Rudolph Tanzi: What Can People Do To Maintain Brain Health As They Age?
Harvard Medical School professor of neurology Rudolph Tanzi discusses how lifestyle choices can help maintain brain health during a person’s lifespan. Topics include Alzheimer’s disease and other kind...
20 Dec 202133min
Makeda Best: What Does Landscape Photography Say About Our Politics?
Makeda Best, curator of photography at the Harvard Art Museums and a visiting professor of Art, Film, and Visual Studies, shares her insights on landscape photographers, as well as photographers of wa...
13 Dec 202128min
Claudia Goldin: Why Do Women Still Make Less Than Men?
Claudia Goldin, Henry Lee professor of economics, shares the reason why working mothers still earn less and advance less often in their careers than men: time. Even with antidiscrimination laws and un...
6 Dec 202133min
Jerrold Rosenbaum: Are Psychedelics an Effective Treatment for Mood Disorders?
Jerrold Rosenbaum, director of Massachusetts General Hospital’s Center for the Neuroscience of Psychedelics, discusses the potential of using psychedelics, such as MDMA and magic mushrooms, to treat t...
29 Nov 202144min
Nicholas Stephanopoulos: Why Does Gerrymandering Matter So Much?
Nicholas Stephanopoulos, a political scientist and legal scholar whose research focuses on gerrymandering, explains its effect on American democracy and how it might be stopped. Topics include recent ...
22 Nov 202127min
Emily Broad Leib: What Can be Done About Food Waste?
Emily Broad Leib, founder and director of Harvard’s Food Law and Policy Clinic, discusses how to reduce food waste in the United States and abroad. Topics include the confusion caused by misleading da...
15 Nov 202130min
Sandeep Robert Datta and Venkatesh Murthy: Why is Smell Such a Mystery to Scientists?
Neurobiologists Venkatesh Murthy and Sandeep Robert Datta discuss what scientists know about our sense of smell, and what big mysteries remain. Topics include smell loss from COVID-19, experimental ap...
8 Nov 202136min
Michael Mina: Why Do We Still Need Rapid Tests?
Epidemiologist and immunologist Michael Mina discusses the use of rapid tests as public health tools. Topics include using rapid tests to protect gatherings of friends and family; the differences betw...
1 Nov 202132min
