Inquiring Minds
Each week we bring you a new, in-depth exploration of the space where science and society collide. We’re committed to the idea that making an effort to understand the world around you though science and critical thinking can benefit everyone—and lead to better decisions. We want to find out what’s true, what’s left to discover, and why it all matters.
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Neal Stephenson - Fall; or, Dodge in Hell
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In Pain: A Bioethicist’s Personal Struggle with Opioids
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Up To Date | Singing Mice; Six Fingered Hands; Dolphin Cliques
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The Age of Living Machines
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A Life in Math and Football
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The State of the Art in Alzheimer's Research
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BONUS: Introducing Science Rules! with Bill Nye
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Salty Erotica of the Deep
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Up To Date | Bioprinting a Liver; Tasting with Genes; Stopping the World’s Worst...
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Completing the Darwinian Revolution
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How Cats Tamed Us and Took Over the World
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How Music Can Make You Better
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Up To Date | Neurogenesis; Predicting Death with AI; Rethinking Nose Jobs
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A Cultural History of Humanity's Search for Meaning
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The Strange Science of Recovery
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The Extraordinary New Science of the Immune System
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Up To Date | Bug census, global warming, young blood, microwaving grapes
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2018’s Best Science Movies (and TV)
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Oculus, Facebook, and the Revolution That Swept Virtual Reality
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Up To Date | Polar Vortex Science, Brainwaves to Speech, Blowing Up the Brain
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Why We Fall for It Every Time
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The Science of How Art Works
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The Science of Perfect Timing
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Up To Date | New Horizons Finds BB-8; Defining Death; Differential Privacy
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The Neuroscience of Prejudice
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Up To Date | Top 10 Science Stories of 2018
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Lessons from the Edge of the Universe
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Up To Date | Hummingbird Divebombs; Collapsing Ice Sheets
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The Laws of Human Nature
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Up To Date | Talking Viruses; Creativity Waves
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She Has Her Mother's Laugh
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Up To Date | Migration Myths and Negative Mass
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Music as Medicine
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Up To Date | Ants with backpacks; Neuron DNA affects Alzheimer's
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A New History of a Lost World
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A Radical New History of Life
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Up To Date | A Polio-Like Virus and Genes Deciding Your University
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What It’s like to Discover a Dinosaur
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Up To Date | Smelling Stingrays and a 16 Billion Scoville Cactus
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Life at the Extremes of Our Capacity
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Up To Date | Election results, stealth moths, and a retired kilogram
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The Beauty and Utility of Maps: A Cartographic Odyssey
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Up To Date | The Definitive Field Guide to Filthy Animal Facts
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What Real-Life Zombies Reveal About Our World
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Up To Date | Doubling worm lifespans; the recent failed Soyuz launch
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The Remarkable History of Surgery
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Up To Date | Nobel Prizes and Electrical Nerve Regeneration
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Being Human in the Age of Algorithms
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China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order
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Steven Pinker: Enlightenment Now
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