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Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda

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 Science Social Sciences
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    Michael Pollan: The mystery and marvel of consciousness
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    Best known for his writings on food – and for his crisp summation of advice for healthy eating – “Eat food. Not too much. Mainly plants” – he has now taken a deep and very personal dive into the nature of consciousness.


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  • Edda Fields-Black: The Harriet Tubman you didn’t know

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    Mar 31 2026

    The remarkable and little-known story of how Harriet Tubman played a critical role in a daring raid that in 1863 freed some 700 slaves from rice plantations along South Carolina’s Combahee River.


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  • Gary Marcus: Is AI mostly hype?

    Gary Marcus: Is AI mostly hype?
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    For over 20 years he has been a relentless critic of the extravagant claims made for the current generation of AI based on Large Language Models, or LLMs. But he is even more concerned about what may come next.


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