Huda Zoghbi and Christopher Walsh: Hunting Genes that Damage our Brains

Carla Shatz and Marcus Raichle: Brainwaves: Between them these two neuroscientists changed the way we think of our brains. Their insights are now opening new ways to tackle the problems our brains face as they age, including neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s. by Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda

41 min listen

Fred Guttenberg and Joe Walsh: Two Dads Defending Democracy: Once sworn enemies in TV appearances and on social media, Fred Guttenberg and Joe Walsh got together privately and realized there is much that unites them. They are now on a tour of college campuses hoping to share their success in bridge-building with others divided by hate. by Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda

41 min listen

Craig Venter: Oceans of Genes: Aboard his 100 ft sailboat, the geneticist famed for his work deciphering human genes spent 15 years sailing the world’s oceans, discovering millions of unknown genes in the microbes that live there – genes that could lead to new sources of energy, food and medicine. by Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda

38 min listen

Adam Moss: What Makes it Art?: After a successful career as an award-winning magazine editor, Adam Moss decided to put it all aside to pursue a passion for painting. He became pretty good; but something was missing. His struggle to understand what that something was led him to his new book, The Work of Art. by Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda

41 min listen

Kelly and Zach Weinersmith: A Second Home on Mars?: Should we be planning to establish settlements on the moon and Mars? To many, including a couple of billionaires, the idea has become almost an obsession. An unlikely husband and wife duo has spent years digging deeply into plans to colonize space. Their conclusion: not so fast. by Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda

41 min listen

Rebecca Boyle: Moonstruck: We exist because of the moon. Rebecca Boyle relates the amazing story of how the moon, born of a cataclysmic collision with an infant earth, has shaped our history, our evolution, and even our very existence. by Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda

41 min listen

Doris Kearns Goodwin: In the Rooms Where it Happened: Her new book tracks the momentous events of the 1960s when her husband, Dick Goodwin, worked closely with both JFK and LBJ, and Doris worked with LBJ, as the two very different presidents shaped the future. by Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda

42 min listen

Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda - Season 25 trailer: Alan and Executive Producer Graham Chedd chat about and play excerpts from Alan's conversations with some of the guests in the new season, beginning next week. Guests include newspaper editor Adam Moss; science journalist Rebecca Boyle; and writers Kelly and Zach Weinersmith. by Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda

21 min listen

Stephen Dubner: Feynman on Our Mind: Stephen Dubner, host of Freakonomics Radio, has long been fascinated by the great physicist Richard Feynman. As has Alan. Stephen has devoted a year to making a remarkable podcast series on Feynman, and Alan has played Feynman on the stage for a year. They compare notes on what they’ve come to learn about him. by Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda

40 min listen

Remembering Frans de Waal: In this special episode of Clear and Vivid we reflect on Frans’ life-long commitment to revealing how much we humans have in common with our primate cousins. by Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda

16 min listen

Justice Stephen Breyer: Understanding What They Meant: When interpreting the Constitution, the dangers of relying solely on the words and what they meant at the time, without taking into account the purpose and values expressed in those words. by Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda

40 min listen

Shohini Ghose: Women’s Time and Space: A leading physicist herself, Shohini Ghose has wonderful stories about the trials and triumphs of the many mostly unsung women whose work helped open up the universe. by Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda

40 min listen

Tali Sharot: Take Another Look: We can get used to things to the point where even something we once thought wonderful can lose its luster. More sinister, we can also get used to the drip, drip of falsehoods till we become dulled to their danger. How to overcome habituation, and even take advantage of it. by Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda

42 min listen

Keith Houston: There’s More to Writing Than Words.: The intriguing stories behind the often weird and baffling origins of punctuation and other symbols we use to communicate. And it’s not just commas, colons and periods. There are pilcrows, octothorps, interrobangs and a whole menagerie more. by Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda

39 min listen

Terry Greiss: Acting to Connect: The Irondale Ensemble Project, a theater company rooted in improvisation, created a program to help police and community build trust and mutual understanding through theater games. by Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda

40 min listen

Robert Sapolsky: You Have No Choice: You may think you were free to choose that chocolate ice cream over the vanilla. But maybe the choice was made for you before you were even born – that the free will you believe you are exercising in your everyday decisions is an illusion. by Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda

41 min listen

Tom Hanks: Making a Book About Making a Movie: And what a book it is, a rich sprawling novel called The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece, which Tom himself describes as a “primer on the long slog of bringing an idea from somebody’s head to a theater near you.” by Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda

39 min listen

Paul Bloom: Can AI be Moral?: Why can’t AI bots be made to be good, to be moral, so they’ll help us and not do harmful or terrible things? But just whose moral values would we want them to have? And what if they become too moral? by Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda

42 min listen

Eric Schmidt: AI: The Good, the Bad and the Scary.: He was for many years the CEO of Google where he had a bird’s eye view of the dramatic evolution of artificial intelligence. And while he is alarmed by the many dangers of AI, especially its ability to create fake people in this election year, he is also enthusiastic about the huge opportunities he sees for AI benefitting medicine, education and the tackling of global problems like climate change. by Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda

40 min listen

Fei-Fei Li: The Godmother of AI: She earned that unofficial title from her peers through her pioneering work harvesting big data to power AI, leading to the recent breakthroughs such as ChatGPT and its many successors. Her personal story is inspiring, from her childhood in China to risking her scientific career on a research gamble that might well have failed. And like a real godmother she now feels responsible for the revolution she helped launch. by Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda

43 min listen

Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda - Season 24 trailer: Alan and Executive Producer Graham Chedd chat about and play excerpts from Alan's conversations with some of the guests in the new season, beginning next week. Guests include computer scientist Fei-Fei Li; former CEO of Google Eric Schmidt; and actor Tom Hanks. by Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda

32 min listen

Cynthia Breazeal: Her Robots Have Warmth!: Their social, communicative and emotional skills allow her robots to seamlessly collaborate with us. A pioneer in the field of social robotics, Cynthia Breazeal is now turning her focus to ensuring we understand the limits and risks of the artificial intelligence that powers those robots – that we become “AI literate.” by Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda

40 min listen

Abraham Amiri: From Afghanistan to the Stars: An unquenchable passion for astronomy born from gazing at the stars from a rooftop as a child led to his setting up a nationwide program in astronomy in Afghanistan. Escaping the wrath of the Taliban for the sin of teaching young women about the universe, he is now a graduate student at UCLA. by Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda

41 min listen

Steve Inskeep: Lessons from Lincoln: A new book takes a fresh look at Abraham Lincoln’s life by recounting sixteen face-to-face encounters Lincoln had with people who differed with him, sometimes vehemently. The book not only reveals his skills as a master politician in a deeply divisive time, but also has lessons for today. by Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda

38 min listen

Leslie Odom Jr: Bursting Out: A Tony winner for his performance as Aaron Burr in Hamilton, he is now starring on Broadway in the hit play Purlie Victorious. One of the secrets to his success: letting go. by Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda

38 min listen

Kate Cohen: Asks if You Need God to be Good: It took her years to admit to family and friends that she was a non-believer. But she found that pretending to believe wasn’t working. Her book is “We of Little Faith: Why I Stopped Pretending to Believe, And Maybe You Should Too." by Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda

41 min listen

Peter Hotez: The Deadly Rise of Anti-Science: In his new book, the doctor familiar on TV in his white coat and bow tie tells how his attempts to correct lies about covid vaccines led to death threats; while the lies themselves led to some 200,000 unnecessary deaths among those refusing vaccination. by Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda

41 min listen

Heather Cox Richardson: She’ll Write You a Letter: Two million of us get a letter in our inboxes every morning with a calm, clarifying take on what happened yesterday— from the perspective of a historian, yet written with the intimacy of a friend. by Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda

42 min listen

David Brooks: How to Know a Person: Columnist and author David Brooks tells how he’s changed over his 60 something years – in part through the books he’s written exploring how people see themselves and others. He shares the insights he’s gained into truly knowing the people around us. by Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda

43 min listen

Marcus du Sautoy: Around the World in 80 Games: Enjoy playing games? You’ll enjoy them even more once renowned mathematician, Oxford University professor and avid game player Marcus du Sautoy tells Alan why they so fascinate us. And Alan tells Marcus about his favorite game – one even Marcus didn’t know. by Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda

41 min listen

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Huda Zoghbi and Christopher Walsh: Hunting Genes that Damage our Brains

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