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The Really Big Questions
What if you had an idea that you believed could change the world? What if that idea was a tornado machine? In this episode we ask, what driv...
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You can vote when you’re 18 and drink when you’re 21. But when do you really become an adult? Download audio Psychologist Jeffrey Jensen Arn...
  These are the final words of Jennifer Michael Hecht’s most recent book: “Choose to stay.” Hecht argues against suic...
Maybe it’s a stuffed elephant. Could be a pepper shaker. Or perhaps a very special rock. Many adults have an object that’s particularly dear...
Mary Roach wants you to give yourself away. Not yet, though. After you’re dead. She wrote a book called “Stiff,” in which she details what h...
If you ever doubt that animals have the capacity to share, look no further than chimpanzees and capuchin monkeys. Frans de Waal studies prim...
On the altar of a former cathedral in Duluth, Minn., an ensemble of musicians begins to play. Their notes are piercing and sometimes dissona...
The human instinct to tell stories is strong. So strong, in fact, that sometimes people see stories when they’re not there. Download audio I...
Storytelling is an integral part of human culture. It teaches, enlightens and connects. But according to author and playwright Anne Bogart,...
Unraveling the truth behind why human beings tell stories requires a scientist who can explain science to non-scientists. Enter E. O. Wilson...
Tad Hoskins thinks we should face the facts: We’re all going to die. So we should make the necessary preparations. He’s not a morbid guy — j...
TRBQ paid a visit to the United House of Prayer for All People in Harlem to spend some time with a gospel brass band called the McCullough S...
Pinning down a definition of music is harder than it sounds. A song composed by a human easily fits into the category of music. But what abo...
Americans don’t seem to have much trouble with violent death at the movies. But real death is a different story. Slow, lingering death from...
Why do people share? In this episode we hear from Yochai Benkler about his research into people who write Wikipedia articles, and we meet Sa...
Money can make you happy. Especially if you give it to someone else. A growing body of research shows that giving money to other people is m...
TRBQ pays a visit to the marriage market in Shanghai to talk with parents who are looking for mates for their adult children, and host Dean...
We look at brain scans of people who are madly in love. We talk with the neuroscientists who did the scans. And we talk with writer A.J. Jac...