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Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda — 439 episodes · page 1 of 5

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Joy Behar: Her third act

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Kelly McGonigal: Why joy is so joyful

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Patrick McEnroe: Calling the shots

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Dame Sue Black: Science on trial

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Antonio Damasio: Consciousness starts in a surprising place

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Lisa Margulis: Music shares our daydreams

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Joanna Stern: A year living with bots

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Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda: Season 35 Trailer

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Yael Schonbrun: It’s not what you say…

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Tom Levenson: Anti-vaxxers are living in the past

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Nicholas Epley: Talking to strangers

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Lisa Genova: She lets us into their worlds

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Matt Kaplan: They were right after all

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Roxanne Khamsi: You are mutating – and that’s (mostly) a good thing

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Lawrence O’Donnell: Inventing Arnie Vinick

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Walter Isaacson: Are these truths still self-evident?

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Kate Bowler: Joy is surprising

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Dhruv Khullar: The doctor has stories

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Chris Duffy: How laughter connects us

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Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda: Season 34 Trailer

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Roger Rosenblatt: Aging well

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Sonja Lyubomirsky: Lost that loving feeling?

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Julia Minson: Disagreeing agreeably

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Ina Garten: Cooking to connect

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Jon LaPook: Empathic medicine

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Valerie Fridland: Yes, you have an accent

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David Haskell: When the world burst into bloom

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Michael Pollan: The mystery and marvel of consciousness

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Edda Fields-Black: The Harriet Tubman you didn’t know

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Gary Marcus: Is AI mostly hype?

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Shermin Kruse: When empathy becomes a strategy

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Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda: Season 33 Trailer

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Carol Burnett: A favorite conversation

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Adam Frank: Are there aliens out there? Probably. But UFOs – not so much

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David Baron: When Martians were real

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Rebecca Goldstein: Why it matters to matter

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Steve Ramirez: Forget about it

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Michael Shermer: Want to know the truth?

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Loretta Ross: Better than calling out? Calling in

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Marc Abrahams: Laugh… then Think

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Elena Hoicka: What makes a baby laugh?

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Marlo Thomas: That Girl who changed Television

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Morgan McSweeney aka Dr. Noc: Earning trust, delivering truths

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Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda: Season 32 Trailer

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Alex Pentland: Shared Wisdom

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Jelani Cobb: Journalism at a Crossroads

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The MASH Gang: How a Television Show Changed Us

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Michael J Fox: Looking Back with Attitude

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Bill McKibben: Tomorrow Will be Sunny

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Kate Marvel: Feeling For Our Planet

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Justin Evans: Data Heroes

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Melanie Kaplan: Travels With a Beagle

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Erica Chenoweth: A Better Way to Protest?

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Nicky Clayton: Why Crows Are “Feathered Apes”

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Steven Pinker: When You Know That I Know That You Know…

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Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda: Season 31 Trailer

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Leanne Guy: A New Eye on Space

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Michael Osterholm: Can We Stop The Big One?

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Herman Pontzer: Diversity: Humanity’s Superpower

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Stephen Hall: Snakes: Do they Deserve Our Dread?

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Kyra Davis Lurie: Reimagining Gatsby

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Robert Sapolsky: Why Do We Do That?

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Bob Odenkirk: Comedy? Action? Drama? Better Call Bob!

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Tara Roberts: Diving for Stories

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Roger Rosenblatt: Rules for Aging

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Tina Fey: The Return of The Four Seasons

67

If Robots Had a Podcast

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Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda: Season 30 Trailer

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Carly Anne York: Taking “Silly Science” Seriously

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Paul McCartney: Dreams, Dickens… and Oobleys

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Itzhak Perlman: Encore! Encore!

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Adam Kucharski: What’s True to You?

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Noah Wyle: Learning from The Pitt

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Mario Livio: Hello? Anybody Out There?

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Colman Domingo: Magnetic. Fearless. Unstoppable.

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Eric Topol: Live Longer, Better

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Sarah Bell: Alexa’s Ancestors

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Carl Zimmer: The Living Sky

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John Leguizamo: Meticulously Spontaneous

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Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda: Season 29 Trailer

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Bill Pullman: From a Stage Fall to Curtain Calls

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Alison Wood Brooks: Talking About Talk

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Kafui Dzirasa: An Electrical Path to Mental Health?

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Shannon Vallor: The AI Illusion

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Malcolm Gladwell: Tipping Points Old and New

86

Ann Patchett: Bel Canto Revisited

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Matt Strassler: What Are You Made Of?

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Julie Sedivy: How Language Shapes Us

89

Mala Murthy: From a Fly’s Brain to Yours

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Brenda Wineapple: When Evolution Was on Trial

91

Daniel Levitin: Music as Medicine

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Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda - Season 28 trailer

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Marcia Bjornerud: The Wisdom of Rocks

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Matt Abrahams: Off the Cuff and in the Zone

95

Dean-David Schillinger: The Power of Patients’ Stories

96

Kristin Andrews: Is that spider conscious?

97

John Pollack: The Surprising Power of Puns and Analogies

98

Jasmin Graham: She’s Down with Sharks

99

Craig Foster: Life Lessons from an Octopus

100

Joshua Greene: Games That Build Bridges