199 Episodes

  1. Engineering A Cure For Cancer With Melody Swartz & Jeffrey Hubbell

    Published: 12/23/2021
  2. Confronting Gun Violence With Data, With Jens Ludwig

    Published: 12/9/2021
  3. Best Of: Why Talking to Strangers Will Make You Happier With Nicholas Epley

    Published: 12/2/2021
  4. Unlocking The Secrets Of Black Holes, With Andrea Ghez

    Published: 11/18/2021
  5. Do Your Genes Determine Your Success In Life? With Kathryn Paige Harden

    Published: 11/4/2021
  6. How The UN Aims To Save Humanity, With Chris Williams And Luis Bettencourt

    Published: 10/21/2021
  7. Combating Our Global Water Crisis Using AI, with Junhong Chen

    Published: 10/7/2021
  8. Revolutionizing Technology at the Nanoscale, with Paul Alivisatos

    Published: 9/23/2021
  9. The Science Behind Forming Better Habits, With Katy Milkman

    Published: 9/9/2021
  10. The Secret Nazi Past and Billionaire Future of U.S. Space Innovation with Jordan Bimm

    Published: 8/19/2021
  11. How a Genetic Breakthrough Could Address Global Hunger

    Published: 8/5/2021
  12. Introducing: Entitled

    Published: 7/29/2021
  13. The Deadly Flaw In Our Judgment, With Cass Sunstein

    Published: 7/15/2021
  14. A Scientist’s Beef With The Meat Industry, With Impossible Foods’ Pat Brown

    Published: 7/1/2021
  15. A Surprising Economic Solution To Climate Change With Michael Greenstone

    Published: 6/17/2021
  16. Solving The Biggest Mysteries Of Our Universe, With Dan Hooper

    Published: 6/3/2021
  17. Why You’re Likely Paying An Unfair Share of Property Taxes, with Christopher Berry

    Published: 5/20/2021
  18. Taking Aliens Seriously, with Avi Loeb

    Published: 5/6/2021
  19. The ‘Five Horsemen of the Techpocalypse’ with Kara Swisher

    Published: 4/22/2021
  20. Fighting Poverty And Pandemics, with Nobel Economist Michael Kremer

    Published: 4/8/2021

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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.