All Episodes
Inquiring Minds — 461 episodes · page 1 of 5
Unlocking the Mysteries of the Social Brain with Dr. Bruce Miller
Doctored: Fraud, Arrogance, and Tragedy in the Quest to Cure Alzheimer's with Charles Piller
Outraged: Why We Fight About Morality and Politics and How to Find Common Ground with Kurt Gray
The Purpose Code: How To Unlock Meaning, Maximize Happiness, and Leave A Lasting Legacy with Jordan Grumet
Journey to 2125: One Century, One Family, Rising to Challenges with Gary F. Bengier
Power Metal: The Race for the Resources That Will Shape the Future with Vince Beiser
Thrive: Maximizing Well-Being in the Age of AI with Ravi Bapna
Living on Earth: Forests, Corals, Consciousness, and the Making of the World with Peter Godfrey-Smith
Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves with Nicola Twilley
The Most Delicious Poison with Noah Whiteman
Revealing the Secrets of Supercommunicators with Charles Duhigg
“The Good Stuff” about Quanta and Fields with Sean Carroll
Understanding and Expanding Consciousness with Dr. Christof Koch
Are Flukes Actually the Norm?
Capitalizing on The Neurodiversity Edge with Maureen Dunne
Making the Mundane Magic with Dan Winters
Why We Die with Venki Ramakrishnan
“X”-amining the Battle for the Bird with Kurt Wagner
Revealing Why We Remember with Charan Ranganath
Don’t Panic, but Robert Sapolsky Says There’s No Free Will
The Science of Allergies and Why We Have Them
Why It’s Important to Know What’s Actually in Your Clothes
How You Could Have Survived History’s Disasters
How to Stop Your Brain from Falling for Lies
How Society Created “You”
The Science of Silo with Hugh Howey
Improbable Experiments That Changed the World
The Perilous Combination of Brain Wave Data and Generative AI
Everything you need to know about that fusion breakthrough
Art can make you live longer
Plants have been listening to us this whole time
How is it possible that we can’t yet explain consciousness?
The Science of Why You Fall in Love With Music
The Powerful Ways Secrets Shape Your Life
The Psychology of Getting Conned
Understanding the Biggest Ideas in the Universe Without Being a Physicist
The Overlooked Gifts of Visual Thinkers with Temple Grandin
Up to Date | Nanoparticle toothbrushes and a promising Alzheimer's drug
These Numbers Explain the Nature of Reality
The Science of How Your Dog’s Brain Works
The Neuroscience of What Makes You You
What do animals dream about?
The Science of Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion
The language of food, science, and critical thinking with J. Kenji López-Alt
Derek Gow Is Turning His Farm Into an Ark for Lost Species
Wild but Delicate: What Hawks Can Teach Us About Nature, Life, and Love
Can Fish Count? What Animals Reveal About Our Uniquely Mathematical Minds
The Science of Creativity and How It Can Help You
The Misunderstood Nature of Pain with Haider Warraich
The Untold Story of the Neuron with Benjamin Ehrlich
Up to Date | Cell Adaptation, Creativity Measurement, and Visual Perception
How to Make Use of Our Limited Time in This Tiny Part of Space with Sean Carroll
Why You Can’t Know What It’s Like for a Bat to Be a Bat with Jackie Higgins
Exploring the Extended Mind with Annie Murphy Paul
Space Rocks, Star Stuff, and Tom Selleck's Mustache with Greg Brennecka
Defining and Treating Addiction with Carl Erik Fisher
2021 Wrap-Up
The Evolution of Life and the ‘Dead Species Walking’ with Henry Gee
Sizing Up the Notion of Tailoring Your Brain with Emily Willingham
Updates from the Past and the Future
Inside the Race to the Coronavirus Vaccine with Brendan Borrell
Moving Your Way Through Cancer with Dr. Kathryn Schmitz
Making Sense of Self with Anil Seth
Up to Date | From the Microscopic to the Astronomic
A Matter of Life, Death, or Maybe Somewhere in Between with John and Lois Crowe
The Sound Mind with Nina Kraus
Managing Our Criminal Nature with Mary Roach
Unwrapping the Gifts of Good Anxiety with Wendy Suzuki
Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science with Sam Kean
Investigating The Memory Thief with Lauren Aguirre
How to Raise Kids Who Aren’t Assholes with Melinda Wenner Moyer
Up to Date | Social Parrots; Empathetic Rodents; Microbiome Analyses
Opening Up the World of Quarantine with Nicola Twilley
Building Up Your Mental Health Immunity with Andy Norman
Generating the Element of Harmonic Surprise with David Rosen
Thinking about Thinking about Yourself with Iris Berent
The Hidden Geometry of Information and Everything Else with Jordan Ellenberg
‘The Untapped Science of Less’ with Leidy Klotz
Mom Genes: Abigail Tucker on the Science of Motherhood
Andy Weir’s Project Hail Mary
The future artificial intelligence may lead to
What is the future of human work?
A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence
Where did artificial intelligence come from?
Up To Date | Aliens didn’t make Oumuamua, aphantasia, and baseball beer research
What does it mean to be alive?
Literature may be the most powerful technology we’ve invented
Why almost everything we’ve been told about food is wrong
Up To Date | Paleogenetics, naps, and shocking your brain into remembering better
A behavioral scientist explains dating
The science behind your voice
We need to rethink toilets
Up To Date | A look back at 2020, and what’s next for the podcast
Five ways the universe might die
The Surprising Story of Medieval Science
The Quest for the Oldest Skeleton
You’re full of bones. How do they work?
Thinking isn’t your brain’s most important job
Up To Date | Moon water implications and new research on why you understand words
Feed Drop: Cadence S3E1: The Music of Politics