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The 7th Avenue Project — 284 episodes
Remembering Comedian Garry Shandling with Paul Provenza
Gravity Waves Explained by Physicist Anthony Aguirre
Gwendolyn Mok: Pianist and Musical Medium
George Yancy: Philosophizing While Black
Molecular Biologist Kevin Esvelt: Gene Drives, CRISPR Critters and Evolutionary Sculpting
Comic Book Artist Dean Haspiel: Superheroes, Antiheroes, Fantasy and Autobiography
Jonathan Gottschall: "The Professor in the Cage: Why Men Fight and Why We Like to Watch"
Jonathan Ames: From Writer to Sitcom Showrunner
Is Most Scientific Research Wrong? Psychologist Mike Frank on the "Reproducibility Crisis"
Policing: Myths Vs. Realities with Seth Stoughton
Huang Ruo: A Composer's Journey
Anil Ananthaswamy on Neuroscience and Our Sense of Self
Composers at Cabrillo: Hannah Lash, Missy Mazzoli and Nico Muhly
Filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer on “The Look of Silence”
The Civil War Isn't Over: David Blight and Tony Horwitz
Racial Passing in the USA: Historian Allyson Hobbs
Sara Solovitch: A History and Memoir of Stage Fright
Astronomer Robert Kirshner: Supernovas, Dark Energy and The Fate of the Universe
Writer-Illustrator Sydney Padua: Babbage, Lovelace and the First Computer
Biophysicist Jeremy England: A New Theory of Evolution
Philosopher John Searle on Perception, Mind, Matter and Consciousness
Kazuo Ishiguro: “The Buried Giant,” Memory, Lies and Forgetting
Black Hole Mischief: Is Relativity in Trouble?
Eugene S. Robinson: Fighting, Writing, Rocking and Ass-Kicking
Physicist Max Tegmark: Mathematics and the Ultimate Nature of Reality
The War on Body Hair: Historian Rebecca Herzig
Plato Lives! Rebecca Goldstein on Why Philosophy Still Matters (Re-run)
Naturalist and snake expert Harry Greene (Re-run)
General Relativity for Beginners with Anthony Aguirre. Pt. 2 of 2 (Re-run)
General Relativity for Beginners with Anthony Aguirre. Pt. 1 of 2 (Re-run)
Your Genes Are Listening: Social Genomicist Steve Cole (Re-run)
Jonathan Katz on “Dr. Katz” and More
Comedian Nore Davis
Singer-Songwriter Meklit: All in Good Time (Re-run)
Davis Perkins: Stories from an Ebola Treatment Unit
Eula Biss: On Immunity, Vaccines and Fear
Rick Doblin: Psychedelics and Psychotherapy
Laura Kipnis and the Modern Man
Poet And Warlock of Words Michael Robbins
Richard Ford on Frank Bascombe And Himself
Molecular Biologist Sofie Salama: The Story of Jumping Genes
Writing for Keeps: The Life and Legacy of Tillie Olsen
Comedian Maria Bamford: Not Afraid of the Dark
Experimental Philosopher Jonathon Keats
Singer, Songwriter, Banjo Player Abigail Washburn
Ira Glass on “Ira Glass”
Physicist Brian Greene: Time, Gravity, Teaching
Julia Reynolds: Gang Life and Gang Death In California
Jim Dwyer: False Convictions, Forensic Failures
Max Brooks on WWI, The Harlem Hellfighters, Zombies and Him
Jordan Ellenberg on How Not to Be Wrong
Béla Fleck and Dylan Mattingly Radio Interview: Two Musician/Composers Discuss Their Craft
Magician and Mathematician Persi Diaconis
Tap Dancer and Hoofing Historian Andrew Nemr
Science Historian Laurel Braitman: Animal Minds, Animal Madness
Mathematician/Computer Scientist Noson Yanofsky: The Outer Limits of Reason
Basketball Player and Writer Coleman Collins: An African-American Athlete Abroad
Photographer Camille Seaman: Portraits of Nature
Cosmologist Tom Abel: Computing the Early Universe
Nikil Saval: Cubed—The Secret History of the Workplace
Marine Biologist Asha de Vos and the Unorthodox Whales of Sri Lanka
Singer-Songwriter Meklit: All in Good Time
Poet/Physician Fady Joudah
Plato Lives! Rebecca Goldstein on Why Philosophy Still Matters
Echoes of the Big Bang: Cosmologist Anthony Aguirre
Physicist Howard Haber: Hunting the Higgs
John Beckman on the History of Fun in America
Naturalist and snake expert Harry Greene
Astronomer and Astrophysicist Sandra Faber
Novelist Karen Joy Fowler on Our Animal Problem
Multi-instrumentalist and composer Rick Walker
“Race Manners” Columnist Jenée Desmond-Harris
Your Genes Are Listening: Social Genomicist Steve Cole
Award-Winning Musical Comedy Writers Do “Lunch”
Cognitive Scientist Paul Bloom: the Origins of Good and Evil
Comedian Ron Funches
Mathemetician Cédric Villani
Literary critic Helene Moglen and the Making of a Feminist
David Harris-Gershon: What Do You Buy the Children of the Terrorist Who Tried to Kill Your Wife?
At Night I Fly: Learning to Live While Doing Life in Prison
Richard Rodriguez: Darling, A Spiritual Autobiography
Mike Jay: the Case of James Tilly Matthews and the Dawn of Techno-Paranoia
James Dawes on War Crimes and "Evil Men"
Henry Jaglom on Orson Welles
"Gypsy Voices": Donald Cohen on Romani Music
Joshua Oppenheimer and "The Act of Killing"
Composers Kevin Puts and Derek Bermel
David Hoffman: 50 Years of Documentary Filmmaking
Philosopher Daniel Dennett on Matter, Meaning and Mind
Gregory Porter: Soul Man, Pt II
The Stooges Music Group from New Orleans
Gary Greenberg: The DSM and the Unmaking of Psychiatry
Jon Mooallem: Animals on our Minds
Singer-Songwriter Ian Bell
Jill Wolfson: On Getting Even, High School and Writing for Teens
Leonard Susskind: A Life in Physics
Robert Burton: The Limits of Neuroscience
Neurologist Robert Burton: On Being Certain
Journalist and Ocean Activist David Helvarg
Gretel Ehrlich: Facing the Wave
The New Peer Gynt
Auditory Neuroscientist and Sonic Savant Seth Horowitz
Civil Rights Leader and Educator Bob Moses
George Dyson and the Birth of the Digital Universe (Rebroadcast)
Life and Death in Angola Penitentiary
David Thomson--Falling In and Out of Love with the Movies
Barry Sinervo: Human Evolution Marches On.
Ben Harbert: Prison musicians on film.
Sebastian Seung: Mapping the Brain's Connectome (Rerun)
The Living Music of Elena Kats-Chernin (Rerun)
In Pursuit of Happiness: Filmmaker Roko Belic (Rerun)
Yael Kohen: The Rise of Women in Comedy
EThe Musical Brain: Neuroscientist Dan Levitin (Rerun)
Linguist Geoffrey Nunberg: Ascent of the A-Word.
EHow to Predict an Election: Polling Aggregators Sam Wang and Drew Linzer
Divinity, Psychedelia, Addiction and Recovery: Don Lattin on "Distilled Spirits"
A Pox on Both Our Houses: David Quammen on Zoonotic Disease
Ukulele Hero; Mariachi Magic
Astrophysicist Martin Rees
Soul Man: Singer-Songwriter Gregory Porter (Rerun)
Global Comedian Shazia Mirza
Soul Man: Singer-Songwriter Gregory Porter
Errol Morris in the Wilderness
Our Man in Hanoi: Mike Vann, Colonial Historian
The Mystery of Existence: Jim Holt
The Universe Gets Weirder: Cosmologist Anthony Aguirre
Errol Morris Confidential Pt 2 of 2
Errol Morris Confidential Pt 1 of 2
Lou Harrison's Musical World
Composer and Musician John Wineglass
Kitchen Sister Nikki Silva: From Radio to the Concert Hall
Physics on the Fringe
Does Culture Drive Language?
Daniel Everett, Linguist and Iconoclast
Paul Bendix: Wheelchair Odyssey
Jonathan Gottschall: How Stories Make Us Human
Meghan McCain and Michael Ian Black: America You Sexy Bitch
Filmmaker Joshua Dylan Mellars
George Dyson and the Birth of the Digital Universe
Facts and the Finicky Folks Who Check Them
Comedian and Actor Michael Ian Black
EAstrophysicist Michael Turner
The Life and Music of Edith Piaf (Rebroadcast)
The Authoritative John Hodgman
Colin McGinn: Philosophy Fights Back
Christopher Bram on the Gay Writers Who Changed America
Sebastian Seung: Mapping the Brain's Connectome
Ancient Stories, New Technology: The Thinning Veil
The Post-Valentine's Day Massacre
The Living Music of Elena Kats-Chernin
Tapped Out: Matthew Polly on the Rise of Mixed Martial Arts
Biologist Robert Trivers on Evolution and Self-Deception
They Might Be Giants at 30
General Relativity for Beginners with Anthony Aguirre. Pt. 2 of 2.
General Relativity for Beginners with Anthony Aguirre. Pt. 1 of 2.
The Real Vocal String Quartet (Rebroadcast)
Language Ain't What It Used to Be (Rebroadcast)
Race Against the Machine: Erik Brynjolfsson
Hany Farid: Digital Image Detective
Physicist Brian Greene on Black Holes (from 2009)
John Brown Reconsidered
Philosopher Peter Singer on Ethics in Theory and Practice
Psychologist Steven Pinker on the Decline of Violence
Errol Morris on Photography and Truth
Remembering Gay Rights Leader Frank Kameny
Evolutionary Biologist Marlene Zuk on Bugs and Us
The Life Unconscious: Psychologist Brian Nosek
Down and Out in Dogpatch, Pt2
Donny McCaslin: Becoming a Jazzman
Down and Out in Dogpatch, Pt1
After Recession, What?
The Harvard Psychedelic Club
Guitarist/Composer D.J. Sparr
Paul Bloom: "How Pleasure Works"
John Waters and Philip Glass
The Machinery of Life
All About Fado
In(ter)dependence Day
Jennifer Ouellette and The Calculus Diaries
Peter Kenez: Growing up under Nazism and Communism
Viruses and Us
Brooke Gladstone and "The Influencing Machine"
North African Music with Fattah Abbou and Mohamed Aoualou
Trimpin and Unfinished History
Bateson on Bateson
In Pursuit of Happiness: Filmmaker Roko Belic
Everything Which is…Yes: David Hoffman and John Barrett
The Dark Universe
Unlearning Violence
Reflections of a Combat Pilot
Recreating the Creation
Edith Piaf in Life and Music
Jasmin Darznik: The Good Daughter
The New Cosmology: Physicist Anthony Aguirre
The Past Isn't Past: Kinan and Luis Valdez
Radio Gets Real(istic): John Biewen
Comedian and storyteller Kumail Nanjiani
Comedian and "WTF" Podcaster Marc Maron
The Real Vocal String Quartet
Paul Provenza: Comedy from the Inside
The Beat Within--Voices from Juvenile Hall
Crafting with Amy Sedaris
A Physicist Tells The Time
Saving Animals, Cell by Cell
America and Israel: Two Nations Under God?
Language Ain't What It Used to Be (And Never Was)
Particle Physics Primer, Pt. 2
Particle Physics Primer, Pt. 1
Journalistic Ethics in Focus
Dan Levitin: The Evolution of Musicality
From Prison to the Stage: The Poetic Justice Project
Scandals and Why We Love Them
Firesign Forever: Phil Proctor and Phil Austin
Michele Norris: The Grace of Silence
Felix Warneken and Robert Sapolsky on the Softer Side of Primates
Mark Levine and The Art of Latin Jazz
Rudresh Mahanthappa: Trans-Oceanic Jazz
Thinking Outside the Brain
What's In A Face
Planetwalker--The Pilgrimage of John Francis
Science And Space in Song: They Might Be Giants and One Ring Zero
Post-Classical: David Harrington of the Kronos Quartet; Matt Albert of the eighth blackbird sextet
Cabrillo Festival 2010: Composer/pianist Kevin Puts and percussionist Colin Currie
No One Dies in Lily Dale
Lives in Art: Harvey Pekar and Jonathan Ames
Suffering for Science
Stories for Independence Day: Lift Every Voice and Sing; Frank Kameny
Kathryn Schulz: On Being Wrong
David Cope: The Computer as Creator
Wes Moore: "The Other Wes Moore"
Satiristas: Paul Provenza and Dan Dion
The Moral Life of Babies; Aging and Happiness
Witness to Extinction
Philosophical Babies
Reality Doesn't Bite; The New Wealth Gap
By Heart: Poetry. Prison. Two Lives.
Leonard Susskind: The Black Hole War
Hugh Raffles: Insectopedia
What's So Special About Tango?
Gabriel Thompson: Working in the Shadows
The Edge of Physics: Anil Ananthaswamy
The Musical Brain: Neuroscientist Dan Levitin
Adventures in Lizardland: Evolutionary Biologist Barry Sinervo
Painter Richard Mayhew--A Life in Art
Essayist Terry Castle
Rebecca Goldstein V. God
Partners In Health Brings Medical Care to Haiti
Cartoon Journalist Joe Sacco
The Real Mark Twain
The Beat Within--Voices from Juvie
Armenian Lullabies and Songs of Longing
After Exoneration: The Rick Walker Story, Pt 2 of 2
When Justice Fails: The Rick Walker Story, Pt 1 of 2
Private Wars: Tracy Kidder and Andrew Sean Greer
The Bottom of Things
Building The Genome Zoo
Medicine at the Extremes
Life by the Numbers
A Mirror Held Up to Spiegelman
After Disaster
What's In A Face
The Music of "Stew"
The Origins of Life on Earth
One Fast Move or I'm Gone
The Philosophical Baby
Born Rich, Wondering Why
Wealth and the Limits of Materialism
Percussion Takes Center Stage
Against Reductionism
Unlearning Violence--Sunny Schwartz
Wealth and How to Destroy It
The Other Rumble in The Jungle
Neil Shubin on Fish, Evolution and Us
Iran, Then and Now
Going Incognegro; Yiddishkeit 2.0
The Double Life is Twice As Good
Wealth Ain't What it Used to Be
Ask a Linguist
Thinking Outside the Brain
Mother's Day Confidential
Portraits in Conviction
Mathematics in Music and in Motion
Our Parasites, Ourselves
Ry Cooder's California