• Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda

  • Written by: Alan Alda
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Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda

Written by: Alan Alda
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  • Summary

  • 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.
    Alan Alda
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Science Social Sciences
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Episodes
  • Julie Sedivy: How Language Shapes Us

    Julie Sedivy: How Language Shapes Us
    Feb 11 2025

    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.
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    41 mins
  • Mala Murthy: From a Fly’s Brain to Yours

    Mala Murthy: From a Fly’s Brain to Yours
    Feb 4 2025

    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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    37 mins
  • Brenda Wineapple: When Evolution Was on Trial

    Brenda Wineapple: When Evolution Was on Trial
    Jan 28 2025

    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.
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    38 mins

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