The shaman, the witch, and the folktale
Welcome back all! Today's episode is a conversation with Dr. Manvir Singh. Manvir recently finished his PhD in Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University, and will soon begin a postdoctoral fell...
15 Juli 20201h 21min
WEIRD: Adventures of an acronym
Welcome to our 10th episode! Today's show is another in our 'mini minds' series. We've been experimenting with different formats for our minis, as you may have noticed, but today we've got another in ...
1 Juli 202012min
How do chimps communicate?
Welcome back everyone! My guest on today's show is Dr. Cat Hobaiter. Cat is a Lecturer at the University of St Andrews, where she's part of research unit called the Centre for Social Learning and Cog...
17 Juni 20201h 31min
A mini minds with many voices
A warm welcome back! On this "mini minds" installment, we tried something a little different. We reached out to former participants in the Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute (DISI)—including grad ...
3 Juni 202019min
Message to the stars
Greetings all—and a warm welcome back for another episode! Today's show is a conversation with Daniel Oberhaus. Daniel is a staff writer for Wired magazine and the author of the book Extraterrestrial ...
20 Maj 20201h 8min
Me, my umwelt, and I
Welcome to the sixth episode of Many Minds! Today we have another 'mini minds' for you. We'll be talking about umwelt theory—the idea that every species has its own self-world, its own private and pec...
6 Maj 202010min
Born to be cultured
Welcome back! Today's episode is a conversation with Cristine Legare. Cristine is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research focuses on how our mind...
22 Apr 20201h 18min
Artificial Olympians
Welcome to our next 'Mini Minds' installment! As I mentioned before, we're still figuring out what we want this format to be, so you can expect a bit of tinkering over the coming months. Our first min...
8 Apr 202019min
