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Coronavirus: How Social Isolation Hurts Us — and How to Prevent It
Sep 15, 2020In the time of COVID social-distancing, loneliness is all around us. Julianne Holt-Lunstad explains how isolation can make the pandemic worse, and how good relationships can protect our health.
Jane Fonda Fights Climate Change With Fire... Drills
Sep 10, 2020The famed actress and activist says she’s learned a lot from getting arrested at her own climate rallies in D.C. last year. She fills us in on the need to address injustice while we fight global warmi...
Failed Stars and Other Strange New Worlds
Sep 03, 2020Jacqueline Faherty from the American Museum of Natural History explains the mysteries of brown dwarfs — bigger than planets, smaller than stars — and reveals how she's improving STEM by making it more...
Coronavirus: Everything You Could Possibly Want to Know About Testing
Sep 01, 2020What type of test should you get, and when? How much can you trust the results? And could rapid screening tests really help us reopen businesses and schools?
Bringing Psychology to Disney, Iraq, and You
Aug 27, 2020Eric Haseltine reveals how he used neuroscience to create best-selling toys and to protect U.S. troops from roadside explosives. He also shares some tips to help you (yes, you!) fix your suboptimal be...
Conspiracies? Fake News? We Connect the Dots
Aug 20, 2020You'd never fall for a conspiracy theory, right? Yeah, keep telling yourself that. Psychologist Rob Brotherton explores the history of conspiracy theories — including a famous fake-news scare that was...
Coronavirus: Long-Term Health Effects
Aug 18, 2020More than 99 percent of people who get COVID-19 recover. But many unknown chronic effects may await those people all the same.
The Day the Dinosaurs Died
Aug 13, 2020It’s the most famous mass extinction of all time, but we’re only just starting to understand the impact that killed the (ancient) dinosaurs. Geophysicist Joanna Morgan takes us to the crater to imagin...
Natalie Portman Is Keeping Science in the Family
Aug 06, 2020She’s famous for her science fiction movies (the “Star Wars” prequels, Thor, Annihilation), but hard science runs through Natalie Portman’s veins. We discuss her early research in chemistry and psycho...
Coronavirus: Back to School?
Aug 04, 2020Arne Duncan — former Secretary of Education under President Obama — walks us through what needs to be done for schools to reopen safely in the fall.