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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How AI Is Transforming Scientific Research, With Rebecca Willett

How AI Is Transforming Scientific Research, With Rebecca Willett

One of the first areas to be affected by AI has been science. Researchers have already started to integrate these new technologies into their work, but what does it mean to let these systems into our ...

10 Aug 202331min

How AI Could Change The Law

How AI Could Change The Law

AI promises to change every part of our society, but one area that has already started to be affected is law. And AI may do more than just upend the profession of lawyers. One professor here at the Un...

27 Jul 202327min

How AI Can Predict Future Scientific Discoveries

How AI Can Predict Future Scientific Discoveries

Science is facing a perplexing problem. Although there are far more scientists today than ever before, publishing research at a faster and faster pace, new and novel advancements have slowed not incre...

20 Jul 202329min

The Uncovered History of Space Travel & Its Privatized Future

The Uncovered History of Space Travel & Its Privatized Future

Everyone is talking about the upcoming summer blockbuster, Oppenheimer. We are always incredibly captivated by behind the curtain looks at some of the most momentous events in our history. Uncovering ...

13 Jul 202328min

The Health Costs of Air Pollution

The Health Costs of Air Pollution

Many cities in the US have been experiencing smoky and hazy skies lately. Some of you have probably been affected by poor air quality due to the ongoing wildfires in Canada that are causing pollution ...

6 Jul 202328min

How Your Brain Benefits From Music, With Larry Sherman

How Your Brain Benefits From Music, With Larry Sherman

Music plays an important role in all of our lives. But listening to music or playing an instrument is more than just a creative outlet or hobby — it’s also scientifically good for us. Research shows t...

29 Jun 202329min

Magic words: Can What You Say Help You Get Your way? with Jonah Berger

Magic words: Can What You Say Help You Get Your way? with Jonah Berger

Everyone wishes they had a superpower. Well, it turns out you’ve had a secret power since you were a child, you just don’t know how to use it yet. That’s the power of language. In a fascinating new bo...

15 Jun 202331min

Providing Basic Health Insurance For Every American, With Katherine Baicker

Providing Basic Health Insurance For Every American, With Katherine Baicker

If there is something both sides of the political aisle can agree on, it’s that there is something deeply wrong with health insurance in the United States. What they can’t agree on is how to fix it. T...

1 Jun 202331min

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