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Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda - Season 12 / Science Clear+Vivid - Season 2 Trailer
Season 12
A look ahead at the people we have in the new seasons of both C+V and SC+V, starting next week.
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5 years, 4 months ago
Deborah Tannen – The Stories We Tell
Season 11
Deborah Tannen, author of the hugely influential best seller, You Just Don’t Understand, swaps stories with Alan about conversations that went wrong;…
5 years, 4 months ago
Ash Sanders and Sarah Ventre – Life in a Cult
Season 11
Embedding themselves in a fundamentalist Mormon community, journalists Sarah Ventre and Ash Sanders wove together the stories of both those in thrall…
5 years, 4 months ago
Reisa Sperling – Making Alzheimer’s a Memory
Season 11
Propelled by events in her own life, Reisa Sperling is working hard to defeat this disease that cruelly destroys brains and crushes families. As we l…
5 years, 4 months ago
Sanjeev Bhaskar – The Joy of Blooming Later
Season 11
The British actor, Sanjeev Bhaskar, started his career later in life and is glad he did. He didn’t try to portray human experience until he actually …
5 years, 5 months ago
Rebecca Wragg Sykes – Our Neanderthal Kin
Season 11
They walk among us. Some percentage of the genes of many modern humans have been handed down to us from Neanderthals. Alan, who has about 2% of those…
5 years, 5 months ago
Malcolm Gladwell – Those Dangerous First Impressions
Season 11
First impressions are supposed to tell us a lot, and they often do. Problem is, as Malcolm Gladwell explains in his latest book Talking to Strangers,…
5 years, 5 months ago
Emily Levesque – The Romance of the Night Sky
Season 11
A passionate astronomer and a vivid writer, Emily Levesque describes a life of watching what’s out there in the universe so vividly, you may want to …
5 years, 5 months ago
Eric Lander – Decoding Life
Season 11
Recently nominated as the first presidential science advisor with a seat in the cabinet, Eric Lander talks with Alan about his leading role of the Hu…
5 years, 5 months ago
Penn Jillette – Magic, Tricks, and Us
Season 11
When we see a magic trick, is the magician fooling us, or are we fooling ourselves? Penn Jillette, the talking half of the magic team Penn and Teller…
5 years, 6 months ago