Big Brains
Translating groundbreaking research into digestible brain food. Big Brains, little bites. Produced by the University of Chicago Podcast Network & Winner of CASE "Grand Gold" award in 2022, Gold award in 2021, and named Adweek's "Best Branded Podcast" in 2020.
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165 avsnitt
How To Manifest Your Future Using Neuroscience, with James Doty
2024-05-02 • 31min
Why We Die—And How We Can Live Longer, with Nobel Laureate Venki Ramakrishnan
2024-04-18 • 32min
What Dogs Are Teaching Us About Aging, with Daniel Promislow
2024-04-04 • 32min
Where Has Alzheimer’s Research Gone Wrong? with Karl Herrup
2024-03-21 • 29min
Why Breeding Millions of Mosquitoes Could Help Save Lives
2024-03-07 • 30min
Why Shaming Other Countries Often Backfires, with Rochelle Terman
2024-02-22 • 33min
Can Trump Legally Be President?, with William Baude
2024-02-06 • 36min
What Our Hand Gestures Reveal About Our Thoughts, with Susan Goldin-Meadow
2024-01-25 • 26min
Psychedelics Without Hallucinations: A New Mental Health Treatment? with David E. Olson
2024-01-11 • 32min
The Science Of Happiness
2023-12-28 • 29min
Do We Really Have Free Will? With Robert Sapolsky
2023-12-14 • 34min
A Radical Solution To Address Climate Change, with David Keith
2023-11-30 • 33min
How PFAS “Forever Chemicals” Are Harming Our Health, with Linda Birnbaum
2023-11-16 • 29min
Are We Worse People Than We Used To Be? With Adam Mastroianni
2023-11-02 • 31min
Freakonomics’ Steven Levitt On The Secret To Making Tough Choices
2023-10-19 • 39min
Will Political Violence Destroy Our Democracy?, With Robert Pape
2023-10-05 • 28min
Defending Campus Free Speech In A Polarized Age, with Paul Alivisatos and Tom Ginsburg
2023-09-22 • 32min
Why The Secret To Health Lies In The Mind-body Connection, with Ellen Langer
2023-09-07 • 32min
Phonics Vs. Whole Word: The Science Of Reading, With Adrian Johns
2023-08-24 • 34min
How AI Is Transforming Scientific Research, With Rebecca Willett
2023-08-10 • 31min
How AI Could Change The Law
2023-07-27 • 27min
How AI Can Predict Future Scientific Discoveries
2023-07-20 • 29min
The Uncovered History of Space Travel & Its Privatized Future
2023-07-13 • 28min
The Health Costs of Air Pollution
2023-07-06 • 28min
How Your Brain Benefits From Music, With Larry Sherman
2023-06-29 • 29min
Magic words: Can What You Say Help You Get Your way? with Jonah Berger
2023-06-15 • 31min
Providing Basic Health Insurance For Every American, With Katherine Baicker
2023-06-01 • 31min
Why We Fight, With Christopher Blattman
2023-05-25 • 28min
The Hidden Truths About Sexuality And Gender In The Medieval World, with Roland Betancourt
2023-05-11 • 29min
How We Could Regrow Limbs And Organs, with Michael Levin
2023-04-27 • 28min
A Nobelist’s Controversial Approach To Solving Inequality, With James Heckman
2023-04-13 • 32min
How The Food Industry Created Today’s Obesity Crisis, With Marion Nestle
2023-03-30 • 31min
Why Your Gut Health Is So Important, With Cathryn Nagler And Eric Pamer
2023-03-16 • 34min
Why Mourning Is Essential To Our Well-Being, With Jonathan Lear
2023-03-02 • 25min
The History of Black Cinema Re-examined, With Jacqueline Stewart
2023-02-16 • 32min
The Scientific Secret To A Happy Life, With Marc Schulz
2023-02-02 • 29min
Unraveling Sleep’s Greatest Mysteries: The Day Tomorrow Began
2023-01-19 • 34min
Is The U.S. Headed Toward Another Civil War? Feat. William Howell
2023-01-05 • 30min
Follow Through On Next Year's Resolutions Using Science With Katy Milkman
2022-12-22 • 28min
Why Quantum Tech Will Change Our Future: The Day Tomorrow Began
2022-12-08 • 28min
Fighting Global Hunger Through Genetics With Chuan He
2022-11-24 • 23min
The Origins Of Civilization And The Future Of Archaeology: The Day Tomorrow Began
2022-11-10 • 35min
Can We Predict Your Capacity To Focus? With Monica Rosenberg
2022-10-28 • 27min
The 'Legendary' Discovery Of Black Holes: The Day Tomorrow Began
2022-10-13 • 35min
Celebrating Our 100th Episode
2022-09-29 • 17min
The Science Of Speech & Identity With Katherine Kinzler
2022-09-22 • 31min
Life’s Mysterious Origins With Jack Szostak
2022-09-15 • 22min
The Afterlife Of Mass Incarceration With Reuben Jonathan Miller
2022-09-08 • 36min
The Imbalance In Our Society With Raghuram Rajan
2022-09-01 • 25min
Does Welfare Reduce Crime? With Manasi Deshpande
2022-08-18 • 27min