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9 Podcast Episodes Featuring Professors

Get smarter everyday with these 9 episodes featuring professors as guests. Want to learn about nuclear technology or raccoons? Why not both?!

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Created October 07, 2022

Updated December 31, 2024

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  1. Episodes With Professors as Guests

  2. May 13th, 2019
    Sam Harris speaks with Nicholas Christakis about his new book, "Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society." If the Making Sense podcast logo in your player is BLACK, you can SUBSCRIBE to gain access to all full-length episodes at samharris.org/subscribe.
  3. Aug 22nd, 2019
    Dr. Nicholas Christakis is a sociologist and physician known for his research on social networks and on the socioeconomic, biosocial, and evolutionary determinants of behavior, health, and longevity. Follow Dr. Christakis on Twitter @NAChristakis or go to www.humannaturelab.net to learn more.Purple Mattress: Get a fr...
  4. Sep 15th, 2022
    We welcomed back Ajay to the show to continue his ongoing discussion about using thorium for power generation in the U.S. and globally. Many related topics were discussed including additional nuclear technologies. Please read the full summary of this program at www.thespaceshow.com for this date, Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2...
  5. Aug 12th, 2022
    How do hormones affect us? On this episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-hosts Chuck Nice and Gary O’Reilly explore the body's endocrine system, steroids, hormones, and how we can hack it with an endocrinologist, Dr. Aniket Sidhaye.NOTE: StarTalk+ Patrons can watch or listen to this entire episode commercial-free here: h...
  6. Jun 15th, 2021
    We were fortunate to be able to talk to Dr. Rachel Zoffness, who is a pain & health psychologist, medical consultant, author, speaker, and expert on nonpharmacological approaches to pain management. She is an Assistant Clinical Professor at the UCSF School of Medicine, where she teaches pain education for medical resid...
  7. Feb 4th, 2020
    Cumulus! Lenticular! Venti sugar-free stratocumulus stratiformis translucidus undulatus! Those light and fluffy things that hang overhead weigh thousands of pounds and form under all kinds of conditions. Cloud doctor and nephologist Dr. Rachel Storer chats about why she loves clouds, the different varieties of them, we...
  8. Mar 15th, 2021
    We are always full of new things to learn on our show. If you think you knew everything and we could not surprise you....SPIDER GOATS. Dr. Randy Lewis is a professor of molecular biology and tells us about the process of genetically modifying goats to produce spider silk. We talk the science of the procedure, the benef...
  9. Sep 22nd, 2019
    In this episode, we sit down and chat with a really fun guy (get it? like fungi? aha..ha...), Dr Tom Volk of UW-Lacrosse, and holy cow, pun intended (you’ll see), we covered a lot of ground. Everything from how mushrooms are made, to the best mushrooms to forage, how fungi hunt, fungi in the brain, whether or not baker...
  10. Dec 22nd, 2021
    Tiny hands! Round rumps! Chaos! Compost! Delicious garbage and sweet faces make raccoons as mysterious as they are adored. World class raccoon expert, psychologist and animal behaviorist Dr. Suzanne MacDonald of Toronto’s York University explains tree sleeping, brain worms, cartoon raccoons, queer icons, whether you sh...

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