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Big Brains

Translating groundbreaking research into digestible brain food. Big Brains, little bites. Produced b

Episodes

Total: 196

Is it possible that having lunch with your friends is just as important in keeping you alive as exer

If you’ve played Candy Crush, flown on United Airlines, or taken an Uber or Lyft, you’ve been in one

We're taking a summer break during July, but we'll be back in August with new episodes telling the s

Evolutionary biologist Neil Shubin spent six years in the Arctic searching for a fossil that could b

Guest Show - No Jargon

2019/7/1

We're taking a summer break during July, but we'll be back in August with new episodes telling the s

If you want to better understand how Trump has forever changed the American presidency, the history

UChicago economist Raghuram Rajan became infamous for predicting the 2008 financial collapse three y

The “birthers”, “Pizzagate”, anti-vaxxers. Since the election of Donald Trump, it’s seemed that beli

Doctor Valluvan Jeevanandam says that transplantation is a “spiritual journey.” One person’s tragic

When dinosaur hunter and paleontologist Paul Sereno discovered an ancient mass gravesite in the sand

Since the late 1800s, if you were serious about studying biology you went to the Marine Biological L

The development of artificial intelligence has begun to feel inevitable and promising. But Universit

In her book Ghosts In The Schoolyard, University of Chicago scholar Eve Ewing asks a central questi

University of Chicago Professor Harold Pollack may be famous for his “financial index card”, but it’

Every election year, poll after poll tries to predict where millennials stand politically. But Prof.

All around us in the universe, stars and black holes are smashing into each other with tremendous fo

The revelation for historian Kathleen Belew came while researching a 1979 anti-Ku Klux Klan rally in

Big Brains: Back in 2019

2018/12/23

Seasons Greetings! Big Brains will return in January 2019 with some very exciting guests. Until that

As climate change continues to stir concern and debate around the world, Prof. Michael Greenstone kn

David Axelrod departed Washington, D.C. because he knew it’d be hard to top his role in helping Bara