Should I have kids?

CrowdScience listener Matt wants to know why he's warm blooded. He started thinking about this when he was watching some ants during the recent heatwave in Europe and wondered why their blood didn't boil. What are the pros and cons of being warm-blooded like us or cold-blooded re ...  Show more

Why is it hard to concentrate, and why does it feel like such hard work? The CrowdScience inbox is full of questions like that, so for this show we’re concentrating on concentration and focusing on how we focus. We’ll be answering questions about the extra energy the brain uses w ...  Show more

Should we have kids, given where the planet is headed? 

Morrie said about having children, "Whenever people have asked me about having children, I don't say to them have them, or don't have them. I say, there's no other experience that can substitute for it." On today's episode of Tuesday People, Mitch Albom and co-host Lisa Goich dis ...  Show more

Zoe Strimpel on the difficulty of deciding whether to have, or not have, children. She describes the 'paralysis of ambivalence'. But this ambivalence is surely, she writes, 'a natural response to the idea of setting in train the most unknowable outcome on earth'.Producer: Adele A ...  Show more

On this episode we talk about the fear and dilemma that so many women are facing around running out of time to have kids, when to have kids and if they even want to have kids at all. It's not an accident if so many people in our generation are genuinely feeling this, so how can w ...  Show more