Big Brains

174 Episodes

1. Do Animals Dream? With David M. Peña-Guzmán

   Published: 7/21/2022
2. Extreme Heat Waves: Why Are They Surging? with Noboru Nakamura

   Published: 7/7/2022
3. Why Air Pollution Is Cutting Years Off Our Lives, With Christa Hasenkopf And Anant Sudarshan

   Published: 6/23/2022
4. How Tax Dodging And Corporate Secrecy Found A Home In Delaware, With Hal Weitzman

   Published: 6/9/2022
5. Why Countries Choose War Over Peace, With Chris Blattman

   Published: 5/26/2022
6. How Death In America Is Changing With Shannon Lee Dawdy

   Published: 5/12/2022
7. Why We Need To Invest In Parents During A Child's Earliest Years, With Dana Suskind

   Published: 4/28/2022
8. The Troubling Rise Of Antibiotic-resistant Superbugs, With Christopher Murray

   Published: 4/14/2022
9. Is Scientific Progress Slowing? with James Evans

   Published: 3/31/2022
10. Could We Vaccinate Against Opioid Addiction? With Sandra Comer And Marco Pravetoni

    Published: 3/17/2022
11. The Man Who Fought To Sanction Putin And Russian Oligarchs, with Bill Browder

    Published: 3/2/2022
12. Why Big Ideas Fail To Scale—And How To Fix It With John List

    Published: 2/17/2022
13. Could Personalizing Laws Make Society More Just? With Omri Ben-Shahar

    Published: 2/3/2022
14. How To Stick To Your Resolutions, With Ayelet Fishbach

    Published: 1/20/2022
15. The Overlooked History Of Black Cinema, With Jacqueline Stewart

    Published: 1/6/2022
16. Engineering A Cure For Cancer With Melody Swartz & Jeffrey Hubbell

    Published: 12/23/2021
17. Confronting Gun Violence With Data, With Jens Ludwig

    Published: 12/9/2021
18. Best Of: Why Talking to Strangers Will Make You Happier With Nicholas Epley

    Published: 12/2/2021
19. Unlocking The Secrets Of Black Holes, With Andrea Ghez

    Published: 11/18/2021
20. Do Your Genes Determine Your Success In Life? With Kathryn Paige Harden

    Published: 11/4/2021