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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 w...
In her cookbooks and TV shows the Barefoot Contessa uses her early fascination with science to create meals that are not only great to eat b...
CBS News’ medical correspondent, he also heads the Empathy Project, creating Hollywood-quality short films that train healthcare providers t...
Whether it’s the accent that hints at your hometown, your group, your social status or your ethnicity, the sounds we say reveal a lot about...
Flowering plants were late to evolve, but once they did, they took over most of the planet, connecting and communicating with a network of o...
Best known for his writings on food – and for his crisp summation of advice for healthy eating – “Eat food. Not too much. Mainly plants” – h...
The remarkable and little-known story of how Harriet Tubman played a critical role in a daring raid that in 1863 freed some 700 slaves from...
For over 20 years he has been a relentless critic of the extravagant claims made for the current generation of AI based on Large Language Mo...
Her mother’s skillful use of empathy to defuse a potentially dangerous encounter on the streets of Tehran when she was nine has stayed with...
Alan and Executive Producer Graham Chedd look ahead to the new season with clips from episodes on empathy – both helping defuse a dangerous...
At age 92, Carol Burnett still graces our screens with her presence and humor. Alan revisits a 2019 conversation that explores with her what...
It’s highly likely that life – maybe even intelligent life – has evolved elsewhere in the universe. But that aliens bother to hang out in ou...
…at least according to a bold-face December 1906 headline in the New York Times. This was in the middle of a decades-long fascination with t...
A philosopher and novelist, she has spent 40 years pondering why we all have a longing to matter. She’s talked with dozens of people about t...
Experiments with mice have shown it’s possible to tinker with and even erase a memory. The goal for neuroscience now is to apply the science...
These days, despite the internet providing us access to every imaginable source of information, the truth is harder than ever to find. A con...
She has spent over 50 years fighting racism, sexism and sexual violence, often fiercely. Now in her 70’s, her experiences have led her to mo...
The Ig Nobel prizes are awarded every year in a ceremony that is as charming as it is ridiculous, awarding research that itself may seem rid...
Babies find things funny long before they understand language – surprising even the author of the most detailed study to date of when and ho...
Almost 60 years ago she defied television conventions with her depiction of a young woman succeeding on her own in the big city. And for the...
In the almost six years since the beginning of the pandemic he’s developed an on-line personality that’s an exuberant mix of medical expert...
Alan and executive producer Graham Chedd look ahead to the new season, which includes episodes on how babies who giggle become socially smar...
How technological innovation has shaped our culture, with lessons from history and even from bees. And how these lessons can help tame and c...
The Dean of the Columbia School of Journalism talks about how social media is overtaking traditional newspapers and television as most peopl...
MASH changed Alan’s life as well as the lives of the rest of the MASH cast. In this revisit of a free-wheeling conversation recorded in 2019...
Alan revisits a conversation he had with Michael seven years ago, at a time when Fox had been grappling with Parkinson’s Disease for 27 year...
A confident prediction from the man who first brought our warming planet to public attention some 35 years ago. Energy from solar and wind i...
In a surprising shift in how we communicate about the climate crisis, Kate Marvel explores the feelings evoked by her research. Her new book...
Data: dry and boring, right? Not in the hands of Justin Evans, a data expert himself, who set out to show that data is not only the lifebloo...
After adopting a beagle that had spent the first four years of his life as an experimental subject in a laboratory, she set out – with Hammy...
Not only are non-violent protests more effective than armed resistance, but a surprisingly small percentage of the population – around three...
With long memories and the ability to figure out what other crows are thinking – then plot to outdo them, using what Nicky Clayton calls “sl...
It then becomes “common knowledge,” and can be both beneficial – like cementing friendships or empowering peaceful protests – or destructive...
Alan and Executive Producer Graham Chedd look ahead to next season and some unexpected connections between our first guests. They include be...
Perched on a mountain top in Chile, the new Vera Rubin Observatory’s telescope will view the universe as it’s never been seen before, seekin...
With lessons learned from the Covid pandemic, he points to how we might better tackle the next, inevitable, global pandemic — at a time when...
Unlike most other land animals, we can live almost anywhere – from deserts, to mountains, rain forests, even the arctic. We are supremely ad...
Along with revelations about snake sex, their contributions to medicine, that flickering tongue and why slithering is a secret to their succ...
She’s had a love-hate relationship with F. Scott Fitzgerald since she was a teenager. And she’s now written a wonderful new take on The Grea...
An old friend of Clear and Vivid is back to enlighten Alan on some of the oddities of human behavior – both good and bad – and to talk about...
From his long running role as Saul Goodman in Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul , to his recent Broadway appearance in Glenngary Glen Ross,...
With her Black scuba-diving companions she has sought to reveal the appalling cost in lives lost in sunken slave ships, while at the same ti...
Alan joins his old friend to compare notes on staying happy when old; and Roger shares tips from a forthcoming book, including some that may...
Tina Fey’s reimagining of a movie Alan made over 40 years ago has been a big hit for Netflix. She and Alan have fun talking about how she we...
Alan lets bots mostly run the show to see how much they can do and still be under human control. For a while, it seems to go well, but then...
Alan and Clear and Vivid’s executive producer Graham Chedd chat about and play clips from some of the shows coming up in season 30. Guests i...
Research often derided for being a waste of money has led to world-changing breakthroughs, ranging from GPS to Ozempic. Hosted by Simplecast...
To celebrate Sir Paul’s 83rd birthday June 18th we are reprising a wonderful conversation recorded five years ago. Alan and Paul exchange th...
Reaching back to the first season of Clear and Vivid, a replay of the July 2018 episode when the violin virtuoso tells Alan why he likes to...
In a world awash with misinformation, how do we know what’s true? How can we be certain about anything? It turns out one of the most effecti...
Playing attending physician “Robby” Robinavitch in the hit HBO Max series The Pitt has given him insights into how the harrowing world of th...