All episodes
161 Patrick Wolff - How to Become a Grandmaster Chess Champion
160 Helen Czerski - The Little Bits of Physics in Everyday Life
159 David Grinspoon - Earth in Human Hands: Shaping Our Planet's Future
158 Lee van der Voo - The Fish Market: Inside the Big-Money Battle for the Ocean and Your Dinner Plate
157 Erik Vance - The Curious Science of Your Brain's Ability to Deceive, Transform, and Heal
156 Heather Hill - Taking a Second Look at SeaWorld
155 Chris and Evan Hadfield - An Astronaut Explores the Arctic
154 Changing Political Minds - The Deep Story With Arlie Hochschild and Reckonings
153 Merlin Tuttle - The Secret Lives of Bats
152 Abigail Tucker - How House Cats Tamed Us and Took Over the World
151 Irva Hertz-Picciotto - Should We Worry More About Toxic Environmental Chemicals?
150 Stuart Firestein - Why Science Needs to Fail
149 Sarah Ballard / Jackie Speier - The Appalling Reality of Harassment in Science
148 Judith Schwartz - Hope for a Thirsty World
147 Dave Levitan - How Politicians Mangle Science
146 John Hargrove - Taking on SeaWorld
145 Carin Bondar - Wild Sex
144 Ed Yong - I Contain Multitudes
143 The Stories That Collection Museums Hold
142 Hank Greely - The End of Sex
141 Marek Glezerman - The Science of Gender Medicine
140 Janna Levin - This Is the Sound of Two Black Holes Colliding
139 Peter Willcox - Adventures in Protecting the Future of Our Planet
138 Mary Roach - The Curious Science of Humans at War
137 Jonah Berger - The Hidden Forces That Shape Behavior
136 Siddhartha Mukherjee - An Intimate History of the Gene
135 Sean Carroll - Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself
134 Anders Ericsson - How to Do Everything Better
133 Ben Beard - How Global Warming Is Making Some Diseases Even Scarier
132 Hope Jahren - The Joy and Otherness of Trees
131 Josh Willis - Greenland Is Melting!
130 Bill Nye - Fighting Climate Denial
129 Greg Marcus - Understanding Heart Disease With Big Data
128 Sy Montgomery - The Soul of an Octopus
127 Carl Zimmer - The Mysterious World of Viruses
126 Maria Konnikova - The Science of Why We Fall for Cons
125 Anthony James - How Deadly Are Mosquitoes?
124 Joanne Ruthsatz & Kimberly Stephens - Is There a Link Between Prodigy and Autism?
123 J. Kenji López-Alt - Better Home Cooking Through Science
122 Nancy Krieger - Police Involved Killings Are Public Health Data
121 Marah Hardt - Sex in the Sea
120 Eric Weiner - The Geography of Genius
119 Kara Platoni - Hacking Human Perception
118 Kim Cobb - The Evolution of El Niño
117 Douglas Fields - The Science of Rage and Why We Snap
116 Indre and Kishore’s 2016 Science Predictions
115 Chris Ferguson - Violence in Video Games
114 Mark Schatzker - The Dorito Effect
113 Robert Sapolsky - Being Human
112 Ed Lu - The Real Threat of Asteroids
111 Steve Croft - The Feeding Habits of Supermassive Black Holes
110 Cady Coleman - Our Calling to Space
109 Dava Newman - The Future of Space Exploration
108 Adam Galinsky & Maurice Schweitzer - The Science of Sex, Power, and Competition
107 Ariel Waldman - Hacking Science
106 Brad Bushman - The Science of Gun Violence
105 Brad Voytek - We Neuroscientists Don't Really Know What Your Brain Is Doing
104 Justin Rubinstein - Humans Are Causing Earthquakes in Oklahoma
103 M. R. O'Connor - Resurrection Science and the Precarious Future of Wild Things
102 Beth Shapiro - The Science of De-Extinction
101 Lucky Yates - The Science of Archer
100 Steve Silberman - Remembering Oliver Sacks / The Legacy of Autism
99 Marc Lewis - Why Addiction Is Not a Disease
98 Fred Perlak - Inside the Mind of a Monsanto Scientist
97 Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis - How Music Plays the Mind
96 David Casarett - A Doctor's Case for Medical Marijuana
95 Wade Roush - How Disasters Affect Science
94 Michael Hiltzik - The Invention That Launched the Military-Industrial Complex
93 Alvin Roth - The New Economics of Who Gets What—and Why
92 Will Walker & Kevin Czinger - The Future of 3D Printing
91 Rachel Kalmar - The Power of Wearable Technology
90 Will Smith & Norman Chan - Understanding Virtual Reality
89 Eric Cheng - The Science Behind Drones
88 Alan Levinovitz - The Gluten Lie
87 Stephen Dubner - Freakonomics and the Danger of Certainty
86 Adam Rogers - The Science of Booze
85 James Krupa - Teaching Evolution in Kentucky
84 Ivan Oransky - The Fetishization of Scientific Papers
83 Traci Mann - The Science of Weight Loss
82 Alex Garland - The Science of Ex Machina
81 Sanjoy Mahajan - Street-Fighting Mathematics
80 Norman Doidge - How Plastic Is Your Brain?
79 Ken Caldeira - Can Geoengineering Save the Planet?
78 Bill Gifford - Can Science Keep You Young Forever?
77 Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo - Sugar Science
76 Jonathan Eisen - The Tiny World of Microbes Inside You
75 Kevin Kelly - What Technology Wants
74 Kathleen Hall Jamieson - Fact Checking Science
73 David J. Morris - The History and Science of PTSD
72 Andy Weir - The Science of The Martian
71 Ed Boyden - Blowing Up the Brain
70 Brian Fisher - The Real Ant-Man
69 Katie Mack - Dark Matter: Invisible, and Probably Flying through You Right Now
68 Matt Walker - Why Did We Evolve to Sleep?
67 Gabriele Oettingen - Rethinking Positive Thinking
66 Adam Savage - The Joy of Being a Maker
65 Matt Parker - Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension
64 Sharman Apt Russell - Chasing Tiger Beetles as a Citizen Scientist
63 Donald Johanson - Lucy's Legacy, 40 Years Later
62 Christine Kenneally - How DNA and History Shape Our Identities and Our Futures