Why Are More Women Saying No To Having Kids? With Peggy O'Donnell Heffington
More and more women in the United States are saying no to motherhood. Alarmingly, in 2023, the U.S. fertility rate reached the lowest number on record. But the idea of non-motherhood is actually not a...
5 Sep 202432min
How Homeownership Shaped Race In America, with Adrienne Brown
Race has played a huge role in the creation of mass homeownership in the United States. Discriminatory housing practices including redlining, exclusionary zoning and whitewashing led to great disparit...
22 Aug 202427min
Fighting Back Against AI Piracy, with Ben Zhao and Heather Zheng
If you’ve spent any time playing with modern AI image generators, it can seem like an almost magical experience; but the truth is these programs are more like a magic trick than magic. Without the hum...
8 Aug 202428min
The Bioelectric Future of Regenerative Medicine
In the near future, birth defects, traumatic injuries, limb loss and perhaps even cancer could be cured through bioelectricity—electrical signals that communicate to our cells how to rebuild themselve...
25 Juli 202428min
Is Mindfulness The Secret To Health?
Can you heal faster just by tricking your brain? Could you lose weight with only a change of mindset? Could you think yourself into being younger? If you think the answer to all these questions is no,...
11 Juli 202433min
Feeling Stuck? Here’s How To Achieve a Breakthrough, with Adam Alter
We've all been stuck at some point in our lives — whether we've been stuck at a job and wanting to make a career change, stuck in a location and wanting to move somewhere new, or stuck in relationship...
27 Juni 202433min
What Makes Something Memorable (or Forgettable?) with Wilma Bainbridge
There is a science to what we remember and what we don't. For instance, why do we remember certain pieces of artwork, some brands’ logos, or even people's faces? University of Chicago psychologist Wil...
13 Juni 202426min
Learning To Speak To Whales Using AI, with David Gruber
If aliens landed on Earth tomorrow, how would we talk with them? Well, we already have a kind of creature on this planet we could attempt to talk to first, and in the last few years a team of renowned...
30 Maj 202426min
