Charles Limb: To be Creative Don’t Think So Hard
Combining his passion for music with his ability to peer inside the brain as it’s working, neuroscientist Charles Limb finds that creativity needs reasoning to get out of the way. Hosted by Simplecast...
20 Sep 202242min
Francis Collins: Bridging Science and Faith
Head of the National Institutes of Health for 13 years and now interim science advisor to President Biden, Francis Collins is that rarity in the scientific community – an outspoken evangelical Christi...
13 Sep 202244min
Molina, Garber and Alda: Together Again
The actors Alfred Molina and Victor Garber and Alan reminisce about the play that first brought them together 24 years ago – an experience that changed their lives. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz co...
6 Sep 202243min
Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda - Season 18 trailer
Alan and Executive Producer Graham Chedd chat about and play excerpts from Alan's conversations with some of the guests in the new season, beginning next week. Guests include neuroscientist Charles Li...
30 Aug 202240min
Phillip Dettmer: The World in a Nutshell
A high school dropout who went on to create the immensely popular YouTube channel Kurtzgesagt (In a Nutshell) ignites curiosity about science in unique ways. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. ...
23 Aug 202235min
Carl Bergstrom: Why Birds Don’t Lie and We Do
Trying to figure out how to stop the spread of misinformation on social media, Carl Bergstrom draws from his studies of how birds stick to the truth when communicating about things that matter – like ...
16 Aug 202241min
Lucy Cooke: Where Females Call the Shots
Are men more fit to lead, and more interested in sex than women? Lucy Cooke takes on these myths and more, telling Alan how she visited women biologists around the world who have studied species as di...
9 Aug 202239min
Frans de Waal: Gender, Apes, and Us
Gender fluidity is tolerated a lot more among our cousins— chimpanzees and bonobos— than in our species. The famed primatologist Frans de Waal tells Alan what he’s found after decades of studying our ...
2 Aug 202241min
