Sex in the Middle Ages
Historian Ruth Mazo Karras on church court records, means of contraception, and sex and gender roles in the Mi...
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psychology
August 19, 2016
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neuroscience
August 15, 2016
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Neuroscientist John Krystal on flashbacks, relative merits of different treatments, and brain tissue collectio...
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computer science
August 13, 2016
Evolutionary Algorithms
Computer scientist Joseph Brown on Darwinian evolution, genetic algorithms, and the zombie apocalypse
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astronomy
August 9, 2016
Kuiper Belt
Astronomer David Jewitt on his discovery of the first Kuiper Belt object, origins of comets, and planetary mig...
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biology
August 5, 2016
Hallucinations
Neuroscientist Paul Allen on schizophrenia, self-regulation of neural activity, and famous voice-hearers
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Space
July 30, 2016
Curiosity Rover
Mars Science Laboratory Project Scientist Ashwin Vasavada on finding signs of a habitable environement, the Ra...
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Climate
July 26, 2016
Ice Ages
Geologist Philip Gibbard on Louis Agassiz, the Quaternary, and the Effects of Global Warming
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linguistics
July 20, 2016
Language Acquisition
Linguist Kenneth Wexler on human capacity for language, verb raising in French, and Noam Chomsky's Universal G...
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Climate
July 15, 2016
Geysers
Professor Michael Manga on Robert Bunsen, El Jefe, and "bubble traps"
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neuroscience
July 11, 2016
Bilingualism
Psychologist Ellen Bialystok on simultaneous learning of different writing systems, cognitive reserve, and mul...
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history
July 9, 2016
Silk Road
Historian Valerie Hansen on cultural exchange, the history of the Silk Road, and the historical documents that...
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mathematics
June 28, 2016
Prime Numbers
Mathematician James Maynard on the Riemann Hypothesis, Euclid's proof, and the problems of Paul Erdős
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