Inquiring Minds

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

Episodes

Total: 460

Up To Date | Autumn fires and climate change; plastic bottle eating enzymes; singing blue whales
2020/10/8

This week: new research on how climate change is affecting autumn wildfires; a study that attempts t

As the World Burns: The New Generation of Activists
2020/10/1

We talk to journalist and author Lee van der Voo about her new book As the World Burns: The New Gene

Telling the story of climate change with music
2020/9/22

This week we talk to Stephan Crawford about The ClimateMusic Project, an organization that hopes to,

The ways in which our bodies don’t match how the world has been built
2020/9/16

This week we talk to Sara Hendren, an artist, writer, and professor at Olin College of Engineering a

Up To Date | Why Elon Musk’s Neuralink could fail; and the worrying relationship between bad sleep and Alzheimer's disease
2020/9/8

This week: A deep look into new research on the relationship between how you sleep and the likelihoo

Why you talk the way you do, and what it says about you
2020/9/1

We talk to psychologist Katherine Kinzler about her new book How You Say It: Why You Talk the Way Yo

How fraud, bias, negligence, and hype undermine the search for truth
2020/8/17

We talk to Scottish psychologist Stuart Ritchie about his new book Science Fictions: How Fraud, Bias

Why things spread and why they stop
2020/8/6

We talk to mathematician and epidemiologist Adam Kucharski about his recent book The Rules of Contag

Up To Date | Mosquitoes, robots, pupils, beavers, and Earth’s crust
2020/7/28

This week: A new study showing how you can, as a way to control their population, change blood-drink

A Story about Forests, People, and the Future
2020/7/23

We talk to science reporter Zach St. George about his new book The Journeys of Trees: A Story about

From the slave trade to climate change—why corporations defend the indefensible
2020/7/16

We talk to environmental attorney Barbara Freese about her new book Industrial-Strength Denial: Eigh

The Language of Butterflies
2020/7/8

We talk to science writer Wendy Williams about her new book The Language of Butterflies: How Thieves

Up To Date | The Drake equation 2.0; Nanotech yeast; Why are plants green?; Wasp boxing
2020/6/30

This week: New astrophysics research on the likelihood of there being intelligent life on other plan

Where educators go wrong
2020/6/23

We talk to Tony Wagner, a globally recognized expert in education and senior research fellow at the

The history of structural racism in medicine
2020/6/16

We talk to Robert Rosencrans, an MD/PhD student at the The University of Alabama at Birmingham about

How Humans and Matter Transformed One Another
2020/6/9

In her book, The Alchemy of Us: How Humans and Matter Transformed One Another, materials scientist A

Galileo’s fight is still relevant today
2020/6/2

We talk to astrophysicist Mario Livio about his new book Galileo: And the Science Deniers. A note be

A History of the Afterlife
2020/5/26

We talk to noted historian Bart Ehrman about his new book Heaven and Hell: A History of the Afterlif

A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life
2020/5/6

We talk to Lulu Miller, cofounder of NPR's Invisibilia, about her new book Why Fish Don't Exist: A S

The behavioral economics of baseball
2020/4/25

We talk to writer Keith Law about the behavioral economics of baseball and his new book The Inside G