
Kafui Dzirasa: An Electrical Path to Mental Health?
18 March - 39 minsA psychiatrist, engineer and neuroscientist, Kaf Dzirasa is researching ways to reengineer the brain to make it better able to cope with stress and so improve mental health.

Bill Pullman: From a Stage Fall to Curtain Calls
A chat with an actor who does it all. After recovering from a near fatal fall on stage as his career was beginning, Bill Pullman has not only had a busy and award-winning career on stage, screen and television, he’s also getting into science communication – while working on a one-man play and making hard cider for his friends and neighbors.
41 mins
1 April Finished

Alison Wood Brooks: Talking About Talk
How the letters in the acronym TALK can have a profound effect on the next conversation you have.
42 mins
25 March Finished

Shannon Vallor: The AI Illusion
Artificial intelligence is poised to reshape our world, in many ways for the better. But the gains come with great risks – above all that its seductive appeal lulls us into believing that AI machines know better than we do.
41 mins
11 March Finished

Malcolm Gladwell: Tipping Points Old and New
His new book Revenge of The Tipping Point takes a fresh look at the tipping points of social change he opened our eyes to 25 years ago – and unearths unexpected explanations for such new questions as: what really drove the opioid crisis, why diversity matters, and why Harvard University has a women’s rugby team.
39 mins
4 March Finished

Ann Patchett: Bel Canto Revisited
In a remarkable and illuminating tour de force, the novelist recently took a fresh look at her best-known book, going through it line by line and annotating it with handwritten notes in the margins – notes on things she both loved and hated. “It shows,” she says, “a lot about how to write a novel.”
42 mins
25 February Finished