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Can Star Trek's "Enterprise" Really Hide in a Brown Dwarf?

May 19, 2023 · 27 min

Lisa Beth Kovetz & Emily Rice of CUNY's Macaulay Honors College dig into black holes, brown dwarfs and Star Trek's "Strange New Worlds!"
Infotainment and The Weather

April 21, 2023 · 27 min

In the climate-change allegory, "Don't Look Up" the media failed to report the reality of an oncoming comet. Are we doing the same with our ever wilder weather? CUNY’s Prof. Jimmy Booth; CUNY Alums Dr. Veeshan Narinesingh and Joe Rao weigh…
Kingsborough ChefMark D'Alessandro Discusses The Bear

March 17, 2023 · 27 min

Prof. and Chef, Mark D'Alessando, Dir. of Culinary Arts, at CUNY's Kingsborough Community College joins us to talk about Hulu's "The Bear," why the science of baking can become so obsessive, and why community colleges have the best…
The Intelligent Empathy of Dolphins with Prof. Diana Reiss

February 17, 2023 · 27 min

Dolphins are often as creative and personable in real life as they are on the screen. Author and Prof. Diana Reiss Director of the Animal Behavior and Conservation Program at CUNY's own Hunter College joins us to explain why
"The Gilded Age" and Archeological Discoveries in NYC"

January 20, 2023 · 27 min

HBO's "The Guided Age" details NYC's antique, ultra-rich, without giving much thought to the city that made it possible. Joining us to talk about what lies under our city, is triple CUNY alumna Alyssa Loorya of Chrysalis Archaeological…

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Gifted Children and other Superheroes

November 11, 2022 · 27 min

Author and UConn Prof. Betsy McCoach joins us in a discussion about "Raising Dion" and gifted children.
Mistakes of the Jedi - Revenge Of The Shrinks

October 14, 2022 · 27 min

Dr. Robin Rosenberg, The Clinical Psychologist Who Wrote Your College Text Book, “Abnormal Psychology,” And The Uber-Editor Of The Oxford University Press, “Superhero” Series Discusses Anakin Skywalker And Attachment Disorders.
The Truth and Fictions of Past and Current HIV Cures

September 9, 2022 · 27 min

How have attitudes and treatments for HIV changed over the decades? CUNY Prof. Denis Nash discusses past & current HIV treatment and cures and the circa 1980 attitudes of "It's A Sin" (BBC) versus the realities of Jared Frieder's 2022 film…
Failure and Ignorance and Murder Mysteries!

June 3, 2022 · 27 min

Dr. Stuart Firestein, Columbia U. neuroscientist, author of “Ignorance” and “Failure” joins us to discuss to compare and contrast murder mysteries with the public perception of how science gets done!
Author Wendy Suzuki discusses Dune’s “Litany Against Fear"

May 6, 2022 · 27 min

Fans of Frank Herbert’s “Dune” know “The Litany Against Fear” by heart and repeat to themselves in times of strife. To talk about other things you might do in a stressful situation, we spoke to neuroscientist, Wendy Suzuki, author of “Good…
What’s Going On In Your Dog’s Mind? HouseBroken and The Thin

April 8, 2022 · 27 min

In “HouseBroken,” Lisa Kudo’s poodle, “Honey” psychoanalyzes the pups who come to her couch for group therapy. At the Hunter Thinking Dog Center, Sarah Elizabeth Byosiere studies the behavior and cognition of domestic dogs.
Hank Zipzer, Henry Winkler and the Neuroscience of Dyslexia

March 11, 2022 · 27 min

Author/Actor Henry Winkler and neuroscientist Dr. Sally Shaywitz (Yale Center for Dyslexia and Creativity) discuss the underlying causes of dyslexia through the lens of the BBC TV series, “Hank Zipzer,” based on Winkler’s…