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Can we save the planet?
Season 10
Having experienced 30 years of frustration since writing the first popular book setting out the facts of climate change, Bill McKibben is now hopeful…
5 years, 8 months ago
What makes you happy?
Season 10
It may not be what you think. With insights from studying unhappy students at Yale University, where she is a professor of psychology, Laurie Santos …
5 years, 8 months ago
Trumpty Dumpty Wanted a Crown
Season 10
John Lithgow talks with Alan about his new book of satirical verse and drawings – and the joys and challenges of writing satire at a time when events…
5 years, 9 months ago
Dr. Fauci looks forward
Season 10
Six months after he first briefed Alan on the then novel coronavirus, Dr. Anthony Fauci explains both why it turned out to be so unpredictable and da…
5 years, 9 months ago
Leslie Vosshall – Why Mosquitoes Choose You
Season 9
Female mosquitoes need your blood to live and breed. So figuring out who among us attracts them and why can not only help in avoiding annoying bites …
5 years, 9 months ago
Goldie Hawn – She’s Got Your Brain on Her Mind.
Season 9
The celebrated and beloved actress on her successful mission to help schoolkids use their brains better. And how they become better students and more…
5 years, 9 months ago
James Rothman – on Discovering the ‘FedEx trucks’ in our Cells
Season 9
The Kavli and Nobel Prize Laureate on his groundbreaking work finding out how our bodies ship vital molecules to where they are needed — enabling pro…
5 years, 10 months ago
Brian Hare & Vanessa Woods – on Humanity’s Essential Ingredient
Season 9
What dogs and bonobos tell us about what has made humans survive and why we’d better not lose it. It’s not how fierce we are. On the contrary.
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5 years, 10 months ago
Carla Shatz – Making an Old Brain Young
Season 9
The Kavli Prize Laureate on her research suggesting it may be possible to return aging and damaged brains to a state where they could learn as they d…
5 years, 10 months ago
Sharon Begley – on Keeping up with Covid
Season 9
Reporting from the front lines of medical research with the with the skill of a storyteller while struggling to keep up with the outpouring of resear…
5 years, 10 months ago