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Science for the People

Science for the People is a long-format interview podcast that explores the connections between science, popular culture, history, and public policy, to help listeners understand the evidence and arguments behind what's in the news and on the shelves. Our hosts sit down with science researchers, writers, authors, journalists, and experts to discuss science from the past, the science that affects our lives today, and how science might change our future.

#446 Frogs From the Skin In

60 hours 0 mins; November 02, 2017

#445 AI: Ant Intelligence

60 hours 0 mins; October 26, 2017

#444 The V-Word (Rebroadcast)

60 hours 0 mins; October 19, 2017

#443 Batteries

60 hours 0 mins; October 12, 2017

#442 From Nobel to Ig Nobel

60 hours 0 mins; October 05, 2017

#441 Superhuman

60 hours 0 mins; September 28, 2017

#440 Weapons of Math Destruction (Rebroadcast)

60 hours 0 mins; September 21, 2017

#439 Flooded

60 hours 0 mins; September 14, 2017

#438 Big Chicken

60 hours 0 mins; September 07, 2017

#437 Tiny Bubbles, Big Impact

60 hours 0 mins; August 31, 2017

#436 Beauty is A Beast (Rebroadcast)

60 hours 0 mins; August 24, 2017

#435 Total Eclipse of the Sun

60 hours 0 mins; August 17, 2017

#434 The Dictionary

60 hours 0 mins; August 10, 2017

#433 The State of Science Journalism

60 hours 0 mins; August 03, 2017

#432 A Sting In The Tail (Rebroadcast)

60 hours 0 mins; July 27, 2017

#431 Memory and Emotion

60 hours 0 mins; July 20, 2017

#430 Bacteria in Bodies and On The Farm

60 hours 0 mins; July 13, 2017

#429 Gene Drives

60 hours 0 mins; July 06, 2017

#428 Cities of the Future (Rebroadcast)

60 hours 0 mins; June 29, 2017

#427 The Life Project

60 hours 0 mins; June 22, 2017

#426 Everybody Poops

60 hours 0 mins; June 15, 2017

#425 Cooperative Microbes

60 hours 0 mins; June 08, 2017

#424 Biohacking (Rebroadcast)

60 hours 0 mins; June 01, 2017

#423 Built On Bones

60 hours 0 mins; May 25, 2017

#422 Is Our Children Learning

60 hours 0 mins; May 18, 2017

#421 Hopeful Monsters

60 hours 0 mins; May 11, 2017

#420 Medical Marijuana (Rebroadcast)

60 hours 0 mins; May 04, 2017

#419 The Death and Life of the Single-Family House

60 hours 0 mins; April 27, 2017

#418 Animal Research Revisited

60 hours 0 mins; April 20, 2017

#417 Lab-Cultured Beef

60 hours 0 mins; April 13, 2017

#416 Bodies Everywhere (Rebroadcast)

60 hours 0 mins; April 06, 2017

#415 Weapons of Math Destruction

60 hours 0 mins; March 30, 2017

#414 Perpetual Now

60 hours 0 mins; March 23, 2017

#413 Concrete

60 hours 0 mins; March 16, 2017

#412 PTSD

60 hours 0 mins; March 09, 2017

#411 Coal Wars (Rebroadcast)

60 hours 0 mins; March 02, 2017

#410 The Big Sleep

60 hours 0 mins; February 23, 2017

#409 Trump War On Science

60 hours 0 mins; February 16, 2017

#408 The Wasp That Brainwashed the Caterpillar

60 hours 0 mins; February 09, 2017

#407 Voices Within

60 hours 0 mins; February 02, 2017

#406 Running Low (Rebroadcast)

60 hours 0 mins; January 26, 2017

#405 STEM Pipeline

60 hours 0 mins; January 19, 2017

#404 Sex In The Sea

60 hours 0 mins; January 12, 2017

#403 Indigenous DNA

60 hours 0 mins; January 05, 2017

#402 Boozy Science (Rebroadcast)

60 hours 0 mins; December 29, 2016

#401 The Serengeti Rules

60 hours 0 mins; December 22, 2016

#400 What Doesn't Kill You...

60 hours 0 mins; December 15, 2016

#399 The Sugar Pill

60 hours 0 mins; December 08, 2016

#398 Gifts For Nerds

60 hours 0 mins; December 01, 2016

#397 Risk Management

60 hours 0 mins; November 24, 2016

#396 Trench to Bedside

60 hours 0 mins; November 17, 2016

#395 Happy People (Rebroadcast)

60 hours 0 mins; November 10, 2016

#394 On the Origin of Bad Science

60 hours 0 mins; November 03, 2016

#393 Check Your Facts

60 hours 0 mins; October 27, 2016

#392 Venomous

60 hours 0 mins; October 20, 2016

#391 Effective Altruism (Rebroadcast)

60 hours 0 mins; October 13, 2016

#390 Decolonizing Colonization

60 hours 0 mins; October 06, 2016

#389 The Jazz of Physics

60 hours 0 mins; September 29, 2016

#388 Fish

60 hours 0 mins; September 22, 2016

#387 The Melting World (Rebroadcast)

60 hours 0 mins; September 15, 2016

#386 Humans Vs Robots

60 hours 0 mins; September 08, 2016

#385 Sociolinguistics

60 hours 0 mins; September 01, 2016

#384 Grunt

60 hours 0 mins; August 25, 2016

#383 The Atomic Era (Rebroadcast)

60 hours 0 mins; August 18, 2016

#382 Risk of Going Nowhere

60 hours 0 mins; August 11, 2016

#381 The Triumph of Seeds

60 hours 0 mins; August 04, 2016

#380 Yer A Wizard Harry

60 hours 0 mins; July 28, 2016

#379 A Special Hell (Rebroadcast)

60 hours 0 mins; July 21, 2016

#378 Paris Climate Agreement

60 hours 0 mins; July 14, 2016

#377 Hearing From The Humanities

60 hours 0 mins; July 07, 2016

#376 Technology, Work and The Future

60 hours 0 mins; June 30, 2016

#375 Severed (Rebroadcast)

60 hours 0 mins; June 23, 2016

#374 The Ninth Planet

60 hours 0 mins; June 16, 2016

#373 The Confidence Game

60 hours 0 mins; June 09, 2016

#372 The Planet Remade

60 hours 0 mins; June 02, 2016

#371 Meningitis

60 hours 0 mins; May 26, 2016

#370 Me, Myself, and Why (Rebroadcast)

60 hours 0 mins; May 19, 2016

#369 Fraud and Forgery

60 hours 0 mins; May 12, 2016

#368 Beyond the Galaxy

60 hours 0 mins; May 05, 2016

#367 Neurodiversity

60 hours 0 mins; April 28, 2016

#366 Self-Driving Cars

60 hours 0 mins; April 21, 2016

#365 Evolutionary Psychology

60 hours 0 mins; April 14, 2016

#364 Combat-Ready Kitchen

60 hours 0 mins; April 07, 2016

#363 Falling Into The Fire (Rebroadcast)

60 hours 0 mins; March 31, 2016

#362 Roadkill

60 hours 0 mins; March 24, 2016

#361 Too Hot To Handle

60 hours 0 mins; March 17, 2016

#360 Medical Marijuana

60 hours 0 mins; March 10, 2016

#359 In The Courtroom

60 hours 0 mins; March 03, 2016

#358 Zika

60 hours 0 mins; February 25, 2016

#357 The Brain Electric

60 hours 0 mins; February 18, 2016

#356 Insects En Masse

60 hours 0 mins; February 11, 2016

#355 Superstorm (Rebroadcast)

60 hours 0 mins; February 04, 2016

#354 HIV and AIDS: Updated and Revisited

60 hours 0 mins; January 28, 2016

#353 Scream

60 hours 0 mins; January 21, 2016

#352 Good Thinking

60 hours 0 mins; January 14, 2016

#351 Contraception

60 hours 0 mins; January 07, 2016

#350 Science In Wonderland

60 hours 0 mins; December 31, 2015

#349 Getting Away With Murder (REBROADCAST)

60 hours 0 mins; December 24, 2015

#348 Artificial Intelligence

60 hours 0 mins; December 17, 2015

#347 Where Do Camels Belong?

60 hours 0 mins; December 10, 2015

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