Many Minds

The widest lens on this list. Kensy Cooperrider talks with researchers about how humans, animals and machines think, sense and learn, so an episode on why the brain is not a computer can be followed by one on tool use among animals or on cognitive offloading, the habit of handing our thinking to fingers, calendars and devices. Each episode is a long, careful interview in which guests are given room to explain their methods and where the open questions lie. New episodes arrive every two weeks. It suits listeners who want psychology placed alongside anthropology, linguistics and animal cognition rather than kept in its own box.