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The Doomsday Clock’s ‘Historic Wake-Up Call,’ With Rachel Bronson
Feb 11, 2021The Doomsday Clock has been set at 100 seconds to midnight—as close to total destruction as we were in 2020. But after a year of increasingly dangerous weather and wildfires, not to mention the COVID-...
Unraveling the Mystery of Life’s Origins on Earth, with Jack Szostak
Jan 28, 2021What are the biggest questions in science today: Can we cure cancer, solve the climate crisis, make it to Mars? For Nobel laureate Jack Szostak, the biggest question is still much more fundamental: Wh...
The Urgent Need to Reinvest in American Research, with Barbara Snyder
Jan 14, 2021Our podcast is all about research. Every episode we investigate what scholars have discovered and why it matters. But we’re going to get meta on this episode and look at what makes this research possi...
Getting Out Of The Lab With John List
Dec 22, 2020Our team is taking some time off to be with their families for the holidays. But, just in case you have a long flight, car ride, or maybe need something to do in-between Zoom calls, we’re re-sharing o...
How Alternate Reality Games Are Changing The Real World with Patrick Jagoda and Kristen Schilt
Dec 10, 2020What is the most popular form of media today: Movies? Music? Books? Nope, it’s video games. With 2.5 billion gamers today, games are set to be the type of media that most defines our world. And two sc...
The Science of Empathy, with Peggy Mason
Nov 25, 2020With so many contentious issues in our deeply polarized world, the real or virtual Thanksgiving dinner table may be a hard place to find a lot of empathy this year. As we take a week off to reconnect...
Big Brains Presents: The "Capitalisn't" Podcast
Nov 20, 2020This week, we’re featuring another University of Chicago Podcast Network show. It’s called Capitalisn’t. Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination to the Supreme Court has many focusing on question about how th...
What Remains Unanswered After The 2020 Election, with William Howell and Luigi Zingales
Nov 11, 2020It’s hard to think of a presidential election that has raised as many questions as 2020. What do these results tell us about the views and desires of the American public, what the polls got right and ...
When Governments Share Their Secrets—And When They Don't, with Austin Carson
Oct 29, 2020When should a government choose to reveal a secret—or conceal it? Your knee-jerk reaction may be to say they should never hide anything from the public. But political scientist Austin Carson of the Un...
How We Can Fix a Fractured Supreme Court, with Geoffrey Stone
Oct 15, 2020The Supreme Court today may be more politicized than any other time in U.S. history. With the expected confirmation of Judge Amy Coney Barrett, President Trump will have appointed three justices in le...