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
188 episoder
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
How We Could Regrow Limbs And Organs, with Michael Levin
2023-04-27 • 28min
A Nobelist’s Controversial Approach To Solving Inequality, With James Heckman
2023-04-13 • 32min
How The Food Industry Created Today’s Obesity Crisis, With Marion Nestle
2023-03-30 • 31min
Why Your Gut Health Is So Important, With Cathryn Nagler And Eric Pamer
2023-03-16 • 34min
Why Mourning Is Essential To Our Well-Being, With Jonathan Lear
2023-03-02 • 25min
The History of Black Cinema Re-examined, With Jacqueline Stewart
2023-02-16 • 32min
The Scientific Secret To A Happy Life, With Marc Schulz
2023-02-02 • 29min
Unraveling Sleep’s Greatest Mysteries: The Day Tomorrow Began
2023-01-19 • 34min
Is The U.S. Headed Toward Another Civil War? Feat. William Howell
2023-01-05 • 30min
Follow Through On Next Year's Resolutions Using Science With Katy Milkman
2022-12-22 • 28min
Why Quantum Tech Will Change Our Future: The Day Tomorrow Began
2022-12-08 • 28min
Fighting Global Hunger Through Genetics With Chuan He
2022-11-24 • 23min
The Origins Of Civilization And The Future Of Archaeology: The Day Tomorrow Began
2022-11-10 • 35min
Can We Predict Your Capacity To Focus? With Monica Rosenberg
2022-10-28 • 27min
The 'Legendary' Discovery Of Black Holes: The Day Tomorrow Began
2022-10-13 • 35min
Celebrating Our 100th Episode
2022-09-29 • 17min
The Science Of Speech & Identity With Katherine Kinzler
2022-09-22 • 31min
Life’s Mysterious Origins With Jack Szostak
2022-09-15 • 22min
The Afterlife Of Mass Incarceration With Reuben Jonathan Miller
2022-09-08 • 36min
The Imbalance In Our Society With Raghuram Rajan
2022-09-01 • 25min
Does Welfare Reduce Crime? With Manasi Deshpande
2022-08-18 • 27min
The Crucial Race To Build A Better Battery With Shirley Meng
2022-08-04 • 26min
Do Animals Dream? With David M. Peña-Guzmán
2022-07-21 • 33min
Extreme Heat Waves: Why Are They Surging? with Noboru Nakamura
2022-07-07 • 22min
Why Air Pollution Is Cutting Years Off Our Lives, With Christa Hasenkopf And Anant Sudarshan
2022-06-23 • 28min
How Tax Dodging And Corporate Secrecy Found A Home In Delaware, With Hal Weitzman
2022-06-09 • 32min
Why Countries Choose War Over Peace, With Chris Blattman
2022-05-26 • 29min
How Death In America Is Changing With Shannon Lee Dawdy
2022-05-12 • 26min
Why We Need To Invest In Parents During A Child's Earliest Years, With Dana Suskind
2022-04-28 • 25min
The Troubling Rise Of Antibiotic-resistant Superbugs, With Christopher Murray
2022-04-14 • 23min
Is Scientific Progress Slowing? with James Evans
2022-03-31 • 29min
Could We Vaccinate Against Opioid Addiction? With Sandra Comer And Marco Pravetoni
2022-03-17 • 24min
The Man Who Fought To Sanction Putin And Russian Oligarchs, with Bill Browder
2022-03-02 • 31min
Why Big Ideas Fail To Scale—And How To Fix It With John List
2022-02-17 • 28min
Could Personalizing Laws Make Society More Just? With Omri Ben-Shahar
2022-02-03 • 26min
How To Stick To Your Resolutions, With Ayelet Fishbach
2022-01-20 • 28min
The Overlooked History Of Black Cinema, With Jacqueline Stewart
2022-01-06 • 31min
Engineering A Cure For Cancer With Melody Swartz & Jeffrey Hubbell
2021-12-23 • 26min
Confronting Gun Violence With Data, With Jens Ludwig
2021-12-09 • 39min
Best Of: Why Talking to Strangers Will Make You Happier With Nicholas Epley
2021-12-02 • 25min
Unlocking The Secrets Of Black Holes, With Andrea Ghez
2021-11-18 • 28min
Do Your Genes Determine Your Success In Life? With Kathryn Paige Harden
2021-11-04 • 29min
How The UN Aims To Save Humanity, With Chris Williams And Luis Bettencourt
2021-10-21 • 25min
Combating Our Global Water Crisis Using AI, with Junhong Chen
2021-10-07 • 25min
Revolutionizing Technology at the Nanoscale, with Paul Alivisatos
2021-09-23 • 26min
The Science Behind Forming Better Habits, With Katy Milkman
2021-09-09 • 27min
The Secret Nazi Past and Billionaire Future of U.S. Space Innovation with Jordan Bimm
2021-08-19 • 27min
How a Genetic Breakthrough Could Address Global Hunger
2021-08-05 • 22min