Podcast Episodes

Stephen Dubner: Feynman on Our Mind

Season 24

Stephen Dubner, host of Freakonomics Radio, has long been fascinated by the great physicist Richard Feynman. As has Alan. Stephen has devoted a year …

2 years, 3 months ago

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Remembering Frans de Waal

Season 24

In this special episode of Clear and Vivid we reflect on Frans’ life-long commitment to revealing how much we humans have in common with our primate …

2 years, 3 months ago

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Justice Stephen Breyer: Understanding What They Meant

Season 24

When interpreting the Constitution, the dangers of relying solely on the words and what they meant at the time, without taking into account the purpo…

2 years, 3 months ago

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Shohini Ghose: Women’s Time and Space

Season 24

A leading physicist herself, Shohini Ghose has wonderful stories about the trials and triumphs of the many mostly unsung women whose work helped open…

2 years, 4 months ago

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Tali Sharot: Take Another Look

Season 24

We can get used to things to the point where even something we once thought wonderful can lose its luster. More sinister, we can also get used to the…

2 years, 4 months ago

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Keith Houston: There’s More to Writing Than Words.

Season 24

The intriguing stories behind the often weird and baffling origins of punctuation and other symbols we use to communicate. And it’s not just commas, …

2 years, 4 months ago

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Terry Greiss: Acting to Connect

Season 24

The Irondale Ensemble Project, a theater company rooted in improvisation, created a program to help police and community build trust and mutual under…

2 years, 4 months ago

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Robert Sapolsky: You Have No Choice

Season 24

You may think you were free to choose that chocolate ice cream over the vanilla. But maybe the choice was made for you before you were even born – th…

2 years, 5 months ago

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Tom Hanks: Making a Book About Making a Movie

Season 24

And what a book it is, a rich sprawling novel called The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece, which Tom himself describes as a “primer…

2 years, 5 months ago

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Paul Bloom: Can AI be Moral?

Season 24

Why can’t AI bots be made to be good, to be moral, so they’ll help us and not do harmful or terrible things? But just whose moral values would we wan…

2 years, 5 months ago

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