Claudia Kalb joins us to talk about how Einstein, Michelangelo and others harnessed their creativity, perseverance and other traits to become the towering minds of their times.
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Why DNA Is Not Destiny
Steven Heine joins us to talk about why some of us put entirely too much stock into what genetic testing reveals.
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The Cost Of Sloppy Science
Science journalist Richard Harris joins us to talk about the money lost from ill-conceived medical experiments.
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The Science Of Learning
Ulrich Boser joins us to talk about new research into the science of learning.
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The Future Of Human Evolution
DT Max joins us to talk about how we handle our continued growth now that we’re smart enough to play a hand in it.
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The Gene Machine
Bonnie Rochman joins us to talk about the many ethical questions that arise from the knowledge gained by pre-birth testing.
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How Darwinism Changed America
Randall Fuller joins us to talk about how Charles Darwin’s “On the Origin of Species” argument for a common ancestry for all creatures was used as a potent argument against slavery.
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The Science Behind Living Longer
Nobel Prize winner Elizabeth Blackburn joins us to talk about how telomeres contribute to how we age, the subject of her book “The Telomere Effect: A Revolutionary Approach to Living Younger, Healthier, Longer.”
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How Retailers Track Us
University of Pennsylvania professor Joseph Turow joins us to talk about how companies monitor our purchases in order to get a better picture of our wants and needs.
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What We Know About Animals
Some of our favorite animal experts join us to talk about what we actually know about how animals think and feel – and about the relationship between animals and humans.
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The Expanding Universe
Yale University professor of astronomy and physics Priyamvada Nataraja joins us to talk about current scientific thinking about our ever-expanding universe.
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What Our DNA Says About Us
Alondra Nelson,the dean of social science at Columbia University, joins us to talk about the relationship between contemporary racial issues and DNA.
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