Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchErica Chenoweth: A Better Way to Protest?
Season 31
Not only are non-violent protests more effective than armed resistance, but a surprisingly small percentage of the population – around three and a ha…
9 months, 1 week ago
Nicky Clayton: Why Crows Are “Feathered Apes”
Season 31
With long memories and the ability to figure out what other crows are thinking – then plot to outdo them, using what Nicky Clayton calls “sleight of…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
Steven Pinker: When You Know That I Know That You Know…
Season 31
It then becomes “common knowledge,” and can be both beneficial – like cementing friendships or empowering peaceful protests – or destructive, causing…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda: Season 31 Trailer
Season 31
Alan and Executive Producer Graham Chedd look ahead to next season and some unexpected connections between our first guests. They include best-sellin…
9 months, 4 weeks ago
Leanne Guy: A New Eye on Space
Season 30
Perched on a mountain top in Chile, the new Vera Rubin Observatory’s telescope will view the universe as it’s never been seen before, seeking answers…
10 months ago
Michael Osterholm: Can We Stop The Big One?
Season 30
With lessons learned from the Covid pandemic, he points to how we might better tackle the next, inevitable, global pandemic — at a time when science …
10 months, 1 week ago
Herman Pontzer: Diversity: Humanity’s Superpower
Season 30
Unlike most other land animals, we can live almost anywhere – from deserts, to mountains, rain forests, even the arctic. We are supremely adaptable, …
10 months, 2 weeks ago
Stephen Hall: Snakes: Do they Deserve Our Dread?
Season 30
Along with revelations about snake sex, their contributions to medicine, that flickering tongue and why slithering is a secret to their success, Step…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
Kyra Davis Lurie: Reimagining Gatsby
Season 30
She’s had a love-hate relationship with F. Scott Fitzgerald since she was a teenager. And she’s now written a wonderful new take on The Great Gatsby,…
11 months ago
Robert Sapolsky: Why Do We Do That?
Season 30
An old friend of Clear and Vivid is back to enlighten Alan on some of the oddities of human behavior – both good and bad – and to talk about his ente…
11 months, 1 week ago