TRBQ Podcast #18 — Tornado Man
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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19 episodesTRBQ Podcast — Shortly
A very brief announcement. Really, really brief.     MORE AUDIO from TRBQ: Subscribe the to the TRBQ podcast on iTunes. Listen to...
TRBQ Podcast #17 — What Is Adulthood?
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...
TRBQ Podcast #16 — Choosing to Stay
  These are the final words of Jennifer Michael Hecht’s most recent book: “Choose to stay.” Hecht argues against suic...
TRBQ Podcast #15 — Things
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...
TRBQ Podcast #14 — Take My Corpse, Please
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...
TRBQ Podcast #13 — Is There Really Altruism?
If you ever doubt that animals have the capacity to share, look no further than chimpanzees and capuchin monkeys. Frans de Waal studies prim...
TRBQ Podcast #12 — I, Musician
On the altar of a former cathedral in Duluth, Minn., an ensemble of musicians begins to play. Their notes are piercing and sometimes dissona...
TRBQ Podcast #11 — The Triangle Is a Bully
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...
TRBQ Podcast #10 — Stories are dangerous
Storytelling is an integral part of human culture. It teaches, enlightens and connects. But according to author and playwright Anne Bogart,...
TRBQ Podcast #9 — E.O. Wilson on storytelling
Unraveling the truth behind why human beings tell stories requires a scientist who can explain science to non-scientists. Enter E. O. Wilson...
TRBQ Podcast #8 — A casket for Mom
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 Podcast #7 — Chills and the Sons of Thunder
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...
TRBQ Podcast #6 — Steven Pinker on music
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...
TRBQ Podcast #5 — Death in Seattle
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...
TRBQ Podcast #4 — Sharing with strangers
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...
TRBQ Podcast #3 — The joy is in the giving
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 Podcast #2 — Love in Shanghai
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...
TRBQ Podcast #1 — The science of love
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...