Do baboons understand death?
We've got a little something different for you today—a new format we'll be experimenting with over the next few months. You can think of it as a kind of "behind the paper" series. The idea is to take...
16 Sep 202032min
Clever crows and cheeky keas
Welcome back everyone! Hope you all had a great August. And hope you're all—like me—jazzed about the start of Season 2 of Many Minds. There's a viral video clip from 2014—maybe you've seen it. It feat...
2 Sep 20201h 21min
What kindled your interest in minds?
If you're listening to this podcast, it's a safe bet that you're interested in minds. You probably have been for awhile. But what sparked it in you? What's kept it going? For some folks it may have be...
29 Jul 202025min
The shaman, the witch, and the folktale
Welcome back all! Today's episode is a conversation with Dr. Manvir Singh. Manvir recently finished his PhD in Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University, and will soon begin a postdoctoral fell...
15 Jul 20201h 21min
WEIRD: Adventures of an acronym
Welcome to our 10th episode! Today's show is another in our 'mini minds' series. We've been experimenting with different formats for our minis, as you may have noticed, but today we've got another in ...
1 Jul 202012min
How do chimps communicate?
Welcome back everyone! My guest on today's show is Dr. Cat Hobaiter. Cat is a Lecturer at the University of St Andrews, where she's part of research unit called the Centre for Social Learning and Cog...
17 Jun 20201h 31min
A mini minds with many voices
A warm welcome back! On this "mini minds" installment, we tried something a little different. We reached out to former participants in the Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute (DISI)—including grad ...
3 Jun 202019min
Message to the stars
Greetings all—and a warm welcome back for another episode! Today's show is a conversation with Daniel Oberhaus. Daniel is a staff writer for Wired magazine and the author of the book Extraterrestrial ...
20 Mai 20201h 8min
