Big Brains

A podcast by University of Chicago Podcast Network - Thursdays

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190 Episodes

  1. The Secret Nazi Past and Billionaire Future of U.S. Space Innovation with Jordan Bimm

    Published: 8/19/2021
  2. How a Genetic Breakthrough Could Address Global Hunger

    Published: 8/5/2021
  3. Introducing: Entitled

    Published: 7/29/2021
  4. The Deadly Flaw In Our Judgment, With Cass Sunstein

    Published: 7/15/2021
  5. A Scientist’s Beef With The Meat Industry, With Impossible Foods’ Pat Brown

    Published: 7/1/2021
  6. A Surprising Economic Solution To Climate Change With Michael Greenstone

    Published: 6/17/2021
  7. Solving The Biggest Mysteries Of Our Universe, With Dan Hooper

    Published: 6/3/2021
  8. Why You’re Likely Paying An Unfair Share of Property Taxes, with Christopher Berry

    Published: 5/20/2021
  9. Taking Aliens Seriously, with Avi Loeb

    Published: 5/6/2021
  10. The ‘Five Horsemen of the Techpocalypse’ with Kara Swisher

    Published: 4/22/2021
  11. Fighting Poverty And Pandemics, with Nobel Economist Michael Kremer

    Published: 4/8/2021
  12. Why Life After Incarceration Is Just Another Prison, with Reuben Jonathan Miller

    Published: 3/25/2021
  13. Anthony Fauci On What We Need To Get Over COVID-19

    Published: 3/8/2021
  14. The Ethics of COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution, with Laurie Zoloth

    Published: 2/25/2021
  15. The Doomsday Clock’s ‘Historic Wake-Up Call,’ With Rachel Bronson

    Published: 2/11/2021
  16. Unraveling the Mystery of Life’s Origins on Earth, with Jack Szostak

    Published: 1/28/2021
  17. The Urgent Need to Reinvest in American Research, with Barbara Snyder

    Published: 1/14/2021
  18. Getting Out Of The Lab With John List

    Published: 12/22/2020
  19. How Alternate Reality Games Are Changing The Real World with Patrick Jagoda and Kristen Schilt

    Published: 12/10/2020
  20. The Science of Empathy, with Peggy Mason

    Published: 11/25/2020

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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.