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Back to SearchKatie Mack: When Time’s Totally Up
Season 17
The end of absolutely everything won’t happen for a long, long time. But Katie Mack can describe the different ways the universe might die with clari…
4 years ago
Ed Yong and Liz Neeley: They Have Storytelling Down to a Science
Season 17
Stars in the field of science communication, they know how to make the rest of us want to learn about something we don’t think we care about. They ev…
4 years ago
Arthur Brooks: Investing in Happiness
Season 17
When he realized that the skills that had led to his successes in the first half of life needed to be replaced by other skills for the next half, soc…
4 years ago
Mónica Guzmán: She Never Thought of It That Way
Season 17
Her realization that if she’d led the life her parents have, then she would have voted for Trump too, was an insight that contributed to her decision…
4 years ago
Emanuel Ax: Reaching Out Through Music
Season 17
Alan talks with longtime friend, the great pianist Emanuel Ax. How does practice lead to the unexpected magic of spontaneity? What role does the audi…
4 years, 1 month ago
James Burrows: He Gave Us Thousands of Reasons to Laugh
Season 17
He brought us classics like Cheers, Taxi, Will and Grace, Frasier, Friends and The Big Bang Theory. He's directed over 1,000 episodes of TV comedy. J…
4 years, 1 month ago
Conny Aerts and George Whitesides: Starquakes and Tiny, Tiny Factories
Season 17
She listens to quakes in stars far, far away, to help predict if they host earth-like planets. He makes it possible to build factories so small you c…
4 years, 1 month ago
Huda Zoghbi and Christopher Walsh: Hunting Genes that Damage our Brains
Season 17
Two of the winners of the just-announced Kavli Prizes in neuroscience on what inspired their breakthrough research. And how their discoveries may hel…
4 years, 1 month ago
Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda - Season 17 trailer
Season 17
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 …
4 years, 1 month ago
Ardem Patapoutian and Emmanuelle Charpentier: Touching the Horizon
Season 16
Ardem Patapoutian discovered more about our sense of touch than we ever knew and Emmanuelle Charpentier co-invented the most powerful biomedical tool…
4 years, 2 months ago