Podcast Episodes

Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda - Season 20 trailer

Season 20

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 …

3 years, 5 months ago

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Cassandra Quave: Hunting Plants That Heal

Season 19

A childhood illness robbed her of a leg, but that hasn’t stopped her from trekking through jungles, swamps and mountains in search of medicinal plant…

3 years, 5 months ago

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Sara Seager: Is There Life Out There?

Season 19

Pioneering a new way to search for signs of life on planets circling other suns, Sara Seager battled through a devastating personal loss to see her m…

3 years, 5 months ago

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Pamela Adlon: Getting Better All the Time

Season 19

She wrote, produced, directed and starred in the hit series “Better Things” for five years. Nominated multiple times for multiple awards, she recentl…

3 years, 6 months ago

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Karen Bakker: The Sounds of Life

Season 19

Her new book lets us eavesdrop on the chatter between creatures – even plants – that our ears can’t detect. And reveals how new technologies, includi…

3 years, 6 months ago

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Daniel Lubetzky: On a Mission to Spread Kindness

Season 19

The founder of the multi-billion-dollar nutrition bar company KIND has rolled out "Starts With Us," a non-partisan movement working to overcome cultu…

3 years, 6 months ago

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Kathy Kleiman: The six women who programmed the first modern computer

Season 19

Built during WWII, the world’s first electronic computer, the ENIAC, was an engineering marvel. But at 80 ft long and 6 ft tall it was mute until it …

3 years, 6 months ago

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Thomas Boothby: On a Tough Little Guy With Secrets

Season 19

You need a microscope to see them, but tardigrades aren’t only nature’s ultimate survivors – they hold secrets that may make vaccines more available …

3 years, 6 months ago

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Alison Gopnik: Making AI more childlike

Season 19

The renowned expert on how babies learn about the world through curiosity and exploration is now collaborating with artificial intelligence researche…

3 years, 7 months ago

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Les Johnson: Sailing to the Stars

Season 19

The NASA engineer piggybacked a tiny spacecraft on the giant new moon rocket launched just last month. His spacecraft was to spread gossamer wings an…

3 years, 7 months ago

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