Inquiring Minds

By Indre Viskontas

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Each week we bring you a new, in-depth exploration of the space where science and society collide. We’re committed to the idea that making an effort to understand the world around you though science and critical thinking can benefit everyone—and lead to better decisions. We want to find out what’s true, what’s left to discover, and why it all matters.

Episode Date
Making the Mundane Magic with Dan Winters
Mar 29, 2024
Why We Die with Venki Ramakrishnan
Mar 12, 2024
“X”-amining the Battle for the Bird with Kurt Wagner
Mar 04, 2024
Revealing Why We Remember with Charan Ranganath
Feb 20, 2024
Don’t Panic, but Robert Sapolsky Says There’s No Free Will
Oct 18, 2023
The Science of Allergies and Why We Have Them
Oct 12, 2023
Why It’s Important to Know What’s Actually in Your Clothes
Sep 26, 2023
How You Could Have Survived History’s Disasters
Aug 10, 2023
How to Stop Your Brain from Falling for Lies
Jul 21, 2023
How Society Created “You”
Jun 22, 2023
The Science of Silo with Hugh Howey
Jun 02, 2023
Improbable Experiments That Changed the World
May 18, 2023
The Perilous Combination of Brain Wave Data and Generative AI
Apr 18, 2023
Everything you need to know about that fusion breakthrough
Apr 04, 2023
Art can make you live longer
Mar 22, 2023
Plants have been listening to us this whole time
Mar 10, 2023
How is it possible that we can’t yet explain consciousness?
Mar 02, 2023
The Science of Why You Fall in Love With Music
Dec 24, 2022
The Powerful Ways Secrets Shape Your Life
Dec 09, 2022
The Psychology of Getting Conned
Nov 25, 2022
Understanding the Biggest Ideas in the Universe Without Being a Physicist
Oct 31, 2022
The Overlooked Gifts of Visual Thinkers with Temple Grandin
Oct 19, 2022
Up to Date | Nanoparticle toothbrushes and a promising Alzheimer's drug
Oct 10, 2022
These Numbers Explain the Nature of Reality
Oct 03, 2022
The Science of How Your Dog’s Brain Works
Sep 27, 2022
The Neuroscience of What Makes You You
Aug 10, 2022
What do animals dream about?
Jul 17, 2022
The Science of Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion
Jul 05, 2022
The language of food, science, and critical thinking with J. Kenji López-Alt
Jun 29, 2022
Derek Gow Is Turning His Farm Into an Ark for Lost Species
Jun 01, 2022
Wild but Delicate: What Hawks Can Teach Us About Nature, Life, and Love
May 24, 2022
Can Fish Count? What Animals Reveal About Our Uniquely Mathematical Minds
May 17, 2022
The Science of Creativity and How It Can Help You
May 03, 2022
The Misunderstood Nature of Pain with Haider Warraich
Apr 19, 2022
The Untold Story of the Neuron with Benjamin Ehrlich
Apr 04, 2022
Up to Date | Cell Adaptation, Creativity Measurement, and Visual Perception
Mar 17, 2022
How to Make Use of Our Limited Time in This Tiny Part of Space with Sean Carroll
Mar 07, 2022
Why You Can’t Know What It’s Like for a Bat to Be a Bat with Jackie Higgins
Feb 25, 2022
Exploring the Extended Mind with Annie Murphy Paul
Feb 17, 2022
Space Rocks, Star Stuff, and Tom Selleck's Mustache with Greg Brennecka
Feb 10, 2022
Defining and Treating Addiction with Carl Erik Fisher
Jan 28, 2022
2021 Wrap-Up
Dec 28, 2021
The Evolution of Life and the ‘Dead Species Walking’ with Henry Gee
Dec 20, 2021
Sizing Up the Notion of Tailoring Your Brain with Emily Willingham
Dec 13, 2021
Updates from the Past and the Future
Nov 25, 2021
Inside the Race to the Coronavirus Vaccine with Brendan Borrell
Nov 15, 2021
Moving Your Way Through Cancer with Dr. Kathryn Schmitz
Nov 02, 2021
Making Sense of Self with Anil Seth
Oct 27, 2021
Up to Date | From the Microscopic to the Astronomic
Oct 21, 2021
A Matter of Life, Death, or Maybe Somewhere in Between with John and Lois Crowe
Oct 05, 2021
The Sound Mind with Nina Kraus
Sep 28, 2021
Managing Our Criminal Nature with Mary Roach
Sep 15, 2021
Unwrapping the Gifts of Good Anxiety with Wendy Suzuki
Sep 06, 2021
Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science with Sam Kean
Sep 01, 2021
Investigating The Memory Thief with Lauren Aguirre
Aug 23, 2021
How to Raise Kids Who Aren’t Assholes with Melinda Wenner Moyer
Aug 16, 2021
Up to Date | Social Parrots; Empathetic Rodents; Microbiome Analyses
Aug 09, 2021
Opening Up the World of Quarantine with Nicola Twilley
Jul 26, 2021
Building Up Your Mental Health Immunity with Andy Norman
Jul 19, 2021
Generating the Element of Harmonic Surprise with David Rosen
Jul 12, 2021
Thinking about Thinking about Yourself with Iris Berent
Jul 05, 2021
The Hidden Geometry of Information and Everything Else with Jordan Ellenberg
Jun 21, 2021
‘The Untapped Science of Less’ with Leidy Klotz
Jun 14, 2021
Mom Genes: Abigail Tucker on the Science of Motherhood
Jun 07, 2021
Andy Weir’s Project Hail Mary
Jun 01, 2021
The future artificial intelligence may lead to
May 14, 2021
What is the future of human work?
Apr 26, 2021
A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence
Apr 20, 2021
Where did artificial intelligence come from?
Apr 08, 2021
Up To Date | Aliens didn’t make Oumuamua, aphantasia, and baseball beer research
Mar 31, 2021
What does it mean to be alive?
Mar 23, 2021
Literature may be the most powerful technology we’ve invented
Mar 17, 2021
Why almost everything we’ve been told about food is wrong
Mar 02, 2021
Up To Date | Paleogenetics, naps, and shocking your brain into remembering better
Feb 27, 2021
A behavioral scientist explains dating
Feb 10, 2021
The science behind your voice
Jan 31, 2021
We need to rethink toilets
Jan 21, 2021
Up To Date | A look back at 2020, and what’s next for the podcast
Jan 07, 2021
Five ways the universe might die
Dec 29, 2020
The Surprising Story of Medieval Science
Dec 18, 2020
The Quest for the Oldest Skeleton
Dec 03, 2020
You’re full of bones. How do they work?
Nov 26, 2020
Thinking isn’t your brain’s most important job
Nov 19, 2020
Up To Date | Moon water implications and new research on why you understand words
Nov 11, 2020
Feed Drop: Cadence S3E1: The Music of Politics
Nov 03, 2020
Tesla, the man
Oct 30, 2020
Up To Date | Autumn fires and climate change; plastic bottle eating enzymes; singing blue whales
Oct 08, 2020
As the World Burns: The New Generation of Activists
Oct 01, 2020
Telling the story of climate change with music
Sep 22, 2020
The ways in which our bodies don’t match how the world has been built
Sep 16, 2020
Up To Date | Why Elon Musk’s Neuralink could fail; and the worrying relationship between bad sleep and Alzheimer's disease
Sep 08, 2020
Why you talk the way you do, and what it says about you
Sep 01, 2020
How fraud, bias, negligence, and hype undermine the search for truth
Aug 17, 2020
Why things spread and why they stop
Aug 06, 2020
Up To Date | Mosquitoes, robots, pupils, beavers, and Earth’s crust
Jul 28, 2020
A Story about Forests, People, and the Future
Jul 23, 2020
From the slave trade to climate change—why corporations defend the indefensible
Jul 16, 2020
The Language of Butterflies
Jul 08, 2020
Up To Date | The Drake equation 2.0; Nanotech yeast; Why are plants green?; Wasp boxing
Jun 30, 2020
Where educators go wrong
Jun 23, 2020
The history of structural racism in medicine
Jun 16, 2020
How Humans and Matter Transformed One Another
Jun 09, 2020
Galileo’s fight is still relevant today
Jun 02, 2020
A History of the Afterlife
May 26, 2020
A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life
May 06, 2020
The behavioral economics of baseball
Apr 25, 2020
Up To Date | Plastic-eating enzymes; 5,000-year-old egg decorating; why you still can’t buy love; and the neural basis of creativity
Apr 14, 2020
Divergent Mind: Thriving in a World That Wasn't Designed for You
Apr 07, 2020
Revisiting the Dunning-Kruger Effect with David Dunning
Mar 31, 2020
How the internet is changing the English language
Mar 24, 2020
The science of streaks and the hot hand
Mar 17, 2020
The neuroscience of how we learn
Mar 10, 2020
A Totally Fictional but Essentially True Silicon Valley Story
Feb 25, 2020
Up To Date | Ancient Dates; Mummy Voices; Mouse Memories
Feb 12, 2020
The Poison Squad
Feb 04, 2020
The Hidden World of the Fox
Jan 28, 2020
We need a better, more democratic internet
Jan 21, 2020
2019 Year End Wrap-Up
Dec 31, 2019
We might be approaching the study of cancer all wrong
Dec 23, 2019
Life and Breath in the Age of Air Pollution
Dec 16, 2019
The Blockchain and the Future of Everything
Dec 03, 2019
The Four-Billion-Year Story of How We Got Conscious Brains
Nov 19, 2019
How Language Shapes Thought
Nov 12, 2019
The History, Science, and Future of Heart Disease
Oct 29, 2019
The Life and Afterlife of Harry Houdini
Oct 22, 2019
Silicon Valley: A Satire
Oct 16, 2019
Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime
Oct 08, 2019
The Science of Behavior-Altering Parasites
Oct 01, 2019
Why We Need Insects
Sep 24, 2019
Kishore’s Send-Off!
Sep 17, 2019
Why Smart People Make Dumb Mistakes
Sep 03, 2019
Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
Aug 13, 2019
Sharks: The Ocean's Most Mysterious, Most Misunderstood, and Most Important Guardians
Aug 07, 2019
A Brief Guide to the Fundamental Mystery of the Mind
Jul 30, 2019
The American Automobile: Past, Present, and Driverless
Jul 17, 2019
Neal Stephenson - Fall; or, Dodge in Hell
Jul 02, 2019
In Pain: A Bioethicist’s Personal Struggle with Opioids
Jun 24, 2019
Up To Date | Singing Mice; Six Fingered Hands; Dolphin Cliques
Jun 18, 2019
The Age of Living Machines
Jun 10, 2019
A Life in Math and Football
Jun 04, 2019
The State of the Art in Alzheimer's Research
May 21, 2019
BONUS: Introducing Science Rules! with Bill Nye
May 18, 2019
Salty Erotica of the Deep
May 14, 2019
Up To Date | Bioprinting a Liver; Tasting with Genes; Stopping the World’s Worst Venom
May 07, 2019
Completing the Darwinian Revolution
May 01, 2019
How Cats Tamed Us and Took Over the World
Apr 22, 2019
How Music Can Make You Better
Apr 16, 2019
Up To Date | Neurogenesis; Predicting Death with AI; Rethinking Nose Jobs
Apr 09, 2019
A Cultural History of Humanity's Search for Meaning
Mar 29, 2019
The Strange Science of Recovery
Mar 25, 2019
The Extraordinary New Science of the Immune System
Mar 19, 2019
Up To Date | Bug census, global warming, young blood, microwaving grapes
Feb 25, 2019
2018’s Best Science Movies (and TV)
Feb 18, 2019
Oculus, Facebook, and the Revolution That Swept Virtual Reality
Feb 12, 2019
Up To Date | Polar Vortex Science, Brainwaves to Speech, Blowing Up the Brain
Feb 05, 2019
Why We Fall for It Every Time
Jan 29, 2019
The Science of How Art Works
Jan 22, 2019
The Science of Perfect Timing
Jan 15, 2019
Up To Date | New Horizons Finds BB-8; Defining Death; Differential Privacy
Jan 08, 2019
The Neuroscience of Prejudice
Jan 01, 2019
Up To Date | Top 10 Science Stories of 2018
Dec 29, 2018
Lessons from the Edge of the Universe
Dec 24, 2018
Up To Date | Hummingbird Divebombs; Collapsing Ice Sheets
Dec 22, 2018
The Laws of Human Nature
Dec 17, 2018
Up To Date | Talking Viruses; Creativity Waves
Dec 15, 2018
She Has Her Mother's Laugh
Dec 11, 2018
Up To Date | Migration Myths and Negative Mass
Dec 08, 2018
Music as Medicine
Dec 05, 2018
Up To Date | Ants with backpacks; Neuron DNA affects Alzheimer's
Nov 30, 2018
A New History of a Lost World
Nov 29, 2018
A Radical New History of Life
Nov 23, 2018
Up To Date | A Polio-Like Virus and Genes Deciding Your University
Nov 20, 2018
What It’s like to Discover a Dinosaur
Nov 20, 2018
Up To Date | Smelling Stingrays and a 16 Billion Scoville Cactus
Nov 17, 2018
Life at the Extremes of Our Capacity
Nov 13, 2018
Up To Date | Election results, stealth moths, and a retired kilogram
Nov 10, 2018
The Beauty and Utility of Maps: A Cartographic Odyssey
Nov 06, 2018
Up To Date | The Definitive Field Guide to Filthy Animal Facts
Nov 03, 2018
What Real-Life Zombies Reveal About Our World
Oct 30, 2018
Up To Date | Doubling worm lifespans; the recent failed Soyuz launch
Oct 27, 2018
The Remarkable History of Surgery
Oct 16, 2018
Up To Date | Nobel Prizes and Electrical Nerve Regeneration
Oct 13, 2018
Being Human in the Age of Algorithms
Oct 12, 2018
China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order
Oct 07, 2018
Steven Pinker: Enlightenment Now
Sep 27, 2018
The Coyote Story
Sep 19, 2018
Up To Date | Do Apple's Health Claims Check Out?
Sep 18, 2018
How Sloppy Science Creates Worthless Cures, Crushes Hope, and Wastes Billions
Sep 12, 2018
How Intuition and Reason Divide Our Politics
Aug 28, 2018
Up To Date | Attention Is an Illusion; Ant Highways
Aug 26, 2018
A Pianist Rebuilds Her Brain
Aug 21, 2018
Up To Date | Monsanto Cancer Case and Kids Believe Lying Robots
Aug 19, 2018
The Material That Will Revolutionize the World
Aug 14, 2018
Up To Date | Google Glass Lives! and Breaking Dog Urine News
Aug 12, 2018
Up To Date | How Plants Tell Time, Lab-Grown Pig Lungs, Stolen Fields Medal
Aug 03, 2018
The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers
Jul 31, 2018
Up To Date | A Lake on Mars, Dog Empathy, and TBI & the Military
Jul 28, 2018
Revisiting Flint: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope
Jul 24, 2018
Up To Date | GMO Acceptance, Elle Macpherson, and Friendly Fish
Jul 21, 2018
How Neuroscience Is Redefining Athletic Genius
Jul 17, 2018
Up To Date - Killing Cancer Cells and Exploring the Sunk Cost Fallacy (In Rats)
Jul 14, 2018
Nikola Tesla: Inventor of the Modern
Jul 10, 2018
Up To Date | Air Pollution and Diabetes, Large Scale Microbiome Studies, and Why Driving Makes You Sleepy
Jul 07, 2018
Aroused: The History of Hormones
Jul 03, 2018
Up To Date | Longevity Pioneers, Leaky Methane, and Predicting Earthquakes
Jun 29, 2018
Motherhood in the Animal Kingdom
Jun 26, 2018
Up To Date | Mind Controlling Robots, Viral Alzheimer's Link, and Remembering Koko
Jun 23, 2018
Intelligent Machines Are Changing Everything
Jun 18, 2018
Virtual Reality Is Changing Human Connection
Jun 12, 2018
Up To Date | Don’t Eat Clay, Do Eat Dark Chocolate
Jun 09, 2018
The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity
Jun 05, 2018
Up To Date | Where Happiness Comes From, and Why
Jun 01, 2018
Why We're Addicted to Screens
May 28, 2018
Inside the Epic First Mission to Pluto
May 22, 2018
Up To Date | Snail Memory Transplants, Eyes In The Back Of Your Head, and Treating Epilepsy with CBD
May 18, 2018
The Rise and Fall of the Cephalopods
May 14, 2018
Up To Date | Pre-pregnancy Genome Sequencing, Mass Prescribing Antibiotics, and the Trolley Problem
May 12, 2018
The Rise of Deep Brain Stimulation and Its Forgotten Inventor
May 07, 2018
Up To Date | Genetically Editing Fat Tissue, A Turing Test For Water, and Another Mars Lander
May 05, 2018
Losing the Nobel Prize
May 01, 2018
Up To Date | Anonymous Study Subjects, Genetically Engineered Livestock, and Asteroids Delivering Water
Apr 28, 2018
How We Evolved to Have Free Will
Apr 23, 2018
Up To Date | Night Owl Death, Space Launches, and Viagra’s Greater Purpose
Apr 20, 2018
Creating Empathy With Immersive Virtual Reality
Apr 16, 2018
Up-To-Date | Does It Fart?: The Definitive Field Guide to Animal Flatulence
Apr 13, 2018
The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics
Apr 09, 2018
Up-To-Date | James Webb, Shrimp, and Chilled-Out Monkeys
Apr 07, 2018
The Neuroscience of How We Think
Apr 02, 2018
Jellyfish Science
Mar 27, 2018
The Politics of Rainforests
Mar 20, 2018
What We Really Know About Gun Violence
Mar 13, 2018
100% Renewable Energy by 2050
Mar 06, 2018
The Broad Potential of Psychoactive Drugs
Feb 27, 2018
The Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance
Feb 19, 2018
It's Time to Rethink Ocean Conservation
Feb 06, 2018
Science Got Women Wrong
Jan 23, 2018
A Volcano Scientist Runs for Congress
Jan 16, 2018
Mapping Human Brains
Jan 09, 2018
Losing Genes but Gaining Music | [BONUS EP] Cadence | S02 Episode 01
Jan 01, 2018
How One Emotion Connects Altruists and Psychopaths
Dec 25, 2017
Lessons in Investigating Death
Dec 19, 2017
Lost Einsteins: Left Behind by the Innovation Economy
Dec 12, 2017
Getting Politicians to Talk About Science
Dec 05, 2017
Black Hole Blues
Nov 28, 2017
Why Dinosaurs Matter
Nov 21, 2017
What's Going on in the Brain of a Fetus?
Nov 14, 2017
How Science Built One of the Greatest Basketball Teams in History
Nov 07, 2017
A Paid Climate Change Skeptic Switches Sides
Oct 30, 2017
Ten Emerging Technologies That'll Improve and/or Ruin Everything
Oct 24, 2017
A Psychiatrist Analyzes the Age of Trump
Oct 17, 2017
Molecules From Caesar's Last Breath Are Inside You
Oct 03, 2017
Where the Animals Go: Tracking Wildlife with Technology
Sep 27, 2017
Why Buddhism is True
Sep 18, 2017
The Psychology of Hate
Sep 12, 2017
Jonathan Lynn on Why US Healthcare Is Worthy of Ridicule
Aug 31, 2017
The Great American Solar Eclipse
Aug 15, 2017
The Science of Game of Thrones
Aug 07, 2017
Why Are We Curious?
Jul 31, 2017
We've Got to Start Eating Insects
Jul 24, 2017
186 Jason Silva - Origins: The Journey of Humankind
Jul 17, 2017
185 Jennifer Latson - A True Story of Pathological Friendliness
Jul 03, 2017
184 Zeynep Tufekci - Twitter and Tear Gas
Jun 26, 2017
183 Dean Buonomano - The Neuroscience and Physics of Time
Jun 19, 2017
182 Ty Tashiro - The Science of Being Awkward
Jun 06, 2017
181 Mike Drucker - How to Write Science Into Comedy
May 29, 2017
180 The Unique Challenge of Being a Woman in Engineering [Collaboration with Cited]
May 22, 2017
179 The Leaky Pipeline of Women in Science [Collaboration with Cited]
May 15, 2017
178 Teresa Zimmers - The Murky Science of Lethal Injection
May 09, 2017
177 Bill Nye - Let’s Change the World
May 05, 2017
176 Paul Doherty - The Actual Science Behind Outlandish Deaths
Apr 25, 2017
175 Sharon Begley - Can't Just Stop: An Investigation of Compulsions
Apr 17, 2017
174 James Beacham - The Exciting World of Particle Hunters
Apr 10, 2017
[BONUS EP] Cadence | Episode 01: What Is Music?
Apr 04, 2017
173 Mary Roach - Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
Apr 04, 2017
172 Dan Ariely - The Surprising Science of What Motivates Us
Mar 27, 2017
171 Siddhartha Roy - The Science Behind the Flint Water Crisis
Mar 20, 2017
170 Steven Hatch - Inferno: A Doctor's Ebola Story
Mar 13, 2017
169 Daniel Levitin - The Emerging Epidemic of the Silent Home
Mar 06, 2017
168 Alison Van Eenennaam - Gene Editing Livestock
Feb 27, 2017
167 Haider Warraich - Modern Death: How Medicine Changed the End of Life
Feb 20, 2017
166 Alan Burdick - Why Time Flies: A Mostly Scientific Investigation
Feb 13, 2017
165 Nate Allen - Why Science Is Huge on Reddit
Feb 06, 2017
164 Alexandra Wolfe - Valley of the Gods: A Silicon Valley Story
Jan 23, 2017
163 Dave Levitan - The Return Of "I'm Not a Scientist”
Jan 16, 2017
162 Paul Bloom - Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion
Jan 09, 2017
161 Patrick Wolff - How to Become a Grandmaster Chess Champion
Dec 23, 2016
160 Helen Czerski - The Little Bits of Physics in Everyday Life
Dec 16, 2016
159 David Grinspoon - Earth in Human Hands: Shaping Our Planet's Future
Dec 09, 2016
158 Lee van der Voo - The Fish Market: Inside the Big-Money Battle for the Ocean and Your Dinner Plate
Dec 02, 2016
157 Erik Vance - The Curious Science of Your Brain's Ability to Deceive, Transform, and Heal
Nov 25, 2016
156 Heather Hill - Taking a Second Look at SeaWorld
Nov 18, 2016
155 Chris and Evan Hadfield - An Astronaut Explores the Arctic
Nov 12, 2016
154 Changing Political Minds - The Deep Story With Arlie Hochschild and Reckonings
Nov 04, 2016
153 Merlin Tuttle - The Secret Lives of Bats
Oct 28, 2016
152 Abigail Tucker - How House Cats Tamed Us and Took Over the World
Oct 22, 2016
151 Irva Hertz-Picciotto - Should We Worry More About Toxic Environmental Chemicals?
Oct 14, 2016
150 Stuart Firestein - Why Science Needs to Fail
Sep 30, 2016
149 Sarah Ballard / Jackie Speier - The Appalling Reality of Harassment in Science
Sep 23, 2016
148 Judith Schwartz - Hope for a Thirsty World
Sep 16, 2016
147 Dave Levitan - How Politicians Mangle Science
Sep 09, 2016
146 John Hargrove - Taking on SeaWorld
Aug 26, 2016
145 Carin Bondar - Wild Sex
Aug 19, 2016
144 Ed Yong - I Contain Multitudes
Aug 12, 2016
143 The Stories That Collection Museums Hold
Aug 08, 2016
142 Hank Greely - The End of Sex
Jul 22, 2016
141 Marek Glezerman - The Science of Gender Medicine
Jul 15, 2016
140 Janna Levin - This Is the Sound of Two Black Holes Colliding
Jul 08, 2016
139 Peter Willcox - Adventures in Protecting the Future of Our Planet
Jul 01, 2016
138 Mary Roach - The Curious Science of Humans at War
Jun 24, 2016
137 Jonah Berger - The Hidden Forces That Shape Behavior
Jun 17, 2016
136 Siddhartha Mukherjee - An Intimate History of the Gene
Jun 10, 2016
135 Sean Carroll - Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself
Jun 03, 2016
134 Anders Ericsson - How to Do Everything Better
May 20, 2016
133 Ben Beard - How Global Warming Is Making Some Diseases Even Scarier
May 13, 2016
132 Hope Jahren - The Joy and Otherness of Trees
May 06, 2016
131 Josh Willis - Greenland Is Melting!
Apr 29, 2016
130 Bill Nye - Fighting Climate Denial
Apr 22, 2016
129 Greg Marcus - Understanding Heart Disease With Big Data
Apr 15, 2016
128 Sy Montgomery - The Soul of an Octopus
Apr 08, 2016
127 Carl Zimmer - The Mysterious World of Viruses
Apr 01, 2016
126 Maria Konnikova - The Science of Why We Fall for Cons
Mar 25, 2016
125 Anthony James - How Deadly Are Mosquitoes?
Mar 11, 2016
124 Joanne Ruthsatz & Kimberly Stephens - Is There a Link Between Prodigy and Autism?
Mar 04, 2016
123 J. Kenji López-Alt - Better Home Cooking Through Science
Feb 26, 2016
122 Nancy Krieger - Police Involved Killings Are Public Health Data
Feb 19, 2016
121 Marah Hardt - Sex in the Sea
Feb 12, 2016
120 Eric Weiner - The Geography of Genius
Feb 05, 2016
119 Kara Platoni - Hacking Human Perception
Jan 29, 2016
118 Kim Cobb - The Evolution of El Niño
Jan 22, 2016
117 Douglas Fields - The Science of Rage and Why We Snap
Jan 15, 2016
116 Indre and Kishore’s 2016 Science Predictions
Jan 08, 2016
115 Chris Ferguson - Violence in Video Games
Dec 18, 2015
114 Mark Schatzker - The Dorito Effect
Dec 11, 2015
113 Robert Sapolsky - Being Human
Dec 04, 2015
112 Ed Lu - The Real Threat of Asteroids
Nov 27, 2015
111 Steve Croft - The Feeding Habits of Supermassive Black Holes
Nov 20, 2015
110 Cady Coleman - Our Calling to Space
Nov 13, 2015
109 Dava Newman - The Future of Space Exploration
Nov 06, 2015
108 Adam Galinsky & Maurice Schweitzer - The Science of Sex, Power, and Competition
Oct 30, 2015
107 Ariel Waldman - Hacking Science
Oct 25, 2015
106 Brad Bushman - The Science of Gun Violence
Oct 16, 2015
105 Brad Voytek - We Neuroscientists Don't Really Know What Your Brain Is Doing
Oct 09, 2015
104 Justin Rubinstein - Humans Are Causing Earthquakes in Oklahoma
Oct 02, 2015
103 M. R. O'Connor - Resurrection Science and the Precarious Future of Wild Things
Sep 25, 2015
102 Beth Shapiro - The Science of De-Extinction
Sep 18, 2015
101 Lucky Yates - The Science of Archer
Sep 11, 2015
100 Steve Silberman - Remembering Oliver Sacks / The Legacy of Autism
Sep 04, 2015
99 Marc Lewis - Why Addiction Is Not a Disease
Aug 21, 2015
98 Fred Perlak - Inside the Mind of a Monsanto Scientist
Aug 14, 2015
97 Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis - How Music Plays the Mind
Aug 07, 2015
96 David Casarett - A Doctor's Case for Medical Marijuana
Jul 31, 2015
95 Wade Roush - How Disasters Affect Science
Jul 24, 2015
94 Michael Hiltzik - The Invention That Launched the Military-Industrial Complex
Jul 17, 2015
93 Alvin Roth - The New Economics of Who Gets What—and Why
Jul 10, 2015
92 Will Walker & Kevin Czinger - The Future of 3D Printing
Jun 26, 2015
91 Rachel Kalmar - The Power of Wearable Technology
Jun 19, 2015
90 Will Smith & Norman Chan - Understanding Virtual Reality
Jun 12, 2015
89 Eric Cheng - The Science Behind Drones
Jun 05, 2015
88 Alan Levinovitz - The Gluten Lie
May 29, 2015
87 Stephen Dubner - Freakonomics and the Danger of Certainty
May 22, 2015
86 Adam Rogers - The Science of Booze
May 15, 2015
85 James Krupa - Teaching Evolution in Kentucky
May 08, 2015
84 Ivan Oransky - The Fetishization of Scientific Papers
May 02, 2015
83 Traci Mann - The Science of Weight Loss
Apr 24, 2015
82 Alex Garland - The Science of Ex Machina
Apr 17, 2015
81 Sanjoy Mahajan - Street-Fighting Mathematics
Apr 10, 2015
80 Norman Doidge - How Plastic Is Your Brain?
Apr 03, 2015
79 Ken Caldeira - Can Geoengineering Save the Planet?
Mar 27, 2015
78 Bill Gifford - Can Science Keep You Young Forever?
Mar 20, 2015
77 Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo - Sugar Science
Mar 13, 2015
76 Jonathan Eisen - The Tiny World of Microbes Inside You
Mar 06, 2015
75 Kevin Kelly - What Technology Wants
Feb 27, 2015
74 Kathleen Hall Jamieson - Fact Checking Science
Feb 20, 2015
73 David J. Morris - The History and Science of PTSD
Feb 13, 2015
72 Andy Weir - The Science of The Martian
Feb 06, 2015
71 Ed Boyden - Blowing Up the Brain
Jan 30, 2015
70 Brian Fisher - The Real Ant-Man
Jan 23, 2015
69 Katie Mack - Dark Matter: Invisible, and Probably Flying through You Right Now
Jan 16, 2015
68 Matt Walker - Why Did We Evolve to Sleep?
Jan 09, 2015
67 Gabriele Oettingen - Rethinking Positive Thinking
Jan 02, 2015
66 Adam Savage - The Joy of Being a Maker
Dec 26, 2014
65 Matt Parker - Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension
Dec 19, 2014
64 Sharman Apt Russell - Chasing Tiger Beetles as a Citizen Scientist
Dec 12, 2014
63 Donald Johanson - Lucy's Legacy, 40 Years Later
Dec 05, 2014
62 Christine Kenneally - How DNA and History Shape Our Identities and Our Futures
Nov 28, 2014
61 George Church - Hacking Mosquitoes to Fight Malaria
Nov 21, 2014
60 Paul Bloom - Babies and the Origins of Good and Evil
Nov 14, 2014
59 David Grinspoon - The Science of Interstellar
Nov 07, 2014
58 Adam Savage - Live on Stage in San Francisco
Oct 31, 2014
57 William Gibson - The Future Will View Us as a Joke
Oct 24, 2014
56 Steven Johnson - Innovations That Made the Modern World
Oct 17, 2014
55 Daniel Levitin - The Organized Mind
Oct 10, 2014
54 Steven Pinker - The Science Behind Writing Well
Oct 02, 2014
53 Naomi Klein - Climate Changes Everything
Sep 26, 2014
52 Al Gore - The Politics of Climate Change
Sep 17, 2014
51 Brendan Nyhan - Will Facts Matter in the 2014 Election?
Sep 12, 2014
50 William Poundstone - Understanding Randomness
Sep 05, 2014
49 Arie Kruglanski - The Science of What Makes a Terrorist
Aug 29, 2014
48 K Clancy, R Nelson, J Rutherford, & K Hinde - The Epidemic of Harassment in Scientific Field Work
Aug 22, 2014
47 Anthony Ingraffea - The Science of Fracking
Aug 15, 2014
46 David Casarett - The Science of Death
Aug 08, 2014
45 Barb Oakley - The Science of Learning
Jul 31, 2014
44 David Epstein - The Science Behind the World's Greatest Athletes
Jul 25, 2014
43 Naomi Oreskes - The Collapse of Western Civilization
Jul 18, 2014
42 Arthur I. Miller - How Science Is Revolutionizing Art
Jul 11, 2014
41 Amy Stewart - The Science Behind the World's Alcohol
Jul 04, 2014
40 Zach Weinersmith - Baby Catapulting and Other Great Terrible Hypotheses
Jun 27, 2014
39 Jordan Ellenberg - Why Math Is The Ultimate BS Detector
Jun 20, 2014
38 Sam Kean - These Brains Changed Neuroscience Forever
Jun 13, 2014
37 Raychelle Burks - Zombie Repellent and Other Awesome Uses for Chemistry
Jun 05, 2014
36 Harry Collins - Why Googling Doesn't Make You a Scientific Expert
May 30, 2014
35 Richard Alley - West Antarctica Is Melting and We Can't Stop It
May 22, 2014
34 John Oliver - This World Will Be a Ball of Fire Before It Stops Being Funny
May 15, 2014
33 David Amodio - The Science of Prejudice
May 09, 2014
32 Katharine Hayhoe - Climate Science and Christianity
May 02, 2014
31 Mary Roach - The Science of Your Guts
Apr 25, 2014
30 Jared Diamond - The Third Chimpanzee
Apr 18, 2014
29 Neil Shubin - Your Inner Fish
Apr 10, 2014
28 John Hibbing - The Biology of Ideology
Apr 04, 2014
27 Ethan Perlstein - Scenes from the Postdocalypse
Mar 28, 2014
26 Phil Plait - Just After the Big Bang
Mar 21, 2014
25 Neil deGrasse Tyson - Finally, Science Is Cool
Mar 14, 2014
24 Jennifer Ouellette - Is The Self an Illusion, or Is There Really a “You” In There?
Mar 07, 2014
23 Edward Frenkel - What Your Teachers Never Told You About Math
Feb 28, 2014
22 Jennifer Francis and Kevin Trenberth - Is Global Warming Driving Crazy Winters?
Feb 21, 2014
21 Steven Novella - No, GMOs Won't Harm Your Health
Feb 14, 2014
20 Maria Konnikova - How to Make Your Brain Work Better
Feb 07, 2014
19 Kari Byron - How to Safely Blow Stuff Up When You're Pregnant
Jan 31, 2014
18 Eugenie Scott & Ann Reid - The Assault on Science Education
Jan 24, 2014
17 Michael Pollan - The Science of Eating Well (And Not Falling For Diet Fads)
Jan 16, 2014
16 Deborah Blum - The Science of Poisoning
Jan 10, 2014
15 Mark Ruffalo - Our 100 Percent Clean Energy Future
Jan 03, 2014
14 Carolyn Porco - Why Seeing Earth From Space Matters
Dec 27, 2013
13 Ara Norenzayan - Why Do Atheists Exist?
Dec 20, 2013
12 Joshua Greene – The New Science of Morality
Dec 13, 2013
11 Maryn McKenna - Our Scary Post-Antibiotic Future
Dec 06, 2013
10 Simon Singh - How the Simpsons Have Secretly Been Teaching You Math
Nov 22, 2013
9 Michael Mann - From Computer Geek to Political Giant Slayer
Nov 15, 2013
8 Alison Gopnik - We All Start Out as Scientists, But Some of Us Forget
Nov 07, 2013
7 George Johnson - Why Most of What You've Heard About Cancer is Wrong
Nov 01, 2013
6 Jonathan Haidt - This is Why Your Political Opponents Hate You
Oct 25, 2013
5 Dan Kahan and Stephan Lewandowsky - How Do You Make People Give a Damn About Climate Change?
Oct 18, 2013
4 Randy Schekman - This 2013 Nobel Laureate Says College Is Way Too Expensive
Oct 11, 2013
3 Sylvia Earle - Why the Oceans Are Not Too Big to Fail
Oct 04, 2013
2 Alan Weisman - Can We Finally Have a Serious Talk About Population?
Sep 27, 2013
1 Marsha Ivins - What It's Like To Spend 55 Days in Space
Sep 20, 2013