Big Brains

190 Episodes

1. Is Mindfulness The Secret To Health?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

   Published: 3/21/2024
10. Why Breeding Millions of Mosquitoes Could Help Save Lives, With Scott O'Neill

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

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

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

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

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

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

    Published: 12/14/2023
17. A Radical Solution To Address Climate Change, with David Keith

    Published: 11/30/2023
18. How PFAS “Forever Chemicals” Are Harming Our Health, with Linda Birnbaum

    Published: 11/16/2023
19. Are We Worse People Than We Used To Be? With Adam Mastroianni

    Published: 11/2/2023
20. Freakonomics’ Steven Levitt On The Secret To Making Tough Choices

    Published: 10/19/2023