Inquiring Minds

456 Episodes

1. Up To Date | Why Elon Musk’s Neuralink could fail; and the worrying relationship between bad sleep and Alzheimer's disease

   Published: 9/8/2020
2. Why you talk the way you do, and what it says about you

   Published: 9/1/2020
3. How fraud, bias, negligence, and hype undermine the search for truth

   Published: 8/17/2020
4. Why things spread and why they stop

   Published: 8/6/2020
5. Up To Date | Mosquitoes, robots, pupils, beavers, and Earth’s crust

   Published: 7/28/2020
6. A Story about Forests, People, and the Future

   Published: 7/23/2020
7. From the slave trade to climate change—why corporations defend the indefensible

   Published: 7/16/2020
8. The Language of Butterflies

   Published: 7/8/2020
9. Up To Date | The Drake equation 2.0; Nanotech yeast; Why are plants green?; Wasp boxing

   Published: 6/30/2020
10. Where educators go wrong

    Published: 6/23/2020
11. The history of structural racism in medicine

    Published: 6/16/2020
12. How Humans and Matter Transformed One Another

    Published: 6/9/2020
13. Galileo’s fight is still relevant today

    Published: 6/2/2020
14. A History of the Afterlife

    Published: 5/26/2020
15. A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life

    Published: 5/6/2020
16. The behavioral economics of baseball

    Published: 4/25/2020
17. Up To Date | Plastic-eating enzymes; 5,000-year-old egg decorating; why you still can’t buy love; and the neural basis of creativity

    Published: 4/14/2020
18. Divergent Mind: Thriving in a World That Wasn't Designed for You

    Published: 4/7/2020
19. Revisiting the Dunning-Kruger Effect with David Dunning

    Published: 3/31/2020
20. How the internet is changing the English language

    Published: 3/24/2020