How Alternate Reality Games Are Changing The Real World with Patrick Jagoda and Kristen Schilt
What is the most popular form of media today: Movies? Music? Books? Nope, it’s video games. With 2.5 billion gamers today, games are set to be the type of media that most defines our world. And two sc...
10 Dec 202032min
The Science of Empathy, with Peggy Mason
With so many contentious issues in our deeply polarized world, the real or virtual Thanksgiving dinner table may be a hard place to find a lot of empathy this year. As we take a week off to reconnect ...
25 Nov 202020min
Big Brains Presents: The "Capitalisn't" Podcast
This week, we’re featuring another University of Chicago Podcast Network show. It’s called Capitalisn’t. Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination to the Supreme Court has many focusing on question about how the...
20 Nov 202047min
What Remains Unanswered After The 2020 Election, with William Howell and Luigi Zingales
It’s hard to think of a presidential election that has raised as many questions as 2020. What do these results tell us about the views and desires of the American public, what the polls got right and ...
11 Nov 202034min
When Governments Share Their Secrets—And When They Don't, with Austin Carson
When should a government choose to reveal a secret—or conceal it? Your knee-jerk reaction may be to say they should never hide anything from the public. But political scientist Austin Carson of the Un...
29 Okt 202028min
How We Can Fix a Fractured Supreme Court, with Geoffrey Stone
The Supreme Court today may be more politicized than any other time in U.S. history. With the expected confirmation of Judge Amy Coney Barrett, President Trump will have appointed three justices in le...
15 Okt 202025min
Correcting History: Native Americans Tell Their Own Stories
Since their inception, natural history museums have struggled with how to represent Native Americans and their culture. People from these communities are often not included in the conversation, and th...
1 Okt 202036min
The Future of Voting And The 2020 Election, with Anthony Fowler
The 2020 presidential election this November is happening amid an unprecedented pandemic. As states scramble to scale up mail-in voting, President Trump claims it will lead to widespread fraud. But wh...
17 Sep 202024min
