Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchLisa Margulis: Music shares our daydreams
Season 35
Letting your mind wander while listening to music can open you up to rewarding daydreams. Surprisingly, there is a good chance that your musical dayd…
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Joanna Stern: A year living with bots
Season 35
She spent twelve months trying out the best and the worst that AI has to offer, from the creepy (an AI boyfriend), to the helpful (an AI-powered mamm…
1 week ago
Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda: Season 35 Trailer
Season 35
Alan and executive producer Graham Chedd introduce season 35 of Clear and Vivid. Topics include how music inspires daydreams, the mind games of champ…
2 weeks ago
Yael Schonbrun: It’s not what you say…
Season 34
There is more to successful communication than picking the right words. We need to understand that our understanding of others is shaped by factors w…
3 weeks ago
Tom Levenson: Anti-vaxxers are living in the past
Season 34
Opposition to vaccines goes back to their invention. And while doubts about vaccine safely may have been justified 300 years ago, those same doubts h…
4 weeks ago
Nicholas Epley: Talking to strangers
Season 34
An encounter on his commuter train led to 20 years of research that changed his life for the better. You too can be friendlier, kinder, more open, mo…
1 month ago
Lisa Genova: She lets us into their worlds
Season 34
A neuroscientist who also writes novels – including one that became an award-winning movie – Lisa Genova lets us experience the stories lived by peo…
1 month, 1 week ago
Matt Kaplan: They were right after all
Season 34
Vivid stories of scientists whose claims were ignored or ridiculed, from Galileo to Kati Karikó – the woman whose work was critical in developing the…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Roxanne Khamsi: You are mutating – and that’s (mostly) a good thing
Season 34
Mutations sound scary. But the DNA that shaped us is has been mutating since we were born. Some mutations are bad for our health while others are hel…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Lawrence O’Donnell: Inventing Arnie Vinick
Season 34
Today an MS NOW host, in 2004 he was writer/producer on the popular NBC series The West Wing tasked with introducing a new character – a Republican S…
2 months ago