Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchDavid Herzberg, "White Market Drugs: Big Pharma and the Hidden History of Addiction in America" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
Episode 38
The contemporary opioid crisis is widely seen as new and unprecedented. Not so. It is merely the latest in a long series of drug crises stretching ba…
4 years, 4 months ago
Mental Health in Academia 2: Hacks for Cultivating and Sustaining Wellbeing
Episode 146
We are delighted to present All for One and One for All: Public Seminar Series on Mental Health in Academia and Society. All for One and One for All …
4 years, 4 months ago
Philip Zimbardo, “Critical Situations” (Open Agenda, 2021)
Episode 100
Critical Situations is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Philip Zimbardo, Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Stanfo…
4 years, 4 months ago
Susan Wolf, “Meaningfulness” (Open Agenda, 2021)
Episode 99
Meaningfulness is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Susan Wolf, the Edna J. Koury Professor of Philosophy at the Uni…
4 years, 4 months ago
Matthew Walker, “Sleep Insights” (Open Agenda, 2021)
Episode 96
Sleep Insights is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Matthew Walker, Professor of Neuroscience and Psychology and Fou…
4 years, 4 months ago
Christine Kane, "The Soul Sourced Entrepreneur: An Unconventional Success Plan for the Highly Creative, Secretly Sensitive & Wildly Ambitious" (BenBella, 2020)
Episode 81
Today I talked to Christine Kane about her book The Soul Sourced Entrepreneur: An Unconventional Success Plan for the Highly Creative, Secretly Sens…
4 years, 4 months ago
Oliver Rollins, "Conviction: The Making and Unmaking of the Violent Brain" (Stanford UP, 2021)
Episode 299
Exposing ethical dilemmas of neuroscientific research on violence, this book warns against a dystopian future in which behavior is narrowly defined i…
4 years, 4 months ago
Nolan Gasser, "Why You Like It: The Science and Culture of Musical Taste" (Flatiron Books, 2019)
Episode 131
Why do we love the music we love? In Why You Like IT: The Science & Culture of Musical Taste (Flatiron Books, 2019) musicologist Nolan Gasser, archit…
4 years, 4 months ago
Galit Atlas, "Emotional Inheritance: A Therapist, Her Patients, and the Legacy of Trauma" (Little, Brown Spark, 2022)
Episode 146
Loss and trauma are ubiquitous, yet we are often unaware of their presence in our individual and family histories, much less how they affect us prese…
4 years, 4 months ago
Mental Health in Academia: A Conversation with Roy Richard Grinker
Episode 145
We are delighted to present All for One and One for All: Public Seminar Series on Mental Health in Academia and Society. All for One and One for All …
4 years, 4 months ago