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Inquiring Minds

Each week we bring you a new, in-depth exploration of the space where science and society collide. W

Episodes

Total: 461

Indre talks to science writer Abigail Tucker about her book The Lion in the Living Room: How House C

Indre wrote a book! It’s called How Music Can Make You Better and this week we hear all about it.Sup

A careful look into research on whether or not we can generate new neurons as adults; new research i

We talk to Jeremy Lent about his book The Patterning Instinct: A Cultural History of Humanity's Sear

We talk to Christie Aschwanden about her new book Good To Go: What the athlete in all of us can lear

We talk to Matt Richtel about his new book An Elegant Defense: The Extraordinary New Science of the

A study taking a deep look into insect populations and their decline; bad news about global warming

We talk to Jennifer Ouellette, science writer and former director of The Science & Entertainment Exc

We talk to Blake J. Harris about his new book The History of the Future: Oculus, Facebook, and the R

The science behind the polar vortex, a new study attempting to directly translate brain signals into

We talk to New York Times best-selling science writer Maria Konnikova about her book The Confidence

We talk to psychologist Ellen Winner about her new book How Art Works: A Psychological Exploration.S

We talk to bestselling author Daniel Pink about his latest book When: The Scientific Secrets of Perf

This week: The New Horizons spacecraft took pictures of an object in the Kuiper belt; a study that b

We talk to David Amodia, a social neuroscientist and psychology professor at NYU and the University

This week: Kishore looks back through 2018 and lays out his favorite science stories of the year.Sup

We talk to Dave Williams, a Canadian astronaut, neuroscientist, physician, and author of the new boo

This week: A study looking into how male hummingbirds divebomb fast enough that their tail feathers

The Laws of Human Nature

2018/12/17

We talk to author Robert Greene, most known for the bestselling The 48 Laws of Power, about his new

This week: A look into quorum sensing, a field of research looking into if bacteria, particularly ba