slowing? with James Evans
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Mar 31, 2022 |
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Could We Vaccinate Against Opioid Addiction? With Sandra Comer And Marco Pravetoni
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Mar 17, 2022 |
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The Man Who Fought To Sanction Putin And Russian Oligarchs, with Bill Browder
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Mar 02, 2022 |
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Why Big Ideas Fail To Scale—And How To Fix It With John List
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Feb 17, 2022 |
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Could Personalizing Laws Make Society More Just? With Omri Ben-Shahar
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Feb 03, 2022 |
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How To Stick To Your Resolutions, With Ayelet Fishbach
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Jan 20, 2022 |
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The Overlooked History Of Black Cinema, With Jacqueline Stewart
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Jan 06, 2022 |
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Engineering A Cure For Cancer With Melody Swartz & Jeffrey Hubbell
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Dec 23, 2021 |
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Confronting Gun Violence With Data, With Jens Ludwig
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Dec 09, 2021 |
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Best Of: Why Talking to Strangers Will Make You Happier With Nicholas Epley
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Dec 02, 2021 |
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Unlocking The Secrets Of Black Holes, With Andrea Ghez
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Nov 18, 2021 |
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Do Your Genes Determine Your Success In Life? With Kathryn Paige Harden
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Nov 04, 2021 |
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How The UN Aims To Save Humanity, With Chris Williams And Luis Bettencourt
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Oct 21, 2021 |
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Combating Our Global Water Crisis Using AI, with Junhong Chen
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Oct 07, 2021 |
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Revolutionizing Technology at the Nanoscale, with Paul Alivisatos
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Sep 23, 2021 |
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The Science Behind Forming Better Habits, With Katy Milkman
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Sep 09, 2021 |
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The Secret Nazi Past and Billionaire Future of U.S. Space Innovation with Jordan Bimm
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Aug 19, 2021 |
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How a Genetic Breakthrough Could Address Global Hunger
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Aug 05, 2021 |
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Introducing: Entitled
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Jul 29, 2021 |
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The Deadly Flaw In Our Judgment, With Cass Sunstein
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Jul 15, 2021 |
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A Scientist’s Beef With The Meat Industry, With Impossible Foods’ Pat Brown
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Jul 01, 2021 |
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A Surprising Economic Solution To Climate Change With Michael Greenstone
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Jun 17, 2021 |
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Solving The Biggest Mysteries Of Our Universe, With Dan Hooper
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Jun 03, 2021 |
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Why You’re Likely Paying An Unfair Share of Property Taxes, with Christopher Berry
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May 20, 2021 |
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Taking Aliens Seriously, with Avi Loeb
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May 06, 2021 |
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The ‘Five Horsemen of the Techpocalypse’ with Kara Swisher
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Apr 22, 2021 |
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Fighting Poverty And Pandemics, with Nobel Economist Michael Kremer
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Apr 08, 2021 |
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Why Life After Incarceration Is Just Another Prison, with Reuben Jonathan Miller
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Mar 25, 2021 |
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Anthony Fauci On What We Need To Get Over COVID-19
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Mar 08, 2021 |
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The Ethics of COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution, with Laurie Zoloth
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Feb 25, 2021 |
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The Doomsday Clock’s ‘Historic Wake-Up Call,’ With Rachel Bronson
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Feb 11, 2021 |
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Unraveling the Mystery of Life’s Origins on Earth, with Jack Szostak
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Jan 28, 2021 |
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The Urgent Need to Reinvest in American Research, with Barbara Snyder
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Jan 14, 2021 |
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Getting Out Of The Lab With John List
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Dec 22, 2020 |
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How Alternate Reality Games Are Changing The Real World with Patrick Jagoda and Kristen Schilt
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Dec 10, 2020 |
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The Science of Empathy, with Peggy Mason
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Nov 25, 2020 |
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Big Brains Presents: The "Capitalisn't" Podcast
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Nov 20, 2020 |
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What Remains Unanswered After The 2020 Election, with William Howell and Luigi Zingales
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Nov 11, 2020 |
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When Governments Share Their Secrets—And When They Don't, with Austin Carson
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Oct 29, 2020 |
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How We Can Fix a Fractured Supreme Court, with Geoffrey Stone
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Oct 15, 2020 |
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Correcting History: Native Americans Tell Their Own Stories
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Oct 01, 2020 |
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The Future of Voting And The 2020 Election, with Anthony Fowler
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Sep 17, 2020 |
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Why The Quantum Internet Could Change Everything, with David Awschalom
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Sep 03, 2020 |
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How Loneliness and Isolation Affect Your Health, with Prof. Linda Waite
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Aug 27, 2020 |
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The Way You Talk—And What It Says About You, with Prof. Katherine Kinzler
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Aug 13, 2020 |
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From LSD to Ecstasy, How Psychedelics Are Altering Therapy, with Prof. Harriet de Wit
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Jul 30, 2020 |
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How Can We Achieve Real Police Reform?
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Jul 16, 2020 |
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Why We're Obsessed With Conspiracy Theories
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Jul 02, 2020 |
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Black Lives Matter Protests: Hope for the Future?
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Jun 18, 2020 |
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What Historic Pandemics Could Teach Us About Coronavirus, with Ada Palmer
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Jun 08, 2020 |
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A Crisis Management Expert’s Advice on Handling Coronavirus
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May 21, 2020 |
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How Students and Schools Can Recover From Coronavirus, with Elaine Allensworth
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May 12, 2020 |
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Trump, Coronavirus and the Cost of Ineffective Government, With William Howell
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Apr 30, 2020 |
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How Coronavirus Is Exposing Our Racial Disparities, with Monica Peek
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Apr 21, 2020 |
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Coronavirus Shows Why We Need To Rethink Health Care, with Kate Baicker
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Apr 03, 2020 |
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What Rats Can Teach Us About Empathy and Racism, with Peggy Mason
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Mar 10, 2020 |
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Why the Coronavirus Could Send China’s Economy Back to the 1980s With Chang-Tai Hsieh
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Feb 25, 2020 |
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Why The Doomsday Clock Is Closer To Apocalypse Than Ever With Rachel Bronson
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Feb 12, 2020 |
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Vladimir Putin’s Number One Enemy With Bill Browder
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Jan 27, 2020 |
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How Google and Facebook Are Ruining Capitalism, with Luigi Zingales
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Jan 13, 2020 |
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How Quantum Technology Could Change Our Future With David Awschalom
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Dec 30, 2019 |
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The Myths Of Millennial Voters With Cathy Cohen
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Dec 16, 2019 |
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Why Some Nations Prosper and Others Fail, with James Robinson
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Dec 02, 2019 |
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The Hunt for Alien Life and Exoplanets, with David Charbonneau
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Nov 18, 2019 |
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Why Chasing The Good Life Is Holding Us Back With Lauren Berlant
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Nov 04, 2019 |
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Saving Our Cities By Studying A Million Neighborhoods With Luis Bettencourt
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Oct 23, 2019 |
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Why Talking to Strangers Will Make You Happier With Nicholas Epley
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Oct 07, 2019 |
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Leading Presidential Scholar Analyzes Trump Impeachment
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Sep 27, 2019 |
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The Politics of Archaeology In Iraq With Christopher Woods
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Sep 23, 2019 |
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Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg On Polarization, Discrimination and Her Favorite Dissent
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Sep 09, 2019 |
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Why Your Social Life is a Matter of Life and Death with Linda Waite
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Aug 26, 2019 |
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Revolutionizing Economics By Studying People In The Real World With John List
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Aug 12, 2019 |
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The Unknown History Of The White Power Movement With Kathleen Belew
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Jul 29, 2019 |
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The Missing Link In Evolution with Neil Shubin
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Jul 15, 2019 |
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Guest Show - No Jargon
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Jul 01, 2019 |
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Trump and the Changing Power of the Presidency with William Howell
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Jun 17, 2019 |
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How the Loss of Community Threatens Society With Raghuram Rajan
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Jun 03, 2019 |
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The Science of Conspiracy Theories And Political Polarization With Eric Oliver
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May 20, 2019 |
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A Modern Medical Miracle with Drs. Valluvan Jeevanandam and Talia Baker
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May 06, 2019 |
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An Archaeological Riddle In The Sahara With Paul Sereno
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Apr 15, 2019 |
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Tiny Creatures, Big Discoveries With Nipam Patel
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Apr 01, 2019 |
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The Hidden Dangers of Artificial Intelligence with Ben Zhao
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Mar 18, 2019 |
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Lessons From Our Country’s Largest School Closing with Eve L. Ewing
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Mar 04, 2019 |
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Simple Solutions To Address Social Issues with Harold Pollack
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Feb 18, 2019 |
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What We’re Getting Wrong About Millennials With Cathy Cohen
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Feb 04, 2019 |
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What Ripples in Space-Time Tell Us About the Universe with Daniel Holz
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Jan 21, 2019 |
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Vietnam and the Rise of the White Power Movement with Kathleen Belew
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Jan 07, 2019 |
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Big Brains: Back in 2019
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Dec 23, 2018 |
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Climate Change’s Human Cost With Michael Greenstone
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Dec 10, 2018 |
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David Axelrod on Why ‘Democracy is Messy’ and the Future of Politics
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Nov 26, 2018 |
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How Talk Builds Babies’ Brains with Dana Suskind
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Nov 12, 2018 |
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What Makes Us Uniquely Human with Neuroscientist Bobby Kasthuri
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Oct 29, 2018 |
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From Sci-Fi to Reality, Quantum Technology with David Awschalom
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Oct 15, 2018 |
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Future of Higher Education and College Access with Robert J. Zimmer
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Oct 01, 2018 |
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The Hidden Abuse of U.S. Immigration with Claudia Flores
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Sep 17, 2018 |
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SCOTUS Nears Unimaginable Era with Geoffrey Stone
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Sep 05, 2018 |
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Special University of Chicago Convocation Podcast with Student Speaker Andrea Popova
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Jun 12, 2018 |
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Special University of Chicago Convocation Podcast featuring Valerie Jarrett and Marianne Bertrand
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Jun 12, 2018 |
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Economist’s Journey to the Nobel with Richard Thaler
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Jun 04, 2018 |
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Future of Energy Innovation with Michael Polsky
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May 21, 2018 |
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The Expanding Universe with Wendy Freedman
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May 14, 2018 |
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Nature’s Design Secrets with Rama Ranganathan
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May 07, 2018 |
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Mind of a Virtuoso Composer with Augusta Read Thomas
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Apr 30, 2018 |
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Myths of U.S. Health Care with Katherine Baicker
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Apr 23, 2018 |
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Discovering the Missing Link with Neil Shubin
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Apr 16, 2018 |
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Big Brains Trailer
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Apr 05, 2018 |