Ice Nine Kills: Hip To Be Scared (Horror Movie Science with Sarah Rose Cavanagh)
Recorded live at the MIT Museum in Cambridge, MA on 9/18/23: Heavy Metal frontman and horror movie expert Spencer Charnas chats with psychologist Dr. Sarah Rose Cavanagh about his favorite horror movi...
27 Sep 202338min
Ice Nine Kills (Audience Q&A MIT Museum Taping)
Spencer and Sarah field questions aplenty from the sold out crowd at the MIT Museum on 9/18/23. Lots of territory covered including favorite on-screen monsters, what we fear most, scary music, and how...
27 Sep 202321min
Eartheater: Mitosis (Cell Biology with Elizabeth Hénaff)
Multidisciplinary artist Eartheater talks with NYU computational biologist and artist, Dr. Elizabeth Hénaff about cell division, snails, horseshit, gut biome health, artist residencies and more at thi...
6 Sep 202335min
311: All Mixed Up (Building Utopia with Rutger Bregman)
311 lead singer and eternal optimist Nick Hexum talks about their breakout hit “All Mixed Up” with best-selling author and Dutch Historian, Rutger Bregman. Rutger’s books “Utopia For Realists” and Hum...
16 Aug 202352min
Ted Hearne: Farming (Agriculture Science with Dr. Sarah Taber)
Pulitzer Nominated composer, Ted Hearne talks about his epic work “Farming”, a hybridized piece written for a 24 piece choir with text taken from William Penn correspondence, a Jeff Bezos speech, the ...
26 Jul 202345min
Ringo Starr: Send Love, Spread Peace (Meditation Science with Bob Roth)
Fab Four drummer and peace activist, Ringo Starr talks about going to see the Maharishi with John and George, his upbringing in violent Liverpool of the 1950s and being saved by music and then the gif...
7 Jul 202333min
Joan As Police Woman: The Magic (The Science of Transcendence with Maria Popova)
NYC Legend Joan As Police Woman (Joan Wasser) talks about her 2011 song “The Magic” with influential writer and science historian, Maria Popova (The Marginalian / Brain Pickings). We talk about measur...
14 Jun 202346min
Dermot Kennedy: See Yourself in My Eyes (Science of Street Performance with Psychologist Dr. Robbie Ho)
Irish balladeer and arena headliner, Dermot Kennedy talks about his experience coming up as a busker in Dublin with Hong Kong psychologist, Dr. Robbie Ho whose research seeks to quantify the effect “b...
24 Mai 202346min
