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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166 avsnitt
Does Welfare Reduce Crime? With Manasi Deshpande
2022-08-18 • 27min
The Crucial Race To Build A Better Battery With Shirley Meng
2022-08-04 • 26min
Do Animals Dream? With David M. Peña-Guzmán
2022-07-21 • 33min
Extreme Heat Waves: Why Are They Surging? with Noboru Nakamura
2022-07-07 • 22min
Why Air Pollution Is Cutting Years Off Our Lives, With Christa Hasenkopf And Anant Sudarshan
2022-06-23 • 28min
How Tax Dodging And Corporate Secrecy Found A Home In Delaware, With Hal Weitzman
2022-06-09 • 32min
Why Countries Choose War Over Peace, With Chris Blattman
2022-05-26 • 29min
How Death In America Is Changing With Shannon Lee Dawdy
2022-05-12 • 26min
Why We Need To Invest In Parents During A Child's Earliest Years, With Dana Suskind
2022-04-28 • 25min
The Troubling Rise Of Antibiotic-resistant Superbugs, With Christopher Murray
2022-04-14 • 23min
Is Scientific Progress Slowing? with James Evans
2022-03-31 • 29min
Could We Vaccinate Against Opioid Addiction? With Sandra Comer And Marco Pravetoni
2022-03-17 • 24min
The Man Who Fought To Sanction Putin And Russian Oligarchs, with Bill Browder
2022-03-02 • 31min
Why Big Ideas Fail To Scale—And How To Fix It With John List
2022-02-17 • 28min
Could Personalizing Laws Make Society More Just? With Omri Ben-Shahar
2022-02-03 • 26min
How To Stick To Your Resolutions, With Ayelet Fishbach
2022-01-20 • 28min
The Overlooked History Of Black Cinema, With Jacqueline Stewart
2022-01-06 • 31min
Engineering A Cure For Cancer With Melody Swartz & Jeffrey Hubbell
2021-12-23 • 26min
Confronting Gun Violence With Data, With Jens Ludwig
2021-12-09 • 39min
Best Of: Why Talking to Strangers Will Make You Happier With Nicholas Epley
2021-12-02 • 25min
Unlocking The Secrets Of Black Holes, With Andrea Ghez
2021-11-18 • 28min
Do Your Genes Determine Your Success In Life? With Kathryn Paige Harden
2021-11-04 • 29min
How The UN Aims To Save Humanity, With Chris Williams And Luis Bettencourt
2021-10-21 • 25min
Combating Our Global Water Crisis Using AI, with Junhong Chen
2021-10-07 • 25min
Revolutionizing Technology at the Nanoscale, with Paul Alivisatos
2021-09-23 • 26min
The Science Behind Forming Better Habits, With Katy Milkman
2021-09-09 • 27min
The Secret Nazi Past and Billionaire Future of U.S. Space Innovation with Jordan Bimm
2021-08-19 • 27min
How a Genetic Breakthrough Could Address Global Hunger
2021-08-05 • 22min
Introducing: Entitled
2021-07-29 • 41min
The Deadly Flaw In Our Judgment, With Cass Sunstein
2021-07-15 • 25min
A Scientist’s Beef With The Meat Industry, With Impossible Foods’ Pat Brown
2021-07-01 • 23min
A Surprising Economic Solution To Climate Change With Michael Greenstone
2021-06-17 • 25min
Solving The Biggest Mysteries Of Our Universe, With Dan Hooper
2021-06-03 • 29min
Why You’re Likely Paying An Unfair Share of Property Taxes, with Christopher Berry
2021-05-20 • 29min
Taking Aliens Seriously, with Avi Loeb
2021-05-06 • 32min
The ‘Five Horsemen of the Techpocalypse’ with Kara Swisher
2021-04-22 • 23min
Fighting Poverty And Pandemics, with Nobel Economist Michael Kremer
2021-04-08 • 31min
Why Life After Incarceration Is Just Another Prison, with Reuben Jonathan Miller
2021-03-25 • 36min
Anthony Fauci On What We Need To Get Over COVID-19
2021-03-08 • 28min
The Ethics of COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution, with Laurie Zoloth
2021-02-25 • 32min
The Doomsday Clock’s ‘Historic Wake-Up Call,’ With Rachel Bronson
2021-02-11 • 34min
Unraveling the Mystery of Life’s Origins on Earth, with Jack Szostak
2021-01-28 • 21min
The Urgent Need to Reinvest in American Research, with Barbara Snyder
2021-01-14 • 26min
Getting Out Of The Lab With John List
2020-12-22 • 27min
How Alternate Reality Games Are Changing The Real World with Patrick Jagoda and Kristen Schilt
2020-12-10 • 32min
The Science of Empathy, with Peggy Mason
2020-11-25 • 20min
Big Brains Presents: The "Capitalisn't" Podcast
2020-11-20 • 47min
What Remains Unanswered After The 2020 Election, with William Howell and Luigi Zingales
2020-11-11 • 34min
When Governments Share Their Secrets—And When They Don't, with Austin Carson
2020-10-29 • 28min
How We Can Fix a Fractured Supreme Court, with Geoffrey Stone
2020-10-15 • 25min