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Inquiring Minds, 461 episodes. Page 3 of 5.

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The Coyote Story

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

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

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How Intuition and Reason Divide Our Politics

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Up To Date | Attention Is an Illusion; Ant Highways

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A Pianist Rebuilds Her Brain

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

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The Material That Will Revolutionize the World

209

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

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

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The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers

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

213

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

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

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How Neuroscience Is Redefining Athletic Genius

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

217

Nikola Tesla: Inventor of the Modern

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

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Aroused: The History of Hormones

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

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Motherhood in the Animal Kingdom

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

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Intelligent Machines Are Changing Everything

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Virtual Reality Is Changing Human Connection

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

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The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity

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Up To Date | Where Happiness Comes From, and Why

228

Why We're Addicted to Screens

229

Inside the Epic First Mission to Pluto

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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

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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

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

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Losing the Nobel Prize

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

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How We Evolved to Have Free Will

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

239

Creating Empathy With Immersive Virtual Reality

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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

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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

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The Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance

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It's Time to Rethink Ocean Conservation

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Science Got Women Wrong

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A Volcano Scientist Runs for Congress

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Mapping Human Brains

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

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How One Emotion Connects Altruists and Psychopaths

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Lessons in Investigating Death

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Lost Einsteins: Left Behind by the Innovation Economy

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Getting Politicians to Talk About Science

259

Black Hole Blues

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Why Dinosaurs Matter

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

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How Science Built One of the Greatest Basketball Teams in History

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A Paid Climate Change Skeptic Switches Sides

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

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A Psychiatrist Analyzes the Age of Trump

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Molecules From Caesar's Last Breath Are Inside You

267

Where the Animals Go: Tracking Wildlife with Technology

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Why Buddhism is True

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The Psychology of Hate

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Jonathan Lynn on Why US Healthcare Is Worthy of Ridicule

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The Great American Solar Eclipse

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The Science of Game of Thrones

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Why Are We Curious?

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We've Got to Start Eating Insects

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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

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182 Ty Tashiro - The Science of Being Awkward

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181 Mike Drucker - How to Write Science Into Comedy

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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

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176 Paul Doherty - The Actual Science Behind Outlandish Deaths

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

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174 James Beacham - The Exciting World of Particle Hunters

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

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173 Mary Roach - Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal

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172 Dan Ariely - The Surprising Science of What Motivates Us

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171 Siddhartha Roy - The Science Behind the Flint Water Crisis

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

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169 Daniel Levitin - The Emerging Epidemic of the Silent Home

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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

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

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

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