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Podcast Profile: To The Best Of Our Knowledge

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705 episodes
2014 to 2025
Median: 51 minutes
Collection: SciPhi-Adjacent

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This podcast, "To The Best Of Our Knowledge," delves into a diverse array of topics that explore profound ideas and questions about human life, society, and the natural world. Each episode showcases deep, intimate interviews with experts, including philosophers, artists, scientists, and historians, aiming to engage listeners in thoughtful, open-minded conversations.

Across episodes, the podcast frequently examines human experiences and societal phenomena through different lenses, such as the impacts of digital technology on privacy and identity, the complexities of climate change, and the intricacies of time and history. Episodes grapple with philosophical inquiries about the nature of life and knowledge, blending scientific insights with speculative thought. The show’s exploration extends to the human psyche, touching on the role of dreams, the effects of trauma, and the pursuit of happiness on both personal and societal levels.

The podcast also highlights cultural and historical perspectives, from examining traditional music and literature to discussions on tribal sovereignty and the portrayal of history. In addition to current and historical issues, the episodes often explore imaginative and speculative themes, such as the potential of psychedelics in mental health or the societal impacts of artificial intelligence.

Furthermore, the podcast features stories that evoke wonder and curiosity about the world, including the mystery of animal communication and the ancient art of mapmaking. It invites listeners to reflect on their connection to the world, whether through the bond with pets, the food we cherish, or the unseen magic in everyday life.

In its sound-rich storytelling, this podcast offers a platform for insightful dialogue and diverse perspectives, seeking to foster a sense of connection and shared humanity among its audience.

Episodes:

Giving Up 2025-Sep-13 52 minutes

Deep Time: Reclaim the Night 2025-Sep-06 51 minutes

Island of Knowledge: Human Flourishing 2025-Aug-30 51 minutes

The Sum of Our Data 2025-Aug-23 51 minutes

To All The Dogs We've Loved 2025-Aug-16 51 minutes

In Search of 'Real' Food 2025-Aug-09 52 minutes

Playing with Words 2025-Aug-02 51 minutes

Writing the Climate Change Story 2025-Jul-26 52 minutes

Deep Time: The Tyranny of Time 2025-Jul-19 52 minutes

Island of Knowledge: What is Life? 2025-Jul-12 51 minutes

Everyday Magic 2025-Jul-05 51 minutes

Cultivating Wonder 2025-Jun-28 52 minutes

How Should We Tell Our History? 2025-Jun-21 51 minutes

Cult of the Self 2025-Jun-14 51 minutes

Deep Time: Infinity is Forever 2025-Jun-07 52 minutes

Avian Obsessions 2025-May-31 51 minutes

In Your Dreams 2025-May-24 51 minutes

Beyond Death 2025-May-17 51 minutes

For The Love Of Moms 2025-May-10 51 minutes

Love in the Time of Extinction 2025-May-03 52 minutes

Docupoetry 2025-Apr-26 52 minutes

On Pilgrimage with Dorothy Day 2025-Apr-19 51 minutes

Off The Map 2025-Apr-12 52 minutes

Welcome to the Island of Knowledge 2025-Apr-05 52 minutes

Listening to Whales 2025-Mar-29 52 minutes

Deep Time: The Cosmos and Us 2025-Mar-22 52 minutes

Jazz Migrations 2025-Mar-15 51 minutes

We Need to Talk About COVID 2025-Mar-08 51 minutes

What is tribal sovereignty? 2025-Mar-01 52 minutes

Being Body Conscious 2025-Feb-22 52 minutes

Deep Time: The Art of Time 2025-Feb-15 51 minutes

The Spirit of Jim Thorpe 2025-Feb-08 51 minutes

Surviving in the Age of Disaster 2025-Feb-01 51 minutes

In Journalism We Trust 2025-Jan-25 51 minutes

Retreat from the Day-to-Day Life 2025-Jan-18 51 minutes

Luminous: What Can Psychedelics Teach Us About Dying? 2025-Jan-11 52 minutes

Tasting the Past 2025-Jan-04 51 minutes

Reframing the Portrait 2024-Dec-28 51 minutes

Deep Time: Reclaim the Night 2024-Dec-21 51 minutes

Giving Up 2024-Dec-14 52 minutes

Plant Intelligence 2024-Dec-07 51 minutes

Does AI dream? 2024-Nov-30 51 minutes

The Sum of Our Data 2024-Nov-23 51 minutes

Let's Celebrate Crying 2024-Nov-16 51 minutes

Playing with Words 2024-Nov-09 51 minutes

Luminous: Is It The Drug Or Is It The Trip? 2024-Nov-02 52 minutes

Generation Witch 2024-Oct-26 52 minutes

In Your Dreams 2024-Oct-19 51 minutes

Everyday Magic 2024-Oct-12 51 minutes

One Nation Under God? 2024-Oct-05 52 minutes

Cult of the Self 2024-Sep-28 51 minutes

Beyond Death 2024-Sep-21 51 minutes

Docupoetry 2024-Sep-14 52 minutes

Off The Map 2024-Sep-07 52 minutes

What Sparks Creativity? 2024-Aug-31 52 minutes

Listening to Whales 2024-Aug-24 52 minutes

Going for Broke: Can Work Be Love? 2024-Aug-17 51 minutes

Going for Broke: Making Up Our Minds 2024-Aug-10 51 minutes

Going for Broke: Change of Address 2024-Aug-03 52 minutes

Love in the Time of Extinction 2024-Jul-27 52 minutes

Deep Time: The Cosmos and Us 2024-Jul-20 52 minutes

What is tribal sovereignty? 2024-Jul-13 52 minutes

Luminous: Can psychedelics be decolonized? 2024-Jul-06 52 minutes

Against Capitalism 2024-Jun-29 52 minutes

The Spirit of Jim Thorpe 2024-Jun-22 51 minutes

In Journalism We Trust 2024-Jun-15 51 minutes

The Hidden Geometry of Everything 2024-Jun-08 51 minutes

Avian Obsessions 2024-Jun-01 51 minutes

Tasting the Past 2024-May-25 51 minutes

Being Body Conscious 2024-May-18 52 minutes

For The Love Of Moms 2024-May-11 51 minutes

Reframing the Portrait 2024-May-04 51 minutes

Giving Up 2024-Apr-27 52 minutes

Deep Time: How Earth Keeps Time 2024-Apr-20 52 minutes

Luminous: Your Brain on Shrooms 2024-Apr-13 52 minutes

Total Eclipse and Other Wonders 2024-Apr-06 52 minutes

Does AI dream? 2024-Mar-30 51 minutes

Let's Celebrate Crying 2024-Mar-23 51 minutes

Taking Pop Seriously 2024-Mar-16 51 minutes

One Nation Under God? 2024-Mar-09 52 minutes

Decolonizing the Mind 2024-Mar-02 51 minutes

In Your Dreams 2024-Feb-24 52 minutes

Luminous: What Can Psychedelics Teach Us About Dying? 2024-Feb-17 52 minutes

To All The Dogs We've Loved 2024-Feb-10 51 minutes

Listen to this: The What, Why and How of Intellectual Humility 2024-Feb-07 33 minutes

Cult of the Self 2024-Feb-03 51 minutes

Losing Yourself in Fantasy 2024-Jan-27 52 minutes

Year of Return 2024-Jan-20 52 minutes

Docupoetry 2024-Jan-13 52 minutes

Deep Time: The Tyranny of Time 2024-Jan-06 52 minutes

Out of the Anxiety Box 2023-Dec-30 52 minutes

Cultivating Wonder 2023-Dec-23 52 minutes

Luminous: Is it the drug or is it the trip? 2023-Dec-16 52 minutes

Off The Map 2023-Dec-09 52 minutes

How Should We Tell Our History? 2023-Dec-02 51 minutes

Shapeshifting 2023-Nov-25 51 minutes

Deep Time: The Cosmos and Us 2023-Nov-18 51 minutes

Whose Land Is It? 2023-Nov-11 51 minutes

Against Capitalism 2023-Nov-04 52 minutes

Building Twisted Worlds 2023-Oct-28 51 minutes

Luminous: Can Psychedelics Be Decolonized? 2023-Oct-21 52 minutes

The Spirit of Jim Thorpe 2023-Oct-14 51 minutes

Astonishing African Futures 2023-Oct-07 51 minutes

Being Body Conscious 2023-Sep-30 51 minutes

Reframing the Portrait 2023-Sep-23 51 minutes

Rethinking David Foster Wallace 2023-Sep-16 51 minutes

Going for Broke: Can Work Be Love? 2023-Sep-09 51 minutes

Going for Broke: Making Up Our Minds 2023-Sep-02 51 minutes

Going for Broke: Change of Address 2023-Aug-26 52 minutes

Deep Time: How Earth Keeps Time 2023-Aug-19 52 minutes

Forged By Hand 2023-Aug-12 51 minutes

Let's Celebrate Crying 2023-Aug-05 51 minutes

Taking Pop Seriously 2023-Jul-29 51 minutes

In Search of 'Real' Food 2023-Jul-22 62 minutes

Luminous: Your Brain on Shrooms 2023-Jul-15 52 minutes

You Had To Be There 2023-Jul-08 52 minutes

On the Road Again 2023-Jul-01 51 minutes

Your Miraculous And Mysterious Body 2023-Jun-24 52 minutes

Avian Obsessions 2023-Jun-17 51 minutes

To All The Dogs We've Loved 2023-Jun-10 51 minutes

Deep Time: The Tyranny of Time 2023-Jun-03 52 minutes

Eye-To-Eye Animal Encounters 2023-May-27 51 minutes

Why Do We Have So Much Stuff? 2023-May-20 51 minutes

For The Love Of Moms 2023-May-13 51 minutes

A Parenting Revolution 2023-May-06 51 minutes

Decolonizing the Mind 2023-Apr-29 51 minutes

The World is a Laboratory 2023-Apr-22 51 minutes

Losing Yourself in Fantasy 2023-Apr-15 52 minutes

Luminous: What Can Psychedelics Teach Us About Dying? 2023-Apr-08 51 minutes

Year of Return 2023-Apr-01 52 minutes

Out of the Anxiety Box 2023-Mar-25 52 minutes

Cultivating Wonder 2023-Mar-18 51 minutes

Journeys Through Gender 2023-Mar-11 51 minutes

As Read By The Author 2023-Mar-04 51 minutes

How Should We Tell Our History? 2023-Feb-25 51 minutes

Walk With Me 2023-Feb-18 51 minutes

Against Capitalism 2023-Feb-11 52 minutes

Shapeshifting 2023-Feb-04 51 minutes

How To Be An Ethical Traveler 2023-Jan-28 51 minutes

You're Not Ok. That's Ok. 2023-Jan-21 51 minutes

The Spirit of Jim Thorpe 2023-Jan-14 51 minutes

The Hidden Geometry of Everything 2023-Jan-07 51 minutes

Time Beyond The Clock 2022-Dec-31 51 minutes

When Mountains Are Gods 2022-Dec-24 51 minutes

Writing As A Political Act 2022-Dec-17 51 minutes

Astonishing African Futures 2022-Dec-10 51 minutes

Forged By Hand 2022-Dec-03 51 minutes

Taking Pop Seriously 2022-Nov-26 51 minutes

Going for Broke: Can Work Be Love? 2022-Nov-19 51 minutes

Going for Broke: Making Up Our Minds 2022-Nov-12 51 minutes

Going for Broke: Change of Address 2022-Nov-05 52 minutes

Generation Witch 2022-Oct-29 51 minutes

Our Time of Mourning 2022-Oct-22 52 minutes

The Tangled Roots of War and Peace 2022-Oct-15 51 minutes

Can An Evil Man Be A Decent Person? 2022-Oct-08 52 minutes

To All The Dogs We've Loved 2022-Oct-01 51 minutes

Writing Truth and Lies 2022-Sep-24 52 minutes

Losing Yourself in Fantasy 2022-Sep-17 52 minutes

Telling A Life 2022-Sep-10 52 minutes

Year of Return 2022-Sep-03 52 minutes

The Secret Language of Trees 2022-Aug-27 52 minutes

Eye-To-Eye Animal Encounters 2022-Aug-20 51 minutes

Saving Democracy from Demagogues 2022-Aug-13 51 minutes

Journeys Through Gender 2022-Aug-06 51 minutes

Walk With Me 2022-Jul-30 51 minutes

Reading While Young 2022-Jul-23 51 minutes

Whose Land Is It? 2022-Jul-16 51 minutes

Decolonizing the Mind 2022-Jul-09 51 minutes

Are you ready for the psychedelic revolution? 2022-Jul-02 51 minutes

Shapeshifting 2022-Jun-25 51 minutes

You're Not Ok. That's Ok. 2022-Jun-18 51 minutes

Mysteries of Migration 2022-Jun-11 51 minutes

As Read By The Author 2022-Jun-04 52 minutes

The Hidden Geometry of Everything 2022-May-28 51 minutes

Living With Loneliness 2022-May-21 51 minutes

How To Be An Ethical Traveler 2022-May-14 51 minutes

Writing As A Political Act 2022-May-07 51 minutes

Our Virtual Reality 2022-Apr-30 51 minutes

Listen to This: Talk Easy featuring Ocean Vuong 2022-Apr-24 17 minutes

Poetry in a Troubled Time 2022-Apr-23 51 minutes

Plants As Persons 2022-Apr-16 51 minutes

Forged By Hand 2022-Apr-09 51 minutes

Writing the Climate Change Story 2022-Apr-02 51 minutes

Taking Pop Seriously 2022-Mar-26 51 minutes

Secrets of Alchemy 2022-Mar-19 51 minutes

When Mountains Are Gods 2022-Mar-12 51 minutes

The Tangled Roots of War and Peace 2022-Mar-05 51 minutes

Growing Justice 2022-Feb-26 51 minutes

Worshipping Waterfalls: The Evolution of Belief 2022-Feb-19 52 minutes

Rewriting the Romance Script 2022-Feb-12 51 minutes

To All The Dogs We've Loved 2022-Feb-05 51 minutes

Our Time of Mourning 2022-Jan-29 52 minutes

Searching for Order in the Universe 2022-Jan-22 51 minutes

Journeys Through Gender 2022-Jan-15 51 minutes

A Parenting Revolution 2022-Jan-08 51 minutes

Time Beyond The Clock 2022-Jan-01 51 minutes

The Power of Pleasure and Joy 2021-Dec-25 51 minutes

Whose Land Is It? 2021-Dec-18 51 minutes

Reading While Young 2021-Dec-11 51 minutes

If Your Clothes Could Talk 2021-Dec-04 52 minutes

Rethinking the Holidays 2021-Nov-27 51 minutes

Shapeshifting 2021-Nov-20 51 minutes

Living With Loneliness 2021-Nov-13 51 minutes

Decolonizing the Mind 2021-Nov-06 51 minutes

Generation Witch 2021-Oct-30 51 minutes

Solace of Nature 2021-Oct-23 51 minutes

Mysteries of Migration 2021-Oct-16 51 minutes

Jazz Migrations 2021-Oct-09 51 minutes

What Afghan Women Want You to Know 2021-Oct-02 51 minutes

Finding Meaning in Desperate Times 2021-Sep-25 51 minutes

The Secret Language of Trees 2021-Sep-18 52 minutes

Is War Ever Worth It? 2021-Sep-11 52 minutes

Traveling By Book 2021-Sep-04 51 minutes

Our Virtual Reality 2021-Aug-28 51 minutes

Plants As Persons 2021-Aug-21 51 minutes

Writing the Climate Change Story 2021-Aug-14 51 minutes

Living In Skin 2021-Aug-07 51 minutes

Sprinting for the Finish Line 2021-Jul-31 51 minutes

When Mountains Are Gods 2021-Jul-24 51 minutes

How Africans Are Building The Cities Of The Future 2021-Jul-17 51 minutes

Everything is Exhausting 2021-Jul-11 51 minutes

As Read By The Author 2021-Jul-03 52 minutes

Eye-To-Eye Animal Encounters 2021-Jun-26 51 minutes

Our Time of Mourning 2021-Jun-19 52 minutes

The Resilient Brain 2021-Jun-12 51 minutes

Secrets of Alchemy 2021-Jun-05 51 minutes

Why Do We Have So Much Stuff? 2021-May-29 51 minutes

A Parenting Revolution 2021-May-22 51 minutes

Growing Justice 2021-May-15 51 minutes

The Weird, Wild World of Mushrooms 2021-May-08 51 minutes

Reading While Young 2021-May-01 51 minutes

Searching for Order in the Universe 2021-Apr-24 51 minutes

The Power of Pleasure and Joy 2021-Apr-17 51 minutes

Living With Loneliness 2021-Apr-10 51 minutes

Music On Your Mind 2021-Apr-03 51 minutes

Who Owns Seeds? 2021-Mar-27 51 minutes

Decolonizing the Mind 2021-Mar-20 51 minutes

Discovering America's Black DNA 2021-Mar-13 52 minutes

Jazz Migrations 2021-Mar-06 51 minutes

Going Underground 2021-Feb-27 51 minutes

Mysteries of Migration 2021-Feb-20 51 minutes

Rewriting the Romance Script 2021-Feb-13 51 minutes

Hope: Are We Really Doomed? 2021-Feb-06 51 minutes

Hope: How Do You Make It? 2021-Jan-30 51 minutes

Hope: Where Does It Come From? 2021-Jan-23 51 minutes

The Vaccine Trackers 2021-Jan-16 51 minutes

Our Virtual Reality 2021-Jan-09 51 minutes

Deep Tracks: Live In Studio 2021-Jan-02 51 minutes

Finding Meaning in Desperate Times 2020-Dec-26 51 minutes

Plants As Persons 2020-Dec-19 51 minutes

Living In Skin 2020-Dec-12 51 minutes

Traveling By Book 2020-Dec-05 52 minutes

Rethinking the Holidays 2020-Nov-28 51 minutes

Poetry in a Troubled Time 2020-Nov-21 51 minutes

Solace of Nature 2020-Nov-14 51 minutes

The Personal Politics of Sports 2020-Nov-07 51 minutes

Rituals of Fear 2020-Oct-31 52 minutes

Everything is Exhausting 2020-Oct-24 51 minutes

Democracy on the Ballot 2020-Oct-17 51 minutes

The Resilient Brain 2020-Oct-10 51 minutes

Eye-To-Eye Animal Encounters 2020-Oct-03 51 minutes

How Africans Are Building The Cities Of The Future 2020-Sep-26 51 minutes

Secrets of Alchemy 2020-Sep-19 51 minutes

Books We Can't Forget 2020-Sep-12 51 minutes

Why Do We Have So Much Stuff? 2020-Sep-05 51 minutes

Up All Night 2020-Aug-29 51 minutes

Growing Justice 2020-Aug-22 51 minutes

Out Of The Mental Illness Box 2020-Aug-15 51 minutes

Searching for Order in the Universe 2020-Aug-08 51 minutes

Loving Bees 2020-Aug-01 52 minutes

Mysteries of Migration 2020-Jul-25 51 minutes

Going Underground 2020-Jul-18 51 minutes

The Power of Pleasure and Joy 2020-Jul-10 51 minutes

Jazz Migrations 2020-Jul-03 51 minutes

Music on Your Mind 2020-Jun-26 51 minutes

Breaking the Chains 2020-Jun-20 51 minutes

More Than Just a Game 2020-Jun-13 51 minutes

Filtering Free Speech 2020-Jun-06 51 minutes

Who Owns Seeds? 2020-May-30 51 minutes

Finding Meaning in Desperate Times 2020-May-23 51 minutes

Our Virtual Reality 2020-May-16 51 minutes

Solace of Nature 2020-May-09 51 minutes

The Weird, Wild World of Mushrooms 2020-May-02 51 minutes

Deep Tracks: Live In Studio 2020-Apr-25 51 minutes

Living In Skin 2020-Apr-18 53 minutes

Writing Truth and Lies 2020-Apr-11 52 minutes

Poetry in a Troubled Time 2020-Apr-04 51 minutes

Doctors Give Us Hope 2020-Mar-28 52 minutes

Music Beyond Genre 2020-Mar-21 51 minutes

Traveling By Book 2020-Mar-14 51 minutes

Up All Night 2020-Mar-07 51 minutes

Why Do We Meet? 2020-Feb-29 51 minutes

Taking Comfort in the Sound of Silence 2020-Feb-22 52 minutes

Out Of The Mental Illness Box 2020-Feb-15 51 minutes

Eye-To-Eye Animal Encounters 2020-Feb-08 51 minutes

Hope: Are We Really Doomed? 2020-Feb-01 52 minutes

Hope: How Do You Make It? 2020-Jan-25 52 minutes

Hope: Where Does It Come From? 2020-Jan-18 52 minutes

Why Go To War? 2020-Jan-11 51 minutes

Time Beyond The Clock 2020-Jan-04 51 minutes

In Search Of Real Food [Rebroadcast] 2019-Dec-28 52 minutes

Wintering In The Wild 2019-Dec-21 51 minutes

How Africans Are Building The Cities Of The Future 2019-Dec-14 51 minutes

Giving Is Complicated [Rebroadcast] 2019-Dec-07 52 minutes

More Than Just A Game 2019-Nov-30 51 minutes

Is Guilt A Wasted Emotion? [Rebroadcast] 2019-Nov-23 52 minutes

Books We Can't Forget 2019-Nov-16 51 minutes

The Secret Language of Trees [Rebroadcast] 2019-Nov-09 52 minutes

Going Underground 2019-Nov-02 51 minutes

Rituals of Fear 2019-Oct-26 52 minutes

If Your Clothes Could Talk [Rebroadcast] 2019-Oct-19 52 minutes

The Power Of Pleasure and Joy 2019-Oct-12 51 minutes

Your Miraculous And Mysterious Body [Rebroadcast] 2019-Oct-05 52 minutes

Filtering Free Speech 2019-Sep-28 51 minutes

What Sparks Creativity? [Rebroadcast] 2019-Sep-21 52 minutes

Who Owns Seeds? 2019-Sep-14 51 minutes

New Voices In Native American Writing [Rebroadcast] 2019-Sep-07 52 minutes

What's Wrong With Work? [Rebroadcast] 2019-Aug-31 52 minutes

Should You Delete Your Facebook Account? [Rebroadcast] 2019-Aug-24 52 minutes

Music On Your Mind 2019-Aug-17 51 minutes

Why We Fight 2019-Aug-10 51 minutes

Is Anger Useful? [Rebroadcast] 2019-Aug-03 52 minutes

Finding Your Voice 2019-Jul-27 51 minutes

Writing Truth and Lies [Rebroadcast] 2019-Jul-20 52 minutes

Difficult Summer Reading 2019-Jul-13 51 minutes

Religion Without Doctrine [Rebroadcast] 2019-Jul-06 52 minutes

Pick Your Poison [Rebroadcast] 2019-Jun-29 52 minutes

Why Do We Meet? 2019-Jun-22 51 minutes

The Ways We Are Born — Again and Again [Rebroadcast] 2019-Jun-16 52 minutes

The Weird, Wild World of Mushrooms 2019-Jun-08 51 minutes

Music Beyond Genre 2019-Jun-01 51 minutes

How To Be An Ethical Traveler 2019-May-24 51 minutes

Loving Bees [Rebroadcast] 2019-May-18 52 minutes

Listening to the City [Rebroadcast] 2019-May-11 52 minutes

Hope: Are We Really Doomed? 2019-May-04 52 minutes

Hope: How Do You Make It? 2019-Apr-27 52 minutes

Hope: Where Does It Come From? 2019-Apr-20 52 minutes

Making Waves: Live in Milwaukee [Rebroadcast] 2019-Apr-13 52 minutes

Is This The Socialist Moment? 2019-Apr-06 52 minutes

Center of the World [Rebroadcast] 2019-Mar-30 52 minutes

Is The Internet Built For Everyone? 2019-Mar-23 52 minutes

If Your Clothes Could Talk 2019-Mar-16 55 minutes

Being Sincere in a Cynical World [Rebroadcast] 2019-Mar-09 52 minutes

What's The Real Migration Crisis? 2019-Mar-02 53 minutes

Your Miraculous And Mysterious Body 2019-Feb-23 52 minutes

Is Guilt A Wasted Emotion? [Rebroadcast] 2019-Feb-16 52 minutes

What Sparks Creativity? 2019-Feb-09 51 minutes

In Search of "Real" Food [Rebroadcast] 2019-Feb-02 51 minutes

Virtually Anywhere [Extra] 2019-Jan-30 18 minutes

New Voices in Native American Writing 2019-Jan-26 51 minutes

Women Who Rule [Rebroadcast] 2019-Jan-19 50 minutes

What Can We Learn From Teenagers? [Rebroadcast] 2019-Jan-12 50 minutes

The Third Act [Rebroadcast] 2019-Jan-05 50 minutes

Ending With A Flourish [Rebroadcast] 2018-Dec-29 50 minutes

Should You Delete Your Facebook Account? 2018-Dec-22 56 minutes

The Secret Language of Trees [Rebroadcast] 2018-Dec-15 50 minutes

Giving Is Complicated 2018-Dec-08 51 minutes

Is Anger Useful? 2018-Dec-01 53 minutes

Religion Without Doctrine 2018-Nov-24 53 minutes

We've Had 30 Years Of Prozac. Why Are We Still Depressed? [Rebroadcast] 2018-Nov-17 50 minutes

Writing Truth and Lies 2018-Nov-10 56 minutes

Building A Better Ballot Box 2018-Nov-03 50 minutes

Even Stranger Things [Rebroadcast] 2018-Oct-27 50 minutes

Discovering America's Black DNA [Rebroadcast] 2018-Oct-20 50 minutes

Pick Your Poison 2018-Oct-13 50 minutes

What's Wrong With Men? [Rebroadcast] 2018-Oct-06 50 minutes

Listening to the City 2018-Sep-29 50 minutes

Magical Thinking [Rebroadcast] 2018-Sep-22 50 minutes

The Ways We Are Born — Again and Again 2018-Sep-15 50 minutes

Rethinking David Foster Wallace 2018-Sep-08 52 minutes

What's Wrong With Work? 2018-Sep-01 50 minutes

ICYMI: Our Invisible, Treacherous, Cynical, Wise, Miraculous World 2018-Aug-27 3 minutes

Could Psychedelic Drugs Save Your Life? [Rebroadcast] 2018-Aug-25 50 minutes

The Einstein You Don't Know [Extra] 2018-Aug-23 15 minutes

Striving To See in a Vast, Invisible Universe 2018-Aug-18 50 minutes

Being Sincere in a Cynical World 2018-Aug-11 50 minutes

Is Socialism Making a Comeback? 2018-Aug-04 55 minutes

Loving Bees 2018-Jul-28 53 minutes

Jeff Kripal at the Edge of Belief [Extra] 2018-Jul-26 37 minutes

Mind of a Terrorist [Rebroadcast] 2018-Jul-21 50 minutes

Worshipping Waterfalls: The Evolution of Belief [Rebroadcast] 2018-Jul-14 50 minutes

When Is A Road Trip Something More? [Rebroadcast] 2018-Jul-07 50 minutes

In Search of "Real" Food 2018-Jun-30 55 minutes

Is Guilt A Wasted Emotion? 2018-Jun-23 50 minutes

Beyond the Echo Chamber [REBROADCAST] 2018-Jun-16 57 minutes

Women Who Rule 2018-Jun-09 50 minutes

Center of the World [REBROADCAST] 2018-Jun-02 50 minutes

What is School For? [REBROADCAST] 2018-May-26 50 minutes

The Third Act 2018-May-19 50 minutes

Is The Nation State Splintering? 2018-May-12 50 minutes

Making Waves: Live in Milwaukee 2018-May-05 50 minutes

The Secret Language of Trees 2018-Apr-28 52 minutes

Handwork 2018-Apr-21 50 minutes

Hip Hop Future 2018-Apr-14 51 minutes

Thinking with Animals 2018-Apr-07 50 minutes

Healing Trauma 2018-Mar-31 50 minutes

We've Had 30 Years Of Prozac. Why Are We Still Depressed? 2018-Mar-24 50 minutes

What Can We Learn From Teenagers? 2018-Mar-17 50 minutes

Discovering America's Black DNA 2018-Mar-10 54 minutes

Why Make Art? 2018-Mar-03 51 minutes

How Do You Face The Hate On Your Doorstep? 2018-Feb-24 51 minutes

Magical Thinking 2018-Feb-17 51 minutes

Imagining Climate Change 2018-Feb-10 51 minutes

What's Wrong With Men? 2018-Feb-03 53 minutes

In the Company of Wolves 2018-Jan-27 51 minutes

Can An Evil Man Be A Decent Person? 2018-Jan-20 51 minutes

Who's Watching Us? 2018-Jan-13 51 minutes

Renunciation 2018-Jan-06 52 minutes

Ending With A Flourish 2017-Dec-30 50 minutes

Is Capitalism Broken? 2017-Dec-23 51 minutes

Taking Comfort in the Sound of Silence 2017-Dec-09 51 minutes

Harassment in the Lab 2017-Dec-02 51 minutes

Extra: Making Peace With Monsters 2017-Nov-22 29 minutes

Burnout 2017-Nov-18 50 minutes

A New Clash Of Civilizations? 2017-Nov-11 57 minutes

Extra: Discovering the Hidden Roots of Koreans Living In Japan 2017-Nov-09 21 minutes

Beyond the Echo Chamber 2017-Nov-04 57 minutes

Even Stranger Things 2017-Oct-28 54 minutes

Extra: Virtually Anywhere 2017-Oct-26 18 minutes

You Had To Be There 2017-Oct-21 50 minutes

Is the Universe a Number? 2017-Oct-07 54 minutes

Could Psychedelic Drugs Save Your Life? 2017-Sep-23 52 minutes

Rethinking The Reviewer 2017-Sep-16 51 minutes

Rethinking The Reviewer 2017-Sep-16 51 minutes

Why We War 2017-Sep-09 53 minutes

Automate It 2017-Sep-02 53 minutes

Sentimentality for Silicon 2017-Sep-02 51 minutes

Why Is The Internet Toxic For Women? 2017-Aug-26 51 minutes

Amusement Parks 2017-Aug-26 53 minutes

Short Stories 2017-Aug-20 53 minutes

Striving To See In A Vast, Invisible Universe 2017-Aug-19 52 minutes

Awkward 2017-Aug-13 51 minutes

Making A Home 2017-Aug-05 52 minutes

Telling a Life 2017-Jul-30 51 minutes

Shame 2017-Jul-23 51 minutes

Check Your Privilege 2017-Jul-23 51 minutes

Get Happy 2017-Jul-20 51 minutes

The Art of Reinventing Yourself 2017-Jul-16 51 minutes

When Is A Road Trip Something More? 2017-Jul-09 51 minutes

Do Protests Still Matter? 2017-Jul-09 52 minutes

Time Travel 2017-Jul-02 51 minutes

The Real Ways That "Fake News" Shapes What We Believe 2017-Jul-02 53 minutes

Being Broke and White 2017-Jun-25 52 minutes

Locked Up 2017-Jun-25 51 minutes

Peak Performance 2017-Jun-18 51 minutes

The Whole Truth 2017-Jun-18 51 minutes

Knowing Animals 2017-Jun-11 51 minutes

Gateway Moments: Live from St. Louis 2017-Jun-11 52 minutes

Extra: One Woman Who Sounds Like Twenty 2017-Jun-09 14 minutes

Wonder Women 2017-Jun-04 51 minutes

This Will Shock You 2017-Jun-04 51 minutes

Extra: Changing A Place By Documenting It 2017-Jun-01 17 minutes

Barbecue 2017-May-28 51 minutes

Parks and Recreation 2017-May-28 51 minutes

Extra: David Byrne is Thinking About How Music Works 2017-May-25 13 minutes

Forgiving the Unforgivable 2017-May-21 51 minutes

What's In a Name? (Update) 2017-May-21 51 minutes

Extra: Mark Frost Takes Us Deep Inside the Secret History of Twin Peaks 2017-May-18 35 minutes

Skill vs Luck (update) 2017-May-14 51 minutes

Worshipping Waterfalls: The Evolution of Belief 2017-May-12 51 minutes

Extra: The Evolutionary Advantage of Faith 2017-May-11 25 minutes

Frankly, I Don't Give a Damn 2017-May-07 51 minutes

The Mississippi 2017-May-07 51 minutes

The News From Poems: “November Eyes on Main Street” 2017-May-04 17 minutes

Going Wild 2017-Apr-30 52 minutes

The News From Poems: “WTF” 2017-Apr-27 12 minutes

Repeat When Necessary 2017-Apr-23 52 minutes

Handwork 2017-Apr-23 52 minutes

The News From Poems: “Ode To the Dead of Bowling Green” 2017-Apr-20 15 minutes

Extra: "Fargo" Showrunner Noah Hawley 2017-Apr-18 17 minutes

Yuck 2017-Apr-16 54 minutes

How To Think Like a Scientist 2017-Apr-16 50 minutes

The News From Poems: “Brush With Cymbals” 2017-Apr-13 20 minutes

The Revenge of Analog 2017-Apr-09 51 minutes

Illuminating Us 2017-Apr-09 51 minutes

Extra: Nick Offerman on the Craft and Wisdom of Wendell Berry 2017-Apr-06 34 minutes

Bullies 2017-Apr-02 51 minutes

The Poem is You: New Voices in American Poetry 2017-Apr-02 50 minutes

The News From Poems: “Inaugural” 2017-Mar-30 12 minutes

Mad As Hell 2017-Mar-26 57 minutes

The Art of Reading (Updated) 2017-Mar-26 51 minutes

Extra: Every Time You Troll Me, A Scientist Gets Her Due 2017-Mar-23 17 minutes

Mosquitoes Must Die 2017-Mar-19 51 minutes

Extra: Does Empathy Have a Design Flaw? 2017-Mar-16 21 minutes

Rethinking Work 2017-Mar-12 51 minutes

The Mind of a Terrorist 2017-Mar-12 52 minutes

How to Forget 2017-Mar-05 51 minutes

Could Psychedelic Drugs Save Your Life? 2017-Mar-05 57 minutes

Film Junkies (update) 2017-Feb-26 51 minutes

Love + Evolution: Live in Madison 2017-Feb-26 61 minutes

Extra: What If Richard Dawkins Had It All Wrong? 2017-Feb-24 33 minutes

The Gun 2017-Feb-19 51 minutes

StoryWorlds 2017-Feb-19 41 minutes

Extra: Neil Gaiman Brings Us to the End of the World 2017-Feb-17 24 minutes

How To Be Alone 2017-Feb-12

Love By The Numbers 2017-Feb-12 51 minutes

Extra: Philip Glass at 80 2017-Feb-09 12 minutes

Original Sin 2017-Feb-05 53 minutes

A Borderless World? 2017-Jan-29 51 minutes

Extra: Daniel Schorr on How Journalists Keep Politicians Honest 2017-Jan-25 13 minutes

Hell is Other People 2017-Jan-22 51 minutes

Kicked Out In America 2017-Jan-22 51 minutes

Conspiracy Theories 2017-Jan-22 51 minutes

Extra: Mark Greif on Why He’s “Against Everything” 2017-Jan-19 43 minutes

Artificial Creativity 2017-Jan-15 58 minutes

Protest Music 2017-Jan-15 51 minutes

Extra: Putting Music to the City of Broad Shoulders 2017-Jan-13 22 minutes

Man Up 2017-Jan-08 45 minutes

Life, Art, and Therapy 2017-Jan-08 51 minutes

Extra: Remembering Huston Smith 2017-Jan-06 10 minutes

Owning the Future 2017-Jan-01 51 minutes

How to Love Your Body 2016-Dec-25 52 minutes

Self Help 2016-Dec-25 51 minutes

Best of 2016 2016-Dec-18 53 minutes

Animals in Winter 2016-Dec-18 51 minutes

Late Bloomers 2016-Dec-11 51 minutes

Shirley Jackson 2016-Dec-11 51 minutes

Freeman Dyson, Sage of Science 2016-Dec-08 36 minutes

Saving Language 2016-Dec-04 51 minutes

Larry Brilliant, Hippie Doctor 2016-Dec-02 30 minutes

Extinction (Update) 2016-Nov-27 51 minutes

Getting Jazzed 2016-Nov-27 50 minutes

Hip Hop Future 2016-Nov-20 56 minutes

Why the Classics Matter 2016-Nov-20 51 minutes

Traditional Knowledge 2016-Nov-13 51 minutes

Your Attention Please 2016-Nov-13 51 minutes

Reconciliation 2016-Nov-06 51 minutes

Walking 2016-Nov-06 51 minutes

Election 2.0 2016-Oct-30 51 minutes

H.P. Lovecraft 2016-Oct-27 51 minutes

Narcissism (Repeat) 2016-Oct-23 51 minutes

Eric Liu Teaches Power to the People 2016-Oct-21 20 minutes

Who Owns Water? 2016-Oct-16 53 minutes

Better-abled 2016-Oct-16 51 minutes

The Problem With Men's Locker Rooms and Women's Restrooms 2016-Oct-13 17 minutes

Why Some People Shouldn't Vote 2016-Oct-06 23 minutes

Fermentation 2016-Oct-02 51 minutes

Our Mysterious Universe 2016-Oct-02 51 minutes

Colson Whitehead's "Underground Railroad" 2016-Sep-22 25 minutes

Lithium And Lies: A True Story About Sex, Drugs and Mania 2016-Sep-15 19 minutes

Living Dangerously: Live in Utah 2016-Sep-11 51 minutes

God Talk 2016-Sep-04 51 minutes

Cinephilia (Updated) 2016-Aug-28 51 minutes

Chuck Klosterman Thinks About the Present As If It Were the Past 2016-Aug-26 21 minutes

Flammable Fiction 2016-Aug-21 51 minutes

The History of Ballooning 2016-Aug-18 14 minutes

The Edge of the Run 2016-Aug-14 52 minutes

Hitchhiking (Revised) 2016-Aug-14 51 minutes

The Voice 2016-Jul-31 52 minutes

Critical Intimacy: An Interview with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak 2016-Jul-29 49 minutes

Hillary's First Speech: Historic 1969 Audio Reveals "Blueprint For Her Future" 2016-Jul-28 42 minutes

Up In The Air -- Air Travel (Updated) 2016-Jul-24 51 minutes

Across the Universe (Update) 2016-Jul-17 51 minutes

Kip Winger Goes Classical: Studio Session 2016-Jul-14 25 minutes

Evangelical in America 2016-Jul-10 38 minutes

Writing Funny (Update) 2016-Jul-03 51 minutes

This Martian Life (Repeat) 2016-Jun-26 51 minutes

The Art of the Collection 2016-Jun-19 50 minutes

What's In A Name? 2016-Jun-19 52 minutes

The Mass Murderers Among Us (TTBOOK Extra) 2016-Jun-16 33 minutes

The Outsider (Updated) 2016-Jun-12 51 minutes

Photojournalism 2016-Jun-12 51 minutes

The Wisconsin Idea (Special) 2016-Jun-12 51 minutes

Everything on Demand 2016-Jun-05 51 minutes

Survival (Updated) 2016-Jun-05 51 minutes

Finding Nirvana (Updated) 2016-May-22 51 minutes

Everyday Data 2016-May-08 51 minutes

74 Is The New 24 2016-May-01 51 minutes

Depolarize Now! 2016-Apr-24 48 minutes

Dangerous Ideas 2016-Apr-17 51 minutes

The Mosque 2016-Apr-10 51 minutes

Invisible Workers 2016-Apr-03 51 minutes

Reinventing Fiction (Repeat) 2016-Mar-27 51 minutes

Inside Cuba (Updated) 2016-Mar-20 51 minutes

Independent Women 2016-Mar-13 51 minutes

The Cook and the Book 2016-Mar-06 51 minutes

The Quantified Self (Rebroadcast) 2016-Feb-28 51 minutes

Film Junkies 2016-Feb-28 51 minutes

Wearing it On Your Sleeve (update) 2016-Feb-07 52 minutes

Big Soda 2016-Feb-07 51 minutes

Science Fiction: Thinking the Unthinkable (Updated) 2016-Jan-31 51 minutes

Political Correctness? (Updated) 2016-Jan-24 51 minutes

A More Perfect Union 2016-Jan-24 51 minutes

The Artist (Repeat) 2016-Jan-17 51 minutes

It's All About Cats 2016-Jan-10 52 minutes

Procrastination 2016-Jan-03 51 minutes

Best of 2015 2015-Dec-27 51 minutes

Confronting Climate Change 2015-Dec-06 51 minutes

An Attitude of Gratitude 2015-Nov-22 52 minutes

Very New Poems (update) 2015-Nov-15 53 minutes

New African Voices 2015-Nov-08 50 minutes

Ghost Stories (update) 2015-Oct-25 51 minutes

Religion in a Troubled World 2015-Oct-04 51 minutes

The Outsider 2015-Sep-27 51 minutes

Regarding the Pain of Others (update) 2015-Sep-27 53 minutes

Political Engagement (Update) 2015-Sep-20 51 minutes

Writing for a Living (Repeat) 2015-Sep-13 51 minutes

The First People 2015-Sep-11 51 minutes

Death: After Life 2015-Aug-30 50 minutes

Death: The Wake 2015-Aug-23 52 minutes

Our National Parks 2015-Aug-23 52 minutes

Death: The Last Moment 2015-Aug-16 52 minutes

Death: Exit Plan 2015-Aug-09 53 minutes

Remembering David Foster Wallace 2015-Aug-07 51 minutes

Summer Music Festivals 2015-Aug-02 51 minutes

Death: The Reckoning 2015-Aug-02 52 minutes

The Art of Reading 2015-Jul-26 51 minutes

Mayors (update) 2015-Jul-26 51 minutes

Power of Play (Updated) 2015-Jul-19 51 minutes

Future Faces (Updated) 2015-Jul-12 51 minutes

The Amazing Brain (Update) 2015-Jul-05 51 minutes

Healing Trauma 2015-Jul-05 51 minutes

Finding Nirvana 2015-Jun-28 51 minutes

Split Identities (Repeat) 2015-Jun-21 51 minutes

Japanese Cool 2015-Jun-14 51 minutes

Skill vs Luck 2015-Jun-07 52 minutes

Philosophy in the Streets 2015-Jun-07 51 minutes

Doing the Math (Updated) 2015-May-29 52 minutes

Food for Thought (Updated) 2015-May-24 51 minutes

Inside Cuba 2015-May-24 51 minutes

Hitchhiking (Updated) 2015-May-10 51 minutes

The Thrill of the Fight 2015-May-03 51 minutes

Remembering the Vietnam War 2015-May-03 51 minutes

Building Stories (Update) 2015-Apr-26 51 minutes

The Quantified Self 2015-Apr-26 51 minutes

The Magic Book (Update) 2015-Apr-19 53 minutes

Getting Medieval (Update) 2015-Apr-12 52 minutes

Political Correctness? 2015-Apr-12 51 minutes

Re-Remixing 2015-Apr-05 52 minutes

Lab Lit 2015-Mar-29 53 minutes

Vaccine Wars 2015-Mar-29 51 minutes

Drones (Updated) 2015-Mar-22 51 minutes

Race and Justice 2015-Mar-15 51 minutes

Words and Music (Updated) 2015-Mar-08 51 minutes

Why fashion matters 2015-Mar-08 52 minutes

Heart of Darkness (Updated) 2015-Mar-01 53 minutes

Workflow (Updated) 2015-Mar-01 51 minutes

Future Faces (Updated) 2015-Feb-22 52 minutes

Very New Poems 2015-Feb-22 50 minutes

Epic Fail (Updated) 2015-Feb-15 51 minutes

1001 Nights (Updated) 2015-Feb-08 53 minutes

Weird Fiction (R) 2015-Feb-01 51 minutes

Race and Fear (Special) 2015-Feb-01 51 minutes

Traveling Time (R) 2015-Jan-25 53 minutes

Extinction 2015-Jan-25 53 minutes

Investigating Belief (Updated) 2015-Jan-19 51 minutes

The Artist 2015-Jan-18 51 minutes

The Future of Listening 2015-Jan-11 53 minutes

Just Dance! 2015-Jan-11 52 minutes

Fearing the Other 2014-Dec-21 52 minutes

The Art of Television (Repeat) 2014-Dec-14 51 minutes

Writing Funny 2014-Dec-14 51 minutes

Alan Turing (Updated) 2014-Dec-07 52 minutes

The Secret Language of Plants (Repeat) 2014-Nov-30 51 minutes

Science Fiction: Thinking the Unthinkable 2014-Nov-23 50 minutes

Our Digital Lives 2014-Nov-16 51 minutes

Does Fiction Make Us Good? 2014-Nov-09 50 minutes

Cinephilia 2014-Nov-02 51 minutes

Ecotopia (Repeat) 2014-Nov-02 53 minutes

From philosophy to neuroscience, looking for the truth about beauty. 2014-Oct-26 51 minutes

Do Nations Need States? 2014-Oct-26 52 minutes

Zzz (Sleep) Repeat 2014-Oct-19 50 minutes

Political Engagement 2014-Oct-19 51 minutes

Imagining Possible Worlds (Repeat) 2014-Oct-12 51 minutes

Creative Writing (Repeat) 2014-Oct-05 51 minutes

Living Like a Caveman (Updated) 2014-Oct-05 53 minutes

Super Senses 2014-Sep-28 52 minutes

Pranks and Hoaxes (Updated) 2014-Sep-28 52 minutes

Making It In America (Repeat) 2014-Sep-21 52 minutes

1001 Nights (Repeat) 2014-Sep-14 52 minutes

The Amazing Brain 2014-Sep-07 51 minutes

Lies That Last (Repeat) 2014-Sep-07 53 minutes

Urban Cultures 2014-Aug-31 51 minutes

Across the Universe (Repeat) 2014-Aug-31 52 minutes

Bored to Death (R) 2014-Aug-24 50 minutes

Global Noir (R) 2014-Aug-24 52 minutes

Edges of Science 2014-Aug-17 53 minutes

Finding the Bible 2014-Aug-17 52 minutes

Drones 2014-Aug-10 52 minutes

Doing the Math 2014-Aug-10 52 minutes

Hitchhiking 2014-Aug-03 53 minutes

Making Music 2014-Aug-03 52 minutes

Mayors 2014-Jul-27 53 minutes

Eco-Optimism 2014-Jul-20 52 minutes

Food for Thought 2014-Jul-13 51 minutes

Air Travel 2014-Jul-06 52 minutes

Who Is a Patriot? 2014-Jul-06 52 minutes

The Power of Play 2014-Jun-29 51 minutes

Engaging the Enemy 2014-Jun-22 51 minutes

Future Faces 2014-Jun-15 52 minutes

Epic Fail 2014-Jun-08 52 minutes

Heart of Darkness 2014-Jun-08 52 minutes

Was Marx Right? 2014-Jun-01 51 minutes

Investigating Belief 2014-Jun-01 51 minutes

Workflow 2014-May-25 52 minutes

Survival 2014-May-18 52 minutes

Traveling Time 2014-May-18 53 minutes

Rethinking Schools 2014-May-11 51 minutes

Food to Die For 2014-Apr-27 53 minutes

Regarding the Pain of Others 2014-Apr-20 53 minutes

Selfie Portraits 2014-Apr-20 52 minutes

Escape 2014-Apr-13 53 minutes

Getting Medieval 2014-Apr-06 53 minutes

Pranks and Hoaxes 2014-Mar-30 50 minutes

Music and Memory 2014-Mar-30 51 minutes