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Big Brains

University of Chicago Podcast Network

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Big Brains explores the groundbreaking research and discoveries that are changing our world. In each episode, we talk to leading experts and unpack their work in straightforward terms. Interesting conversations that cover a gamut of topics from how music affects our brains to what happens after we die.
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WeatherBrains

Big Brains Media LLC

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The world's oldest and greatest weather podcast. Join weather geeks James Spann, Bill Murray, Kim Klockow-McClain, Dr. Neil Jacobs, Rick Smith, Aubrey Urbanowicz, Jen Narramore, and Troy Kimmel along with some of the most brilliant minds in the weather enterprise every week!
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Big Ideas

ABC listen

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Feed your mind. Be provoked. One big idea at a time. Your brain will love you for it. Grab your front row seat to the best live forums and festivals with Natasha Mitchell.
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Good Job, Brain!

goodjobbrain.com

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Part quiz show, part offbeat trivia, and all awesome. We here are nuts about trivia and pub quiz! And we are darn sure there are people out there who share our unusual obsession. Play along and laugh along as Karen, Colin, Dana, and Chris school each other on some of the weirdest and most interesting facts about our funny little world. Do you relish beating your friends at Trivial Pursuit? Do you blab out the answers at the gym when Jeopardy! is on? And don't you just loathe badly worded que ...
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Join us for an entertaining and enlightening discussion of eclectic adventures in the pursuit of all things Good. Gain a better understanding of technology and science, history and philosophy, and leadership and success, all presented in a positive and affirming conversational framework. Big Brain SmartHead™ guests occasionally join the pair to bring actual expert knowledge to the conversation.
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Big Words for Smart People

Eric and Frankie Sorenson

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Eric and Frankie are not linguists. What Eric and Frankie lack in bona fides (boring fides, more like it) they make up for in sibling jocularity, rampaging tangents, and lighthearted ribbing. They already know you're a smart person, you don't need to be told that. Instead, join them every Wednesday to learn a new, cool, big word to enrich your new, cool, big brain and listen in on a casual conversation loosely connected to the word. BW4SP releases weekly to enrich your lexicon, ~30 minutes a ...
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BIG BRAIN TYM

Jaskirat Singh

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Big Brain Tym is an infotainment podcast. This podcast is just about what an average 18-20 year old Indian thinks about certain topics they are aware about. It's mostly all fun and educational. Just sit back, grab some snacks and relax while my friends think they are smart while sipping coffee.
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The Overwhelmed Brain

Paul Colaianni: Relationship and Emotional Abuse Expert

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Increase your emotional intelligence, strengthen your self-worth and self-esteem, and learn to make decisions that are right for you. This is the show for your best mental health and well-being. If you struggle with anxiety, depression, fears, stress, obsession, panic, or are seeking relationship advice or dealing with challenges like emotional abuse or family issues, this show will empower you to honor yourself and get into alignment with what's most important in your life. If positive thin ...
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Wrestling Brain

Wrestling Brain

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Wrestling Brain is an AEW Dynamite and PPV review show, streamed live on twitch.tv/wrestlingbrain Hosted by Josh Custodio and ’The Zubes’ Andrew Zuber. Hire Bryan with Josh and ’Murder’ Bryan Quinby monthly.
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Many Minds

Kensy Cooperrider – Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute

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Our world is brimming with beings—human, animal, and artificial. We explore how they think, sense, feel, and learn. Conversations and more, every two weeks.
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I’m Mike — I run this channel. I started Brain Snacks to explore big questions and complex topics, and explain them in plain English. As an analyst and naturally curious person, I’m used to digging into complicated information, spotting patterns, and breaking things down so they actually make sense. This podcast doesn’t go super deep — it stays high-level and accessible. No jargon, no fluff. Just clear explanations, with a bit of history, some technical insight, and a look at the economic, s ...
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FLYTECH DAILY

Nick & Michelle

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Welcome to FLYTECH Daily — your new favorite tech news podcast that makes it easy (and fun) to keep up with what’s happening in the world of tech. Hosted by Nick and Michelle, we break down the biggest stories in tech every weekday — from the latest Apple news and product leaks to what’s going on with AI, gadgets, apps, and startups. It’s quick, smart, and packed with just the right amount of banter. Whether you’re into iPhones, the next big thing in gaming, or wondering what Tesla and Meta ...
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Big Technology Podcast

Alex Kantrowitz

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The Big Technology Podcast takes you behind the scenes in the tech world featuring interviews with plugged-in insiders and outside agitators. Alex Kantrowitz, a Silicon Valley journalist who's interviewed the world's top tech CEOs — from Mark Zuckerberg to Larry Ellison — is the host.
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You’re an entrepreneur with ADHD. You’ve got big ideas, a fast brain… and a to-do list that’s longer than a CVS receipt. You’re driven—but staying focused, finishing what you start, and scaling your business? That can feel impossible. Welcome to the ADHD Entrepreneur Accelerator Podcast. Hosted by Steve August—ADHD coach, founder, and lifelong entrepreneur. Steve ha's built and exited companies, served as CMO of a $100 million business. Late diagnosed with ADHD at age 54, Steve now helps ADH ...
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The Safe Space

Chef D, Big Brain

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Welcome to ’The Safe Space’, where we’re more than just a podcast – we’re your voice, your sanctuary, and your unapologetic outlet. Join us as we dive into the unfiltered stories, passions, and dreams of Ghanaian youth. From modern relationships to societal pressures, we explore it all. This isn’t just a podcast; it’s a movement where your stories find a home and your voice finds its stage.
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From Our Neurons to Yours

Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute at Stanford University, Nicholas Weiler

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This award-winning show from Stanford’s Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute is a field manual for anyone who wants to understand their own brain and the new science reshaping how we learn, age, heal, and make sense of ourselves. Each episode, host Nicholas Weiler sits down with leading scientists to unpack big ideas from the frontiers of the field—brain-computer interfaces and AI language models; new therapies for depression, dementia, and stroke; the mysteries of perception and memory; even the ...
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The Next Big Idea

Next Big Idea Club

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The Next Big Idea is a weekly series of in-depth interviews with the world’s leading thinkers. Join hosts Rufus Griscom and Caleb Bissinger — along with our curators, Malcolm Gladwell, Adam Grant, Susan Cain, and Daniel Pink — for conversations that might just change the way you see the world. New episodes every Thursday.
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Uranium After Dark

100kBeardedCorgi Productions

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We represent the typical uranium investor. No big brain action here, but we thought it may be fun to recap the weeks events and u-twit sentiment. Join us for some discussion and laughs each week while we all take this rocket ride together.
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Welcome to From Stuck to Started, the podcast for ambitious ADHDers, perfectionists, and over-thinkers who are ready to achieve their goals without burning out. Join your host, Sarah Lovell, an executive function and ADHD coach, as she shares strategies to help you understand your brain, break down big tasks, and build systems that work for you. Each episode is packed with actionable tips and real-life inspiration to help you tackle hard things and make progress that feels good.
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NextMeta

MetaMedia

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Crypto is a wild west - how do you keep up??? I‘ve been here for 8 years, and it‘s only gotten worse! So I interview big brain veterans, in attempts to find the meta. Join us once a week for talks of onchain economies, decentralized societies and their impact on the real world. https://linktr.ee/nextmeta
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Retrain Your Brain | Nervous System Regulation, Chronic Illness Healing, Brain Retraining Support

Katie Nickerson | Somatic Brain Retraining & Chronic Illness Coach

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Are you tired of missing out on life because of your health issues? Are you sick of strict protocols and diets that leave you frustrated and hopeless? Do you wish someone could give you a clear, step-by-step guide to finally heal? Are you ready to finally have symptom free days again? Welcome to Retrain Your Brain, where you will find a neuroscience-based approach to help you heal from chronic illness and complex trauma (without the expensive and restrictive protocols!). My mission is to tea ...
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The Better Brain Podcast

Drs. Rafie and Bickart

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Welcome to the Better Brain Podcast, your source on all things brain health and how to make it better. We're your hosts, Drs. Rafie and Bickart, and we are Neurologists specializing in Neuropsychiatry, Dementia, Sports, and Traumatic Brain Injury. Our mission at the Better Brain Podcast is to provide you with the information and tools you need to improve your brain health and overall well being. We do this by combining the latest evidence-based practices with practical tools to better your b ...
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I'm a chronically single London babe with a BIG BRAIN but it is filled with song lyrics and imaginary conversations. Lets talk about your dating dilemmas that you send me on my Insta @tinymoron, and all the random stuff in my head that no one else will talk to me about!!!
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Reality Creation with Alexandra Eidens is designed to help you program your brain for abundance, gratitude, and joy. Listen to the audio affirmations once a day to get rid of limiting beliefs that are negatively impacting your life. Alexandra Eidens is the founder of Big Life Journal, an award-winning company that helps children, teens, and adults grow their confidence and a growth mindset.
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Brains On!® is a science podcast for curious kids and adults from American Public Media. Each week, a different kid co-host joins Molly Bloom to find answers to fascinating questions about the world sent in by listeners. Like, do dogs know they’re dogs? Or, why do feet stink? Plus, we have mystery sounds for you to guess, songs for you to dance to, and lots of facts -- all checked by experts.
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On Humans

Ilari Mäkelä

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Where do we come from? What brings us together? Why do we love? Why do we destroy? On Humans features conversations with leading scholars about human nature, human condition, and the human journey. From the origins of war to the psychology of love, each topic brings fresh insights into perennial questions about our self-understanding. Support: Patreon.com/OnHumans Articles: OnHumans.Substack.com Focus areas: Anthropology, Psychology, Archaeology, Philosophy, Big History
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Goth Sorority

Goth Sorority

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Rush Goth Sorority! Hosts Emma Richards and Eleanor Grundberg, in their new show E-GIRLS, discuss hot topics and big brain shit. Cover Art by Sarah Goldstein Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/gothsorority/support
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The Sword and Shield reunite after an incredible weekend in Toronto. Wrestling Brain Live 3 and AEW All Out created lasting memories for everyone and Josh and Zubes share their thoughts on both the whirlwind weekend AND this week's episode of AEW Dynamite. AEW World Tag Team Championships: Brodido vs Gates of Agony AEW World Championship: Adam Page…
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Rafe invites his sister, Big Brain Smart Head™ Maura Donahue, to discuss her recent adventures with shepherding a flock of monarch butterfly caterpillars from hatching to chrysalis stage. The discussion is one filled with wonder and awe, a conversation edged with the understanding that everyday processes that take place mostly unseen in Nature are …
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Senior Leader at XUNO Suite (xuno.com.au) and driving force behind the Student Maps platform, Anthony Sacker, joins Around the School Table (xuno.com.au/podcasts) to unpack how DIBELS can move from raw scores to real classroom action. In this interview, we explore how smart visualisations and simple workflows help teachers identify risk early and r…
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Billions of years ago, Mars may have looked less like the barren red desert we know today and more like Earth—with a blue sky, flowing rivers, and even seas. What happened to turn a once-habitable world into the frozen, lifeless planet we see now? On this episode of Big Brains, University of Chicago geophysical scientist Edwin Kite takes us on a jo…
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Today's AI runs on neural networks, a design originally inspired by the human brain. As these systems grow more sophisticated, they're raising a profound question: Even if they don't work exactly like our brains, could something resembling a "mind" eventually emerge from the machines we're building? Guests: Gaurav Suri and Jay McClelland Book: The …
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This Week's Topics: Patrice Brend'amour and Jeff Gamet hold down the fort in this fall's first post-Summer of Fun episode. Crispr Offers New Hope for Treating Diabetes Our eight-year wait is over – Spotify Lossless is finally here! More than 10 European startups became unicorns this year OpenAI and Oracle reportedly ink historic cloud computing dea…
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BMW’s new brain, Apple’s thin win, Hue’s glow-up, Legion’s OLED leap, and Premiere in your pocket. Today we break down: BMW iX3: the first Neue Klasse EV with 800V charging, Gen6 batteries, and BMW’s new “Heart of Joy” computer (The Verge). Apple’s Sept 9 “Awe dropping” event: what to expect from iPhone 17 Pro, Pro Max, and the rumored ultra-thin i…
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Dr. Ben Rapoport and Michael Mager are the co-founders of Precision Neuroscience, a company building a minimally invasive, high-resolution brain-computer interface. The two join Big Technology to discuss the modern day applications of BCIs and frontiers of the technology, including computer control, stroke rehab, decoding consciousness in coma pati…
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Busy retraining but feeling frustrated? These 8 “gamechangers” might be what you’re missing. Are you practicing brain retraining but feel stuck, overwhelmed, or confused about why you’re not seeing the progress you hoped for? You’re not alone - and this episode is exactly what you need! In today’s episode, I’m breaking down the 8 “needle movers” th…
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Ranjan Roy from Margins is back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover: 1) Nvidia invests $100 billion in OpenAI 2) Will the money ever get there? 3) Do AI companies have to make money eventually? 4) What has to happen for OpenAI to return NVIDIA's investment? 5) Is another financial crisis coming? 6) OpenAI's new Pulse feature…
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In this episode, I’m sharing a super simple way to make visualization part of your everyday life without needing to set aside extra time. You’ll learn how to use ordinary moments — like cooking, driving, or folding laundry — to imagine your dreams as if they’re already happening. I’ll show you how this little shift crowds out negative thoughts, fil…
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🔥 ADHD making business harder than it needs to be? Try these free resources: 🧠 Start with my free Weekly ADHD Dashboard – The “Brain-first” system I use to plan my week and make consistent progress. 👉 https://bit.ly/solo-putting-ballsdo-wn-vs-dropping-them —------------------------------------------------------------ Welcome to the ADHD Entrepreneu…
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Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker shares five key insights from his brand new book, When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows. He reveals how “common knowledge” — the hidden force of knowing what others know — shapes everything from financial bubbles and political revolutions to why we say “Netflix and chill.” Then we revisit our 2021 conversation w…
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Australian Indigenous art is celebrated around the world – but how much is understood about its pivotal role in Indigenous culture, country, politics and law? For the Yolngu people of north-east Arnhem Land, art is more than just aesthetic, it is a means of cultural diplomacy, and a respectful assertion of power in its diverse forms, from sovereign…
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Birds do the darnedest things. They fly, of course. They sing. They hunt in pitch darkness. They hide their food and remember where they put it. They use tools and migrate over astonishingly vast distances—sometimes even sleeping while in flight. How do they do all this? What's going on in their brains that makes these and other remarkable behavior…
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Yinon Costica is the co-founder and VP of product at Wiz, which sold to Google for $32 billion in cash. Costica joins Big Technology Podcast to discuss the extent of the cybersecurity threats that generative AI is creating, from vulnerabilities in AI software to the risks involved in “vibe coding.” Tune in to hear how attackers are using AI, why de…
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It's our 'worst' episode (yet), but not like you think! Worst - verb (transitive) : to get the better of : defeat In this episode: Conquering your challengees (sic) Frankie uses “Java” as a reference to ‘cool coding…’ Reasons I can’t get a job Parenting metaphors “I’m gonna knock it over” obtusive crosswords Like what we do? Join our Discord Commun…
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Join a full house at the Sydney Opera House with Nobel winning scientist Jennifer Doudna and Big Ideas' presenter Natasha Mitchell to discuss the huge social, ethical, and scientific implications of the CRISPR gene editing revolution her groundbreaking discovery with Emmanuelle Charpentier and colleagues kicked off. From curative therapies to gene …
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Do you ever end your day feeling like you didn’t get enough done, no matter how much you actually accomplished? In this episode, we’re diving into the reasons behind this all-too-common feeling, from impossible expectations to executive functioning challenges like time blindness and prioritization struggles. I share 5 practical strategies to help y…
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Tonight’s Guest WeatherBrain comes to us by way of a suggestion from friend of the podcast and WeatherBrains veteran Kevin Laws. Randy Bowers currently serves as the Severe Weather Program Lead at the National Weather Service, a role that involves strategic planning, technical execution, and maintaining operational consistency across all severe wea…
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Stories help us to understand what is happening in the world and how it impacts us. Stories help us to relate to the experience of 'the Other' and their suffering building an emotional understanding. Journalist and academic Helen Vatiskopoulos describes the power of stories to share information to the masses and the problems that arise when the nar…
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For 85 years, Meanjin has published the essays of Australian writers. The magazine's founding editor, Clem Christesen, wanted Meanjin's writers 'to reveal and clarify our life by showing it to us though a vision different from ours and deeper." In the wake of the news the magazine is closing, Big Ideas explores and celebrates the essay in all its f…
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If you’re struggling with the feeling of emptiness after a breakup or loss, is it really about them, or something deeper within you? I’ll share my own experiences with heartbreak and loneliness, and why understanding our emotional dependencies might just be the key to healing and building healthier relationships.…
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Ranjan Roy from Margins is back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover: 1) OpenAI tells us how people use ChatGPT 2) Practical guidance is the top use of ChatGPT 3) Is generative AI actually a threat to search given the use cases? 4) OpenAI has a very broad definition of 'doing' or agent work 5) The hidden impact of AI 'decisio…
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Imagine if you couldn't distinguish between dreams and reality. If you couldn't tell whether what you were seeing or hearing was really there in front of you. What if you discovered you couldn't trust your own perceptions? Psychosis is something three out of every a hundred people will experience at some point in their lifetimes. But what exactly i…
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