Big Brains: All Episodes

Translating groundbreaking research into digestible brain food. Big Brains, little bites. Produced out at the University of Chicago. Winner of CASE "Grand Gold" award in 2022, Gold award in 2021, and named Adweek's "Best Branded Podcast" in 2020.

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Episode List

The Deadly Flaw in Our Judgment, with Cass Sunstein (Ep. 73)

Scholar examines persistent decision-making errors in ‘Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment,’ co-authored with Daniel Kahneman and Olivier Sibony

A scientist’s beef with the meat industry, with Impossible Foods’ Pat Brown (Ep. 72)

Founder and CEO ‘cracking the code’ of plant-based products to help save humanity

A Surprising Economic Solution To Climate Change, with Michael Greenstone (Ep. 71)

By outbidding polluters, Climate Vault nonprofit aims to make net-zero emissions a reality

 

Solving the biggest mysteries of our universe, with Dan Hooper (Ep. 70)

Cosmologist discusses what happened after the Big Bang, ‘breaking’ the Standard Model of Physics

Why You’re Likely Paying An Unfair Share of Property Taxes, with Christopher Berry (Ep. 69)

Scholar explains how tax burdens fall on nation’s lowest-income homeowners

 

Taking Aliens Seriously, with Avi Loeb (Ep. 68)

Scientist claims aliens have visited us—and we should invest in searching for extraterrestrials

 

Big Brains podcast: The ‘Five Horsemen of the Techpocalypse’ with Kara Swisher (Ep. 67)

Writer and podcast host shares lessons from decades of covering Big Tech

Fighting Poverty And Pandemics, with Nobel Economist Michael Kremer (Ep. 66)

Economist discusses how randomized control trials can improve poverty interventions

Why Life After Incarceration Is Just Another Prison, with Reuben Jonathan Miller (Ep. 65)

Sociologist examines how system prevents many from regaining citizenship in society

Anthony Fauci On What We Need To Get Over COVID-19 (Ep. 64)

Expert examines impact of vaccines, variants and policies in a post-pandemic world