AMA | May 2025
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Episode 312 | Thomas Levenson on The Mutual History of Humans and Germs
The germ theory of disease is a crowning achievement of science, up there with modern physics, continental drift, and evolution
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311 | Annaka Harris on Whether Consciousness Is Fundamental
Questions about consciousness range from the precise and empirical — what neurons fire when I have some particular experience —
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AMA | April 2025
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310 | Marc Kamionkowski on Dark Energy and Cosmic Anomalies
Cosmologists were, let us be honest, pretty stunned in 1998 when observations revealed that the universe is accelerating. There was
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309 | Christof Koch on Consciousness and Integrated Information
Consciousness is easier to possess than to define. One thing we can do is to look into the brain and
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308 | Alison Gopnik on Children, AI, and Modes of Thinking
We often study cognition in other species, in part to learn about modes of thinking that are different from our
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AMA | March 2025
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307 | Kevin Peterson on the Theory of Cocktails
A lot of science goes into crafting the perfect cocktail. Balancing sweet and bitter notes, providing the right amount of
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306 | Helen Czerski on Our Energetic Oceans
It is commonplace to refer to the Earth’s oceans as vast and largely unexplored. But we do understand some aspects,
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