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Episode publication activity over the past year

Last Checked: 2025-10-19 12:30:22

Rudolph Tanzi: What Can People Do To Maintain Brain Health As They Age?

20 Dec 2021

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Harvard Medical School professor of neurology Rudolph Tanzi discusses how lifestyle choices can help...

Makeda Best: What Does Landscape Photography Say About Our Politics?

13 Dec 2021

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Makeda Best, curator of photography at the Harvard Art Museums and a visiting professor of Art, Film...

Claudia Goldin: Why Do Women Still Make Less Than Men?

06 Dec 2021

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Claudia Goldin, Henry Lee professor of economics, shares the reason why working mothers still earn l...

Jerrold Rosenbaum: Are Psychedelics an Effective Treatment for Mood Disorders?

29 Nov 2021

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Jerrold Rosenbaum, director of Massachusetts General Hospital’s Center for the Neuroscience of Psy...

Nicholas Stephanopoulos: Why Does Gerrymandering Matter So Much?

22 Nov 2021

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Nicholas Stephanopoulos, a political scientist and legal scholar whose research focuses on gerrymand...

Emily Broad Leib: What Can be Done About Food Waste?

15 Nov 2021

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Emily Broad Leib, founder and director of Harvard’s Food Law and Policy Clinic, discusses how to r...

Sandeep Robert Datta and Venkatesh Murthy: Why is Smell Such a Mystery to Scientists?

08 Nov 2021

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Neurobiologists Venkatesh Murthy and Sandeep Robert Datta discuss what scientists know about our sen...

Michael Mina: Why Do We Still Need Rapid Tests?

01 Nov 2021

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Epidemiologist and immunologist Michael Mina discusses the use of rapid tests as public health tools...

Preview: Ask a Harvard Professor, Season Four

28 Oct 2021

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For more information about Harvard Magazine and this podcast, visit www.harvardmagazine.com/podcast ...

Carrie Lambert-Beatty: What Happens When an Artwork Deceives its Audience?

30 Nov 2020

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The term “parafiction” refers to an artistic performance or presentation that depicts fiction as...

Francesca Dominici: How Does Air Pollution Affect COVID-19?

23 Nov 2020

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Discussing the link between air pollution and effects of COVID-19, and the importance of data for ra...

Rebecca Henderson: Does Capitalism Need to be Reimagined?

16 Nov 2020

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How to reform capitalism to confront climate change and extreme inequality, with economist and McArt...

Jeannie Suk Gersen: Do Elite Colleges Discriminate Against Asian Americans?

09 Nov 2020

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Harvard Law School professor Jeannie Suk Gersen breaks down the use of race in college admissions a...

Danielle Allen: What Do COVID-19 and Extreme Inequality Mean for American Democracy?

02 Nov 2020

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In this episode, political philosopher Danielle Allen explains why the COVID crisis, extreme inequal...

Caroline Buckee: Can Mobile-phone Data Help Control the Spread of the Coronavirus?

26 Oct 2020

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Can cellphone technologies play a role in controlling the coronavirus pandemic? Knowing how public h...

Daniel Schrag and David Keith: Can solar geoengineering help fight climate change?

19 Oct 2020

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Climate change may be the hardest problem the human race has ever confronted. In a single century, h...

Preview: Ask a Harvard Professor, Season Three

16 Oct 2020

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For more information about Harvard Magazine and this podcast, visit www.harvardmagazine.com/podca...

Doug Elmendorf and Karen Dynan: How much can the federal budget and the deficit continue to grow?

13 Apr 2020

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What should be done now about the federal budget and the deficit, with Doug Elmendorf, dean of the H...

William C. Kirby: Is China ready for leadership on the global stage?

06 Apr 2020

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CHINA IS THE MOST POPULOUS COUNTRY ON EARTH, and until a few hundred years ago, it was also the most...

Benjamin Sachs and Sharon Block: When did labor law stop working?

30 Mar 2020

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Why would it take an Amazon worker, employed full time, more than a million years to earn what its C...

Nicholas Burns: Why Does Good Diplomacy Matter?

23 Mar 2020

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What role does diplomacy play in the modern world order, and what are the characteristics of a good ...

Maya Sen: Have U.S. courts become political prizes?

16 Mar 2020

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If judges truly are impartial arbiters of justice, why do politicians fight over who will be appoint...

David Cutler: Can the U.S. Healthcare System Be Fixed?

09 Mar 2020

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No country in the world spends more on health care than the United States, or has less to show for i...

Joseph S. Nye: How Do Past Presidents Rank in Foreign Policy?

02 Mar 2020

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Rating the foreign policy of presidents from FDR to the present day with Joseph Nye, formerly a gove...

Preview: Ask a Harvard Professor Season Two

26 Feb 2020

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For more information about Harvard Magazine and this podcast, visit www.harvardmagazine.com/podcast ...

Marcyliena Morgan: How has Harvard Cultivated Hiphop?

21 Oct 2019

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What does hiphop culture—rap music, break dancing, and graffiti—have to do with Harvard? In this...

Robin Kelsey: Is a Photograph a Work of Art?

07 Oct 2019

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What makes a photograph art? A great photograph may be the result of artistry, or it may be the resu...

Edward Glaeser: Should We All Be Living in Cities?

30 Sep 2019

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Cities are an integral part of Earth’s future: by 2050, 68 percent of the world’s population wil...

David Hemenway: Who Can Solve America’s Gun Problem?

23 Sep 2019

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Mass murders committed with firearms are becoming more frequent In the United States. And the total ...

Staci Gruber: How Does Marijuana Affect the Brain?

16 Sep 2019

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Weed, ganja, pot, flower, dope, grass, bud: marijuana has many names, but an even greater number of ...

Lawrence Lessig: What Leads to Academic Corruption?

09 Sep 2019

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There’s a kind of academic corruption that most people have never considered. Not plagiarism. Not ...

Introducing: Ask a Harvard Professor

29 Jul 2019

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For more information about Harvard Magazine and this podcast, visit www.harvardmagazine.com and foll...