
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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Episodes (942)
111 Steve Croft - The Feeding Habits of Supermassive Black Holes
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110 Cady Coleman - Our Calling to Space
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109 Dava Newman - The Future of Space Exploration
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108 Adam Galinsky & Maurice Schweitzer - The Science of Sex, Power, and Competit...
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107 Ariel Waldman - Hacking Science
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106 Brad Bushman - The Science of Gun Violence
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105 Brad Voytek - We Neuroscientists Don't Really Know What Your Brain Is Doing
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104 Justin Rubinstein - Humans Are Causing Earthquakes in Oklahoma
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103 M. R. O'Connor - Resurrection Science and the Precarious Future of Wild Thin...
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102 Beth Shapiro - The Science of De-Extinction
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101 Lucky Yates - The Science of Archer
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100 Steve Silberman - Remembering Oliver Sacks / The Legacy of Autism
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99 Marc Lewis - Why Addiction Is Not a Disease
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98 Fred Perlak - Inside the Mind of a Monsanto Scientist
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97 Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis - How Music Plays the Mind
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96 David Casarett - A Doctor's Case for Medical Marijuana
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95 Wade Roush - How Disasters Affect Science
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94 Michael Hiltzik - The Invention That Launched the Military-Industrial Complex
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93 Alvin Roth - The New Economics of Who Gets What—and Why
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92 Will Walker & Kevin Czinger - The Future of 3D Printing
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91 Rachel Kalmar - The Power of Wearable Technology
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90 Will Smith & Norman Chan - Understanding Virtual Reality
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89 Eric Cheng - The Science Behind Drones
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88 Alan Levinovitz - The Gluten Lie
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87 Stephen Dubner - Freakonomics and the Danger of Certainty
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86 Adam Rogers - The Science of Booze
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85 James Krupa - Teaching Evolution in Kentucky
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84 Ivan Oransky - The Fetishization of Scientific Papers
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83 Traci Mann - The Science of Weight Loss
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82 Alex Garland - The Science of Ex Machina
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81 Sanjoy Mahajan - Street-Fighting Mathematics
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80 Norman Doidge - How Plastic Is Your Brain?
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79 Ken Caldeira - Can Geoengineering Save the Planet?
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78 Bill Gifford - Can Science Keep You Young Forever?
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77 Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo - Sugar Science
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76 Jonathan Eisen - The Tiny World of Microbes Inside You
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75 Kevin Kelly - What Technology Wants
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74 Kathleen Hall Jamieson - Fact Checking Science
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73 David J. Morris - The History and Science of PTSD
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72 Andy Weir - The Science of The Martian
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71 Ed Boyden - Blowing Up the Brain
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70 Brian Fisher - The Real Ant-Man
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69 Katie Mack - Dark Matter: Invisible, and Probably Flying through You Right No...
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68 Matt Walker - Why Did We Evolve to Sleep?
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67 Gabriele Oettingen - Rethinking Positive Thinking
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66 Adam Savage - The Joy of Being a Maker
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65 Matt Parker - Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension
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64 Sharman Apt Russell - Chasing Tiger Beetles as a Citizen Scientist
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63 Donald Johanson - Lucy's Legacy, 40 Years Later
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62 Christine Kenneally - How DNA and History Shape Our Identities and Our Future...
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