Podcast Episodes

Leanne Guy: A New Eye on Space

Season 30

Perched on a mountain top in Chile, the new Vera Rubin Observatory’s telescope will view the universe as it’s never been seen before, seeking answers to cosmic mysteries like dark energy and dark mat…

Published on 3 hours ago

Michael Osterholm: Can We Stop The Big One?

Season 30

With lessons learned from the Covid pandemic, he points to how we might better tackle the next, inevitable, global pandemic — at a time when science has been all but discarded from the leading govern…

Published on 1 week ago

Herman Pontzer: Diversity: Humanity’s Superpower

Season 30

Unlike most other land animals, we can live almost anywhere – from deserts, to mountains, rain forests, even the arctic. We are supremely adaptable, and that adaptability has led to our diversity – n…

Published on 2 weeks ago

Stephen Hall: Snakes: Do they Deserve Our Dread?

Season 30

Along with revelations about snake sex, their contributions to medicine, that flickering tongue and why slithering is a secret to their success, Stephen Hall goes at least some way to convincing Alan…

Published on 3 weeks ago

Kyra Davis Lurie: Reimagining Gatsby

Season 30

She’s had a love-hate relationship with F. Scott Fitzgerald since she was a teenager. And she’s now written a wonderful new take on The Great Gatsby, reimagining the story with a cast of the Black el…

Published on 4 weeks ago

Robert Sapolsky: Why Do We Do That?

Season 30

An old friend of Clear and Vivid is back to enlighten Alan on some of the oddities of human behavior – both good and bad – and to talk about his entertaining new podcast, Father Offspring Interviews,…

Published on 1 month ago

Bob Odenkirk: Comedy? Action? Drama? Better Call Bob!

Season 30

From his long running role as Saul Goodman in Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, to his recent Broadway appearance in Glenngary Glen Ross, and his new incarnation as an off-beat action hero in the mo…

Published on 1 month, 1 week ago

Tara Roberts: Diving for Stories

Season 30

With her Black scuba-diving companions she has sought to reveal the appalling cost in lives lost in sunken slave ships, while at the same time honoring those lives by telling their stories.

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Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago

Roger Rosenblatt: Rules for Aging

Season 30

Alan joins his old friend to compare notes on staying happy when old; and Roger shares tips from a forthcoming book, including some that may seem counterintuitive – like don’t use common sense, belie…

Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago

Tina Fey: The Return of The Four Seasons

Season 30

Tina Fey’s reimagining of a movie Alan made over 40 years ago has been a big hit for Netflix. She and Alan have fun talking about how she went about updating the story for a new generation.

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Published on 2 months ago