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

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190 Episodes
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Why the Coronavirus Could Send China’s Economy Back to the 1980s With Chang-Tai Hsieh
Published: 2/25/2020 -
Why The Doomsday Clock Is Closer To Apocalypse Than Ever With Rachel Bronson
Published: 2/12/2020 -
Vladimir Putin’s Number One Enemy With Bill Browder
Published: 1/27/2020 -
How Google and Facebook Are Ruining Capitalism, with Luigi Zingales
Published: 1/13/2020 -
How Quantum Technology Could Change Our Future With David Awschalom
Published: 12/30/2019 -
The Myths Of Millennial Voters With Cathy Cohen
Published: 12/16/2019 -
Why Some Nations Prosper and Others Fail, with James Robinson
Published: 12/2/2019 -
The Hunt for Alien Life and Exoplanets, with David Charbonneau
Published: 11/18/2019 -
Why Chasing The Good Life Is Holding Us Back With Lauren Berlant
Published: 11/4/2019 -
Saving Our Cities By Studying A Million Neighborhoods With Luis Bettencourt
Published: 10/23/2019 -
Why Talking to Strangers Will Make You Happier With Nicholas Epley
Published: 10/7/2019 -
Leading Presidential Scholar Analyzes Trump Impeachment
Published: 9/27/2019 -
The Politics of Archaeology In Iraq With Christopher Woods
Published: 9/23/2019 -
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg On Polarization, Discrimination and Her Favorite Dissent
Published: 9/9/2019 -
Why Your Social Life is a Matter of Life and Death with Linda Waite
Published: 8/26/2019 -
Revolutionizing Economics By Studying People In The Real World With John List
Published: 8/12/2019 -
The Unknown History Of The White Power Movement With Kathleen Belew
Published: 7/29/2019 -
The Missing Link In Evolution with Neil Shubin
Published: 7/15/2019 -
Guest Show - No Jargon
Published: 7/1/2019 -
Trump and the Changing Power of the Presidency with William Howell
Published: 6/17/2019
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.