Podcast Episodes

Introducing: How to Do the Pot

We're back between episodes with a quick feed drop! Taboo Science will return next week.How to Do the Pot is a fun weekly show helping you dabble in weed — and feel confident about cannabis for healt…

Published on 2 years ago

IQ / Intelligence (with Dr. Steven Piantadosi)

Season 3 Episode 11

The IQ test is supposed to be a measure of human intelligence. But is it? Today, we're joined by UC Berkeley professor Dr. Steven Piantadosi to understand why the diversity of human intellect can't b…

Published on 2 years ago

Climate Anxiety (with Dr. Thomas Doherty)

Season 3 Episode 10

Avoiding climate news? Do thoughts of the apocalypse keep you up at night? Feeling guilty about unsustainable habits? With climate change becoming a stark reality, more and more of us are grappling w…

Published on 2 years ago

Remastered: Depression (with Dr. Gerard Sanacora)

How much do we really know about depression? In this remastered episode, Gerard Sanacora, director of the Yale Depression Research Program and Co-director of the Yale Interventional Psychiatry Servic…

Published on 2 years, 1 month ago

Menstruation (with Dr. Kate Clancy)

Season 3 Episode 9

Menstruation is so much more than a useless byproduct of the reproductive cycle — it's a dang biological miracle. With the help of Dr. Kate Clancy, a professor at the University of Illinois and autho…

Published on 2 years, 1 month ago

Makeup (with Ilise S. Carter)

Season 3 Episode 8

It's both a method of empowerment and a tool of control — but it sure is pretty! Today's episode delves into how makeup reflects and perpetuates society's conflicting views on femininity, with the he…

Published on 2 years, 2 months ago

Heterosexuality (with Dr. Hanne Blank Boyd)

Season 3 Episode 7

Heterosexuality isn't what you think it is. In this episode, historian Hanne Blank Boyd flips the script on how we view sexual orientation, showing how the concept of "heterosexuality" has only exist…

Published on 2 years, 2 months ago

Race (with Agustín Fuentes, Ph.D.)

Season 3 Episode 6

Get ready to rethink everything you know about race. With the help of anthropologist Agustín Fuentes, this episode debunks the idea that race exists within our biology. We're unraveling racist stereo…

Published on 2 years, 3 months ago

Nudity (with Ruth Barcan, Ph.D.)

Season 3 Episode 5

What do the Pioneer 10 plaque and communal bathhouses of Renaissance Europe have in common? Today we're stripping down the complicated concept of nudity with Dr. Ruth Barcan, honorary associate profe…

Published on 2 years, 3 months ago

Introducing: Based on a True Story

Taboo Science will continue next week with a regularly scheduled episode, but I wanted to give a nod to Pride Month by sharing a podcast episode I love from the show Based on a True Story. Subscribe …

Published on 2 years, 3 months ago