Episodi

  • Julia Minson: Disagreeing agreeably
    May 12 2026

    Wondering why she and her husband got into frequent spats while practicing competitive ballroom dancing led her to a career in social psychology with a focus on disagreements; not just on why and how we have them, but on how to turn them from toxic to constructive.


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    37 min
  • Ina Garten: Cooking to connect
    May 5 2026

    In her cookbooks and TV shows the Barefoot Contessa uses her early fascination with science to create meals that are not only great to eat but are also ways to connect and communicate.


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    36 min
  • Jon LaPook: Empathic medicine
    Apr 28 2026

    CBS News’ medical correspondent, he also heads the Empathy Project, creating Hollywood-quality short films that train healthcare providers to be more humane and help empower patients to be effective participants in their own care.


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    36 min
  • Valerie Fridland: Yes, you have an accent
    Apr 21 2026

    Whether it’s the accent that hints at your hometown, your group, your social status or your ethnicity, the sounds we say reveal a lot about who we are and where we’ve been – even for those who might think they have no accent at all.




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    38 min
  • David Haskell: When the world burst into bloom
    Apr 14 2026

    Flowering plants were late to evolve, but once they did, they took over most of the planet, connecting and communicating with a network of other living things and making possible our own evolution.


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    37 min
  • Michael Pollan: The mystery and marvel of consciousness
    Apr 7 2026

    Best known for his writings on food – and for his crisp summation of advice for healthy eating – “Eat food. Not too much. Mainly plants” – he has now taken a deep and very personal dive into the nature of consciousness.


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    37 min
  • Edda Fields-Black: The Harriet Tubman you didn’t know
    Mar 31 2026

    The remarkable and little-known story of how Harriet Tubman played a critical role in a daring raid that in 1863 freed some 700 slaves from rice plantations along South Carolina’s Combahee River.


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    37 min
  • Gary Marcus: Is AI mostly hype?
    Mar 24 2026

    For over 20 years he has been a relentless critic of the extravagant claims made for the current generation of AI based on Large Language Models, or LLMs. But he is even more concerned about what may come next.


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    37 min