Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchDannagal Goldthwaite Young, "Wrong: How Media, Politics, and Identity Drive Our Appetite for Misinformation" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)
Episode 683
Over the past 40 years, lawmakers in America's two major political parties have taken increasingly extreme positions on ideological issues. Voters fr…
2 years, 5 months ago
Jeremy Howick, "The Power of Placebos: Unlocking Their Potential to Improve Health Care" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)
Episode 105
Should your doctor prescribe a placebo for you, instead of conventional medicine? And if she did, would it work? Is the double-blind placebo-controll…
2 years, 5 months ago
James K. Beggan, "How Our Love of Dogs Creates Social Conflict" (Lexington Books, 2022)
Episode 58
For the last twenty-thousand years, dogs and people have shared a unique bond in the animal kingdom. In How Our Love of Dogs Creates Social Conflict …
2 years, 5 months ago
Neil Cohn, "Who Understands Comics?: Questioning the Universality of Visual Language Comprehension" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
Episode 3
Drawings and sequential images are so pervasive in contemporary society that we may take their understanding for granted. But how transparent are the…
2 years, 5 months ago
The Future of Paying Attention: A Discussion with Carolyn Dicey Jennings
Episode 83
Is it really harder to pay attention to something than it used to be? No doubt the world is getting faster, and social media platforms are so good at…
2 years, 5 months ago
Jeremy Nobel, "Project UnLonely: Healing Our Crisis of Disconnection" (Avery Publishing Group, 2023)
Episode 4
Even before the Covid pandemic began in 2020, chronic loneliness was a private experience of profound anguish that had become a public health crisis.…
2 years, 5 months ago
Alexandre Baril, "Undoing Suicidism: A Trans, Queer, Crip Approach to Rethinking (Assisted) Suicide" (Temple UP, 2023)
Episode 177
Note: This episode contains a discussion of suicide. A list of resources is available below.
In Undoing Suicidism: A Trans, Queer, Crip Approach to R…
2 years, 6 months ago
Sébastien Tutenges, "Intoxication: An Ethnography of Effervescent Revelry" (Rutgers UP, 2022)
Episode 315
For two decades, Sébastien Tutenges has conducted research in bars, nightclubs, festivals, drug dens, nightlife resorts, and underground dance partie…
2 years, 6 months ago
Adam Blum et al., "Here I'm Alive: The Spirit of Music in Psychoanalysis" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Episode 219
Today we have a group session (read: an hour and a half) with the authors Adam Blum, Peter Goldberg, and Michal Levin discussing their new book Here…
2 years, 6 months ago
Karyne E. Messina, "It's Not Me, It's You!: How Narcissists Get What They Want and How to Stop Them" (Cascade Books, 2023)
Episode 215
Bullies, bad bosses, human traffickers, and mean girls all manipulate their victims without lifting a finger. This sinister form of mind control is k…
2 years, 6 months ago