Big Brains

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174 Episodes

  1. Trump, Coronavirus and the Cost of Ineffective Government, With William Howell

    Published: 4/30/2020
  2. How Coronavirus Is Exposing Our Racial Disparities, with Monica Peek

    Published: 4/21/2020
  3. Coronavirus Shows Why We Need To Rethink Health Care, with Kate Baicker

    Published: 4/3/2020
  4. What Rats Can Teach Us About Empathy and Racism, with Peggy Mason

    Published: 3/10/2020
  5. Why the Coronavirus Could Send China’s Economy Back to the 1980s With Chang-Tai Hsieh

    Published: 2/25/2020
  6. Why The Doomsday Clock Is Closer To Apocalypse Than Ever With Rachel Bronson

    Published: 2/12/2020
  7. Vladimir Putin’s Number One Enemy With Bill Browder

    Published: 1/27/2020
  8. How Google and Facebook Are Ruining Capitalism, with Luigi Zingales

    Published: 1/13/2020
  9. How Quantum Technology Could Change Our Future With David Awschalom

    Published: 12/30/2019
  10. The Myths Of Millennial Voters With Cathy Cohen

    Published: 12/16/2019
  11. Why Some Nations Prosper and Others Fail, with James Robinson

    Published: 12/2/2019
  12. The Hunt for Alien Life and Exoplanets, with David Charbonneau

    Published: 11/18/2019
  13. Why Chasing The Good Life Is Holding Us Back With Lauren Berlant

    Published: 11/4/2019
  14. Saving Our Cities By Studying A Million Neighborhoods With Luis Bettencourt

    Published: 10/23/2019
  15. Why Talking to Strangers Will Make You Happier With Nicholas Epley

    Published: 10/7/2019
  16. Leading Presidential Scholar Analyzes Trump Impeachment

    Published: 9/27/2019
  17. The Politics of Archaeology In Iraq With Christopher Woods

    Published: 9/23/2019
  18. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg On Polarization, Discrimination and Her Favorite Dissent

    Published: 9/9/2019
  19. Why Your Social Life is a Matter of Life and Death with Linda Waite

    Published: 8/26/2019
  20. Revolutionizing Economics By Studying People In The Real World With John List

    Published: 8/12/2019

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Translating groundbreaking research into digestible brain food. Big Brains, little bites. Produced by the University of Chicago Podcast Network & Winner of CASE "Grand Gold" award in 2022, Gold award in 2021, and named Adweek's "Best Branded Podcast" in 2020.