Learn to connect better with others in every area of your life. Immerse yourself in spirited conversations with people who know how hard it is, and yet how good it feels, to really connect with other people – whether it’s one person, an audience or a whole country. You'll know many of the people in these conversations – they are luminaries in our culture. Some you may not know. But what links them all is their powerful ability to relate and communicate. It's something we need now more than ever.
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Experiments with mice have shown it’s possible to tinker with and even erase a memory. The goal for neuroscience now is to apply the science to help people struggling with PTSD and other mentally crip...
Michael Shermer: Want to know the truth? (00:36:45)
These days, despite the internet providing us access to every imaginable source of information, the truth is harder than ever to find. A conversation about how to sort truth from fiction and why, mor...
Loretta Ross: Better than calling out? Calling in (00:37:31)
She has spent over 50 years fighting racism, sexism and sexual violence, often fiercely. Now in her 70’s, her experiences have led her to move past anger toward a more empathic relationship with those...
Marc Abrahams: Laugh… then Think (00:37:47)
The Ig Nobel prizes are awarded every year in a ceremony that is as charming as it is ridiculous, awarding research that itself may seem ridiculous at first sight but often turns out to be unexpectedl...
Elena Hoicka: What makes a baby laugh? (00:38:11)
Babies find things funny long before they understand language – surprising even the author of the most detailed study to date of when and how babies and toddlers develop a sense of humor. And the bett...
Marlo Thomas: That Girl who changed Television (00:38:35)
Almost 60 years ago she defied television conventions with her depiction of a young woman succeeding on her own in the big city. And for the last 30 years, along with her own busy career, she's helped...
Morgan McSweeney aka Dr. Noc: Earning trust, delivering truths (00:37:52)
In the almost six years since the beginning of the pandemic he’s developed an on-line personality that’s an exuberant mix of medical expert and next-door neighbor, expressed in engaging videos on TikT...
Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda: Season 32 Trailer (00:24:24)
Alan and executive producer Graham Chedd look ahead to the new season, which includes episodes on how babies who giggle become socially smarter; prizes for science that makes you both laugh and think;...
Alex Pentland: Shared Wisdom (00:38:37)
How technological innovation has shaped our culture, with lessons from history and even from bees. And how these lessons can help tame and curate the information overload that AI is contributing to on...
Jelani Cobb: Journalism at a Crossroads (00:36:42)
The Dean of the Columbia School of Journalism talks about how social media is overtaking traditional newspapers and television as most people’s source of news; what this means for journalism; and how ...
The MASH Gang: How a Television Show Changed Us (01:05:38)
MASH changed Alan’s life as well as the lives of the rest of the MASH cast. In this revisit of a free-wheeling conversation recorded in 2019 Alan, and the gang reminisce about an extraordinary eleven ...
Michael J Fox: Looking Back with Attitude (00:44:45)
Alan revisits a conversation he had with Michael seven years ago, at a time when Fox had been grappling with Parkinson’s Disease for 27 years and Alan for three. As Alan says in this updated episode, ...
Bill McKibben: Tomorrow Will be Sunny (00:40:19)
A confident prediction from the man who first brought our warming planet to public attention some 35 years ago. Energy from solar and wind is now cheaper than traditional fossil fuels and is being rap...
Kate Marvel: Feeling For Our Planet (00:37:16)
In a surprising shift in how we communicate about the climate crisis, Kate Marvel explores the feelings evoked by her research. Her new book tackles what’s happening to our changing planet, each chapt...
Justin Evans: Data Heroes (00:38:13)
Data: dry and boring, right? Not in the hands of Justin Evans, a data expert himself, who set out to show that data is not only the lifeblood of today’s world; it is also the source of moving stories ...
Melanie Kaplan: Travels With a Beagle (00:38:48)
After adopting a beagle that had spent the first four years of his life as an experimental subject in a laboratory, she set out – with Hammy the beagle by her side – to explore the murky world of anim...
Erica Chenoweth: A Better Way to Protest? (00:36:18)
Not only are non-violent protests more effective than armed resistance, but a surprisingly small percentage of the population – around three and a half percent – has been enough to change governments....
Nicky Clayton: Why Crows Are “Feathered Apes” (00:36:04)
With long memories and the ability to figure out what other crows are thinking – then plot to outdo them, using what Nicky Clayton calls “sleight of beak” – crows are at least as smart as chimpanzees...
Steven Pinker: When You Know That I Know That You Know… (00:39:05)
It then becomes “common knowledge,” and can be both beneficial – like cementing friendships or empowering peaceful protests – or destructive, causing a run on toilet paper or splitting society into si...
Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda: Season 31 Trailer (00:31:23)
Alan and Executive Producer Graham Chedd look ahead to next season and some unexpected connections between our first guests. They include best-selling author Steven Pinker, and how you know that I kno...
Leanne Guy: A New Eye on Space (00:34:55)
Perched on a mountain top in Chile, the new Vera Rubin Observatory’s telescope will view the universe as it’s never been seen before, seeking answers to cosmic mysteries like dark energy and dark matt...
Michael Osterholm: Can We Stop The Big One? (00:39:55)
With lessons learned from the Covid pandemic, he points to how we might better tackle the next, inevitable, global pandemic — at a time when science has been all but discarded from the leading governm...
Herman Pontzer: Diversity: Humanity’s Superpower (00:41:08)
Unlike most other land animals, we can live almost anywhere – from deserts, to mountains, rain forests, even the arctic. We are supremely adaptable, and that adaptability has led to our diversity – no...
Stephen Hall: Snakes: Do they Deserve Our Dread? (00:36:34)
Along with revelations about snake sex, their contributions to medicine, that flickering tongue and why slithering is a secret to their success, Stephen Hall goes at least some way to convincing Alan ...
Kyra Davis Lurie: Reimagining Gatsby (00:38:28)
She’s had a love-hate relationship with F. Scott Fitzgerald since she was a teenager. And she’s now written a wonderful new take on The Great Gatsby, reimagining the story with a cast of the Black eli...
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