Podcast Episodes

Matthew Walker: Sleep REALLY Matters

Season 22

Author of a best-selling book called Why We Sleep, and host of the Matt Walker Podcast, he’s become the go-to expert on everything to do with sleep, …

2 years, 10 months ago

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Maya Shankar: Beginning from an Ending

Season 22

A brilliant violinist in her teens, her world came crashing down when an injury ended her career even as it was beginning. Remarkably, she turned tha…

2 years, 10 months ago

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Adam Mastroianni: Why You So Often Get It Wrong

Season 22

Do you believe people are worse now than they use to be? That smarter people are happier people? That you know when to quit a conversation? Wrong on …

2 years, 10 months ago

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Nancy Kanwisher: Your Brain is a Swiss Army Knife

Season 22

Nancy Kanwisher has discovered many areas of the brain that are specialized for one particular purpose— like recognizing faces – which is interesting…

2 years, 11 months ago

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Elizabeth Rush: Journey to the Doomsday Glacier

Season 22

She managed to write a lyrical, moving book about her journey to a massive glacier in Antarctica that, if it collapses into the ocean, would cause a …

2 years, 11 months ago

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Robert Klein: He Observes, We Laugh

Season 22

The actor/writer/comedian has been an inspiration to comedians like Jay Leno and Jerry Seinfeld. And he’s been inspired himself by greats of the past…

2 years, 11 months ago

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Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda - Season 22 trailer

Season 22

Alan and Executive Producer Graham Chedd chat about and play excerpts from Alan's conversations with some of the guests in the new season, beginning …

2 years, 11 months ago

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Dan Dennett: Fake People Aren’t Funny

Season 21

Counterfeit people, the seductively appealing Deep Fakes made possible by AI, are just the beginning of what the distinguished philosopher Dan Dennet…

2 years, 11 months ago

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Steve Sloman and Phil Fernbach: How Do You Know That?

Season 21

Most of us don’t know most things. Yet most of us also think we understand a lot (OK, not quantum mechanics or Federal Reserve policy). We are all li…

3 years ago

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Aomawa Shields: When an Actor is Starstruck

Season 21

Torn between astronomy and acting, she has landed in the sweet spot: leader of a research team judging other planets for their hospitality for life, …

3 years ago

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