Alcoholism
Neuroscientist John Krystal on alcohol's action on the brain, social and habitual drinking, and why some peopl...
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biology
December 1, 2016
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biology
November 29, 2016
Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)
Molecular Biologist Greg Towers on how HIV is transmitted, the possibilities of an HIV vaccine, and how it hel...
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biology
November 25, 2016
Huntington’s Disease
Molecular Neurogeneticist David Rubinsztein on neurodegenerative diseases, tetrabenazine, and aggregate-prone ...
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Climate
November 23, 2016
Earthquakes
Seismologist Richard Allen on the history of earthquakes, the forces that drive plate tectonics, and new ways ...
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AI
November 21, 2016
Mind-Wandering
Neuroscientist Klaus Linkenkaer-Hansen on the biology of mind-wandering, training one's attention, and the rol...
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physics
November 17, 2016
Higgs Boson
Physicist Daniela Bortoletto on the discovery of the Higgs Boson, the Large Electron-Positron collider, and th...
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Space
November 15, 2016
Gravity
Cosmologist Sergei Odintsov on Newton's law, modifications of general relativity, and the essence of gravity
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economics
November 3, 2016
Free Market
Economist Yaron Brook on economics of a free market, the main principles of the idea, and Ayn Rand's contribut...
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linguistics
November 1, 2016
Australian Languages
Linguist Nicholas Evans on indigenous languages in Australia, their kinship systems and the problem of monolin...
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history
October 26, 2016
Parties of the French Revolution
Historian William Doyle on the political ideas in post-revolutionary France, historical views on the Terror an...
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biology
October 25, 2016
Chemotherapy
Molecular oncologist Matthias Dobbelstein on targeted therapies, gene p53, and DNA damage
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Climate
October 21, 2016
Corals
Coral reef biologist Nancy Knowlton on Charles Darwin's findings, dinoflagellates, and the consequences of glo...
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