Big Brains
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Episodes: 205
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Big Brains explores the groundbreaking research and discoveries that are changing our world. In each episode, we talk to leading experts and unpack their work in straightforward terms. Interesting conversations that cover a gamut of topics from how music affects our brains to what happens after we die.
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How Full-Body MRIs Will Pedict Your Long-Term Health, with Daniel Sodickson
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Oct 30, 2025 |
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Is There Such A Thing As A Psychopath?
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Oct 16, 2025 |
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Why We Haven’t Solved Brain Disorders—And How To Fix It, with Nicole Rust
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Oct 02, 2025 |
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Life On Mars: Is It Possible For Humans? with Edwin Kite
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Sep 19, 2025 |
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How To Use Nature To Restore Your Focus, with Marc Berman
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Sep 04, 2025 |
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Could Plants Unlock Quantum Medicine’s Potential? with Greg Engel
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Aug 21, 2025 |
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How Microplastics Are Invading Our Bodies, with Matthew Campen
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Aug 07, 2025 |
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Why We Get Stuck—And How to Finally Move Forward
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Jul 24, 2025 |
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Inside the AI Debate: Hope, Hype, Or Harm? A Big Brains Panel Weighs In
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Jul 10, 2025 |
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Are Your Medications Safe And Effective?, with Jerry Avorn
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Jun 26, 2025 |
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Are We Making AI Too Human?, with James Evans
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Jun 12, 2025 |
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Inside The Disease That Changes Your Personality, with Bruce Miller
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May 29, 2025 |
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Meet The ‘Planet Hunter’ Searching For Alien Life, with Jacob Bean
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May 15, 2025 |
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How To Stop Gun Violence Before It Starts, with Jens Ludwig
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May 01, 2025 |
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Can Your DNA Predict Your Future?, with Dalton Conley
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Apr 17, 2025 |
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Can You Really Die of a Broken Heart? The Hidden Dangers of Grief, with Mary Frances O'Connor
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Apr 03, 2025 |
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The Science Behind Raising Successful Kids, with Ariel Kalil
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Mar 20, 2025 |
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Do Animals Understand Death?, with Susana Monsó
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Mar 06, 2025 |
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Why Measles Is Resurging—And The Rise Of Vaccine Hesitancy, with Adam Ratner
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Feb 20, 2025 |
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The Little-Known Secrets To A Good Life, with Shigehiro Oishi
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Feb 06, 2025 |
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How Bioelectronics Could Heal Our Bodies And Minds, with Bozhi Tian
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Jan 23, 2025 |
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Could A Fungal Pandemic Be “The Last of Us?", with Arturo Casadevall
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Jan 09, 2025 |
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The "Magic Words" That Turn Resolutions Into Reality
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Jan 02, 2025 |
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What’s The Truth About Alcohol’s Benefits And Risks? with Tim Stockwell
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Dec 19, 2024 |
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What Happens When We Die? with Sam Parnia
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Dec 05, 2024 |
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The Illusion of Moral Decline
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Nov 21, 2024 |
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Can We Predict The Unpredictable? with J. Doyne Farmer
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Nov 14, 2024 |
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Unlocking The Secrets Of ‘SuperAgers’, with Emily Rogalski
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Oct 31, 2024 |
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2024 Nobel Laureate Explains What Makes Countries Fail Or Succeed, with James A. Robinson
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Oct 17, 2024 |
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Why Can’t Scientists Agree On The Age Of The Universe? with Wendy Freedman
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Oct 03, 2024 |
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What Are We Getting Wrong About Young Voters?, with Cathy Cohen
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Sep 19, 2024 |
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Why Are More Women Saying No To Having Kids? With Peggy O'Donnell Heffington
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Sep 05, 2024 |
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How Homeownership Shaped Race In America, with Adrienne Brown
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Aug 22, 2024 |
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Fighting Back Against AI Piracy, with Ben Zhao and Heather Zheng
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Aug 08, 2024 |
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The Bioelectric Future of Regenerative Medicine
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Jul 25, 2024 |
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Is Mindfulness The Secret To Health?
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Jul 11, 2024 |
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Feeling Stuck? Here’s How To Achieve a Breakthrough, with Adam Alter
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Jun 27, 2024 |
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What Makes Something Memorable (or Forgettable?) with Wilma Bainbridge
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Jun 13, 2024 |
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Learning To Speak To Whales Using AI, with David Gruber
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May 30, 2024 |
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Storm Warning: Why Hurricanes Are Growing Beyond Measure, with Michael Wehner
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May 16, 2024 |
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How To Manifest Your Future Using Neuroscience, with James Doty
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May 02, 2024 |
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Why We Die—And How We Can Live Longer, with Nobel Laureate Venki Ramakrishnan
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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, With Scott O'Neill
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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 |