Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda
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Clear+Vivid with 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...
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Michael Shermer: Want to know the truth?
These days, despite the internet providing us access to every imaginable source of information, the truth is harder than ever to find. A conversation...
Loretta Ross: Better than calling out? Calling in
She has spent over 50 years fighting racism, sexism and sexual violence, often fiercely. Now in her 70’s, her experiences have led her to move past an...
Marc Abrahams: Laugh… then Think
The Ig Nobel prizes are awarded every year in a ceremony that is as charming as it is ridiculous, awarding research that itself may seem ridiculous at...
Elena Hoicka: What makes a baby laugh?
Babies find things funny long before they understand language – surprising even the author of the most detailed study to date of when and how babies a...
Marlo Thomas: That Girl who changed Television
Almost 60 years ago she defied television conventions with her depiction of a young woman succeeding on her own in the big city. And for the last 30 y...
Morgan McSweeney aka Dr. Noc: Earning trust, delivering truths
In the almost six years since the beginning of the pandemic he’s developed an on-line personality that’s an exuberant mix of medical expert and next-d...
Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda: Season 32 Trailer
Alan and executive producer Graham Chedd look ahead to the new season, which includes episodes on how babies who giggle become socially smarter; prize...
Alex "Sandy" Pentland: Shared Wisdom
How technological innovation has shaped our culture, with lessons from history and even from bees. And how these lessons can help tame and curate the...
Jelani Cobb: Journalism at a Crossroads
The Dean of the Columbia School of Journalism talks about how social media is overtaking traditional newspapers and television as most people’s source...
The MASH Gang: How a Television Show Changed Us
MASH changed Alan’s life as well as the lives of the rest of the MASH cast. In this revisit of a free-wheeling conversation recorded in 2019 Alan, and...
Michael J Fox: Looking Back with Attitude
Alan revisits a conversation he had with Michael seven years ago, at a time when Fox had been grappling with Parkinson’s Disease for 27 years and Alan...
Bill McKibben: Tomorrow Will be Sunny
A confident prediction from the man who first brought our warming planet to public attention some 35 years ago. Energy from solar and wind is now chea...
Kate Marvel: Feeling For Our Planet
In a surprising shift in how we communicate about the climate crisis, Kate Marvel explores the feelings evoked by her research. Her new book tackles w...
Justin Evans: Data Heroes
Data: dry and boring, right? Not in the hands of Justin Evans, a data expert himself, who set out to show that data is not only the lifeblood of today...
Melanie Kaplan: Travels With a Beagle
After adopting a beagle that had spent the first four years of his life as an experimental subject in a laboratory, she set out – with Hammy the beagl...
Erica Chenoweth: A Better Way to Protest?
Not only are non-violent protests more effective than armed resistance, but a surprisingly small percentage of the population – around three and a hal...
Nicky Clayton: Why Crows Are “Feathered Apes”
With long memories and the ability to figure out what other crows are thinking – then plot to outdo them, using what Nicky Clayton calls “sleight of...
Steven Pinker: When You Know That I Know That You Know…
It then becomes “common knowledge,” and can be both beneficial – like cementing friendships or empowering peaceful protests – or destructive, causing...
Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda: Season 31 Trailer
Alan and Executive Producer Graham Chedd look ahead to next season and some unexpected connections between our first guests. They include best-selling...
Leanne Guy: A New Eye on Space
Perched on a mountain top in Chile, the new Vera Rubin Observatory’s telescope will view the universe as it’s never been seen before, seeking answers...
Michael Osterholm: Can We Stop The Big One?
With lessons learned from the Covid pandemic, he points to how we might better tackle the next, inevitable, global pandemic — at a time when science h...
Herman Pontzer: Diversity: Humanity’s Superpower
Unlike most other land animals, we can live almost anywhere – from deserts, to mountains, rain forests, even the arctic. We are supremely adaptable, a...
Stephen Hall: Snakes: Do they Deserve Our Dread?
Along with revelations about snake sex, their contributions to medicine, that flickering tongue and why slithering is a secret to their success, Steph...
Kyra Davis Lurie: Reimagining Gatsby
She’s had a love-hate relationship with F. Scott Fitzgerald since she was a teenager. And she’s now written a wonderful new take on The Great Gatsby,...
Robert Sapolsky: Why Do We Do That?
An old friend of Clear and Vivid is back to enlighten Alan on some of the oddities of human behavior – both good and bad – and to talk about his enter...
Bob Odenkirk: Comedy? Action? Drama? Better Call Bob!
From his long running role as Saul Goodman in Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, to his recent Broadway appearance in Glenngary Glen Ross, and his new...
Tara Roberts: Diving for Stories
With her Black scuba-diving companions she has sought to reveal the appalling cost in lives lost in sunken slave ships, while at the same time honorin...
Roger Rosenblatt: Rules for Aging
Alan joins his old friend to compare notes on staying happy when old; and Roger shares tips from a forthcoming book, including some that may seem coun...
Tina Fey: The Return of The Four Seasons
Tina Fey’s reimagining of a movie Alan made over 40 years ago has been a big hit for Netflix. She and Alan have fun talking about how she went about u...
If Robots Had a Podcast
Alan lets bots mostly run the show to see how much they can do and still be under human control. For a while, it seems to go well, but then dangers st...
Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda: Season 30 Trailer
Alan and Clear and Vivid’s executive producer Graham Chedd chat about and play clips from some of the shows coming up in season 30. Guests include act...
Carly Anne York: Taking “Silly Science” Seriously
Research often derided for being a waste of money has led to world-changing breakthroughs, ranging from GPS to Ozempic.
Hosted by Simplecast, an...
Paul McCartney: Dreams, Dickens… and Oobleys
To celebrate Sir Paul’s 83rd birthday June 18th we are reprising a wonderful conversation recorded five years ago. Alan and Paul exchange their experi...
Itzhak Perlman: Encore! Encore!
Reaching back to the first season of Clear and Vivid, a replay of the July 2018 episode when the violin virtuoso tells Alan why he likes to talk to hi...
Adam Kucharski: What’s True to You?
In a world awash with misinformation, how do we know what’s true? How can we be certain about anything? It turns out one of the most effective ways be...
Noah Wyle: Learning from The Pitt
Playing attending physician “Robby” Robinavitch in the hit HBO Max series The Pitt has given him insights into how the harrowing world of the emergenc...
Mario Livio: Hello? Anybody Out There?
The recent discovery on a distant planet of a chemical that could be a sign of life has this astrophysicist intrigued if not convinced. But if it turn...
Colman Domingo: Magnetic. Fearless. Unstoppable.
Now starring in the Netflix series The Four Seasons – based on Alan’s 1981 movie – he’s won an Emmy and has been nominated for two Oscars and two Tony...
Eric Topol: Live Longer, Better
While promises of extending the human lifespan to 125 and beyond are premature, recent breakthroughs in the early detection of killer diseases of the...
Sarah Bell: Alexa’s Ancestors
AI generated voices like Alexa and Siri are now so much a part of our everyday experience that disembodied chatbots that talk are edging ever closer t...