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Episode 794: Amy Westervelt: How Corporations Shape What We Believe | Brought to You By
Episode 793: Eli Burnstein: Famous Quotes We Get Wrong | Phrased & Confused
Episode 792: Lisa Crites: From Breast Cancer Survivor to Inventor | Beautifully Unbroken
Episode 791: Sam Roberts: Who Gets Remembered? | Are They Dead Yet?
Episode 790: Sam Kean: Lost Cities, Ancient Mysteries & The Museum of Lost Things
Episode 789: Antonio Damasio: Why We Feel, What Makes Us Conscious, and What AI Lacks
Episode 788: Keza MacDonald - Super Nintendo: The Game-Changing Company That Unlocked the Power of Play
Episode 787: Ancient Algorithms - Katrine ØGaard Jensen
Episode 786: Elegy in Blue - Mark Helprin
Episode 785: Marcus Hall - Our Bodies, Our Planet: A Parasite's History of Us
Episode 784: Andreas Marks - Japan's Manga Revolution: From Painted Scrolls to Comic Books 1680-1920
Episode 783: Eric Rath - Kanpai: The History of Sake
Episode 782: Steve Ramirez - How to Change a Memory: One Neuroscientist's Quest To Alter The Past
Episode 781: William O. Stephens - Marcus Aurelius: Philosopher-King
Episode 780: James Barrat - The Intelligence Explosion: When AI Beats Humans At Everything
Episode 779: Michaela Vieser & Isaac Yuen - The Sound Atlas: A Guide to Strange Sounds across Landscapes and Imagination
Episode 778: Mary Roach - Replaceable You: Adventures In Human Anatomy
Episode 777: Svend Brinkmann - The Experience Society: Life Beyoned Subjectivity
Episode 776: Einstein in Oxford - Andrew Robinson
Episode 775: Hidden in the Heavens - Jason Steffen
Episode 774: Ciara Greene and Gillian Murphy - Memory Lane: The Perfectly Imperfect Ways We Remember
Episode 773: David Bates - An Artificial History of Natural Intelligence
Episode 772: Gareth Gore - Opus
Episode 771: Jonathan Silvertown - Selfish Genes to Social Beings: : A Cooperative History of Life
Episode 770: Elizabeth Winder - Parachute Women: The Women Behind The Rolling Stones
Episode 769: Jim Baggott - Quantum Drama: From the Bohr-Einstein Debate to the Riddle of Entanglement
Episode 768: Lewis Cohen MD - Winter's End: Dementia and Dying
Episode 767: Rowan Jacobsen - Wild Chocolate: Across the Americas in Search of Cacao's Soul
Episode 766: Debbie Urbanski - After World
Episode 765: Roz Dineen - Briefly Very Beautiful: A Novel
Episode 764: Chris French - The Science Of Weird Shit: Why Our Minds Conjure The Paranormal
Episode 763: Adam Forrest Kay - Escape From Shadow Physics: The Quest to End the Dark Ages of Quantum Theory
Episode 762: Christy Spackman: The Taste of Water Sensory Perception and the Making of an Industrialized Beverage
Episode 761: Martin Fitzgibbon - Behind The Curtain: My Life And Rocky Horror
Episode 760: Anne Curzan - Says Who? A Kinder, Funner Usage Guide for Everyone Who Cares About Words
Episode 759: Sadie Dingfelder - Do I Know You? A Faceblind Reporter's Journey into the Science of Sight, Memory, and Imagination
Episode 758: Jamie Collinson - The Rejects: An Alternative History of Popular Music
Episode 757: Theodore P. Snow & Don Brownlee - The Sixth Element: How Carbon Shapes Our World
Episode 756: Kenneth Miller - Mapping The Darkness: The Visionary Scientists Who Unlocked The Mysteries Of Sleep
Episode 755: Chris Haufe - Fruitfulness: Science, Metaphor, and the Puzzle of Promise
Episode 754: Ken McNab - Shake It Up, Baby!: The Rise of Beatlemania and the Mayhem of 1963
Episode 753: Oliver Crisp, James Arcadi & Jordan Wessling - Analyzing Prayer: Theological & Philosophical Essays
Episode 752: Joe Fassler - The Sky Was Ours
Episode 751: Nick Bantock - The Corset & the Jellyfish: A Conundrum of Drabbles
Episode 750: Harry Cliff - Space Oddities: The Mysterious Anomalies Challenging Our Understanding Of The Universe
Episode 749: Richard Schacht - Nietzsche's Kind Of Philosophy: Finding His Way
Episode 748: Sy Montgomery - Secrets Of The Octopus
Episode 747: Dr. Marshall Poe - Plagiarism and AI
Episode 746: Sy Montgomery - Secrets Of The Octopus
Episode 745: Kevin J Mitchell - Free Agents: How Evolution Gave Us Free Will
Episode 744: Philip Ball - Beautiful Experiments: An Illustrated History of Experimental Science
Episode 743: Paul Halpern - The Allure of the Multiverse: Extra Dimensions, Other Worlds, and Parallel Universes
Episode 742: John Parrington - Consciousness: How our brains turn matter into meaning
Episode 741: Claire Oshetsky - Poor Deer
Episode 740: Dylan Jones - Loaded: The Life (And Afterlife) of the Velvet Underground
Episode 739: Mark Kurlansky - The Core of an Onion
Episode 738: Philip Goff - Why? The Purpose of the Universe
Episode 737: Korynn Newville - Indiscernable Elements: Calcium
Episode 736: Matt Zwolinski & Miranda Perry Fleischer - Universal Basic Income: What Everyone Needs To Know
Episode 735: Alan Chodos & James Riordan - Ghost Particle: In Search of the Elusive and Mysterious Neutrino
Episode 734: Estelle Erasmus - Writing That Gets Noticed: Find Your Voice, Become a Better Storyteller, Get Published
Episode 733: Ben Purkert - The Men Can't Be Saved
Episode 732: Scott James Taylor and Sarah Thérèse Pelletier - Ladyhoppers
Episode 731: Stephen Porder - Elemental: How Five Elements Changed Earth's Past and Will Shape Our Future
Episode 730: Rafael Yuste - Lectures In Neuroscience
Episode 729: Sarah Bernstein - Study For Obedience
Episode 728: Richard Halpern - Leibnizing
Episode 727: John Illsley - My Life In Dire Straits
Episode 726: Liba Taub - Ancient Greek & Roman Science: A Very Short Introduction
Episode 725: Lauren J A Bear - Medusa's Sisters
Episode 724: David Connor - Oh God, The Sun Goes
Episode 723: Mark Coeckelbergh - Self-Improvement: Technologies of the Soul in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Episode 722: Andrew Lipstein - The Vegan
Episode 721: David Neiwert - The Age of Insurrection: The Radical Right's Assault on American Democracy
Episode 720: Fiona Davis - The Spectacular
Episode 719: Katherine Heiny - Games and Rituals
Episode 718: Nathan S Chapman & Michael W McConnell - Agreeing To Disagree
Episode 717: Han Yu - The Curious Human Knee
Episode 716: David Acheson - The Spirit of Mathematics: Algebra and All That
Episode 715: How To Survive History: How to Outrun a Tyrannosaurus, Escape Pompeii, Get Off the Titanic, and Survive the Rest of History's Deadliest Catastrophes
Episode 714: Jean Manuel Roubineau - The Dangerous Life and Ideas of Diogenes the Cynic
Episode 713: Vincent Figueredo - The Curious History of the Heart: A Cultural and Scientific Journey
Episode 712: Larry S. Sherman and Dennis Plies - Every Brain Needs Music: The Neuroscience of Making and Listening to Music
Episode 711: Todd A Finkle - Warren Buffett: Investor and Entrepreneur
Episode 710: Andy Clark - The Experience Machine: How Our Minds Predict and Shape Reality
Episode 709: Kelsy Burke - The Pornography Wars
Episode 708: Michael Gordin - Pseudoscience: A Very Short Introduction
Episode 707: Agur Schiff - Professor Schiff's Guilt
Episode 706: Tara Conklin - Community Board
Episode 705: Jon Burlingame - Music For Prime Time: A History of American Television Themes and Scoring
Episode 704: Emily St John Mandel - Sea of Tranquility
Episode 703: Gaia Bernstein - Unwired: Gaining Control over Addictive Technologies
Episode 702: Carl T. Bogus - Madison's Militia: The Hidden History of the Second Amendment
Episode 701: Gary Smith - Distrust: Big Data, Data-Torturing, and the Assault on Science
Episode 700: Ernest Owens - The Case for Cancel Culture: How This Democratic Tool Works to Liberate Us All
Episode 699: Frank Nischk - Of Cockroaches and Crickets: Learning to Love Creatures That Skitter and Jump
Episode 699: Ulf Danielsson - The World Itself: Consciousness and the Everything of Physics
Episode 698: Grant Faulkner - The Art of Brevity: Crafting the Very Short Story
Episode 697: Reinier de Graaf - architect, verb.: The New Language of Building
Episode 696: Chris Ferrie - Where Did the Universe Come From? And Other Cosmic Questions: Our Universe, from the Quantum to the Cosmos