Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda

By: Alan Alda
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  • 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.
    Alan Alda
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Comedy & Humor Science Social Sciences
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Episodes
  • Mala Murthy: From a Fly’s Brain to Yours

    Mala Murthy: From a Fly’s Brain to Yours
    Feb 4 2025

    The 500 feet of wiring packed into fruit fly’s brain has been fully mapped – giving insights into how the more that 300,000 miles of wiring packed into your brain generates your thoughts, feelings, perceptions and actions. These insights could also lead to novel treatments for the diseases caused when the wiring goes wrong.
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    37 mins
  • Brenda Wineapple: When Evolution Was on Trial

    Brenda Wineapple: When Evolution Was on Trial
    Jan 28 2025

    In 1925, a trial in a small town in Tennessee riveted the nation. In the dock was a young man named John Scopes, charged with violating a state law outlawing the teaching of evolution. The trial exposed fault lines in society that are opening again today, a century later.
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    38 mins
  • Daniel Levitin: Music as Medicine

    Daniel Levitin: Music as Medicine
    Jan 21 2025

    Music can lift our spirits, bring us to tears, spark our creativity, pace our workouts. Neuroscientist and musician Daniel Levitin explores all these benefits of music – and adds the recent scientific evidence that in some chronic medical conditions, music is medicinal.
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    41 mins

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Always engaging and entertaining

I have been listening to this podcast while I walk every morning, I thought it might be time to give a quick review! I love this podcast because the guests and topics are varied and so interesting! Alan’s comfortable and insightful style brings out great things in every conversation. Just a great way to start my day.

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Simply Wonderful!

A pleasure to hear Alan Alda's humor while exploring this powerful topic with Rabbi Leder.

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Seriously do yourself a favor, listen to ALL!

Listening to these intimate conversations between smart, evolved, thoughtful and interesting people never gets old. Or at this point, even optional in my life - that’s how much I get out of this podcast. All of them unique in every way too! Thank you for the inspiration, the motivation, and most of all - at times even restoring my faith in human kind.

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A much to short family reunion

I could have listened to this for another 12 hours. It was just a lovely homecoming at the end the there was a disappointment and a longing to give each of them a hug of thanks.

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Love it

Been an Alan Alda fan as long as I can remember,so listening to him talk is just so cozy. The fact that I learn while indulging makes it worth all five stars. I hope this goes on for ages more

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Amazing 💗

Absolutely love you, Alan Alda!!! You have such a great dialogue with your guests. I throughly enjoy listening to you 💗

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Alan Alda is Awesome

Great guests and great questions with a touch of humor. I really like this show.

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Alda's Light and Enlightening

Guest selection is refreshing. Topics are varied yet Hollywood is pleasantly avoided. I never miss an episode, regardless of the topic.

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