Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda
Alan Alda
Learn to connect better with others in every area of your life. Immerse yourself in spirited conversations with people who know how hard it is, and yet how good it feels, to really connect with other people – whether it’s one person, an audience or a whole country. You'll know many of the people in these conversations – they are luminaries in our culture. Some you may not know. But what links them all is their powerful ability to relate and communicate. It's something we need now more than ever.
Episodes
Mentioned books
Nov 3, 2020 • 44min
Can we save the planet?
Having experienced 30 years of frustration since writing the first popular book setting out the facts of climate change, Bill McKibben is now hopeful that – maybe in the nick of time – there is enough momentum for action that the planet as we know it may be saved from destruction.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/clearandvivid
Oct 27, 2020 • 42min
What makes you happy?
It may not be what you think. With insights from studying unhappy students at Yale University, where she is a professor of psychology, Laurie Santos teaches Yale’s most popular class – and is now sharing those insights on how to be happier in her podcast, the Happiness Lab.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/clearandvivid
Oct 20, 2020 • 53min
Trumpty Dumpty Wanted a Crown
John Lithgow talks with Alan about his new book of satirical verse and drawings – and the joys and challenges of writing satire at a time when events themselves can defy belief.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/clearandvivid
Oct 13, 2020 • 1h 6min
Dr. Fauci looks forward
Six months after he first briefed Alan on the then novel coronavirus, Dr. Anthony Fauci explains both why it turned out to be so unpredictable and dangerous and the gains science has made in understanding how to bring it under control.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/clearandvivid
Oct 6, 2020 • 45min
Leslie Vosshall – Why Mosquitoes Choose You
Female mosquitoes need your blood to live and breed. So figuring out who among us attracts them and why can not only help in avoiding annoying bites but also help stop the spread of deadly diseases.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/clearandvivid
Sep 29, 2020 • 41min
Goldie Hawn – She’s Got Your Brain on Her Mind.
The celebrated and beloved actress on her successful mission to help schoolkids use their brains better. And how they become better students and more collaborative classmates.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/clearandvivid
Sep 22, 2020 • 38min
James Rothman – on Discovering the ‘FedEx trucks’ in our Cells
The Kavli and Nobel Prize Laureate on his groundbreaking work finding out how our bodies ship vital molecules to where they are needed — enabling profound advances in medicine.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/clearandvivid
Sep 15, 2020 • 46min
Brian Hare & Vanessa Woods – on Humanity’s Essential Ingredient
What dogs and bonobos tell us about what has made humans survive and why we’d better not lose it. It’s not how fierce we are. On the contrary.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/clearandvivid
Sep 8, 2020 • 45min
Carla Shatz – Making an Old Brain Young
The Kavli Prize Laureate on her research suggesting it may be possible to return aging and damaged brains to a state where they could learn as they did when young.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/clearandvivid
Sep 1, 2020 • 44min
Sharon Begley – on Keeping up with Covid
Reporting from the front lines of medical research with the with the skill of a storyteller while struggling to keep up with the outpouring of research on the coronavirus. “It’s like a firehose that we’re all trying desperately to drink out of.”Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/clearandvivid
