Nicole Creanza, from Vanderbilt University, talks with us about her recent research into the colonial migrations of those who contributed to the historical evolution of the creole language, Sranan. For more information,

Phil Zimbardo, Professor Emeritus from Stanford University and author of Stanford Prison Experiment, talks with us about his new research into how social modeling influences the likelihood of disobeying unjust authority.  For more information,

Soroush Vosoughi from MIT's Laboratory for Social Machines and and Harvard's Berkman Klein Center talks with us about his research into how false spreads differently than true news in Twitter. For more information,

Anna-Sophia Wahl from the Brain Research Institute at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, in Zurich, talks with us about using optogenetics to help restore motor controls after suffering a stroke. For more information,

Michael Kraus from Yale University's School of Management talks with us about his research that examines the role of the voice in our capacity to accurately estimate the emotions of others. For more information,

Sam Mehr and Manvir Singh, from Harvard's Music Lab talk with us about how they used songs from the Natural History of Song database to find out if form-function associations in vocal music are detectable by listeners worldwide. For more information,

Niki den Nieuwenboer from the University of Kansas' School of Business talks with us about her research on how middle-managers can manipulate organizational  structures to coerce their staff into unethical behaviors to inflate performance.

Bill Clark from the University of California Los Angeles discusses his research applying the endowment effect of Prospect Theory to decisions of why people move from, or stay in, their homes. For more information,

In this episode we talk with Rafael Nunez from the University of California, San Diego, about his research into if human understanding of number has developed through biological evolution, or through the evolution of language and culture.

As 2017 comes to a close, Parsing Science revisits our past interviews to identify some of the themes and trends that we heard across our first 12 episodes. Some clips have never aired, so be sure to listen in for even more unpublished stories behind ...