All 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