It all began with Dr. Ryan Aycock telling us about “The Effects of Alcohol and Your Shrinking Brain.” Then we had an on-air therapy session for Chava, who both wants to drink agave spirits but also wants to maintain a fat brain. Now… Chava lands on his solution. We do...

A few weeks ago, Cocktail MD Dr. Ryan Aycock joined us for “The Effects of Alcohol and Your Shrinking Brain,” an episode so titled because … well, drinking alcohol causes your brain to shrink. This freaked out Chava (and apparently several of our listeners). So I made him talk about...

Technology is having a profound impact on our lives – and it’s not all good. What keep us connected and productive – is can also be the thing that makes us work 24/7, sucks up time, and isolates us from the people around us. Learn how to tame your tech...

This week on Taste Matters, Mitchell Davis is joined by French social scientist Claude Fischler to talk about the relationship between food and society. He is a directeur de recherche of the French National Centre for Scientific Research, and heads the Institut Interdisciplinaire d'Anthropologie du Contemporain in Paris. Tune into...

How does our brain understand food through texture, density, and temperature? HRN's resident food science expert Meradith Hoddinott explains the relationship between food and touch in this special segment. Learn how the weight of tableware alters our perceptions of a food's richness. How does the melting point of food change...

On today's episode of Let's Get Real, host Erica Wides talks to us about "foodiness," and what exactly real food means in today's supermarket driven world. What does "whole grains" actually mean? How do we distinguish good, nutritious food from the other items with the same labels? Erica also breaks...

Learn about the Maine blueberry industry on this week's episode of The Farm Report with Professor David Yarborough! Erin Fairbanks chats with David via the phone lines to discuss the differences between wild and cultivated varieties of blueberries. Tune in to learn how Maine growers manage pests and weeds, and...

Dive deeper into the world of taste and sense on a neurological episode of Taste Matters with host Mitchell Davis. He's joined by Gordon Murray Shepherd, a neuroscientist who carries out basic experimental and theoretical research on how neurons are organized into microcircuits to carry out the functional operations of...

Congratulations to Erica Wides; it's the one year anniversary of Let's Get Real! More importantly, it's the "I Told You Show", and Erica's here with the Foodiness Time Machine to take you back in time to show you that all of her food predictions have come true. Learn that the...

This week on Snacky Tunes, Finger on The Pulse are joined by Cathy Erway of Hapa Kitchen and Justin Carter of Sunday Best fame.