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Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda podcast

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Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda

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  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.

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.

 

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#342

Jasmin Graham: She’s Down with Sharks

As a Black graduate student disillusioned with academia, she founded Minorities in Shark Science (MISS). She now pursues her passion for sharks and outreach to a public fearful of sharks as a successful independent researcher. ... Read more

Yesterday

35 MINS

35:38

Yesterday

#341

Craig Foster: Life Lessons from an Octopus

For most of us who live in the “tame” modern world, a reminder of how we can refresh ourselves by experiencing the wild world – even the wild world of our backyard or city streets. ... Read more

26 Nov 2024

36 MINS

36:01

26 Nov 2024

#340

Joshua Greene: Games That Build Bridges

His research figuring out how our brains make moral judgments has led to two on-line games: One aimed at overcoming political animosity (and that’s fun to play!); the other to satisfy both your head and your heart when you donate to charity. ... Read more

19 Nov 2024

39 MINS

39:46

19 Nov 2024

#339

Dan Heath: In Someone Else’s (Working) Shoes

Most of us have no idea how others – even our friends and neighbors – spend their days at work. What’s it really like to be a plumber, a marriage counselor, an ice cream truck owner, an author of mystery novels? In his podcast Dan Heath talks to workers in dozens of different jobs to find out What It’s Like to Be. ... Read more

12 Nov 2024

38 MINS

38:46

12 Nov 2024

#338

Brian Hare and Vanessa Woods: How to Raise a Great Dog

The puppy kindergarten at Duke University is discovering how to spot a future great service dog while the dog is still a puppy. And it turns out that what makes a great service dog can also make your dog great. ... Read more

05 Nov 2024

39 MINS

39:39

05 Nov 2024

#337

Backstage at The West Wing

How the acclaimed TV series came to be and what it has come to mean since, as recalled in a new book by cast members Melissa Fitzgerald and Mary McCormack. Including stories you’ve probably never heard before. ... Read more

29 Oct 2024

39 MINS

39:56

29 Oct 2024

#336

Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda - Season 27 trailer

Alan and executive producer Graham Chedd look ahead to season 27. In a nostalgic look back at the TV series The West Wing, Alan recalls the scariest moments of his career; we visit a puppy kindergarten to spot future service dogs; a doctor tells stories that vividly illustrate the shortcomings of the health care system; and we meet a woman who can read our history as Earthlings. All that and more… ... Read more

22 Oct 2024

24 MINS

24:54

22 Oct 2024

#335

Lynnae Quick: Could an Icy Moon Harbor Life?

Her doctoral thesis led to her becoming a member of the team behind yesterday’s successful launch of NASA’s Clipper mission to Jupiter’s moon Europa. Her contribution could help find out if beneath its thick ice crust, Europa is friendly to life. ... Read more

15 Oct 2024

36 MINS

36:39

15 Oct 2024

#334

Terry Szuplat: Speak Your Mind

For eight years he wrote speeches for President Obama. Today he applies much of what he learned then in helping others with public speaking – how to craft a speech, how to connect with the audience, how to overcome the sheer terror of standing in front of dozens or hundreds of people. ... Read more

08 Oct 2024

38 MINS

38:46

08 Oct 2024

#333

Steve Martin: Portrait of the Artist

He’s had a legendary life as a stand-up comedian, actor, writer, banjo player, even magician. As Steve talks about these threads in his life, a picture emerges of the thoughtful side of this remarkable entertainer. ... Read more

01 Oct 2024

38 MINS

38:31

01 Oct 2024

#332

Ayana Johnson: We Can Do This!

A clarion call to those of us acutely aware of the peril facing our planet yet feel powerless to help save it. Ayana Johnson urges us to stop fretting about what “I” can do and instead think about what “we” can do, by joining our own skills and passions with those of others – and have fun doing it. Then, she asks in her provocative new book, What If We Get It Right? ... Read more

24 Sep 2024

40 MINS

40:30

24 Sep 2024

#331

Frank Barry: Taking the Lincoln Highway to America

Escaping the Covid lockdown in 2020 he and his wife Laurel set out in an RV to travel across America along the Lincoln Highway – a road more aspirational than real. But with Abraham Lincoln’s spirit as their guide they talked with the people they met along the way to explore the urgent question of what can hold our fractured country together. ... Read more

17 Sep 2024

37 MINS

37:07

17 Sep 2024

#330

Randy Fertel: Improv Everywhere

Is improvisation at the heart of Western culture — music, art, literature, politics, even artificial intelligence?  Author Randy Fertel thinks so. And he warns that as much as it’s a positive force, there’s also peril in it. ... Read more

10 Sep 2024

37 MINS

37:32

10 Sep 2024

#329

Roger Rosenblatt: Wounds and Other Blessings

Alan talks with Roger Rosenblatt about his new book “A Steinway on the beach.” It explores that great mystery of how being wounded—emotionally or physically—is both an inescapable part of life and a chance to illuminate it. It’s seeing the wound as the place where the light enters you. ... Read more

03 Sep 2024

35 MINS

35:36

03 Sep 2024

#328

Lisa Kaltenegger: Alien Hunter

She’s a pioneer in figuring out how we might tell if any of the trillions of planets out there in the galaxy might harbor life – and if so, what kind of life. ... Read more

27 Aug 2024

37 MINS

37:58

27 Aug 2024

#327

Mark Rank: As Luck Would Have It

Chance events not only change lives, they can change history – as when a soviet sailor’s briefly stuck foot prevented a potential nuclear catastrophe. You can’t predict when luck, good or bad, will intervene. But you can learn to take advantage of it. ... Read more

20 Aug 2024

40 MINS

40:16

20 Aug 2024

#326

Anne Curzan: Say What? Says Who?

Over time, the meaning of words often changes. The history of these changes suggests they're inevitable and that some of us (like our host) could be a little more relaxed about it and a little less peevish. ... Read more

13 Aug 2024

40 MINS

40:37

13 Aug 2024

#325

Mo Rocca: Late Comebacks

Older people, says Mo Rocca, have better stories. And he tells many of them – stories of people as different as Colonel Sanders and Henri Matisse – in his new book Roctogenarians – older people who even in their 90s have achieved great things. ... Read more

06 Aug 2024

38 MINS

38:27

06 Aug 2024

#324

Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda - Season 26 trailer

Alan and Executive Producer Graham Chedd chat about and play excerpts from Alan's conversations with some of the guests in the new season, beginning next week. Guests include author Roger Rosenblatt, word maven Anne Curzan, and TV and radio personality Mo Rocca. ... Read more

30 Jul 2024

21 MINS

21:25

30 Jul 2024

#323

David Toomey: Want to play?

Most creatures play– even octopuses, pigs, crows and bees. But play is much more than fun and games. Play teaches life skills and empathy – even morality. And it may help shape evolution. Want to play? ... Read more

23 Jul 2024

36 MINS

36:50

23 Jul 2024

#322

Sanjana Curtis: Sprinkling Stardust on TikTok

An astrophysicist brings the universe down to earth. In brief captivating videos she tells the stories of how everything our world is made of – including ourselves – was created in cataclysmic explosions and collisions far out in space. ... Read more

16 Jul 2024

38 MINS

38:03

16 Jul 2024

#321

Chris French: Would you believe it?

When we experience things that seem beyond explanation, are they evidence of the supernatural? Or instead, a quirk of our brains? A skeptical but open-minded psychologist has some entertaining answers.  ... Read more

09 Jul 2024

41 MINS

41:00

09 Jul 2024