Herman Pontzer: Diversity: Humanity’s Superpower
2 September - 41 minsUnlike most other land animals, we can live almost anywhere – from deserts, to mountains, rain forests, even the arctic. We are supremely adaptable, and that adaptability has led to our diversity – not only in our biology but also in our cultures.
Series Episodes
Michael Osterholm: Can We Stop The Big One?
With lessons learned from the Covid pandemic, he points to how we might better tackle the next, inevitable, global pandemic — at a time when science has been all but discarded from the leading government agencies responsible for public health.
39 mins
9 September Finished
Stephen Hall: Snakes: Do they Deserve Our Dread?
Along with revelations about snake sex, their contributions to medicine, that flickering tongue and why slithering is a secret to their success, Stephen Hall goes at least some way to convincing Alan that snakes – “the ultimate other” – deserve our respect as well as our dread.
36 mins
26 August Finished
Kyra Davis Lurie: Reimagining Gatsby
She’s had a love-hate relationship with F. Scott Fitzgerald since she was a teenager. And she’s now written a wonderful new take on The Great Gatsby, reimagining the story with a cast of the Black elite in post-war Los Angeles.
38 mins
19 August Finished
Robert Sapolsky: Why Do We Do That?
An old friend of Clear and Vivid is back to enlighten Alan on some of the oddities of human behavior – both good and bad – and to talk about his entertaining new podcast, Father Offspring Interviews, hosted by his daughter.
39 mins
12 August Finished
Bob Odenkirk: Comedy? Action? Drama? Better Call Bob!
From his long running role as Saul Goodman in Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, to his recent Broadway appearance in Glenngary Glen Ross, and his new incarnation as an off-beat action hero in the movies Nobody and Nobody 2, Bob Odenkirk does it all.
37 mins
5 August Finished
