Big Brains
A podcast by University of Chicago Podcast Network - Thursdays

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190 Episodes
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The Secret Nazi Past and Billionaire Future of U.S. Space Innovation with Jordan Bimm
Published: 8/19/2021 -
How a Genetic Breakthrough Could Address Global Hunger
Published: 8/5/2021 -
Introducing: Entitled
Published: 7/29/2021 -
The Deadly Flaw In Our Judgment, With Cass Sunstein
Published: 7/15/2021 -
A Scientist’s Beef With The Meat Industry, With Impossible Foods’ Pat Brown
Published: 7/1/2021 -
A Surprising Economic Solution To Climate Change With Michael Greenstone
Published: 6/17/2021 -
Solving The Biggest Mysteries Of Our Universe, With Dan Hooper
Published: 6/3/2021 -
Why You’re Likely Paying An Unfair Share of Property Taxes, with Christopher Berry
Published: 5/20/2021 -
Taking Aliens Seriously, with Avi Loeb
Published: 5/6/2021 -
The ‘Five Horsemen of the Techpocalypse’ with Kara Swisher
Published: 4/22/2021 -
Fighting Poverty And Pandemics, with Nobel Economist Michael Kremer
Published: 4/8/2021 -
Why Life After Incarceration Is Just Another Prison, with Reuben Jonathan Miller
Published: 3/25/2021 -
Anthony Fauci On What We Need To Get Over COVID-19
Published: 3/8/2021 -
The Ethics of COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution, with Laurie Zoloth
Published: 2/25/2021 -
The Doomsday Clock’s ‘Historic Wake-Up Call,’ With Rachel Bronson
Published: 2/11/2021 -
Unraveling the Mystery of Life’s Origins on Earth, with Jack Szostak
Published: 1/28/2021 -
The Urgent Need to Reinvest in American Research, with Barbara Snyder
Published: 1/14/2021 -
Getting Out Of The Lab With John List
Published: 12/22/2020 -
How Alternate Reality Games Are Changing The Real World with Patrick Jagoda and Kristen Schilt
Published: 12/10/2020 -
The Science of Empathy, with Peggy Mason
Published: 11/25/2020
Big Brains explores the groundbreaking research and discoveries that are changing our world. In each episode, we talk to leading experts and unpack their work in straightforward terms. Interesting conversations that cover a gamut of topics from how music affects our brains to what happens after we die.