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What Happens When We Die? with Sam Parnia
Episode 156
For centuries, death has been seen as a final, inescapable line—a moment when the heart stops and the brain ceases to function. But revolutionary res…
1 year, 6 months ago
The Illusion of Moral Decline
Episode 155
This year’s election might have been the most contentious in modern memory. It's not just that politics have changed, but it seems that people have t…
1 year, 6 months ago
Can We Predict The Unpredictable? with J. Doyne Farmer
Episode 154
What if we could predict the economy the way we predict the weather? What if governments could run simulations to forecast the effects of new policie…
1 year, 6 months ago
Unlocking The Secrets Of ‘SuperAgers’, with Emily Rogalski
Episode 153
https://haarc.center.uchicago.edu/We used to think aging inevitably led to memory loss, but a small group of people—known as SuperAgers—are defying t…
1 year, 7 months ago
2024 Nobel Laureate Explains What Makes Countries Fail Or Succeed, with James A. Robinson
Episode 152
On Big Brains, we get to speak to a lot of groundbreaking scholars and experts, but some conversations we walk away knowing we’ve just heard from som…
1 year, 7 months ago
Why Can’t Scientists Agree On The Age Of The Universe? with Wendy Freedman
Episode 151
How old is the universe—and how fast is it expanding? These are part of one of the biggest—and most contested—questions in science, and the answers c…
1 year, 8 months ago
What Are We Getting Wrong About Young Voters?, with Cathy Cohen
Episode 150
One of the biggest questions of every election is: What’s going on with young voters? There is endless speculation on the news about what young peopl…
1 year, 8 months ago
Why Are More Women Saying No To Having Kids? With Peggy O'Donnell Heffington
Episode 149
More and more women in the United States are saying no to motherhood. Alarmingly, in 2023, the U.S. fertility rate reached the lowest number on recor…
1 year, 9 months ago
How Homeownership Shaped Race In America, with Adrienne Brown
Episode 148
Race has played a huge role in the creation of mass homeownership in the United States. Discriminatory housing practices including redlining, exclusi…
1 year, 9 months ago
Fighting Back Against AI Piracy, with Ben Zhao and Heather Zheng
Episode 147
If you’ve spent any time playing with modern AI image generators, it can seem like an almost magical experience; but the truth is these programs are …
1 year, 10 months ago