Inquiring Minds

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

Episodes

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On the show this week we talk to cognitive scientist Paul Bloom about the morality of babies. Most

On the show this week we welcome guest host David Corn, political journalist and Washington bureau c

On the show this week Indre talks to Adam Savage about the future of science communication (and why

On the show this week we talk to author William Gibson about time travel, cronuts, and his new 22nd

On the show this week we talk to Steven Johnson, author of the new book How We Got to Now: Six Innov

On the show this week we talk to cognitive psychologist, neuroscientist, musician, and writer Daniel

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On the show this week we talk to former Vice President Al Gore. He shares his thoughts on President

On the show this week we talk to Dartmouth political scientist Brendan Nyhan, who has focused much o

On the show this week we talk about randomness with science writer William Poundstone, author of the

"Its Islam over everything."So read the Twitter bio of Douglas McAuthur McCain—or, as he r

One of the most difficult parts of getting a Ph.D. is finishing your dissertation. Beyond the mounta

On the political right, it's pretty popular these days to claim that the left exaggerates scientific

On the show this week we talk to University of Pennsylvania professor of medicine David Casarett abo

Charles Dickens, perhaps the greatest of the Victorian novelists, was a man of strict routine. Every

What makes a great athlete? Talent? Training? Or is mostly genetic?On the show this week we get some

You don't know it yet. There's no way that you could. But 400 years from now, a historian will write

On the show this week we welcome Arthur I. Miller—physics Ph.D., science historian, philosopher—and

It's the 4th of July, and you love your country. Your likely next step: Fire off some small scale ex