Larry Sherman is professor of neuroscience at the Oregon Health and Science University, and he joins us to talk about how music works in the brain and how it affects our emotions.
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Why does a potato chip have 20 ingredients?
Dr. Chris van Tulleken discusses ultra-processed foods and how their manufacturers create products designed for profit over people.
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Do animals have inner lives?
Science journalist Sonia Shah joins host Krys Boyd to discuss what it means now that researchers are discovering that animals communicate in languages, too, and the moral dilemmas that is bringing up for biologists.
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Is online privacy even possible?
Atlantic staff writer Charlie Warzel joins host Krys Boyd to discuss the vast and unregulated systems set up to capture our data, and why even stricter data capture policies in the E.U. won’t help repair breaches of our privacy.
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How to fight fake news with science
Ben Rein, a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University and a prolific science communicator, joins host Krys Boyd to set the record straight on some well-established scientific myths and misconceptions.
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People with disabilities don’t need fixing – the world does
Ashley Shew, an associate professor of science, technology, and society at Virginia Tech, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss why the world needs to better adapt to the needs of people with disabilities, not the other way around.
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A standing desk is not enough
Manoush Zomorodi, host of NPR’s TED Radio Hour, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss the tools we can use to offset the harms screens and sitting are doing to our health.
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We don’t talk enough about phosphorous
Brown University professor Stephen Porder joins host Krys Boyd to discuss hydrogen, oxygen, carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus and how these building blocks of life affect the climate.
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Earth has warmed and cooled before. So what’s different now?
University of Pennsylvania professor Michael Mann joins host Krys Boyd to discuss the precarity of human evolution and how previous changes in temperatures have affected life on the planet.
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How to sharpen your five senses
Author Maureen Seaberg joins host Krys Boyd to discuss the science of the senses.
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Should presidents be our lone nuclear decision makers?
Science writer Sarah Scoles joins host Krys Boyd to discuss how psychologists want to study what factors into that high-stakes thinking.
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If aliens visited, would we even know?
Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb joins host Krys Boyd to discuss identifying and having contact with an extraterrestrial and the implications it would have for humankind.
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