Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchKafui Dzirasa: An Electrical Path to Mental Health?
Season 28
A psychiatrist, engineer and neuroscientist, Kaf Dzirasa is researching ways to reengineer the brain to make it better able to cope with stress and s…
1 year, 4 months ago
Shannon Vallor: The AI Illusion
Season 28
Artificial intelligence is poised to reshape our world, in many ways for the better. But the gains come with great risks – above all that its seducti…
1 year, 4 months ago
Malcolm Gladwell: Tipping Points Old and New
Season 28
His new book Revenge of The Tipping Point takes a fresh look at the tipping points of social change he opened our eyes to 25 years ago – and uneart…
1 year, 4 months ago
Ann Patchett: Bel Canto Revisited
Season 28
In a remarkable and illuminating tour de force, the novelist recently took a fresh look at her best-known book, going through it line by line and ann…
1 year, 4 months ago
Matt Strassler: What Are You Made Of?
Season 28
The answer, regrettably, is unbelievable. That is, unbelievable to most of us, because we cannot imagine a universe – including ourselves – made of w…
1 year, 5 months ago
Julie Sedivy: How Language Shapes Us
Season 28
Her new book, Linguaphile: A Life of Language Love is an ode to the power of language to both shape us and be shaped by us. It’s informed by her own …
1 year, 5 months ago
Mala Murthy: From a Fly’s Brain to Yours
Season 28
The 500 feet of wiring packed into fruit fly’s brain has been fully mapped – giving insights into how the more that 300,000 miles of wiring packed in…
1 year, 5 months ago
Brenda Wineapple: When Evolution Was on Trial
Season 28
In 1925, a trial in a small town in Tennessee riveted the nation. In the dock was a young man named John Scopes, charged with violating a state law o…
1 year, 5 months ago
Daniel Levitin: Music as Medicine
Season 28
Music can lift our spirits, bring us to tears, spark our creativity, pace our workouts. Neuroscientist and musician Daniel Levitin explores all these…
1 year, 6 months ago
Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda - Season 28 trailer
Season 28
Alan and Clear and Vivid’s executive producer Graham Chedd chat about and play clips from some of the shows coming up in season 28. A major theme of …
1 year, 6 months ago