Podcast Episodes

The Neuroscience of Loneliness: Why Your Brain Needs Real Connection

Isolation stresses the body, shrinks empathy, and shortens life — and friends are biological medicine.

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Published on 7 hours ago

How to Grow Old

First up, Sandeep Jauhar shares insights from his 2023 book, My Father's Brain, exploring his father's descent into Alzheimer's and revealing what neuroscience tells us about why our brains degenerat…

Published on 3 days, 7 hours ago

The Art of Spending Money (Without Losing Your Mind)

Morgan Housel explains why real wealth isn’t about what you buy but about what you appreciate. Then BU's Lawrence Kotlikoff offers practical financial tips.

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Published on 4 days, 7 hours ago

Strong Floor, No Ceiling: A New American Dream

As the nation approaches its 250th birthday, Oliver B. Libby lays out a centrist blueprint to restore opportunity and rebuild trust. His new book is Strong Floor, No Ceiling. Then, in act two, we hea…

Published on 5 days, 7 hours ago

The Sentence That Built a Nation, According to Walter Isaacson

Big news: The Next Big Idea Club just announced its nonfiction book pick of the season, and that book is The Greatest Sentence Ever Written, by Walter Isaacson.

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Published on 6 days, 7 hours ago

Stop Complaining About Gen Z. Start Leading Them.

This new generation of workers is different, and you can use that to your advantage.

1️⃣ The Future Begins with Z: Nine Strategies to Lead Generation Z as They Disrupt the Workplace by Tim Elmore

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Published on 1 week ago

Living in the Shadow of AI

What does it mean to be human in a world that is increasingly shaped by artificial intelligence?

Act One: Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI by Madhumita Murgia

Act Two: AI Needs You: How We …

Published on 1 week, 3 days ago

We Are Eating the Earth

Journalist Michael Grunwald explains how our food system is destroying the planet—and what it will take to fix it. Later, Amanda Little tells us what we'll eat in a bigger, hotter, smarter world.

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Published on 1 week, 4 days ago

The Science of Fear—and How to Break Free From It

Why do we fear the wrong things? We worry about plane crashes but not car rides, strangers but not algorithms, sharks but not sugar. In The Fear Knot: How Science, History, and Culture Shape Our Fear…

Published on 1 week, 5 days ago

Are We Wired for War?

What if the battlefield isn’t just out there, but also inside our heads? In the new book Warhead: How the Brain Shapes War and War Shapes the Brain, neuroscientist Nicholas Wright draws on his experi…

Published on 1 week, 6 days ago