WBEZ's Clever Apes Podcast
1) Clever Apes #31: ¿Habla usted simio?
Exact statistics are hard to come by, but it is generally accepted that a majority of the world’s population speaks more than one language. So if we want to better understand how the brain works...Show More
2) Clever Apes #30: Walk like an ape
Today, motion capture is used in movies and video games to create realistic movement in animated characters. In the Motion Analysis Lab at Rush University Medical Center, Dr. Kharma Foucher uses motio...Show More
3) Clever Apes: Mind bender
Clever Apes is dead. Long live Clever Apes.It's a sad day here at WBEZ. Our clever host, Gabriel Spitzer, has left the station and is heading to Seattle.
4) Clever Apes #29: Nature and human nature
As kids, we usually learn about nature from a decidedly human point of view: The world exists in relation to us. But an eclectic group of researchers are challenging that. They've started looking at t...Show More
5) Clever Apes: Flavor tripping
We’ve seen and heard some pretty sweet stuff while producing Clever Apes, but in our latest excursion, we got to taste something very sweet.
6) Clever Apes #28: The critter economy
It seems like economics is a purely human invention, far removed from the jungle. But scientists say our ancestors were spending and investing for millions of years.
7) Clever Apes: Chicago's nuclear legacy
As we mark the one-year anniversary this week of the natural and nuclear disasters in Japan, it seems like a good time to reflect on Chicago’s deep and complicated nuclear history.
8) Clever Apes #27: Breaking the fossil record
Dinosaurs loom large in our imaginations not just because they were in fact enormous, but also they are so ridiculously old. There has always been a big, impenetrable curtain separating us from prehis...Show More
9) Clever Apes: What the flu?
Just the other day, I was feeling lucky because I haven't gotten a cold or flu this winter. Maybe all that hand washing and hand sanitizing was paying off. Maybe, maybe not? It turns out that this ye...Show More
10) Clever Apes: A world of bugs
Microbes are by far the most abundant life form on the planet. The numbers are so big, they’re almost comical: maybe five million trillion trillion bacteria on earth, and that’s conservative. And yet ...Show More