Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda

With a schedule impossible for anyone not named Mayim Bialik, she shares with Alan how acting and science have intertwined throughout her extraordinary career – as sitcom star, neuroscientist, podcaster and now movie director. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/clearandvivid [https://www.patreon.com/clearandvivid] See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

After finding himself the subject of a trivia parlor game called Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, the actor turned the concept of how we’re all connected into a philanthropic project that enables us all to help those we may not even realize we’re connected to. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/clearandvivid [https://www.patreon.com/clearandvivid] See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

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 actors Kevin Bacon and Mayim Bialik; the first woman conductor of a major orchestra, Marin Alsop; and author and old friend of Alan’s, Roger Rosenblatt. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/clearandvivid [https://www.patreon.com/clearandvivid] See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

Few people have the same knack for explaining the unexplainable as Dennis Overbye, who for over 20 years has been illuminating the mysteries of the universe – and the minds of the scientists trying to understand those mysteries – in the pages of the New York Times. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/clearandvivid [https://www.patreon.com/clearandvivid] See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

Nobel prizewinner Bob Lefkowitz tells the story of an extraordinary group of young physicians chosen to work at the National Institutes of Health during the Vietnam War. Their brief time there transformed medical research and saved millions of lives. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/clearandvivid [https://www.patreon.com/clearandvivid] See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.