Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchDarrin McMahon, “Deconstructing Genius” (Open Agenda, 2021)
Episode 61
Deconstructing Genius is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and intellectual historian Darrin McMahon, Dartmouth College.…
4 years, 6 months ago
Mathias Clasen, "A Very Nervous Person's Guide to Horror Movies" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Episode 87
Films about chainsaw killers, demonic possession, and ghostly intruders. Screaming audiences with sleepless nights or sweat-drenched nightmares in th…
4 years, 6 months ago
Catarina Dutilh Novaes, "The Dialogical Roots of Deduction: Historical, Cognitive, and Philosophical Perspectives on Reasoning" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Episode 264
If all men are mortal, and Socrates is a man, then it must be that Socrates is mortal. What could be more obvious? Well, sometimes obviousness serves…
4 years, 6 months ago
Sarah Nannery and Larry Nannery, "What to Say Next: Successful Communication in Work, Life, and Love—with Autism Spectrum Disorder" (Simon and Schuster, 2021)
Episode 91
When Sarah Nannery got her first job at a small nonprofit, she thought she knew exactly what it would take to advance. But soon she realized that eve…
4 years, 6 months ago
Gidi Ifergan, "The Psychology of the Yogas" (Equinox Publishing, 2021)
Episode 140
Gidi Ifergan's new book The Psychology of the Yogas (Equinox Publishing, 2021) explores the dissonance between the promises of the yogic quest and ps…
4 years, 6 months ago
Samuel Gershman, "What Makes Us Smart: The Computational Logic of Human Cognition" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Episode 142
At the heart of human intelligence rests a fundamental puzzle: How are we incredibly smart and stupid at the same time? No existing machine can match…
4 years, 6 months ago
Giorgio Vallortigara, "Born Knowing: Imprinting and the Origins of Knowledge" (MIT Press, 2021)
Episode 76
Why do newborns show a preference for a face (or something that resembles a face) over a nonface-like object? Why do baby chicks prefer a moving obje…
4 years, 6 months ago
Elizabeth Loftus, “The Malleability of Memory” (Open Agenda, 2021)
Episode 57
The Malleability of Memory is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Elizabeth Loftus, a world-renowned expert on human m…
4 years, 6 months ago
Dan Fox, "Limbo" (Fitzcarraldo, 2019)
Episode 212
In a world that demands faith in progress and growth, Limbo (Fitzcarraldo, 2019) is a companion for the stuck, the isolated, delayed, stranded and th…
4 years, 6 months ago
Allan V. Horwitz, "DSM: A History of Psychiatry's Bible" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2021)
Episode 88
Over the past seventy years, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or DSM, has evolved from a virtually unknown and little-used …
4 years, 6 months ago