Big Brains
A podcast by University of Chicago Podcast Network - Thursdays
200 Episodes
-  The Science Of Speech & Identity With Katherine KinzlerPublished: 22/09/2022
-  Life’s Mysterious Origins With Jack SzostakPublished: 15/09/2022
-  The Afterlife Of Mass Incarceration With Reuben Jonathan MillerPublished: 8/09/2022
-  The Imbalance In Our Society With Raghuram RajanPublished: 1/09/2022
-  Does Welfare Reduce Crime? With Manasi DeshpandePublished: 18/08/2022
-  The Crucial Race To Build A Better Battery With Shirley MengPublished: 4/08/2022
-  Do Animals Dream? With David M. Peña-GuzmánPublished: 21/07/2022
-  Extreme Heat Waves: Why Are They Surging? with Noboru NakamuraPublished: 7/07/2022
-  Why Air Pollution Is Cutting Years Off Our Lives, With Christa Hasenkopf And Anant SudarshanPublished: 23/06/2022
-  How Tax Dodging And Corporate Secrecy Found A Home In Delaware, With Hal WeitzmanPublished: 9/06/2022
-  Why Countries Choose War Over Peace, With Chris BlattmanPublished: 26/05/2022
-  How Death In America Is Changing With Shannon Lee DawdyPublished: 12/05/2022
-  Why We Need To Invest In Parents During A Child's Earliest Years, With Dana SuskindPublished: 28/04/2022
-  The Troubling Rise Of Antibiotic-resistant Superbugs, With Christopher MurrayPublished: 14/04/2022
-  Is Scientific Progress Slowing? with James EvansPublished: 31/03/2022
-  Could We Vaccinate Against Opioid Addiction? With Sandra Comer And Marco PravetoniPublished: 17/03/2022
-  The Man Who Fought To Sanction Putin And Russian Oligarchs, with Bill BrowderPublished: 2/03/2022
-  Why Big Ideas Fail To Scale—And How To Fix It With John ListPublished: 17/02/2022
-  Could Personalizing Laws Make Society More Just? With Omri Ben-ShaharPublished: 3/02/2022
-  How To Stick To Your Resolutions, With Ayelet FishbachPublished: 20/01/2022
Big Brains explores the groundbreaking research and discoveries that are changing our world. In each episode, we talk to leading experts and unpack their work in straightforward terms. Interesting conversations that cover a gamut of topics from how music affects our brains to what happens after we die.
