Yoda, Miss Piggy, Cookie Monster, King Kong, Gollum, and more – Neil deGrasse Tyson, comic co-host Adam Conover, astrophysicist Charles Liu, and Bill Nye explore the world of puppeteering and performance capture with Frank Oz and Andy Serkis. Listen, you will.
Hosts Chuck Nice and Gary O’Reilly explore the state of mental health in sports, with former NBA player and mental health advocate Royce White,, neuroscientist Heather Berlin, and the co-founder of Canada’s first Centre for Mental Health and Sport, Krista Van Slingerland.
What can the dead tell us? Primatologist and host Natalia Reagan and comic co-host Sarah Rose Siskind investigate bioarchaeology and forensic science with bioarchaeologist Kristina Killgrove and forensic anthropologist Christopher Rainwater.
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Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Chuck Nice answer fan-submitted Cosmic Queries on cancer research with freshly-minted 2018 Nobel laureate and immunologist Dr. Jim Allison, who’s at the frontier of finding new cancer immunotherapy treatments.
Gary O’Reilly and Chuck Nice answer your questions and investigate the collision of sports, technology, and engineering alongside David James, sports engineer and Director of The Center for Sports Engineering Research at Sheffield Hallam University.
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Hunt for technosignatures, alien civilizations, and other signs of intelligent life as astrobiologist David Grinspoon, co-host Chuck Nice, and astronomer Sofia Sheikh answer fan-submitted Cosmic Queries on the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.
Neil deGrasse Tyson, comic co-host Chuck Nice, and Astro Mike Massimino celebrate Neil Armstrong and the impact of his career and the legacy of his first steps on the Moon. Featuring interviews with Neil Armstrong and Apollo Flight Director Gene Kranz.
With the MLB Playoffs in full swing and the World Series next week – Chuck Nice and Gary O’Reilly explore the science of baseball with physicist Alan Nathan, James Sherwood, Director at the Baseball Research Center, and baseball great Shawn Green.
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Investigate Neanderthals, Denisovans, and ancient human-hybrids with host and primatologist Natalia Reagan, comic co-host Andrea Jones-Rooy, paleoanthropologist Shara Bailey, and biological anthropologist Ryan Raaum. (Warning: Adult Language).
Neil deGrasse Tyson investigates free will, morality, meditation, psychedelic experiences, artificial intelligence, and more alongside neuroscientist and author Sam Harris, comic co-host Godfrey, neurotheologist Andrew Newberg, and neuroscientist Robert Wright. You have no choice but to listen.
Hosts Chuck Nice and Gary O’Reilly sit down with neuroscientist Heather Berlin and Joanna Harper, medical physicist and transgender endurance athlete, to investigate the complexities of gender and its role in sports.
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Neuroscientist Heather Berlin, PhD, and comic co-host Chuck Nice investigate mental health and mental illness as they answer fan-submitted Cosmic Queries about the opioid crisis, depression, addiction, PTSD, and more.
