Neurologist Jesse Mez joins us to talk about a new study of former NFL player’s brains and what the findings might mean for the future of football.
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How We Catch Feelings
Science journalist Lee Daniel Kravetz joins us to talk about why we sometimes mimic one another.
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What Siri Won’t Tell You
Brian Merchant joins us to talk about how arguably the 21st Century’s most significant piece of technology came to be.
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A Bug’s Life
David MacNeal joins us talk about the world’s bug-lovers – the people who study them and learn how we can benefit from their presence.
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Why Humans Imagine
Columbia College Chicago professor Stephen Asma joins us to talk about how creativity works in the brain – and about how we can visualize a reality that doesn’t yet exist.
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How Science Gets Women Wrong
Science journalist Angela Saini joins us to talk about how gender bias has clouded our understanding of women.
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What Makes Us Curious
Astrophysicist Mario Livio joins us to talk about our urge to know what we don’t and how our brains are wired to want to learn.
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Due For An Upgrade: Engineering A Better Human Body
Adam Piore joins us to talk about rethinking the limits of our existence, which he writes about in “The Body Builders: Inside the Science of the Engineered Human.”
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Everything But The Taste: How Other Senses Shape Our Love Of Food
Charles Spence, head of Oxford University’s Crossmodal Research Laboratory, joins us to talk about how our senses work together to create a memorable meal.
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Beauty, Evolution And Darwin’s Forgotten Book
Yale ornithologist Richard Prum joins us to talk about how various creatures have changed their physical appearances in order to attract a mate.
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Earth’s Extinctions: Past And Future
Peter Brannen joins us to talk about the common threads that run through Earth’s five mass extinctions – and about what they can tell us about our future.
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The Quest To Discover Where Babies Come From
Edward Dolnick joins us to talk about the often-times hilarious lengths early researchers went to in their search for the origins of life.
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