Inquiring Minds
By Indre Viskontas
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Each week we bring you a new, in-depth exploration of the space where science and society collide. We’re committed to the idea that making an effort to understand the world around you though science and critical thinking can benefit everyone—and lead to better decisions. We want to find out what’s true, what’s left to discover, and why it all matters.
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Unlocking the Mysteries of the Social Brain with Dr. Bruce Miller
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Apr 01, 2025 |
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Doctored: Fraud, Arrogance, and Tragedy in the Quest to Cure Alzheimer's with Charles Piller
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Feb 04, 2025 |
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Outraged: Why We Fight About Morality and Politics and How to Find Common Ground with Kurt Gray
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Jan 21, 2025 |
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The Purpose Code: How To Unlock Meaning, Maximize Happiness, and Leave A Lasting Legacy with Jordan Grumet
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Jan 15, 2025 |
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Journey to 2125: One Century, One Family, Rising to Challenges with Gary F. Bengier
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Dec 17, 2024 |
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Power Metal: The Race for the Resources That Will Shape the Future with Vince Beiser
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Nov 26, 2024 |
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Thrive: Maximizing Well-Being in the Age of AI with Ravi Bapna
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Oct 10, 2024 |
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Living on Earth: Forests, Corals, Consciousness, and the Making of the World with Peter Godfrey-Smith
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Sep 12, 2024 |
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Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves with Nicola Twilley
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Sep 04, 2024 |
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The Most Delicious Poison with Noah Whiteman
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Aug 14, 2024 |
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Revealing the Secrets of Supercommunicators with Charles Duhigg
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Aug 07, 2024 |
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“The Good Stuff” about Quanta and Fields with Sean Carroll
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May 14, 2024 |
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Understanding and Expanding Consciousness with Dr. Christof Koch
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May 07, 2024 |
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Are Flukes Actually the Norm?
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Apr 15, 2024 |
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Capitalizing on The Neurodiversity Edge with Maureen Dunne
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Apr 09, 2024 |
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Making the Mundane Magic with Dan Winters
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Mar 29, 2024 |
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Why We Die with Venki Ramakrishnan
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Mar 12, 2024 |
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“X”-amining the Battle for the Bird with Kurt Wagner
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Mar 04, 2024 |
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Revealing Why We Remember with Charan Ranganath
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Feb 20, 2024 |
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Don’t Panic, but Robert Sapolsky Says There’s No Free Will
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Oct 18, 2023 |
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The Science of Allergies and Why We Have Them
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Oct 12, 2023 |
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Why It’s Important to Know What’s Actually in Your Clothes
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Sep 26, 2023 |
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How You Could Have Survived History’s Disasters
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Aug 10, 2023 |
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How to Stop Your Brain from Falling for Lies
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Jul 21, 2023 |
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How Society Created “You”
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Jun 22, 2023 |
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The Science of Silo with Hugh Howey
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Jun 02, 2023 |
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Improbable Experiments That Changed the World
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May 18, 2023 |
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The Perilous Combination of Brain Wave Data and Generative AI
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Apr 18, 2023 |
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Everything you need to know about that fusion breakthrough
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Apr 04, 2023 |
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Art can make you live longer
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Mar 22, 2023 |
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Plants have been listening to us this whole time
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Mar 10, 2023 |
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How is it possible that we can’t yet explain consciousness?
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Mar 02, 2023 |
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The Science of Why You Fall in Love With Music
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Dec 24, 2022 |
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The Powerful Ways Secrets Shape Your Life
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Dec 09, 2022 |
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The Psychology of Getting Conned
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Nov 25, 2022 |
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Understanding the Biggest Ideas in the Universe Without Being a Physicist
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Oct 31, 2022 |
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The Overlooked Gifts of Visual Thinkers with Temple Grandin
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Oct 19, 2022 |
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Up to Date | Nanoparticle toothbrushes and a promising Alzheimer's drug
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Oct 10, 2022 |
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These Numbers Explain the Nature of Reality
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Oct 03, 2022 |
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The Science of How Your Dog’s Brain Works
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Sep 27, 2022 |
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The Neuroscience of What Makes You You
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Aug 10, 2022 |
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What do animals dream about?
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Jul 17, 2022 |
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The Science of Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion
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Jul 05, 2022 |
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The language of food, science, and critical thinking with J. Kenji López-Alt
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Jun 29, 2022 |
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Derek Gow Is Turning His Farm Into an Ark for Lost Species
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Jun 01, 2022 |
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Wild but Delicate: What Hawks Can Teach Us About Nature, Life, and Love
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May 24, 2022 |
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Can Fish Count? What Animals Reveal About Our Uniquely Mathematical Minds
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May 17, 2022 |
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The Science of Creativity and How It Can Help You
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May 03, 2022 |
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The Misunderstood Nature of Pain with Haider Warraich
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Apr 19, 2022 |
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The Untold Story of the Neuron with Benjamin Ehrlich
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Apr 04, 2022 |
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Up to Date | Cell Adaptation, Creativity Measurement, and Visual Perception
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Mar 17, 2022 |
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How to Make Use of Our Limited Time in This Tiny Part of Space with Sean Carroll
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Mar 07, 2022 |
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Why You Can’t Know What It’s Like for a Bat to Be a Bat with Jackie Higgins
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Feb 25, 2022 |
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Exploring the Extended Mind with Annie Murphy Paul
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Feb 17, 2022 |
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Space Rocks, Star Stuff, and Tom Selleck's Mustache with Greg Brennecka
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Feb 10, 2022 |
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Defining and Treating Addiction with Carl Erik Fisher
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Jan 28, 2022 |
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2021 Wrap-Up
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Dec 28, 2021 |
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The Evolution of Life and the ‘Dead Species Walking’ with Henry Gee
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Dec 20, 2021 |
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Sizing Up the Notion of Tailoring Your Brain with Emily Willingham
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Dec 13, 2021 |
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Updates from the Past and the Future
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Nov 25, 2021 |
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Inside the Race to the Coronavirus Vaccine with Brendan Borrell
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Nov 15, 2021 |
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Moving Your Way Through Cancer with Dr. Kathryn Schmitz
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Nov 02, 2021 |
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Making Sense of Self with Anil Seth
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Oct 27, 2021 |
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Up to Date | From the Microscopic to the Astronomic
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Oct 21, 2021 |
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A Matter of Life, Death, or Maybe Somewhere in Between with John and Lois Crowe
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Oct 05, 2021 |
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The Sound Mind with Nina Kraus
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Sep 28, 2021 |
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Managing Our Criminal Nature with Mary Roach
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Sep 15, 2021 |
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Unwrapping the Gifts of Good Anxiety with Wendy Suzuki
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Sep 06, 2021 |
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Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science with Sam Kean
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Sep 01, 2021 |
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Investigating The Memory Thief with Lauren Aguirre
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Aug 23, 2021 |
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How to Raise Kids Who Aren’t Assholes with Melinda Wenner Moyer
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Aug 16, 2021 |
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Up to Date | Social Parrots; Empathetic Rodents; Microbiome Analyses
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Aug 09, 2021 |
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Opening Up the World of Quarantine with Nicola Twilley
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Jul 26, 2021 |
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Building Up Your Mental Health Immunity with Andy Norman
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Jul 19, 2021 |
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Generating the Element of Harmonic Surprise with David Rosen
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Jul 12, 2021 |
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Thinking about Thinking about Yourself with Iris Berent
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Jul 05, 2021 |
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The Hidden Geometry of Information and Everything Else with Jordan Ellenberg
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Jun 21, 2021 |
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‘The Untapped Science of Less’ with Leidy Klotz
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Jun 14, 2021 |
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Mom Genes: Abigail Tucker on the Science of Motherhood
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Jun 07, 2021 |
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Andy Weir’s Project Hail Mary
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Jun 01, 2021 |
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The future artificial intelligence may lead to
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May 14, 2021 |
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What is the future of human work?
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Apr 26, 2021 |
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A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence
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Apr 20, 2021 |
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Where did artificial intelligence come from?
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Apr 08, 2021 |
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Up To Date | Aliens didn’t make Oumuamua, aphantasia, and baseball beer research
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Mar 31, 2021 |
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What does it mean to be alive?
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Mar 23, 2021 |
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Literature may be the most powerful technology we’ve invented
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Mar 17, 2021 |
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Why almost everything we’ve been told about food is wrong
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Mar 02, 2021 |
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Up To Date | Paleogenetics, naps, and shocking your brain into remembering better
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Feb 27, 2021 |
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A behavioral scientist explains dating
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Feb 10, 2021 |
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The science behind your voice
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Jan 31, 2021 |
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We need to rethink toilets
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Jan 21, 2021 |
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Up To Date | A look back at 2020, and what’s next for the podcast
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Jan 07, 2021 |
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Five ways the universe might die
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Dec 29, 2020 |
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The Surprising Story of Medieval Science
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Dec 18, 2020 |
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The Quest for the Oldest Skeleton
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Dec 03, 2020 |
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You’re full of bones. How do they work?
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Nov 26, 2020 |
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Thinking isn’t your brain’s most important job
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Nov 19, 2020 |
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Up To Date | Moon water implications and new research on why you understand words
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Nov 11, 2020 |
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Feed Drop: Cadence S3E1: The Music of Politics
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Nov 03, 2020 |
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Tesla, the man
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Oct 30, 2020 |
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Up To Date | Autumn fires and climate change; plastic bottle eating enzymes; singing blue whales
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Oct 08, 2020 |
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As the World Burns: The New Generation of Activists
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Oct 01, 2020 |
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Telling the story of climate change with music
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Sep 22, 2020 |
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The ways in which our bodies don’t match how the world has been built
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Sep 16, 2020 |
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Up To Date | Why Elon Musk’s Neuralink could fail; and the worrying relationship between bad sleep and Alzheimer's disease
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Sep 08, 2020 |
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Why you talk the way you do, and what it says about you
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Sep 01, 2020 |
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How fraud, bias, negligence, and hype undermine the search for truth
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Aug 17, 2020 |
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Why things spread and why they stop
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Aug 06, 2020 |
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Up To Date | Mosquitoes, robots, pupils, beavers, and Earth’s crust
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Jul 28, 2020 |
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A Story about Forests, People, and the Future
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Jul 23, 2020 |
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From the slave trade to climate change—why corporations defend the indefensible
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Jul 16, 2020 |
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The Language of Butterflies
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Jul 08, 2020 |
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Up To Date | The Drake equation 2.0; Nanotech yeast; Why are plants green?; Wasp boxing
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Jun 30, 2020 |
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Where educators go wrong
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Jun 23, 2020 |
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The history of structural racism in medicine
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Jun 16, 2020 |
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How Humans and Matter Transformed One Another
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Jun 09, 2020 |
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Galileo’s fight is still relevant today
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Jun 02, 2020 |
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A History of the Afterlife
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May 26, 2020 |
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A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life
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May 06, 2020 |
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The behavioral economics of baseball
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Apr 25, 2020 |
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Up To Date | Plastic-eating enzymes; 5,000-year-old egg decorating; why you still can’t buy love; and the neural basis of creativity
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Apr 14, 2020 |
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Divergent Mind: Thriving in a World That Wasn't Designed for You
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Apr 07, 2020 |
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Revisiting the Dunning-Kruger Effect with David Dunning
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Mar 31, 2020 |
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How the internet is changing the English language
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Mar 24, 2020 |
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The science of streaks and the hot hand
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Mar 17, 2020 |
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The neuroscience of how we learn
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Mar 10, 2020 |
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A Totally Fictional but Essentially True Silicon Valley Story
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Feb 25, 2020 |
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Up To Date | Ancient Dates; Mummy Voices; Mouse Memories
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Feb 12, 2020 |
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The Poison Squad
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Feb 04, 2020 |
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The Hidden World of the Fox
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Jan 28, 2020 |
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We need a better, more democratic internet
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Jan 21, 2020 |
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2019 Year End Wrap-Up
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Dec 31, 2019 |
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We might be approaching the study of cancer all wrong
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Dec 23, 2019 |
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Life and Breath in the Age of Air Pollution
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Dec 16, 2019 |
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The Blockchain and the Future of Everything
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Dec 03, 2019 |
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The Four-Billion-Year Story of How We Got Conscious Brains
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Nov 19, 2019 |
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How Language Shapes Thought
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Nov 12, 2019 |
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The History, Science, and Future of Heart Disease
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Oct 29, 2019 |
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The Life and Afterlife of Harry Houdini
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Oct 22, 2019 |
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Silicon Valley: A Satire
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Oct 16, 2019 |
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Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime
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Oct 08, 2019 |
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The Science of Behavior-Altering Parasites
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Oct 01, 2019 |
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Why We Need Insects
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Sep 24, 2019 |
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Kishore’s Send-Off!
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Sep 17, 2019 |
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Why Smart People Make Dumb Mistakes
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Sep 03, 2019 |
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Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
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Aug 13, 2019 |
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Sharks: The Ocean's Most Mysterious, Most Misunderstood, and Most Important Guardians
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Aug 07, 2019 |
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A Brief Guide to the Fundamental Mystery of the Mind
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Jul 30, 2019 |
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The American Automobile: Past, Present, and Driverless
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Jul 17, 2019 |
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Neal Stephenson - Fall; or, Dodge in Hell
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Jul 02, 2019 |
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In Pain: A Bioethicist’s Personal Struggle with Opioids
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Jun 24, 2019 |
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Up To Date | Singing Mice; Six Fingered Hands; Dolphin Cliques
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Jun 18, 2019 |
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The Age of Living Machines
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Jun 10, 2019 |
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A Life in Math and Football
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Jun 04, 2019 |
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The State of the Art in Alzheimer's Research
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May 21, 2019 |
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BONUS: Introducing Science Rules! with Bill Nye
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May 18, 2019 |
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Salty Erotica of the Deep
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May 14, 2019 |
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Up To Date | Bioprinting a Liver; Tasting with Genes; Stopping the World’s Worst Venom
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May 07, 2019 |
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Completing the Darwinian Revolution
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May 01, 2019 |
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How Cats Tamed Us and Took Over the World
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Apr 22, 2019 |
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How Music Can Make You Better
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Apr 16, 2019 |
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Up To Date | Neurogenesis; Predicting Death with AI; Rethinking Nose Jobs
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Apr 09, 2019 |
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A Cultural History of Humanity's Search for Meaning
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Mar 29, 2019 |
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The Strange Science of Recovery
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Mar 25, 2019 |
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The Extraordinary New Science of the Immune System
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Mar 19, 2019 |
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Up To Date | Bug census, global warming, young blood, microwaving grapes
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Feb 25, 2019 |
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2018’s Best Science Movies (and TV)
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Feb 18, 2019 |
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Oculus, Facebook, and the Revolution That Swept Virtual Reality
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Feb 12, 2019 |
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Up To Date | Polar Vortex Science, Brainwaves to Speech, Blowing Up the Brain
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Feb 05, 2019 |
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Why We Fall for It Every Time
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Jan 29, 2019 |
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The Science of How Art Works
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Jan 22, 2019 |
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The Science of Perfect Timing
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Jan 15, 2019 |
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Up To Date | New Horizons Finds BB-8; Defining Death; Differential Privacy
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Jan 08, 2019 |
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The Neuroscience of Prejudice
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Jan 01, 2019 |
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Up To Date | Top 10 Science Stories of 2018
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Dec 29, 2018 |
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Lessons from the Edge of the Universe
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Dec 24, 2018 |
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Up To Date | Hummingbird Divebombs; Collapsing Ice Sheets
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Dec 22, 2018 |
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The Laws of Human Nature
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Dec 17, 2018 |
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Up To Date | Talking Viruses; Creativity Waves
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Dec 15, 2018 |
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She Has Her Mother's Laugh
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Dec 11, 2018 |
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Up To Date | Migration Myths and Negative Mass
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Dec 08, 2018 |
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Music as Medicine
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Dec 05, 2018 |
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Up To Date | Ants with backpacks; Neuron DNA affects Alzheimer's
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Nov 30, 2018 |
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A New History of a Lost World
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Nov 29, 2018 |
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A Radical New History of Life
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Nov 23, 2018 |
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Up To Date | A Polio-Like Virus and Genes Deciding Your University
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Nov 20, 2018 |
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What It’s like to Discover a Dinosaur
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Nov 20, 2018 |
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Up To Date | Smelling Stingrays and a 16 Billion Scoville Cactus
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Nov 17, 2018 |
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Life at the Extremes of Our Capacity
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Nov 13, 2018 |
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Up To Date | Election results, stealth moths, and a retired kilogram
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Nov 10, 2018 |
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The Beauty and Utility of Maps: A Cartographic Odyssey
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Nov 06, 2018 |
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Up To Date | The Definitive Field Guide to Filthy Animal Facts
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Nov 03, 2018 |
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What Real-Life Zombies Reveal About Our World
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Oct 30, 2018 |
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Up To Date | Doubling worm lifespans; the recent failed Soyuz launch
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Oct 27, 2018 |
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The Remarkable History of Surgery
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Oct 16, 2018 |
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Up To Date | Nobel Prizes and Electrical Nerve Regeneration
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Oct 13, 2018 |
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Being Human in the Age of Algorithms
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Oct 12, 2018 |
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China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order
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Oct 07, 2018 |
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Steven Pinker: Enlightenment Now
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Sep 27, 2018 |
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The Coyote Story
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Sep 19, 2018 |
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Up To Date | Do Apple's Health Claims Check Out?
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Sep 18, 2018 |
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How Sloppy Science Creates Worthless Cures, Crushes Hope, and Wastes Billions
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Sep 12, 2018 |
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How Intuition and Reason Divide Our Politics
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Aug 28, 2018 |
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Up To Date | Attention Is an Illusion; Ant Highways
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Aug 26, 2018 |
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A Pianist Rebuilds Her Brain
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Aug 21, 2018 |
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Up To Date | Monsanto Cancer Case and Kids Believe Lying Robots
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Aug 19, 2018 |
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The Material That Will Revolutionize the World
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Aug 14, 2018 |
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Up To Date | Google Glass Lives! and Breaking Dog Urine News
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Aug 12, 2018 |
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Up To Date | How Plants Tell Time, Lab-Grown Pig Lungs, Stolen Fields Medal
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Aug 03, 2018 |
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The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers
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Jul 31, 2018 |
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Up To Date | A Lake on Mars, Dog Empathy, and TBI & the Military
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Jul 28, 2018 |
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Revisiting Flint: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope
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Jul 24, 2018 |
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Up To Date | GMO Acceptance, Elle Macpherson, and Friendly Fish
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Jul 21, 2018 |
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How Neuroscience Is Redefining Athletic Genius
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Jul 17, 2018 |
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Up To Date - Killing Cancer Cells and Exploring the Sunk Cost Fallacy (In Rats)
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Jul 14, 2018 |
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Nikola Tesla: Inventor of the Modern
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Jul 10, 2018 |
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Up To Date | Air Pollution and Diabetes, Large Scale Microbiome Studies, and Why Driving Makes You Sleepy
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Jul 07, 2018 |
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Aroused: The History of Hormones
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Jul 03, 2018 |
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Up To Date | Longevity Pioneers, Leaky Methane, and Predicting Earthquakes
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Jun 29, 2018 |
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Motherhood in the Animal Kingdom
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Jun 26, 2018 |
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Up To Date | Mind Controlling Robots, Viral Alzheimer's Link, and Remembering Koko
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Jun 23, 2018 |
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Intelligent Machines Are Changing Everything
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Jun 18, 2018 |
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Virtual Reality Is Changing Human Connection
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Jun 12, 2018 |
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Up To Date | Don’t Eat Clay, Do Eat Dark Chocolate
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Jun 09, 2018 |
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The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity
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Jun 05, 2018 |
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Up To Date | Where Happiness Comes From, and Why
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Jun 01, 2018 |
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Why We're Addicted to Screens
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May 28, 2018 |
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Inside the Epic First Mission to Pluto
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May 22, 2018 |
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Up To Date | Snail Memory Transplants, Eyes In The Back Of Your Head, and Treating Epilepsy with CBD
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May 18, 2018 |
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The Rise and Fall of the Cephalopods
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May 14, 2018 |
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Up To Date | Pre-pregnancy Genome Sequencing, Mass Prescribing Antibiotics, and the Trolley Problem
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May 12, 2018 |
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The Rise of Deep Brain Stimulation and Its Forgotten Inventor
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May 07, 2018 |
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Up To Date | Genetically Editing Fat Tissue, A Turing Test For Water, and Another Mars Lander
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May 05, 2018 |
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Losing the Nobel Prize
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May 01, 2018 |
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Up To Date | Anonymous Study Subjects, Genetically Engineered Livestock, and Asteroids Delivering Water
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Apr 28, 2018 |
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How We Evolved to Have Free Will
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Apr 23, 2018 |
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Up To Date | Night Owl Death, Space Launches, and Viagra’s Greater Purpose
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Apr 20, 2018 |
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Creating Empathy With Immersive Virtual Reality
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Apr 16, 2018 |
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Up-To-Date | Does It Fart?: The Definitive Field Guide to Animal Flatulence
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Apr 13, 2018 |
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The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics
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Apr 09, 2018 |
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Up-To-Date | James Webb, Shrimp, and Chilled-Out Monkeys
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Apr 07, 2018 |
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The Neuroscience of How We Think
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Apr 02, 2018 |
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Jellyfish Science
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Mar 27, 2018 |
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The Politics of Rainforests
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Mar 20, 2018 |
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What We Really Know About Gun Violence
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Mar 13, 2018 |
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100% Renewable Energy by 2050
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Mar 06, 2018 |
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The Broad Potential of Psychoactive Drugs
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Feb 27, 2018 |
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The Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance
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Feb 19, 2018 |
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It's Time to Rethink Ocean Conservation
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Feb 06, 2018 |
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Science Got Women Wrong
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Jan 23, 2018 |
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A Volcano Scientist Runs for Congress
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Jan 16, 2018 |
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Mapping Human Brains
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Jan 09, 2018 |
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Losing Genes but Gaining Music | [BONUS EP] Cadence | S02 Episode 01
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Jan 01, 2018 |
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How One Emotion Connects Altruists and Psychopaths
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Dec 25, 2017 |
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Lessons in Investigating Death
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Dec 19, 2017 |
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Lost Einsteins: Left Behind by the Innovation Economy
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Dec 12, 2017 |
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Getting Politicians to Talk About Science
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Dec 05, 2017 |
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Black Hole Blues
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Nov 28, 2017 |
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Why Dinosaurs Matter
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Nov 21, 2017 |
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What's Going on in the Brain of a Fetus?
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Nov 14, 2017 |
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How Science Built One of the Greatest Basketball Teams in History
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Nov 07, 2017 |
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A Paid Climate Change Skeptic Switches Sides
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Oct 30, 2017 |
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Ten Emerging Technologies That'll Improve and/or Ruin Everything
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Oct 24, 2017 |
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A Psychiatrist Analyzes the Age of Trump
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Oct 17, 2017 |
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Molecules From Caesar's Last Breath Are Inside You
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Oct 03, 2017 |
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Where the Animals Go: Tracking Wildlife with Technology
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Sep 27, 2017 |
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Why Buddhism is True
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Sep 18, 2017 |
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The Psychology of Hate
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Sep 12, 2017 |
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Jonathan Lynn on Why US Healthcare Is Worthy of Ridicule
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Aug 31, 2017 |
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The Great American Solar Eclipse
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Aug 15, 2017 |
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The Science of Game of Thrones
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Aug 07, 2017 |
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Why Are We Curious?
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Jul 31, 2017 |
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We've Got to Start Eating Insects
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Jul 24, 2017 |
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186 Jason Silva - Origins: The Journey of Humankind
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Jul 17, 2017 |
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185 Jennifer Latson - A True Story of Pathological Friendliness
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Jul 03, 2017 |
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184 Zeynep Tufekci - Twitter and Tear Gas
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Jun 26, 2017 |
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183 Dean Buonomano - The Neuroscience and Physics of Time
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Jun 19, 2017 |
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182 Ty Tashiro - The Science of Being Awkward
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Jun 06, 2017 |
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181 Mike Drucker - How to Write Science Into Comedy
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May 29, 2017 |
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180 The Unique Challenge of Being a Woman in Engineering [Collaboration with Cited]
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May 22, 2017 |
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179 The Leaky Pipeline of Women in Science [Collaboration with Cited]
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May 15, 2017 |
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178 Teresa Zimmers - The Murky Science of Lethal Injection
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May 09, 2017 |
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177 Bill Nye - Let’s Change the World
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May 05, 2017 |
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176 Paul Doherty - The Actual Science Behind Outlandish Deaths
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Apr 25, 2017 |
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175 Sharon Begley - Can't Just Stop: An Investigation of Compulsions
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Apr 17, 2017 |
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174 James Beacham - The Exciting World of Particle Hunters
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Apr 10, 2017 |
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[BONUS EP] Cadence | Episode 01: What Is Music?
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Apr 04, 2017 |
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173 Mary Roach - Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
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Apr 04, 2017 |
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172 Dan Ariely - The Surprising Science of What Motivates Us
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Mar 27, 2017 |
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171 Siddhartha Roy - The Science Behind the Flint Water Crisis
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Mar 20, 2017 |
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170 Steven Hatch - Inferno: A Doctor's Ebola Story
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Mar 13, 2017 |
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169 Daniel Levitin - The Emerging Epidemic of the Silent Home
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Mar 06, 2017 |
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168 Alison Van Eenennaam - Gene Editing Livestock
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Feb 27, 2017 |
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167 Haider Warraich - Modern Death: How Medicine Changed the End of Life
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Feb 20, 2017 |
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166 Alan Burdick - Why Time Flies: A Mostly Scientific Investigation
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Feb 13, 2017 |
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165 Nate Allen - Why Science Is Huge on Reddit
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Feb 06, 2017 |
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164 Alexandra Wolfe - Valley of the Gods: A Silicon Valley Story
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Jan 23, 2017 |
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163 Dave Levitan - The Return Of "I'm Not a Scientist”
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Jan 16, 2017 |
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162 Paul Bloom - Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion
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Jan 09, 2017 |
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161 Patrick Wolff - How to Become a Grandmaster Chess Champion
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Dec 23, 2016 |
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160 Helen Czerski - The Little Bits of Physics in Everyday Life
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Dec 16, 2016 |
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159 David Grinspoon - Earth in Human Hands: Shaping Our Planet's Future
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Dec 09, 2016 |
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158 Lee van der Voo - The Fish Market: Inside the Big-Money Battle for the Ocean and Your Dinner Plate
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Dec 02, 2016 |
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157 Erik Vance - The Curious Science of Your Brain's Ability to Deceive, Transform, and Heal
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Nov 25, 2016 |
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156 Heather Hill - Taking a Second Look at SeaWorld
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Nov 18, 2016 |
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155 Chris and Evan Hadfield - An Astronaut Explores the Arctic
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Nov 12, 2016 |
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154 Changing Political Minds - The Deep Story With Arlie Hochschild and Reckonings
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Nov 04, 2016 |
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153 Merlin Tuttle - The Secret Lives of Bats
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Oct 28, 2016 |
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152 Abigail Tucker - How House Cats Tamed Us and Took Over the World
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Oct 22, 2016 |
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151 Irva Hertz-Picciotto - Should We Worry More About Toxic Environmental Chemicals?
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Oct 14, 2016 |
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150 Stuart Firestein - Why Science Needs to Fail
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Sep 30, 2016 |
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149 Sarah Ballard / Jackie Speier - The Appalling Reality of Harassment in Science
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Sep 23, 2016 |
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148 Judith Schwartz - Hope for a Thirsty World
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Sep 16, 2016 |
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147 Dave Levitan - How Politicians Mangle Science
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Sep 09, 2016 |
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146 John Hargrove - Taking on SeaWorld
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Aug 26, 2016 |
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145 Carin Bondar - Wild Sex
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Aug 19, 2016 |
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144 Ed Yong - I Contain Multitudes
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Aug 12, 2016 |
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143 The Stories That Collection Museums Hold
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Aug 08, 2016 |
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142 Hank Greely - The End of Sex
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Jul 22, 2016 |
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141 Marek Glezerman - The Science of Gender Medicine
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Jul 15, 2016 |
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140 Janna Levin - This Is the Sound of Two Black Holes Colliding
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Jul 08, 2016 |
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139 Peter Willcox - Adventures in Protecting the Future of Our Planet
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Jul 01, 2016 |
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138 Mary Roach - The Curious Science of Humans at War
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Jun 24, 2016 |
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137 Jonah Berger - The Hidden Forces That Shape Behavior
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Jun 17, 2016 |
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136 Siddhartha Mukherjee - An Intimate History of the Gene
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Jun 10, 2016 |
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135 Sean Carroll - Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself
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Jun 03, 2016 |
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134 Anders Ericsson - How to Do Everything Better
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May 20, 2016 |
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133 Ben Beard - How Global Warming Is Making Some Diseases Even Scarier
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May 13, 2016 |
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132 Hope Jahren - The Joy and Otherness of Trees
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May 06, 2016 |
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131 Josh Willis - Greenland Is Melting!
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Apr 29, 2016 |
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130 Bill Nye - Fighting Climate Denial
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Apr 22, 2016 |
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129 Greg Marcus - Understanding Heart Disease With Big Data
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Apr 15, 2016 |
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128 Sy Montgomery - The Soul of an Octopus
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Apr 08, 2016 |
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127 Carl Zimmer - The Mysterious World of Viruses
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Apr 01, 2016 |
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126 Maria Konnikova - The Science of Why We Fall for Cons
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Mar 25, 2016 |
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125 Anthony James - How Deadly Are Mosquitoes?
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Mar 11, 2016 |
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124 Joanne Ruthsatz & Kimberly Stephens - Is There a Link Between Prodigy and Autism?
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Mar 04, 2016 |
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123 J. Kenji López-Alt - Better Home Cooking Through Science
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Feb 26, 2016 |
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122 Nancy Krieger - Police Involved Killings Are Public Health Data
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Feb 19, 2016 |
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121 Marah Hardt - Sex in the Sea
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Feb 12, 2016 |
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120 Eric Weiner - The Geography of Genius
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Feb 05, 2016 |
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119 Kara Platoni - Hacking Human Perception
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Jan 29, 2016 |
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118 Kim Cobb - The Evolution of El Niño
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Jan 22, 2016 |
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117 Douglas Fields - The Science of Rage and Why We Snap
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Jan 15, 2016 |
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116 Indre and Kishore’s 2016 Science Predictions
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Jan 08, 2016 |
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115 Chris Ferguson - Violence in Video Games
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Dec 18, 2015 |
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114 Mark Schatzker - The Dorito Effect
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Dec 11, 2015 |
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113 Robert Sapolsky - Being Human
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Dec 04, 2015 |
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112 Ed Lu - The Real Threat of Asteroids
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Nov 27, 2015 |
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111 Steve Croft - The Feeding Habits of Supermassive Black Holes
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Nov 20, 2015 |
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110 Cady Coleman - Our Calling to Space
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Nov 13, 2015 |
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109 Dava Newman - The Future of Space Exploration
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Nov 06, 2015 |
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108 Adam Galinsky & Maurice Schweitzer - The Science of Sex, Power, and Competition
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Oct 30, 2015 |
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107 Ariel Waldman - Hacking Science
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Oct 25, 2015 |
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106 Brad Bushman - The Science of Gun Violence
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Oct 16, 2015 |
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105 Brad Voytek - We Neuroscientists Don't Really Know What Your Brain Is Doing
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Oct 09, 2015 |
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104 Justin Rubinstein - Humans Are Causing Earthquakes in Oklahoma
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Oct 02, 2015 |
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103 M. R. O'Connor - Resurrection Science and the Precarious Future of Wild Things
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Sep 25, 2015 |
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102 Beth Shapiro - The Science of De-Extinction
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Sep 18, 2015 |
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101 Lucky Yates - The Science of Archer
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Sep 11, 2015 |
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100 Steve Silberman - Remembering Oliver Sacks / The Legacy of Autism
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Sep 04, 2015 |
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99 Marc Lewis - Why Addiction Is Not a Disease
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Aug 21, 2015 |
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98 Fred Perlak - Inside the Mind of a Monsanto Scientist
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Aug 14, 2015 |
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97 Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis - How Music Plays the Mind
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Aug 07, 2015 |
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96 David Casarett - A Doctor's Case for Medical Marijuana
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Jul 31, 2015 |
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95 Wade Roush - How Disasters Affect Science
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Jul 24, 2015 |
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94 Michael Hiltzik - The Invention That Launched the Military-Industrial Complex
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Jul 17, 2015 |
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93 Alvin Roth - The New Economics of Who Gets What—and Why
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Jul 10, 2015 |
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92 Will Walker & Kevin Czinger - The Future of 3D Printing
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Jun 26, 2015 |
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91 Rachel Kalmar - The Power of Wearable Technology
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Jun 19, 2015 |
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90 Will Smith & Norman Chan - Understanding Virtual Reality
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Jun 12, 2015 |
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89 Eric Cheng - The Science Behind Drones
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Jun 05, 2015 |
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88 Alan Levinovitz - The Gluten Lie
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May 29, 2015 |
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87 Stephen Dubner - Freakonomics and the Danger of Certainty
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May 22, 2015 |
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86 Adam Rogers - The Science of Booze
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May 15, 2015 |
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85 James Krupa - Teaching Evolution in Kentucky
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May 08, 2015 |
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84 Ivan Oransky - The Fetishization of Scientific Papers
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May 02, 2015 |
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83 Traci Mann - The Science of Weight Loss
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Apr 24, 2015 |
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82 Alex Garland - The Science of Ex Machina
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Apr 17, 2015 |
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81 Sanjoy Mahajan - Street-Fighting Mathematics
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Apr 10, 2015 |
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80 Norman Doidge - How Plastic Is Your Brain?
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Apr 03, 2015 |
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79 Ken Caldeira - Can Geoengineering Save the Planet?
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Mar 27, 2015 |
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78 Bill Gifford - Can Science Keep You Young Forever?
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Mar 20, 2015 |
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77 Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo - Sugar Science
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Mar 13, 2015 |
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76 Jonathan Eisen - The Tiny World of Microbes Inside You
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Mar 06, 2015 |
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75 Kevin Kelly - What Technology Wants
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Feb 27, 2015 |
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74 Kathleen Hall Jamieson - Fact Checking Science
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Feb 20, 2015 |
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73 David J. Morris - The History and Science of PTSD
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Feb 13, 2015 |
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72 Andy Weir - The Science of The Martian
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Feb 06, 2015 |
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71 Ed Boyden - Blowing Up the Brain
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Jan 30, 2015 |
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70 Brian Fisher - The Real Ant-Man
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Jan 23, 2015 |
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69 Katie Mack - Dark Matter: Invisible, and Probably Flying through You Right Now
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Jan 16, 2015 |
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68 Matt Walker - Why Did We Evolve to Sleep?
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Jan 09, 2015 |
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67 Gabriele Oettingen - Rethinking Positive Thinking
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Jan 02, 2015 |
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66 Adam Savage - The Joy of Being a Maker
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Dec 26, 2014 |
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65 Matt Parker - Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension
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Dec 19, 2014 |
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64 Sharman Apt Russell - Chasing Tiger Beetles as a Citizen Scientist
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Dec 12, 2014 |
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63 Donald Johanson - Lucy's Legacy, 40 Years Later
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Dec 05, 2014 |
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62 Christine Kenneally - How DNA and History Shape Our Identities and Our Futures
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Nov 28, 2014 |
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61 George Church - Hacking Mosquitoes to Fight Malaria
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Nov 21, 2014 |
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60 Paul Bloom - Babies and the Origins of Good and Evil
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Nov 14, 2014 |
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59 David Grinspoon - The Science of Interstellar
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Nov 07, 2014 |
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58 Adam Savage - Live on Stage in San Francisco
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Oct 31, 2014 |
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57 William Gibson - The Future Will View Us as a Joke
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Oct 24, 2014 |
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56 Steven Johnson - Innovations That Made the Modern World
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Oct 17, 2014 |
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55 Daniel Levitin - The Organized Mind
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Oct 10, 2014 |
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54 Steven Pinker - The Science Behind Writing Well
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Oct 02, 2014 |
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53 Naomi Klein - Climate Changes Everything
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Sep 26, 2014 |
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52 Al Gore - The Politics of Climate Change
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Sep 17, 2014 |
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51 Brendan Nyhan - Will Facts Matter in the 2014 Election?
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Sep 12, 2014 |
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50 William Poundstone - Understanding Randomness
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Sep 05, 2014 |
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49 Arie Kruglanski - The Science of What Makes a Terrorist
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Aug 29, 2014 |
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48 K Clancy, R Nelson, J Rutherford, & K Hinde - The Epidemic of Harassment in Scientific Field Work
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Aug 22, 2014 |
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47 Anthony Ingraffea - The Science of Fracking
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Aug 15, 2014 |
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46 David Casarett - The Science of Death
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Aug 08, 2014 |
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45 Barb Oakley - The Science of Learning
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Jul 31, 2014 |
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44 David Epstein - The Science Behind the World's Greatest Athletes
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Jul 25, 2014 |
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43 Naomi Oreskes - The Collapse of Western Civilization
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Jul 18, 2014 |
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42 Arthur I. Miller - How Science Is Revolutionizing Art
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Jul 11, 2014 |
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41 Amy Stewart - The Science Behind the World's Alcohol
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Jul 04, 2014 |
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40 Zach Weinersmith - Baby Catapulting and Other Great Terrible Hypotheses
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Jun 27, 2014 |
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39 Jordan Ellenberg - Why Math Is The Ultimate BS Detector
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Jun 20, 2014 |
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38 Sam Kean - These Brains Changed Neuroscience Forever
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Jun 13, 2014 |
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37 Raychelle Burks - Zombie Repellent and Other Awesome Uses for Chemistry
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Jun 05, 2014 |
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36 Harry Collins - Why Googling Doesn't Make You a Scientific Expert
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May 30, 2014 |
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35 Richard Alley - West Antarctica Is Melting and We Can't Stop It
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May 22, 2014 |
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34 John Oliver - This World Will Be a Ball of Fire Before It Stops Being Funny
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May 15, 2014 |
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33 David Amodio - The Science of Prejudice
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May 09, 2014 |
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32 Katharine Hayhoe - Climate Science and Christianity
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May 02, 2014 |
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31 Mary Roach - The Science of Your Guts
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Apr 25, 2014 |
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30 Jared Diamond - The Third Chimpanzee
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Apr 18, 2014 |
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29 Neil Shubin - Your Inner Fish
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Apr 10, 2014 |
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28 John Hibbing - The Biology of Ideology
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Apr 04, 2014 |
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27 Ethan Perlstein - Scenes from the Postdocalypse
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Mar 28, 2014 |
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26 Phil Plait - Just After the Big Bang
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Mar 21, 2014 |
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25 Neil deGrasse Tyson - Finally, Science Is Cool
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Mar 14, 2014 |
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24 Jennifer Ouellette - Is The Self an Illusion, or Is There Really a “You” In There?
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Mar 07, 2014 |
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23 Edward Frenkel - What Your Teachers Never Told You About Math
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Feb 28, 2014 |
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22 Jennifer Francis and Kevin Trenberth - Is Global Warming Driving Crazy Winters?
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Feb 21, 2014 |
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21 Steven Novella - No, GMOs Won't Harm Your Health
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Feb 14, 2014 |
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20 Maria Konnikova - How to Make Your Brain Work Better
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Feb 07, 2014 |
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19 Kari Byron - How to Safely Blow Stuff Up When You're Pregnant
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Jan 31, 2014 |
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18 Eugenie Scott & Ann Reid - The Assault on Science Education
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Jan 24, 2014 |
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17 Michael Pollan - The Science of Eating Well (And Not Falling For Diet Fads)
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Jan 16, 2014 |
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16 Deborah Blum - The Science of Poisoning
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Jan 10, 2014 |
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15 Mark Ruffalo - Our 100 Percent Clean Energy Future
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Jan 03, 2014 |
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14 Carolyn Porco - Why Seeing Earth From Space Matters
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Dec 27, 2013 |
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13 Ara Norenzayan - Why Do Atheists Exist?
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Dec 20, 2013 |
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12 Joshua Greene – The New Science of Morality
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Dec 13, 2013 |
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11 Maryn McKenna - Our Scary Post-Antibiotic Future
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Dec 06, 2013 |
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10 Simon Singh - How the Simpsons Have Secretly Been Teaching You Math
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Nov 22, 2013 |
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9 Michael Mann - From Computer Geek to Political Giant Slayer
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Nov 15, 2013 |
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8 Alison Gopnik - We All Start Out as Scientists, But Some of Us Forget
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Nov 07, 2013 |
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7 George Johnson - Why Most of What You've Heard About Cancer is Wrong
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Nov 01, 2013 |
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6 Jonathan Haidt - This is Why Your Political Opponents Hate You
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Oct 25, 2013 |
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5 Dan Kahan and Stephan Lewandowsky - How Do You Make People Give a Damn About Climate Change?
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Oct 18, 2013 |
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4 Randy Schekman - This 2013 Nobel Laureate Says College Is Way Too Expensive
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Oct 11, 2013 |
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3 Sylvia Earle - Why the Oceans Are Not Too Big to Fail
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Oct 04, 2013 |
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2 Alan Weisman - Can We Finally Have a Serious Talk About Population?
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Sep 27, 2013 |
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1 Marsha Ivins - What It's Like To Spend 55 Days in Space
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Sep 20, 2013 |