Bedste Alan Alda-podcasts (2025)

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Julie Sedivy: How Language Shapes Us 41:10

6d ago41:10

41:10

Her new book, Linguaphile: A Life of Language Love is an ode to the power of language to both shape us and be shaped by us. It’s informed by her own experience with languages: she spoke five before learning English as an immigrant to Canada as a child.Af Bobi NYC

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Mala Murthy: From a Fly’s Brain to Yours 37:27

14d ago37:27

37:27

The 500 feet of wiring packed into fruit fly’s brain has been fully mapped – giving insights into how the more that 300,000 miles of wiring packed into your brain generates your thoughts, feelings, perceptions and actions. These insights could also lead to novel treatments for the diseases caused when the wiring goes wrong.…

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Brenda Wineapple: When Evolution Was on Trial 37:57

20d ago37:57

37:57

In 1925, a trial in a small town in Tennessee riveted the nation. In the dock was a young man named John Scopes, charged with violating a state law outlawing the teaching of evolution. The trial exposed fault lines in society that are opening again today, a century later.Af Bobi NYC

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Daniel Levitin: Music as Medicine 40:46

27d ago40:46

40:46

Music can lift our spirits, bring us to tears, spark our creativity, pace our workouts. Neuroscientist and musician Daniel Levitin explores all these benefits of music – and adds the recent scientific evidence that in some chronic medical conditions, music is medicinal.Af Bobi NYC

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Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda - Season 28 trailer 36:32

1M ago36:32

36:32

Alan and Clear and Vivid’s executive producer Graham Chedd chat about and play clips from some of the shows coming up in season 28. A major theme of the season is language –from babies picking up clues about their mother’s language while still in the womb, to male fruit flies singing courtship songs to female fruit flies, to a best-selling novelist…

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Marcia Bjornerud: The Wisdom of Rocks 32:37

1M ago32:37

32:37

Offsprings of the Earth – Earthlings – we are most of us ignorant of the 3.5 billion years of experiments our planet has been through to produce us. Yet the story is there in the rocks all around us – if only we can decipher what they have to say.Af Bobi NYC

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Matt Abrahams: Off the Cuff and in the Zone 40:22

2M ago40:22

40:22

So much of our communication is spontaneous and yet we never really learn or are taught how to do it well – we’re just expected to do it. How to avoid being tongue-tied, whether when called upon to give an impromptu speech or when sitting next to a stranger at a dinner party.Af Bobi NYC

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Dean-David Schillinger: The Power of Patients’ Stories 37:27

2M ago37:27

37:27

Eliciting the story behind a patient’s visit to the hospital can lead to better diagnosis and treatment than medical tests alone – and also reveals much of what needs fixing in health care today.Af Bobi NYC

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Kristin Andrews: Is that spider conscious? 40:53

2M ago40:53

40:53

Alan’s fleeting thought while chasing a spider around the floor sparked a conversation with an animal minds expert who argues that many more creatures than we imagine are conscious. What could this mean for our relationship with the rest of the animal kingdom – including those that annoy us and those we eat?…

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John Pollack: The Surprising Power of Puns and Analogies 39:05

2M ago39:05

39:05

Good analogies led to cheaper cars and Apple computers; bad ones to lives wasted and lost. And while puns might not always make you smile (or grimace), they helped pave the way for written language.Af Bobi NYC

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Jasmin Graham: She’s Down with Sharks 35:38

3M ago35:38

35:38

As a Black graduate student disillusioned with academia, she founded Minorities in Shark Science (MISS). She now pursues her passion for sharks and outreach to a public fearful of sharks as a successful independent researcher.Af Bobi NYC

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Craig Foster: Life Lessons from an Octopus 36:01

3M ago36:01

36:01

For most of us who live in the “tame” modern world, a reminder of how we can refresh ourselves by experiencing the wild world – even the wild world of our backyard or city streets.Af Bobi NYC

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Joshua Greene: Games That Build Bridges 39:46

3M ago39:46

39:46

His research figuring out how our brains make moral judgments has led to two on-line games: One aimed at overcoming political animosity (and that’s fun to play!); the other to satisfy both your head and your heart when you donate to charity.Af Bobi NYC

Podcasts der er værd at lytte til

Alan Alda Podcasts

Podcasts der er værd at lytte til

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Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda

Alan Alda

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Julie Sedivy: How Language Shapes Us 41:10

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Mala Murthy: From a Fly’s Brain to Yours 37:27

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Brenda Wineapple: When Evolution Was on Trial 37:57

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Daniel Levitin: Music as Medicine 40:46

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Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda - Season 28 trailer 36:32

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Marcia Bjornerud: The Wisdom of Rocks 32:37

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Matt Abrahams: Off the Cuff and in the Zone 40:22

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Dean-David Schillinger: The Power of Patients’ Stories 37:27

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Kristin Andrews: Is that spider conscious? 40:53

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John Pollack: The Surprising Power of Puns and Analogies 39:05

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Jasmin Graham: She’s Down with Sharks 35:38

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Craig Foster: Life Lessons from an Octopus 36:01

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Joshua Greene: Games That Build Bridges 39:46

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