Big Brains
A podcast by University of Chicago Podcast Network - Thursdays
199 Episodes
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Engineering A Cure For Cancer With Melody Swartz & Jeffrey Hubbell
Published: 12/23/2021 -
Confronting Gun Violence With Data, With Jens Ludwig
Published: 12/9/2021 -
Best Of: Why Talking to Strangers Will Make You Happier With Nicholas Epley
Published: 12/2/2021 -
Unlocking The Secrets Of Black Holes, With Andrea Ghez
Published: 11/18/2021 -
Do Your Genes Determine Your Success In Life? With Kathryn Paige Harden
Published: 11/4/2021 -
How The UN Aims To Save Humanity, With Chris Williams And Luis Bettencourt
Published: 10/21/2021 -
Combating Our Global Water Crisis Using AI, with Junhong Chen
Published: 10/7/2021 -
Revolutionizing Technology at the Nanoscale, with Paul Alivisatos
Published: 9/23/2021 -
The Science Behind Forming Better Habits, With Katy Milkman
Published: 9/9/2021 -
The Secret Nazi Past and Billionaire Future of U.S. Space Innovation with Jordan Bimm
Published: 8/19/2021 -
How a Genetic Breakthrough Could Address Global Hunger
Published: 8/5/2021 -
Introducing: Entitled
Published: 7/29/2021 -
The Deadly Flaw In Our Judgment, With Cass Sunstein
Published: 7/15/2021 -
A Scientist’s Beef With The Meat Industry, With Impossible Foods’ Pat Brown
Published: 7/1/2021 -
A Surprising Economic Solution To Climate Change With Michael Greenstone
Published: 6/17/2021 -
Solving The Biggest Mysteries Of Our Universe, With Dan Hooper
Published: 6/3/2021 -
Why You’re Likely Paying An Unfair Share of Property Taxes, with Christopher Berry
Published: 5/20/2021 -
Taking Aliens Seriously, with Avi Loeb
Published: 5/6/2021 -
The ‘Five Horsemen of the Techpocalypse’ with Kara Swisher
Published: 4/22/2021 -
Fighting Poverty And Pandemics, with Nobel Economist Michael Kremer
Published: 4/8/2021
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.