Inquiring Minds

In this second and final special collaborative episode with the Cited podcast, Indre and guest host Alexander B. Kim focus on women in engineering and the obstacles they face throughout their careers.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/inquiringminds

In this special collaborative episode with the Cited podcast, Indre and guest host Alexander B. Kim look into the “leaky pipeline” of women in science. There are many stages you go through from early school to a career in science and there are points along the way at which women seem to disproportionately slip out of that pipeline. This week we talk to researchers trying to learn more about why that happens and what we can do about it.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/inquiringminds

We talk to associate professor of surgery at Indiana University Teresa Zimmers about her work on whether or not lethal injection drugs actually provide a humane, painless death as promised.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/inquiringminds

We talk to Bill Nye about his approach to communicating climate change and what he hopes will change in the future.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/inquiringminds

We talk to Paul Doherty, senior staff scientist at San Francisco’s famed Exploratorium Museum about his new book “And Then You're Dead: What Really Happens If You Get Swallowed by a Whale, Are Shot from a Cannon, or Go Barreling over Niagara.”Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/inquiringminds

We talk to science writer Sharon Begley about her new book “Can't Just Stop: An Investigation of Compulsions.”Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/inquiringminds

We talk to James Beacham, particle physicist with the ATLAS Experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN about what it’s like to hunt for strange new subatomic particles.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/inquiringminds

It's the first episode of Indre's new podcast, Cadence! (Don’t worry, she’s not leaving Inquiring Minds.) Cadence is a podcast about music and how it affects your mind.What is music? How would you define it? Does it defy definition? In this episode we try to get answers to those questions from from a pioneer in music cognition research, a musicologist, and an otolaryngologist who surgically restores hearing and studies the brain basis of musical improvisation.If you like this first episode and want to hear more, subscribe to Cadence here:iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/cadence/id1207136496RSS: http://feeds.feedburner.com/cadence-podcastSupport the show: https://www.patreon.com/inquiringminds

We talk to science writer Mary Roach about the science of your guts and her book “Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal.”Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/inquiringminds

We talk to Dan Ariely, the James B Duke Professor of Psychology and Behavioral Economics at Duke University about what actually motivates us to get things done—to finish that novel, to stick to a diet, or even to want to get up and go to work every day.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/inquiringminds

We talk to Siddhartha Roy, a PhD student and graduate researcher in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Virginia Tech. Roy is a founding member of the Virginia Tech Flint Water Study and has worked on the ground in Flint applying his research on corrosion and plumbing to the crisis.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/inquiringminds

We talk to Dr. Steven Hatch, a specialist in infectious diseases and immunology about his latest book “Inferno: A Doctor's Ebola Story,” an account of his time in Liberia during the height of the ebola epidemic in 2014.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/inquiringminds

We talk to neuroscientist, music producer, and best-selling author Daniel Levitin about his recent research into how playing music in the home affects us.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/inquiringminds

We talk to researcher in Animal Genomics and Biotechnology at UC Davis Alison Van Eenennaam about the science of gene editing livestock.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/inquiringminds

We talk to physician, writer, and clinical researcher Haider Warraich about his most recent book "Modern Death: How Medicine Changed the End of Life."Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/inquiringminds

We talk to Alan Burdick, staff writer and former senior editor for The New Yorker, about his most recent book "Why Time Flies: A Mostly Scientific Investigation.”Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/inquiringminds

We talk to Nate Allen, chemist and head moderator of one of the internet’s largest science communities: Reddit’s r/science subreddit.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/inquiringminds

We talk to author and Wall Street Journal reporter Alexandra Wolfe about her new book Valley of the Gods: A Silicon Valley Story.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/inquiringminds

This week, as we near the inauguration of Donald Trump, we revisit a conversation with science journalist Dave Levitan about his book Not a Scientist: How Politicians Mistake, Misrepresent, and Utterly Mangle Science.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/inquiringminds

We welcome back cognitive scientist Paul Bloom to talk about his new book Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/inquiringminds