All episodes
Tesla, the man
Up To Date | Autumn fires and climate change; plastic bottle eating enzymes; singing blue whales
As the World Burns: The New Generation of Activists
Telling the story of climate change with music
The ways in which our bodies don’t match how the world has been built
Up To Date | Why Elon Musk’s Neuralink could fail; and the worrying relationship between bad sleep and Alzheimer's disease
Why you talk the way you do, and what it says about you
How fraud, bias, negligence, and hype undermine the search for truth
Why things spread and why they stop
Up To Date | Mosquitoes, robots, pupils, beavers, and Earth’s crust
A Story about Forests, People, and the Future
From the slave trade to climate change—why corporations defend the indefensible
The Language of Butterflies
Up To Date | The Drake equation 2.0; Nanotech yeast; Why are plants green?; Wasp boxing
Where educators go wrong
The history of structural racism in medicine
How Humans and Matter Transformed One Another
Galileo’s fight is still relevant today
A History of the Afterlife
A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life
The behavioral economics of baseball
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
Divergent Mind: Thriving in a World That Wasn't Designed for You
Revisiting the Dunning-Kruger Effect with David Dunning
How the internet is changing the English language
The science of streaks and the hot hand
The neuroscience of how we learn
A Totally Fictional but Essentially True Silicon Valley Story
Up To Date | Ancient Dates; Mummy Voices; Mouse Memories
The Poison Squad
The Hidden World of the Fox
We need a better, more democratic internet
2019 Year End Wrap-Up
We might be approaching the study of cancer all wrong
Life and Breath in the Age of Air Pollution
The Blockchain and the Future of Everything
The Four-Billion-Year Story of How We Got Conscious Brains
How Language Shapes Thought
The History, Science, and Future of Heart Disease
The Life and Afterlife of Harry Houdini
Silicon Valley: A Satire
Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime
The Science of Behavior-Altering Parasites
Why We Need Insects
Kishore’s Send-Off!
Why Smart People Make Dumb Mistakes
Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
Sharks: The Ocean's Most Mysterious, Most Misunderstood, and Most Important Guardians
A Brief Guide to the Fundamental Mystery of the Mind
The American Automobile: Past, Present, and Driverless
Neal Stephenson - Fall; or, Dodge in Hell
In Pain: A Bioethicist’s Personal Struggle with Opioids
Up To Date | Singing Mice; Six Fingered Hands; Dolphin Cliques
The Age of Living Machines
A Life in Math and Football
The State of the Art in Alzheimer's Research
BONUS: Introducing Science Rules! with Bill Nye
Salty Erotica of the Deep
Up To Date | Bioprinting a Liver; Tasting with Genes; Stopping the World’s Worst Venom
Completing the Darwinian Revolution
How Cats Tamed Us and Took Over the World
How Music Can Make You Better
Up To Date | Neurogenesis; Predicting Death with AI; Rethinking Nose Jobs
A Cultural History of Humanity's Search for Meaning
The Strange Science of Recovery
The Extraordinary New Science of the Immune System
Up To Date | Bug census, global warming, young blood, microwaving grapes
2018’s Best Science Movies (and TV)
Oculus, Facebook, and the Revolution That Swept Virtual Reality
Up To Date | Polar Vortex Science, Brainwaves to Speech, Blowing Up the Brain
Why We Fall for It Every Time
The Science of How Art Works
The Science of Perfect Timing
Up To Date | New Horizons Finds BB-8; Defining Death; Differential Privacy
The Neuroscience of Prejudice
Up To Date | Top 10 Science Stories of 2018
Lessons from the Edge of the Universe
Up To Date | Hummingbird Divebombs; Collapsing Ice Sheets
The Laws of Human Nature
Up To Date | Talking Viruses; Creativity Waves
She Has Her Mother's Laugh
Up To Date | Migration Myths and Negative Mass
Music as Medicine
Up To Date | Ants with backpacks; Neuron DNA affects Alzheimer's
A New History of a Lost World
A Radical New History of Life
Up To Date | A Polio-Like Virus and Genes Deciding Your University
What It’s like to Discover a Dinosaur
Up To Date | Smelling Stingrays and a 16 Billion Scoville Cactus
Life at the Extremes of Our Capacity
Up To Date | Election results, stealth moths, and a retired kilogram
The Beauty and Utility of Maps: A Cartographic Odyssey
Up To Date | The Definitive Field Guide to Filthy Animal Facts
What Real-Life Zombies Reveal About Our World
Up To Date | Doubling worm lifespans; the recent failed Soyuz launch
The Remarkable History of Surgery
Up To Date | Nobel Prizes and Electrical Nerve Regeneration
Being Human in the Age of Algorithms
China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order
Steven Pinker: Enlightenment Now