2024 Nobel Laureate Explains What Makes Countries Fail Or Succeed, with James A. Robinson
On Big Brains, we get to speak to a lot of groundbreaking scholars and experts, but some conversations we walk away knowing we’ve just heard from someone who is really changing the world. We certainly...
17 Okt 202429min
Why Can’t Scientists Agree On The Age Of The Universe? with Wendy Freedman
How old is the universe—and how fast is it expanding? These are part of one of the biggest—and most contested—questions in science, and the answers could change our understanding of physics.In this ep...
3 Okt 202424min
What Are We Getting Wrong About Young Voters?, with Cathy Cohen
One of the biggest questions of every election is: What’s going on with young voters? There is endless speculation on the news about what young people care about, but very little good research examini...
19 Sep 202428min
Why Are More Women Saying No To Having Kids? With Peggy O'Donnell Heffington
More and more women in the United States are saying no to motherhood. Alarmingly, in 2023, the U.S. fertility rate reached the lowest number on record. But the idea of non-motherhood is actually not a...
5 Sep 202432min
How Homeownership Shaped Race In America, with Adrienne Brown
Race has played a huge role in the creation of mass homeownership in the United States. Discriminatory housing practices including redlining, exclusionary zoning and whitewashing led to great disparit...
22 Aug 202427min
Fighting Back Against AI Piracy, with Ben Zhao and Heather Zheng
If you’ve spent any time playing with modern AI image generators, it can seem like an almost magical experience; but the truth is these programs are more like a magic trick than magic. Without the hum...
8 Aug 202428min
The Bioelectric Future of Regenerative Medicine
In the near future, birth defects, traumatic injuries, limb loss and perhaps even cancer could be cured through bioelectricity—electrical signals that communicate to our cells how to rebuild themselve...
25 Jul 202428min
Is Mindfulness The Secret To Health?
Can you heal faster just by tricking your brain? Could you lose weight with only a change of mindset? Could you think yourself into being younger? If you think the answer to all these questions is no,...
11 Jul 202433min
