Big Brains
University of Chicago Podcast Network
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.
Top mentioned books
Here are the most frequently recommended books on the Big Brains podcast:
#1 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Unforgiving Places
The Unexpected Origins of American Gun Violence
Jens Ludwig
#2 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Grieving Body
How the Stress of Loss Can Be an Opportunity for Healing
Mary-Frances O'Connor
#3 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The good life
John Esmonde
#4 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Playing Possum
How Animals Understand Death
Susana Monsó
#5 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Magic Words
What to Say to Get Your Way
Jonah Berger
#6 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Life in Three Dimensions
Shigehiro Oishi
#7 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Anatomy of a Breakthrough
Adam Alter
#8 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Rethinking Medications
Truth, Power, and the Drugs You Take
Jerry Avorn
#9 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Social Genome
The New Science of Nature and Nurture
Dalton Conley
#10 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Gerd Albers
Jane Jacobs
#11 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Dataclism
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Christian Rudder
#12 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Making Sense of Chaos
A Better Economics for a Better World
J. Doyne Farmer
#13 Mentioned in 1 episodes
What If Fungi Win?
Arturo Casadevall
Stephanie Desmon
#14 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman
#15 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Lucid Dying
Sam Parnia
#16 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Booster Shots
The Urgent Lessons of Measles and the Uncertain Future of Children's Health
Dr. Adam Ratner
