

Big Brains
Big Brains explores the groundbreaking research and discoveries that are changing our world. In each episode, we talk to leading experts and unpack their work in straightforward terms. Interesting conversations that cover a gamut of topics from how music affects our brains to what happens after we die.
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Episoder
186 episoder

The Little-Known Secrets To A Good Life, with Shigehiro Oishi
2025-02-06 • 33min

How Bioelectronics Could Heal Our Bodies And Minds, with Bozhi Tian
2025-01-23 • 29min

Could A Fungal Pandemic Be “The Last of Us?", with Arturo Casadevall
2025-01-09 • 26min

The "Magic Words" That Turn Resolutions Into Reality
2025-01-02 • 32min

What’s The Truth About Alcohol’s Benefits And Risks? with Tim Stockwell
2024-12-19 • 32min

What Happens When We Die? with Sam Parnia
2024-12-05 • 30min

The Illusion of Moral Decline
2024-11-21 • 32min

Can We Predict The Unpredictable? with J. Doyne Farmer
2024-11-14 • 33min

Unlocking The Secrets Of ‘SuperAgers’, with Emily Rogalski
2024-10-31 • 22min

2024 Nobel Laureate Explains What Makes Countries Fail Or Succeed, with James A. Robinson
2024-10-17 • 29min

Why Can’t Scientists Agree On The Age Of The Universe? with Wendy Freedman
2024-10-03 • 24min

What Are We Getting Wrong About Young Voters?, with Cathy Cohen
2024-09-19 • 28min

Why Are More Women Saying No To Having Kids? With Peggy O'Donnell Heffington
2024-09-05 • 32min

How Homeownership Shaped Race In America, with Adrienne Brown
2024-08-22 • 27min

Fighting Back Against AI Piracy, with Ben Zhao and Heather Zheng
2024-08-08 • 28min

The Bioelectric Future of Regenerative Medicine
2024-07-25 • 28min

Is Mindfulness The Secret To Health?
2024-07-11 • 33min

Feeling Stuck? Here’s How To Achieve a Breakthrough, with Adam Alter
2024-06-27 • 33min

What Makes Something Memorable (or Forgettable?) with Wilma Bainbridge
2024-06-13 • 26min

Learning To Speak To Whales Using AI, with David Gruber
2024-05-30 • 26min

Storm Warning: Why Hurricanes Are Growing Beyond Measure, with Michael Wehner
2024-05-16 • 27min

How To Manifest Your Future Using Neuroscience, with James Doty
2024-05-02 • 31min

Why We Die—And How We Can Live Longer, with Nobel Laureate Venki Ramakrishnan
2024-04-18 • 32min

What Dogs Are Teaching Us About Aging, with Daniel Promislow
2024-04-04 • 32min

Where Has Alzheimer’s Research Gone Wrong? with Karl Herrup
2024-03-21 • 29min

Why Breeding Millions of Mosquitoes Could Help Save Lives, With Scott O'Neill
2024-03-07 • 30min

Why Shaming Other Countries Often Backfires, with Rochelle Terman
2024-02-22 • 33min

Can Trump Legally Be President?, with William Baude
2024-02-06 • 36min

What Our Hand Gestures Reveal About Our Thoughts, with Susan Goldin-Meadow
2024-01-25 • 26min

Psychedelics Without Hallucinations: A New Mental Health Treatment? with David E. Olson
2024-01-11 • 32min

The Science Of Happiness
2023-12-28 • 29min

Do We Really Have Free Will? With Robert Sapolsky
2023-12-14 • 34min

A Radical Solution To Address Climate Change, with David Keith
2023-11-30 • 33min

How PFAS “Forever Chemicals” Are Harming Our Health, with Linda Birnbaum
2023-11-16 • 29min

Are We Worse People Than We Used To Be? With Adam Mastroianni
2023-11-02 • 31min

Freakonomics’ Steven Levitt On The Secret To Making Tough Choices
2023-10-19 • 39min

Will Political Violence Destroy Our Democracy?, With Robert Pape
2023-10-05 • 28min

Defending Campus Free Speech In A Polarized Age, with Paul Alivisatos and Tom Ginsburg
2023-09-22 • 32min

Why The Secret To Health Lies In The Mind-body Connection, with Ellen Langer
2023-09-07 • 32min

Phonics Vs. Whole Word: The Science Of Reading, With Adrian Johns
2023-08-24 • 34min

How AI Is Transforming Scientific Research, With Rebecca Willett
2023-08-10 • 31min

How AI Could Change The Law
2023-07-27 • 27min

How AI Can Predict Future Scientific Discoveries
2023-07-20 • 29min

The Uncovered History of Space Travel & Its Privatized Future
2023-07-13 • 28min

The Health Costs of Air Pollution
2023-07-06 • 28min

How Your Brain Benefits From Music, With Larry Sherman
2023-06-29 • 29min

Magic words: Can What You Say Help You Get Your way? with Jonah Berger
2023-06-15 • 31min

Providing Basic Health Insurance For Every American, With Katherine Baicker
2023-06-01 • 31min

Why We Fight, With Christopher Blattman
2023-05-25 • 28min

The Hidden Truths About Sexuality And Gender In The Medieval World, with Roland Betancourt
2023-05-11 • 29min