Zach Weinersmith talks about technology dreams that could one day become reality.
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Don’t Believe Everything You See
Franklin Foer joins us to talk about how manipulation of digital video is chipping away what we consider to be real.
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Close Encounters With Pluto
Alan Stern led the planning of the mission to Pluto for NASA, and he joins us to talk about the years of work that went into sending the New Horizon more than 3 billion miles from Earth.
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What Your Dog’s Really Thinking And Feeling
Evolutionary biologist Marc Bekoff joins us to talk about the curious habits of our four-legged friends.
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We Can’t See Them, But They’re Everywhere
Eugenia Bone studies microbes, and she joins us to talk about their outsized impact on our daily lives.
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How Bad Science Becomes Government Policy
David Randall joins us to talk about why many studies are filled with flaws – making them unable to be repeated – and about how that bad science is making its way into government policy.
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The Upside Of Change
Leonard Mlodinow joins us to talk about how we can train our brains to embrace change – and how we can nurture creativity.
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How Power Has Changed
Jeremy Heimans and Henry Timms join us to talk about how the internet has allowed power to change hands more easily.
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The Life Of An Astronaut
We’ll talk to astronauts Terry Virts, Scott Kelly and Buzz Aldrin about life in zero gravity, making a home on the International Space Station and how their lives changed when they returned to Earth.
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Evolution’s Next Step: A.I.
Pedro Domingos joins us to talk about the potential of an ultimate algorithm – one capable of teaching itself and possibly changing the world.
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From Us And Them To We
David Berreby joins us to talk about how scientists are studying the way tribalism works in the brain.
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Scrolling For Happiness
Washington University in St. Louis psychologist Tim Bono joins us to talk about how social media plays on our emotions.
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