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Inquiring Minds — 461 episodes

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Unlocking the Mysteries of the Social Brain with Dr. Bruce Miller

2

Doctored: Fraud, Arrogance, and Tragedy in the Quest to Cure Alzheimer's with Charles Piller

3

Outraged: Why We Fight About Morality and Politics and How to Find Common Ground with Kurt Gray

4

The Purpose Code: How To Unlock Meaning, Maximize Happiness, and Leave A Lasting Legacy with Jordan Grumet

5

Journey to 2125: One Century, One Family, Rising to Challenges with Gary F. Bengier

6

Power Metal: The Race for the Resources That Will Shape the Future with Vince Beiser

7

Thrive: Maximizing Well-Being in the Age of AI with Ravi Bapna

8

Living on Earth: Forests, Corals, Consciousness, and the Making of the World with Peter Godfrey-Smith

9

Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves with Nicola Twilley

10

The Most Delicious Poison with Noah Whiteman

11

Revealing the Secrets of Supercommunicators with Charles Duhigg

12

“The Good Stuff” about Quanta and Fields with Sean Carroll

13

Understanding and Expanding Consciousness with Dr. Christof Koch

14

Are Flukes Actually the Norm?

15

Capitalizing on The Neurodiversity Edge with Maureen Dunne

16

Making the Mundane Magic with Dan Winters

17

Why We Die with Venki Ramakrishnan

18

“X”-amining the Battle for the Bird with Kurt Wagner

19

Revealing Why We Remember with Charan Ranganath

20

Don’t Panic, but Robert Sapolsky Says There’s No Free Will

21

The Science of Allergies and Why We Have Them

22

Why It’s Important to Know What’s Actually in Your Clothes

23

How You Could Have Survived History’s Disasters

24

How to Stop Your Brain from Falling for Lies

25

How Society Created “You”

26

The Science of Silo with Hugh Howey

27

Improbable Experiments That Changed the World

28

The Perilous Combination of Brain Wave Data and Generative AI

29

Everything you need to know about that fusion breakthrough

30

Art can make you live longer

31

Plants have been listening to us this whole time

32

How is it possible that we can’t yet explain consciousness?

33

The Science of Why You Fall in Love With Music

34

The Powerful Ways Secrets Shape Your Life

35

The Psychology of Getting Conned

36

Understanding the Biggest Ideas in the Universe Without Being a Physicist

37

The Overlooked Gifts of Visual Thinkers with Temple Grandin

38

Up to Date | Nanoparticle toothbrushes and a promising Alzheimer's drug

39

These Numbers Explain the Nature of Reality

40

The Science of How Your Dog’s Brain Works

41

The Neuroscience of What Makes You You

42

What do animals dream about?

43

The Science of Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion

44

The language of food, science, and critical thinking with J. Kenji López-Alt

45

Derek Gow Is Turning His Farm Into an Ark for Lost Species

46

Wild but Delicate: What Hawks Can Teach Us About Nature, Life, and Love

47

Can Fish Count? What Animals Reveal About Our Uniquely Mathematical Minds

48

The Science of Creativity and How It Can Help You

49

The Misunderstood Nature of Pain with Haider Warraich

50

The Untold Story of the Neuron with Benjamin Ehrlich

51

Up to Date | Cell Adaptation, Creativity Measurement, and Visual Perception

52

How to Make Use of Our Limited Time in This Tiny Part of Space with Sean Carroll

53

Why You Can’t Know What It’s Like for a Bat to Be a Bat with Jackie Higgins

54

Exploring the Extended Mind with Annie Murphy Paul

55

Space Rocks, Star Stuff, and Tom Selleck's Mustache with Greg Brennecka

56

Defining and Treating Addiction with Carl Erik Fisher

57

2021 Wrap-Up

58

The Evolution of Life and the ‘Dead Species Walking’ with Henry Gee

59

Sizing Up the Notion of Tailoring Your Brain with Emily Willingham

60

Updates from the Past and the Future

61

Inside the Race to the Coronavirus Vaccine with Brendan Borrell

62

Moving Your Way Through Cancer with Dr. Kathryn Schmitz

63

Making Sense of Self with Anil Seth

64

Up to Date | From the Microscopic to the Astronomic

65

A Matter of Life, Death, or Maybe Somewhere in Between with John and Lois Crowe

66

The Sound Mind with Nina Kraus

67

Managing Our Criminal Nature with Mary Roach

68

Unwrapping the Gifts of Good Anxiety with Wendy Suzuki

69

Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science with Sam Kean

70

Investigating The Memory Thief with Lauren Aguirre

71

How to Raise Kids Who Aren’t Assholes with Melinda Wenner Moyer

72

Up to Date | Social Parrots; Empathetic Rodents; Microbiome Analyses

73

Opening Up the World of Quarantine with Nicola Twilley

74

Building Up Your Mental Health Immunity with Andy Norman

75

Generating the Element of Harmonic Surprise with David Rosen

76

Thinking about Thinking about Yourself with Iris Berent

77

The Hidden Geometry of Information and Everything Else with Jordan Ellenberg

78

‘The Untapped Science of Less’ with Leidy Klotz

79

Mom Genes: Abigail Tucker on the Science of Motherhood

80

Andy Weir’s Project Hail Mary

81

The future artificial intelligence may lead to

82

What is the future of human work?

83

A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence

84

Where did artificial intelligence come from?

85

Up To Date | Aliens didn’t make Oumuamua, aphantasia, and baseball beer research

86

What does it mean to be alive?

87

Literature may be the most powerful technology we’ve invented

88

Why almost everything we’ve been told about food is wrong

89

Up To Date | Paleogenetics, naps, and shocking your brain into remembering better

90

A behavioral scientist explains dating

91

The science behind your voice

92

We need to rethink toilets

93

Up To Date | A look back at 2020, and what’s next for the podcast

94

Five ways the universe might die

95

The Surprising Story of Medieval Science

96

The Quest for the Oldest Skeleton

97

You’re full of bones. How do they work?

98

Thinking isn’t your brain’s most important job

99

Up To Date | Moon water implications and new research on why you understand words

100

Feed Drop: Cadence S3E1: The Music of Politics

101

Tesla, the man

102

Up To Date | Autumn fires and climate change; plastic bottle eating enzymes; singing blue whales

103

As the World Burns: The New Generation of Activists

104

Telling the story of climate change with music

105

The ways in which our bodies don’t match how the world has been built

106

Up To Date | Why Elon Musk’s Neuralink could fail; and the worrying relationship between bad sleep and Alzheimer's disease

107

Why you talk the way you do, and what it says about you

108

How fraud, bias, negligence, and hype undermine the search for truth

109

Why things spread and why they stop

110

Up To Date | Mosquitoes, robots, pupils, beavers, and Earth’s crust

111

A Story about Forests, People, and the Future

112

From the slave trade to climate change—why corporations defend the indefensible

113

The Language of Butterflies

114

Up To Date | The Drake equation 2.0; Nanotech yeast; Why are plants green?; Wasp boxing

115

Where educators go wrong

116

The history of structural racism in medicine

117

How Humans and Matter Transformed One Another

118

Galileo’s fight is still relevant today

119

A History of the Afterlife

120

A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life

121

The behavioral economics of baseball

122

Up To Date | Plastic-eating enzymes; 5,000-year-old egg decorating; why you still can’t buy love; and the neural basis of creativity

123

Divergent Mind: Thriving in a World That Wasn't Designed for You

124

Revisiting the Dunning-Kruger Effect with David Dunning

125

How the internet is changing the English language

126

The science of streaks and the hot hand

127

The neuroscience of how we learn

128

A Totally Fictional but Essentially True Silicon Valley Story

129

Up To Date | Ancient Dates; Mummy Voices; Mouse Memories

130

The Poison Squad

131

The Hidden World of the Fox

132

We need a better, more democratic internet

133

2019 Year End Wrap-Up

134

We might be approaching the study of cancer all wrong

135

Life and Breath in the Age of Air Pollution

136

The Blockchain and the Future of Everything

137

The Four-Billion-Year Story of How We Got Conscious Brains

138

How Language Shapes Thought

139

The History, Science, and Future of Heart Disease

140

The Life and Afterlife of Harry Houdini

141

Silicon Valley: A Satire

142

Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime

143

The Science of Behavior-Altering Parasites

144

Why We Need Insects

145

Kishore’s Send-Off!

146

Why Smart People Make Dumb Mistakes

147

Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

148

Sharks: The Ocean's Most Mysterious, Most Misunderstood, and Most Important Guardians

149

A Brief Guide to the Fundamental Mystery of the Mind

150

The American Automobile: Past, Present, and Driverless

151

Neal Stephenson - Fall; or, Dodge in Hell

152

In Pain: A Bioethicist’s Personal Struggle with Opioids

153

Up To Date | Singing Mice; Six Fingered Hands; Dolphin Cliques

154

The Age of Living Machines

155

A Life in Math and Football

156

The State of the Art in Alzheimer's Research

157

BONUS: Introducing Science Rules! with Bill Nye

158

Salty Erotica of the Deep

159

Up To Date | Bioprinting a Liver; Tasting with Genes; Stopping the World’s Worst Venom

160

Completing the Darwinian Revolution

161

How Cats Tamed Us and Took Over the World

162

How Music Can Make You Better

163

Up To Date | Neurogenesis; Predicting Death with AI; Rethinking Nose Jobs

164

A Cultural History of Humanity's Search for Meaning

165

The Strange Science of Recovery

166

The Extraordinary New Science of the Immune System

167

Up To Date | Bug census, global warming, young blood, microwaving grapes

168

2018’s Best Science Movies (and TV)

169

Oculus, Facebook, and the Revolution That Swept Virtual Reality

170

Up To Date | Polar Vortex Science, Brainwaves to Speech, Blowing Up the Brain

171

Why We Fall for It Every Time

172

The Science of How Art Works

173

The Science of Perfect Timing

174

Up To Date | New Horizons Finds BB-8; Defining Death; Differential Privacy

175

The Neuroscience of Prejudice

176

Up To Date | Top 10 Science Stories of 2018

177

Lessons from the Edge of the Universe

178

Up To Date | Hummingbird Divebombs; Collapsing Ice Sheets

179

The Laws of Human Nature

180

Up To Date | Talking Viruses; Creativity Waves

181

She Has Her Mother's Laugh

182

Up To Date | Migration Myths and Negative Mass

183

Music as Medicine

184

Up To Date | Ants with backpacks; Neuron DNA affects Alzheimer's

185

A New History of a Lost World

186

A Radical New History of Life

187

Up To Date | A Polio-Like Virus and Genes Deciding Your University

188

What It’s like to Discover a Dinosaur

189

Up To Date | Smelling Stingrays and a 16 Billion Scoville Cactus

190

Life at the Extremes of Our Capacity

191

Up To Date | Election results, stealth moths, and a retired kilogram

192

The Beauty and Utility of Maps: A Cartographic Odyssey

193

Up To Date | The Definitive Field Guide to Filthy Animal Facts

194

What Real-Life Zombies Reveal About Our World

195

Up To Date | Doubling worm lifespans; the recent failed Soyuz launch

196

The Remarkable History of Surgery

197

Up To Date | Nobel Prizes and Electrical Nerve Regeneration

198

Being Human in the Age of Algorithms

199

China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order

200

Steven Pinker: Enlightenment Now

201

The Coyote Story

202

Up To Date | Do Apple's Health Claims Check Out?

203

How Sloppy Science Creates Worthless Cures, Crushes Hope, and Wastes Billions

204

How Intuition and Reason Divide Our Politics

205

Up To Date | Attention Is an Illusion; Ant Highways

206

A Pianist Rebuilds Her Brain

207

Up To Date | Monsanto Cancer Case and Kids Believe Lying Robots

208

The Material That Will Revolutionize the World

209

Up To Date | Google Glass Lives! and Breaking Dog Urine News

210

Up To Date | How Plants Tell Time, Lab-Grown Pig Lungs, Stolen Fields Medal

211

The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers

212

Up To Date | A Lake on Mars, Dog Empathy, and TBI & the Military

213

Revisiting Flint: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope

214

Up To Date | GMO Acceptance, Elle Macpherson, and Friendly Fish

215

How Neuroscience Is Redefining Athletic Genius

216

Up To Date - Killing Cancer Cells and Exploring the Sunk Cost Fallacy (In Rats)

217

Nikola Tesla: Inventor of the Modern

218

Up To Date | Air Pollution and Diabetes, Large Scale Microbiome Studies, and Why Driving Makes You Sleepy

219

Aroused: The History of Hormones

220

Up To Date | Longevity Pioneers, Leaky Methane, and Predicting Earthquakes

221

Motherhood in the Animal Kingdom

222

Up To Date | Mind Controlling Robots, Viral Alzheimer's Link, and Remembering Koko

223

Intelligent Machines Are Changing Everything

224

Virtual Reality Is Changing Human Connection

225

Up To Date | Don’t Eat Clay, Do Eat Dark Chocolate

226

The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity

227

Up To Date | Where Happiness Comes From, and Why

228

Why We're Addicted to Screens

229

Inside the Epic First Mission to Pluto

230

Up To Date | Snail Memory Transplants, Eyes In The Back Of Your Head, and Treating Epilepsy with CBD

231

The Rise and Fall of the Cephalopods

232

Up To Date | Pre-pregnancy Genome Sequencing, Mass Prescribing Antibiotics, and the Trolley Problem

233

The Rise of Deep Brain Stimulation and Its Forgotten Inventor

234

Up To Date | Genetically Editing Fat Tissue, A Turing Test For Water, and Another Mars Lander

235

Losing the Nobel Prize

236

Up To Date | Anonymous Study Subjects, Genetically Engineered Livestock, and Asteroids Delivering Water

237

How We Evolved to Have Free Will

238

Up To Date | Night Owl Death, Space Launches, and Viagra’s Greater Purpose

239

Creating Empathy With Immersive Virtual Reality

240

Up-To-Date | Does It Fart?: The Definitive Field Guide to Animal Flatulence

241

The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics

242

Up-To-Date | James Webb, Shrimp, and Chilled-Out Monkeys

243

The Neuroscience of How We Think

244

Jellyfish Science

245

The Politics of Rainforests

246

What We Really Know About Gun Violence

247

100% Renewable Energy by 2050

248

The Broad Potential of Psychoactive Drugs

249

The Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance

250

It's Time to Rethink Ocean Conservation

251

Science Got Women Wrong

252

A Volcano Scientist Runs for Congress

253

Mapping Human Brains

254

Losing Genes but Gaining Music | [BONUS EP] Cadence | S02 Episode 01

255

How One Emotion Connects Altruists and Psychopaths

256

Lessons in Investigating Death

257

Lost Einsteins: Left Behind by the Innovation Economy

258

Getting Politicians to Talk About Science

259

Black Hole Blues

260

Why Dinosaurs Matter

261

What's Going on in the Brain of a Fetus?

262

How Science Built One of the Greatest Basketball Teams in History

263

A Paid Climate Change Skeptic Switches Sides

264

Ten Emerging Technologies That'll Improve and/or Ruin Everything

265

A Psychiatrist Analyzes the Age of Trump

266

Molecules From Caesar's Last Breath Are Inside You

267

Where the Animals Go: Tracking Wildlife with Technology

268

Why Buddhism is True

269

The Psychology of Hate

270

Jonathan Lynn on Why US Healthcare Is Worthy of Ridicule

271

The Great American Solar Eclipse

272

The Science of Game of Thrones

273

Why Are We Curious?

274

We've Got to Start Eating Insects

275

186 Jason Silva - Origins: The Journey of Humankind

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185 Jennifer Latson - A True Story of Pathological Friendliness

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184 Zeynep Tufekci - Twitter and Tear Gas

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183 Dean Buonomano - The Neuroscience and Physics of Time

279

182 Ty Tashiro - The Science of Being Awkward

280

181 Mike Drucker - How to Write Science Into Comedy

281

180 The Unique Challenge of Being a Woman in Engineering [Collaboration with Cited]

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179 The Leaky Pipeline of Women in Science [Collaboration with Cited]

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178 Teresa Zimmers - The Murky Science of Lethal Injection

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177 Bill Nye - Let’s Change the World

285

176 Paul Doherty - The Actual Science Behind Outlandish Deaths

286

175 Sharon Begley - Can't Just Stop: An Investigation of Compulsions

287

174 James Beacham - The Exciting World of Particle Hunters

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[BONUS EP] Cadence | Episode 01: What Is Music?

289

173 Mary Roach - Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal

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172 Dan Ariely - The Surprising Science of What Motivates Us

291

171 Siddhartha Roy - The Science Behind the Flint Water Crisis

292

170 Steven Hatch - Inferno: A Doctor's Ebola Story

293

169 Daniel Levitin - The Emerging Epidemic of the Silent Home

294

168 Alison Van Eenennaam - Gene Editing Livestock

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167 Haider Warraich - Modern Death: How Medicine Changed the End of Life

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166 Alan Burdick - Why Time Flies: A Mostly Scientific Investigation

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165 Nate Allen - Why Science Is Huge on Reddit

298

164 Alexandra Wolfe - Valley of the Gods: A Silicon Valley Story

299

163 Dave Levitan - The Return Of "I'm Not a Scientist”

300

162 Paul Bloom - Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion

301

161 Patrick Wolff - How to Become a Grandmaster Chess Champion

302

160 Helen Czerski - The Little Bits of Physics in Everyday Life

303

159 David Grinspoon - Earth in Human Hands: Shaping Our Planet's Future

304

158 Lee van der Voo - The Fish Market: Inside the Big-Money Battle for the Ocean and Your Dinner Plate

305

157 Erik Vance - The Curious Science of Your Brain's Ability to Deceive, Transform, and Heal

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156 Heather Hill - Taking a Second Look at SeaWorld

307

155 Chris and Evan Hadfield - An Astronaut Explores the Arctic

308

154 Changing Political Minds - The Deep Story With Arlie Hochschild and Reckonings

309

153 Merlin Tuttle - The Secret Lives of Bats

310

152 Abigail Tucker - How House Cats Tamed Us and Took Over the World

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151 Irva Hertz-Picciotto - Should We Worry More About Toxic Environmental Chemicals?

312

150 Stuart Firestein - Why Science Needs to Fail

313

149 Sarah Ballard / Jackie Speier - The Appalling Reality of Harassment in Science

314

148 Judith Schwartz - Hope for a Thirsty World

315

147 Dave Levitan - How Politicians Mangle Science

316

146 John Hargrove - Taking on SeaWorld

317

145 Carin Bondar - Wild Sex

318

144 Ed Yong - I Contain Multitudes

319

143 The Stories That Collection Museums Hold

320

142 Hank Greely - The End of Sex

321

141 Marek Glezerman - The Science of Gender Medicine

322

140 Janna Levin - This Is the Sound of Two Black Holes Colliding

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139 Peter Willcox - Adventures in Protecting the Future of Our Planet

324

138 Mary Roach - The Curious Science of Humans at War

325

137 Jonah Berger - The Hidden Forces That Shape Behavior

326

136 Siddhartha Mukherjee - An Intimate History of the Gene

327

135 Sean Carroll - Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself

328

134 Anders Ericsson - How to Do Everything Better

329

133 Ben Beard - How Global Warming Is Making Some Diseases Even Scarier

330

132 Hope Jahren - The Joy and Otherness of Trees

331

131 Josh Willis - Greenland Is Melting!

332

130 Bill Nye - Fighting Climate Denial

333

129 Greg Marcus - Understanding Heart Disease With Big Data

334

128 Sy Montgomery - The Soul of an Octopus

335

127 Carl Zimmer - The Mysterious World of Viruses

336

126 Maria Konnikova - The Science of Why We Fall for Cons

337

125 Anthony James - How Deadly Are Mosquitoes?

338

124 Joanne Ruthsatz & Kimberly Stephens - Is There a Link Between Prodigy and Autism?

339

123 J. Kenji López-Alt - Better Home Cooking Through Science

340

122 Nancy Krieger - Police Involved Killings Are Public Health Data

341

121 Marah Hardt - Sex in the Sea

342

120 Eric Weiner - The Geography of Genius

343

119 Kara Platoni - Hacking Human Perception

344

118 Kim Cobb - The Evolution of El Niño

345

117 Douglas Fields - The Science of Rage and Why We Snap

346

116 Indre and Kishore’s 2016 Science Predictions

347

115 Chris Ferguson - Violence in Video Games

348

114 Mark Schatzker - The Dorito Effect

349

113 Robert Sapolsky - Being Human

350

112 Ed Lu - The Real Threat of Asteroids

351

111 Steve Croft - The Feeding Habits of Supermassive Black Holes

352

110 Cady Coleman - Our Calling to Space

353

109 Dava Newman - The Future of Space Exploration

354

108 Adam Galinsky & Maurice Schweitzer - The Science of Sex, Power, and Competition

355

107 Ariel Waldman - Hacking Science

356

106 Brad Bushman - The Science of Gun Violence

357

105 Brad Voytek - We Neuroscientists Don't Really Know What Your Brain Is Doing

358

104 Justin Rubinstein - Humans Are Causing Earthquakes in Oklahoma

359

103 M. R. O'Connor - Resurrection Science and the Precarious Future of Wild Things

360

102 Beth Shapiro - The Science of De-Extinction

361

101 Lucky Yates - The Science of Archer

362

100 Steve Silberman - Remembering Oliver Sacks / The Legacy of Autism

363

99 Marc Lewis - Why Addiction Is Not a Disease

364

98 Fred Perlak - Inside the Mind of a Monsanto Scientist

365

97 Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis - How Music Plays the Mind

366

96 David Casarett - A Doctor's Case for Medical Marijuana

367

95 Wade Roush - How Disasters Affect Science

368

94 Michael Hiltzik - The Invention That Launched the Military-Industrial Complex

369

93 Alvin Roth - The New Economics of Who Gets What—and Why

370

92 Will Walker & Kevin Czinger - The Future of 3D Printing

371

91 Rachel Kalmar - The Power of Wearable Technology

372

90 Will Smith & Norman Chan - Understanding Virtual Reality

373

89 Eric Cheng - The Science Behind Drones

374

88 Alan Levinovitz - The Gluten Lie

375

87 Stephen Dubner - Freakonomics and the Danger of Certainty

376

86 Adam Rogers - The Science of Booze

377

85 James Krupa - Teaching Evolution in Kentucky

378

84 Ivan Oransky - The Fetishization of Scientific Papers

379

83 Traci Mann - The Science of Weight Loss

380

82 Alex Garland - The Science of Ex Machina

381

81 Sanjoy Mahajan - Street-Fighting Mathematics

382

80 Norman Doidge - How Plastic Is Your Brain?

383

79 Ken Caldeira - Can Geoengineering Save the Planet?

384

78 Bill Gifford - Can Science Keep You Young Forever?

385

77 Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo - Sugar Science

386

76 Jonathan Eisen - The Tiny World of Microbes Inside You

387

75 Kevin Kelly - What Technology Wants

388

74 Kathleen Hall Jamieson - Fact Checking Science

389

73 David J. Morris - The History and Science of PTSD

390

72 Andy Weir - The Science of The Martian

391

71 Ed Boyden - Blowing Up the Brain

392

70 Brian Fisher - The Real Ant-Man

393

69 Katie Mack - Dark Matter: Invisible, and Probably Flying through You Right Now

394

68 Matt Walker - Why Did We Evolve to Sleep?

395

67 Gabriele Oettingen - Rethinking Positive Thinking

396

66 Adam Savage - The Joy of Being a Maker

397

65 Matt Parker - Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension

398

64 Sharman Apt Russell - Chasing Tiger Beetles as a Citizen Scientist

399

63 Donald Johanson - Lucy's Legacy, 40 Years Later

400

62 Christine Kenneally - How DNA and History Shape Our Identities and Our Futures

401

61 George Church - Hacking Mosquitoes to Fight Malaria

402

60 Paul Bloom - Babies and the Origins of Good and Evil

403

59 David Grinspoon - The Science of Interstellar

404

58 Adam Savage - Live on Stage in San Francisco

405

57 William Gibson - The Future Will View Us as a Joke

406

56 Steven Johnson - Innovations That Made the Modern World

407

55 Daniel Levitin - The Organized Mind

408

54 Steven Pinker - The Science Behind Writing Well

409

53 Naomi Klein - Climate Changes Everything

410

52 Al Gore - The Politics of Climate Change

411

51 Brendan Nyhan - Will Facts Matter in the 2014 Election?

412

50 William Poundstone - Understanding Randomness

413

49 Arie Kruglanski - The Science of What Makes a Terrorist

414

48 K Clancy, R Nelson, J Rutherford, & K Hinde - The Epidemic of Harassment in Scientific Field Work

415

47 Anthony Ingraffea - The Science of Fracking

416

46 David Casarett - The Science of Death

417

45 Barb Oakley - The Science of Learning

418

44 David Epstein - The Science Behind the World's Greatest Athletes

419

43 Naomi Oreskes - The Collapse of Western Civilization

420

42 Arthur I. Miller - How Science Is Revolutionizing Art

421

41 Amy Stewart - The Science Behind the World's Alcohol

422

40 Zach Weinersmith - Baby Catapulting and Other Great Terrible Hypotheses

423

39 Jordan Ellenberg - Why Math Is The Ultimate BS Detector

424

38 Sam Kean - These Brains Changed Neuroscience Forever

425

37 Raychelle Burks - Zombie Repellent and Other Awesome Uses for Chemistry

426

36 Harry Collins - Why Googling Doesn't Make You a Scientific Expert

427

35 Richard Alley - West Antarctica Is Melting and We Can't Stop It

428

34 John Oliver - This World Will Be a Ball of Fire Before It Stops Being Funny

429

33 David Amodio - The Science of Prejudice

430

32 Katharine Hayhoe - Climate Science and Christianity

431

31 Mary Roach - The Science of Your Guts

432

30 Jared Diamond - The Third Chimpanzee

433

29 Neil Shubin - Your Inner Fish

434

28 John Hibbing - The Biology of Ideology

435

27 Ethan Perlstein - Scenes from the Postdocalypse

436

26 Phil Plait - Just After the Big Bang

437

25 Neil deGrasse Tyson - Finally, Science Is Cool

438

24 Jennifer Ouellette - Is The Self an Illusion, or Is There Really a “You” In There?

439

23 Edward Frenkel - What Your Teachers Never Told You About Math

440

22 Jennifer Francis and Kevin Trenberth - Is Global Warming Driving Crazy Winters?

441

21 Steven Novella - No, GMOs Won't Harm Your Health

442

20 Maria Konnikova - How to Make Your Brain Work Better

443

19 Kari Byron - How to Safely Blow Stuff Up When You're Pregnant

444

18 Eugenie Scott & Ann Reid - The Assault on Science Education

445

17 Michael Pollan - The Science of Eating Well (And Not Falling For Diet Fads)

446

16 Deborah Blum - The Science of Poisoning

447

15 Mark Ruffalo - Our 100 Percent Clean Energy Future

448

14 Carolyn Porco - Why Seeing Earth From Space Matters

449

13 Ara Norenzayan - Why Do Atheists Exist?

450

12 Joshua Greene – The New Science of Morality

451

11 Maryn McKenna - Our Scary Post-Antibiotic Future

452

10 Simon Singh - How the Simpsons Have Secretly Been Teaching You Math

453

9 Michael Mann - From Computer Geek to Political Giant Slayer

454

8 Alison Gopnik - We All Start Out as Scientists, But Some of Us Forget

455

7 George Johnson - Why Most of What You've Heard About Cancer is Wrong

456

6 Jonathan Haidt - This is Why Your Political Opponents Hate You

457

5 Dan Kahan and Stephan Lewandowsky - How Do You Make People Give a Damn About Climate Change?

458

4 Randy Schekman - This 2013 Nobel Laureate Says College Is Way Too Expensive

459

3 Sylvia Earle - Why the Oceans Are Not Too Big to Fail

460

2 Alan Weisman - Can We Finally Have a Serious Talk About Population?

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