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- 🇨🇦CA · Science#1095K to 30K
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- 🇮🇳IN · Science#6510K to 30K
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60K to 225K🎙 ~2x weekly·163 episodes·Last published 2d ago - Monthly Reach
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Ep159 "If Your Brain Changed Slightly, Would You Still Be You?" with Masud Husain
Jun 22, 2026
1h 12m 13s
Ep158 "What do babies, animals, and AI have in common?" with Melanie Mitchell
Jun 15, 2026
45m 22s
Ep157 "Where Did the Letter "A" Come From?" with Danny Bate
Jun 8, 2026
53m 35s
Ep156 What Do We Learn About AI by Dancing with Robots? with Catie Cuan
Jun 1, 2026
1h 12m 26s
Ep155 "Why Can’t Some People Stop Thinking Certain Thoughts?" with Jon Hershfield
May 25, 2026
1h 02m 15s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6/22/26 | Ep159 "If Your Brain Changed Slightly, Would You Still Be You?" with Masud Husain | Could a tiny injury to your brain change your personality? If your friends didn’t know something had happened in your brain, would they just think you're choosing to act strangely? What if the self is nothing but a fragile coalition of neural processes? Join Eagleman today with Masud Husain, a neurologist and neuroscientist at Oxford, to explore fascinating case studies about how changes in the brain lead to changes in the self. | 1h 12m 13s | ||||||
| 6/15/26 | Ep158 "What do babies, animals, and AI have in common?" with Melanie Mitchell | When AI gets the right answer, how do we know it got there the right way? Why do we assume that fluent language means intelligence? What do infants and chatbots have in common? What do AI’s mistakes teach us about our own minds? And what does any of this have to do with Frankenstein’s creature, why some people wear a stop sign on their T-shirt, or smiling monkeys? Join Eagleman today with computer scientist Melanie Mitchell, a professor at the Santa Fe Institute who’s working to bridge AI and cognitive science. | 45m 22s | ||||||
| 6/8/26 | Ep157 "Where Did the Letter "A" Come From?" with Danny Bate✨ | alphabetlinguistics+4 | Danny Bate | book | — | alphabetlinguistics+5 | — | 53m 35s | |
| 6/1/26 | Ep156 What Do We Learn About AI by Dancing with Robots? with Catie Cuan✨ | AIrobotics+4 | Catie Cuan | iHeartPodcasts | — | AIrobots+5 | — | 1h 12m 26s | |
| 5/25/26 | Ep155 "Why Can’t Some People Stop Thinking Certain Thoughts?" with Jon Hershfield✨ | Obsessive Compulsive Disorderintrusive thoughts+3 | Jon Hershfield | iHeartPodcasts | — | OCDobsessive thoughts+3 | — | 1h 02m 15s | |
| 5/18/26 | Ep154 "Can a Depressed Brain Find Its Way Out?" with Jon Nelson✨ | depressionmental health+3 | Jon Nelson | — | — | depressionmental health+5 | — | 1h 30m 50s | |
| 5/11/26 | Ep153 Can You Unlearn Anxiety? with Judson Brewer✨ | anxietymental health+3 | Judson Brewer | iHeartPodcasts | — | anxietymental health+5 | — | 58m 38s | |
| 5/4/26 | Ep152 "How do you survive your own thoughts?" with Jewel✨ | mental healthself-awareness+4 | Jewel | — | — | mental healthanxiety+5 | — | 1h 05m 51s | |
| 4/27/26 | Ep151 "Can One Be a Rational Optimist About the World?" with Matt Ridley✨ | optimisminnovation+3 | Matt Ridley | — | — | rational optimistinnovation+4 | — | 57m 13s | |
| 4/20/26 | Ep150 "Can We Engineer Dreams?" with Adam Haar Horowitz✨ | dream engineeringneuroscience+3 | Adam Haar Horowitz | iHeartPodcastsCan We Engineer Dreams? | — | dreamsneuroscience+3 | — | 1h 07m 55s | |
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| 4/13/26 | Ep149 "What makes a brain grow up resilient?" with David Sussillo✨ | resiliencechildhood development+4 | David Sussillo | — | — | resiliencebrain development+5 | — | 51m 23s | |
| 4/6/26 | Ep148 "How can we improve political dialog?" with Saul Perlmutter✨ | political dialoguepolarization+4 | Saul Perlmutter | Ep148 | — | political dialoguepolarization+5 | — | 55m 25s | |
| 3/30/26 | Ep147 "Can we engineer human thought?" with Tom Griffiths✨ | human thoughtartificial intelligence+3 | Tom Griffiths | AI | — | AIhuman thought+4 | — | 50m 22s | |
| 3/23/26 | Ep146 "Who Counts as Human in Your Mind?" with Lasana Harris✨ | dehumanizationempathy+4 | Lasana Harris | — | — | dehumanizationempathy+6 | — | 1h 07m 33s | |
| 3/16/26 | Ep145 Why do we compulsively click on ragebait? with Angele Christin✨ | algorithmsclickbait+4 | Angele Christin | Oxford English Dictionary | — | algorithmsclickbait+5 | — | 1h 10m 28s | |
| 3/9/26 | Ep144 "How do things last?" Part 2: Millennia with Alexander Rose✨ | longevityancient technology+3 | Alexander Rose | iHeartPodcastsHow do things last? | bristlecone pine treessixth century | 10,000 year clockY10k bug+3 | — | 55m 50s | |
| 3/2/26 | Ep143 "How do things last?" Part 1: neurons to civilizations✨ | persistencemusic+4 | — | Roman concrete | medieval cathedrals | persistenceneuroscience+7 | — | 44m 23s | |
| 2/23/26 | Ep142 "Do breakthroughs require rule-breakers?" with Eric Weinstein✨ | revolutionary ideasscientific cowboys+3 | Eric Weinstein | Crick and Watsonnuclear bombs+1 | — | breakthroughsrule-breakers+4 | — | 1h 32m 59s | |
| 2/16/26 | Ep141 "What do brains and weather systems have in common?" with Nicole Rust | Does brain science need a new grand plan? Is the brain less like an assembly line and more like a weather system? What does this mean for what counts as explanatory, and how might AI help us in the near future? What does any of this have to do with how the drug Ritalin got its name? Today we’ll speak with neuroscientist Nicole Rust, author of Elusive Cures. | 36m 42s | ||||||
| 2/9/26 | Ep140 "How does your brain decide what’s true?" with Sam Harris | Why do we believe what we believe? Why is changing our opinions so difficult, and why does a challenged belief so often feel like a personal attack? What if beliefs didn’t evolve to be true, but to be socially useful? Today we speak with Sam Harris about the topic of our beliefs: how we see the world and what we take to be true about it. | 1h 20m 31s | ||||||
| 2/2/26 | Ep139 "What does alignment look like in a society of AIs?" with Danielle Perszyk | Is intelligence a property of individual brains, or is it something that emerges from many brains trying to align with one another? How can we build AI agents to improve our understanding of the world and to mediate between rivaling humans? For this and much more, we speak today with Danielle Perszyk, a cognitive scientist who leads the human-computer interaction team at Amazon’s AGI Lab. | 58m 24s | ||||||
| 1/26/26 | Ep138 "Why do our political brains mistake opinion for truth?" with Kaizen Asiedu | What if your confidence in your political beliefs does not correlate with their accuracy? Why does a pundit's outrage often feel so convincing and nuance so unsatisfying? Are conspiracy theories a predictable feature of human brains? Is there any way to stop ourselves from mistaking our feelings for conclusions? How can we come to be clearer thinkers? Today we speak with political commentator Kaizen Asiedu about how we arrive at our hot takes on the world. | 1h 07m 53s | ||||||
| 1/19/26 | Ep137 "Do cures ever create the next crisis?" with Thomas Goetz | Medications are among the most important advancements of science, but their social consequences are often complex. What if some of our most common diseases are design flaws of modern life? Does it matter if we're fixing a root cause rather than just circumventing it? If a pill can quiet hunger, pain, or anxiety, is that "cheating"? Today we talk about the fascinating world of prescription drugs with science journalist Thomas Goetz. | 47m 10s | ||||||
| 1/12/26 | Ep136 "Why do we care about mattering?" with Rebecca Goldstein | What does it mean for your life to matter? We all talk a lot about happiness, pleasure, and meaning... but what if the real engine underneath it all is the need to feel we count? Is it possible that depression, extremism, and ambition all stem from the same psychological source? When is political polarization less about beliefs and more about threatened significance? Join Eagleman with philosopher and writer Rebecca Goldstein, author of "The Mattering Instinct". | 41m 31s | ||||||
| 1/5/26 | Ep135: What does neuroscience mean by hypnosis? with David Spiegel | What exactly is hypnosis? We’ve all heard of circus-like versions, but is there a real element to hypnosis that psychiatrists and neuroscientists are able to leverage? Can attention and expectation change what we feel (such as pain or anxiety)? What do suggestible states reveal about the brain’s pathways? How does hypnosis compare to meditation, flow states, or psychedelic drugs? Today we speak with David Spiegel, Stanford psychiatrist and one of the world’s experts in hypnosis. | 55m 17s | ||||||
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Chart Positions
29 placements across 29 markets.
Chart Positions
29 placements across 29 markets.