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Why It’s So Hard for Us to Subtract
Episode 25
Leidy, professor of engineering at the University of Virginia, talks about his book, Subtract: The Untapped Science of Less, with Peoples & Things ho…
3 years, 2 months ago
Valerie Tiberius, "What Do You Want Out of Life?: A Philosophical Guide to Figuring Out What Matters" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Episode 56
What do you want out of life? To make a lot of money--or work for justice? To run marathons--or sing in a choir? To have children--or travel the worl…
3 years, 2 months ago
The History of Teletherapy
Episode 22
Hannah Zeavin, lecturer in the department of History and member of the executive committees of both the Center for New Media and the Center for Scien…
3 years, 2 months ago
Rebecca Ray, "Small Habits for a Big Life" (Macmillan, 2022)
Episode 195
Change is not about grand statements and sweeping gestures. It is about chipping away, a bit at a time, at the habits that hold us back.
Dr Rebecca Ra…
3 years, 2 months ago
Dissecting Morality: What do Scientists Have To Say About Ethics? (Part 2)
Episode 27
Linking morality and science can conjure up disturbing histories around social Darwinism, eugenics, and genetically engineered humans. But scientists…
3 years, 2 months ago
Dissecting Morality: What do Scientists Have To Say About Ethics? (Part 1)
Episode 26
Linking morality and science can conjure up disturbing histories around social Darwinism, eugenics, and genetically engineered humans. But scientists…
3 years, 2 months ago
Batja Mesquita, "Between Us: How Cultures Create Emotions" (Norton, 2022)
Episode 125
Today I talked to Batja Mesquita about her book Between Us: How Cultures Create Emotions (Norton, 2022).
To a degree sometimes not realized, we discus…
3 years, 2 months ago
Justin Gregg, "If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal: What Animal Intelligence Reveals About Human Stupidity" (Little, Brown, 2022)
Episode 44
What if human intelligence is actually more of a liability than a gift? After all, the animal kingdom, in all its diversity, gets by just fine withou…
3 years, 2 months ago
Near Death Experience
Episode 108
In this episode of High Theory, Laura Wittman tells us about near death experiences. The central feature of these experiences is a vision and a story…
3 years, 2 months ago
Karyne E. Messina, "Resurgence of Global Populism: A Psychoanalytic Study of Projective Identification, Blame-Shifting and the Corruption of Democracy" (Routledge, 2022)
Episode 205
Resurgence of Global Populism: A Psychoanalytic Study of Projective Identification, Blame-Shifting and the Corruption of Democracy (Routledge, 2022) …
3 years, 3 months ago