Steven Pinker – Talking About Talking
Steven Pinker and Alan explore the words we use that bind us together, even when asking someone to pass the guacamole. A conversation that explores the surprising ways we have of connecting through la...
16 Jun 202044min
The MASH Gang – Confined to Quarters
Alan gets Loretta Swit and Mike Farrell on the horn to see how they’re doing during the lockdown. It’s like old times again.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/clearandvivid Hosted by Simplecast...
9 Jun 202038min
Jennifer Doudna and the Power of CRISPR
The co-inventor of the powerful gene editing tool called CRISPR, Jennifer Doudna describes for Alan her hopes for new treatments and possibly even cures for diseases that are today incurable. She also...
2 Jun 202044min
Kavli Prize winners 2020
Alan checks out this year’s Kavli Prizes and discovers how figuring out why hot peppers are hot could lead to new pain killing drugs; how putting a tiny black hole in your gas tank would give you a mi...
29 Mai 202046min
Kip Thorne Listened – and the Universe Chirped
He’s a Nobel and Kavli prizewinner for his role in what’s been described as one of humanity’s greatest scientific achievements – the detection of ripples in the fabric of space. He can also explain wh...
26 Mai 202043min
Brian Greene is a Grateful Collection of Particles
Alan sits down with physicist Brian Greene in front of a virtual audience to talk about how Brian sees himself (and you and me) as nothing more than an ephemeral cluster of particles in a dying univer...
19 Mai 202053min
He Knows a Lot About Very Little Things
The little things Carl Zimmer knows a lot about are genes, parasites and viruses. And he knows how to talk about them in a way that will stay with you forever. In this episode, Alan Alda and Carl Zimm...
12 Mai 202045min
"Houston, do we ever have a problem!" Alan Alda Talks with NASA's Chief Scientist
It’s a problem when you have so many worlds to explore at once. How long until we colonize Mars? Can we turn the Sahara Desert into a Garden of Eden oasis? How can humans live in a lava tube on the mo...
5 Mai 202045min
