Big Brains

181 Episodes

1. Celebrating Our 100th Episode

   Published: 9/29/2022
2. The Science Of Speech & Identity With Katherine Kinzler

   Published: 9/22/2022
3. Life’s Mysterious Origins With Jack Szostak

   Published: 9/15/2022
4. The Afterlife Of Mass Incarceration With Reuben Jonathan Miller

   Published: 9/8/2022
5. The Imbalance In Our Society With Raghuram Rajan

   Published: 9/1/2022
6. Does Welfare Reduce Crime? With Manasi Deshpande

   Published: 8/18/2022
7. The Crucial Race To Build A Better Battery With Shirley Meng

   Published: 8/4/2022
8. Do Animals Dream? With David M. Peña-Guzmán

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    Published: 2/3/2022