Big Brains

174 Episodes

1. Why Are More Women Saying No To Having Kids?

   Published: 9/5/2024
2. How Homeownership Shaped Race In America, with Adrienne Brown

   Published: 8/22/2024
3. Fighting Back Against AI Piracy, with Ben Zhao and Heather Zheng

   Published: 8/8/2024
4. The Bioelectric Future of Regenerative Medicine

   Published: 7/25/2024
5. Is Mindfulness The Secret To Health?

   Published: 7/11/2024
6. Feeling Stuck? Here’s How To Achieve a Breakthrough, with Adam Alter

   Published: 6/27/2024
7. What Makes Something Memorable (or Forgettable?) with Wilma Bainbridge

   Published: 6/13/2024
8. Learning To Speak To Whales Using AI, with David Gruber

   Published: 5/30/2024
9. Storm Warning: Why Hurricanes Are Growing Beyond Measure, with Michael Wehner

   Published: 5/16/2024
10. How To Manifest Your Future Using Neuroscience, with James Doty

    Published: 5/2/2024
11. Why We Die—And How We Can Live Longer, with Nobel Laureate Venki Ramakrishnan

    Published: 4/18/2024
12. What Dogs Are Teaching Us About Aging, with Daniel Promislow

    Published: 4/4/2024
13. Where Has Alzheimer’s Research Gone Wrong? with Karl Herrup

    Published: 3/21/2024
14. Why Breeding Millions of Mosquitoes Could Help Save Lives

    Published: 3/7/2024
15. Why Shaming Other Countries Often Backfires, with Rochelle Terman

    Published: 2/22/2024
16. Can Trump Legally Be President?, with William Baude

    Published: 2/6/2024
17. What Our Hand Gestures Reveal About Our Thoughts, with Susan Goldin-Meadow

    Published: 1/25/2024
18. Psychedelics Without Hallucinations: A New Mental Health Treatment? with David E. Olson

    Published: 1/11/2024
19. The Science Of Happiness

    Published: 12/28/2023
20. Do We Really Have Free Will? With Robert Sapolsky

    Published: 12/14/2023