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This episode features world-renowned soprano Renée Fleming and vocal-science researcher Dr. Sean Hutchins in a conversation that plays like part masterclass, part science session.
This episode brings together beloved children’s musician and advocate Raffi and University of Toronto psychologist Dr. Jennifer Stellar for a conversation about how music helps shape our earliest experiences of empathy, gratitude, and wonder.
Rosanne Cash—four-time Grammy winner, songwriter, and Americana icon—talks with psychologist Dr. Robyn Fivush for a conversation about how the stories we tell across generations shape who we become.
Kacey Musgraves and pioneering mycologist Paul Stamets dive deep into the biology, evolution, and mental health potential of psilocybin.
Singer-songwriter Noah Cyrus talks about her haunting new album inspired by a hymn written by her great-grandfather, and her deepest fear—not death itself, but being separated from her loved ones. She also opens up about her near-death experience and the profound losses that shaped her experience with love and grief.
Korn frontman Jonathan Davis delves into his past as a mortician with popular science bestselling author, Mary Roach.
Visionary singer-songwriter Neko Case joins ecological horticulturist and Brooklyn Bridge Park garden designer Rebecca McMackin for a wide-ranging conversation about land stewardship, biodiversity, and the joys of gardening.
Join acclaimed singer-songwriter and Tiny Desk phenom Madison McFerrin as she bakes chocolate chip cookies live and chats with host Matt Whyte in the first Microscopes episode of Sing For Science.
Join celebrated American songwriter, Josh Ritter for a chat about the night sky, the dimensionality of truth, UAP, creativity and more with Harvard Astrophysicist, Dr. Avi Loeb.
Join UK superstar and boxing enthusiast, YUNGBLUD for his chat with renowned fitness performance scientist, Dr. Brad Schoenfeld.
Musician polymath and Talking Heads co-founder David Byrne talks with “The Book of Eels” author, Patrik Svensson.
Taped Live in Los Angeles at Dynasty Typewriter with cultural icon and comedy legend, Tommy Chong alongside world-renowned cannabis researcher, Dr. Staci Gruber (McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical School).
Listen to Jessie Reyez talk with Dr. Pamela Dalton about smell science and how palo santo can induce relaxation.
Join RÜFÜS DU SOL lead singer Tyrone Lindqvist for a deep dive on breath work with UCLA neurologist Dr. Jack Feldman.
Listen to massive Canadian DJ BLOND:ISH and Dr. Kara Wiggin, a plastics researcher at Scripps Oceanographic Institute in San Diego, talk about the impacts plastic has on human health.
Duran Duran's Nick Rhodes and Particle Physicist Brian Cox discuss time travel, the intersection of politics and science, and more!
Debbie Harry and Chris Stein of Blondie talk with renowned climatologist Michael Mann about the climate, weaponization of social media, and more on this encore episode.
In this episode we chat with Rahim Redcar from Christine and the Queens and physicist, Matteo Cantiello about plasma—the most abundant form of matter in our universe
Simpsons’ favorite Moe The Bartender and his human counterpart Hank Azaria speak with Social Neuroscientist, Dr. Kevin Ochsner, about Hank’s experience recovering from alcoholism, the neural underpinnings of practicing acceptance and more.
#1 NY Times Bestselling Author Patricia Cornwell and Harvard astrophysicist Dr. Avi Loeb discuss the uncanny resemblance between Dr. Loeb and the primary murder victim in Patricia’s latest book “Identity Unknown.,” UFOs, and more.
Global dance music stars SOFI TUKKER celebrate the release of their bread themed album Bread with a conversation about the science that makes bread so delicious and universal
Academy Award‒winning filmmaker, drummer, DJ, producer, director, culinary entrepreneur and New York Times bestselling author Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson talks with Williams College pioneering developmental psychologist, Dr. Susan Engel about his debut children’s picture book “The Idea in You.”
Join Atlanta Music Icon Jermaine Dupri and Georgia Tech ethnographer Dr. Joycelyn Wilson for a conversation about how Atlanta grew to become a cultural phenomenon.
Folk icon Peggy Seeger talks with Oxford University Biology Professor Tim Coulson about her experience as feminist, ecologist, activist, mother, musician, Seeger and more.
Rapper Denzel Curry talks with UC Irvine cultural anthropologist Dr. Mimi Ito about his relationship to anime and anime culture in Japan and abroad.
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ABOUT THE SHOW
Sing For Science is a science-and-music podcast where musicians sit down with scientists to explore the scientific ideas hidden in their most iconic songs. Listen to Jonathan Davis from Korn talk about “Dead Bodies Everywhere” with a mortuary-science expert, Sia explore one of her breakup ballads with an attachment-theory psychologist, and many, many more. Created and hosted by New York musician Matt Whyte, the show seeks to uncover connections wherever they may exist and build bridges between seemingly disparate voices, styles, and walks of life.
Sing For Science is made possible in part by a grant from the Simons Foundation.
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