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On the show this week we’re joined by naturalist, author, and returning guest Sy Montgomery. Through

On the show this week we’re joined by Brian Butterworth, emeritus professor of cognitive neuropsycho

How do you feel fear and be creative anyway? How is letting your mind wander key to coming up with,

How do you define how painful something is? On the show this week we welcome back physician, writer,

This week we’re joined by Benjamin Ehrlich, author of The Brain in Search of Itself: Santiago Ramón

This week, we examine a recent discovery that certain types of cancer cells may allow us to better u

During the pandemic, one thing we’ve had a little more of--at least sometimes--is time. Time to pani

We can never know what it’s like for a bat to be a bat. Or even if there is something that it is lik

One of the fascinating things about neuroscience is that it gives us something tangible to study in

More than a hundred million people watched the Netflix movie Don’t Look Up, which focused on our fea

In this week’s episode, Indre revisits a topic that has been covered a couple of times on the podcas

2021 Wrap-Up

2021/12/28

In this last episode of 2021, Adam Bristol joins Indre to talk about the major highlights of 2021, o

The holidays are a time for storytelling, and what better story to re-experience than the greatest o

In this episode, Emily Willingham joins Indre to talk about tailoring the brain, a subject on which

In today's up to date episode, Adam Bristol is back to highlight three scientific papers that have c

In early 2020, experts predicted the development of the COVID-19 vaccine would take 12 to 18 months.

The topic of cancer is one that has been addressed more than once before on Inquiring Minds, and tod

Indre continues to pursue her fascination with the neural basis of consciousness in this week’s epis

On the show this week, Adam Bristol introduces Florida’s controversial genetically modified mosquito

We think of consistent water consumption as a necessary component for life… but then there are tardi