Inquiring Minds

Up To Date | The Definitive Field Guide to Filthy Animal Facts

This week Kishore catches up with previous guests Nick Caruso and Dani Rabaiotti to talk about...

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What Real-Life Zombies Reveal About Our World

We talk to science writer at Wired magazine Matt Simon about his new book Plight of the Living...

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Up To Date | Doubling worm lifespans; the recent failed Soyuz launch

This week: A new study attempts to extend the life of worms and what it might mean for us; and a...

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A Radical New History of Life

We talk to science writer David Quammen about his new book The Tangled Tree: A Radical New...

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Up To Date | A Polio-Like Virus and Genes Deciding Your University

Up To Date | A Polio-Like Virus and Genes Deciding Your University

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The Remarkable History of Surgery

We talk to Arnold Van de Laar, a surgeon in the Slotervaart Hospital in Amsterdam, about his new...

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Up To Date | Nobel Prizes and Electrical Nerve Regeneration

This week: We recap the 2018 Nobel Prizes and look at a study exploring a new way to use...

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Being Human in the Age of Algorithms

We talk to mathematician and science writer Hannah Fry about her latest book Hello World: Being...

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China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order

We talk to artificial intelligence expert and former president of Google China Kai-Fu Lee about...

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Steven Pinker: Enlightenment Now

We talk with cognitive psychologist Steven Pinker about his recent book Enlightenment Now: The...

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The Coyote Story

We talk to writer and historian Dan Flores about his book Coyote America: A Natural and...

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Up To Date | Do Apple's Health Claims Check Out?

This week: Kishore takes a closer look at some of the health claims made during the recent Apple...

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How Sloppy Science Creates Worthless Cures, Crushes Hope, and Wastes Billions

We talk to celebrated science journalist Richard Harris about the “reproducibility crisis” in...

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How Intuition and Reason Divide Our Politics

We talk to political scientist Eric Oliver about the surprisingly high percentage of people who...

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Up To Date | Attention Is an Illusion; Ant Highways

This week: A new study shows we only focus on something a few milliseconds at a time, but we...

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A Pianist Rebuilds Her Brain

We talk to author Andrea J. Buchanan about her experience with a brain injury and how she used...

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Up To Date | Monsanto Cancer Case and Kids Believe Lying Robots

This week: A jury decided that Monsanto’s Roundup caused a man’s cancer but the science is murky...

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The Material That Will Revolutionize the World

We talk to chemist Joseph Meany about his book Graphene: The Superstrong, Superthin, and...

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Up To Date | Google Glass Lives! and Breaking Dog Urine News

This week: A Standford study used Google Glass to help kids with autism understand others...

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Up To Date | How Plants Tell Time, Lab-Grown Pig Lungs, Stolen Fields Medal

This week: A new study from the University of Bristol showing the way plants accumulate sugar...

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