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IAN ROBERTSON - Author of How Confidence Works: The New Science of Self-belief - Co-Director of the Global Brain Health Institute
Season 11
How important is confidence? Psychologists say confidence is a series of mental, physical, and emotional habits that can be learned. What makes some …
2 years, 3 months ago
The Voice of the Forest - Author RICK BASS on Climate Aid & the Writing Life - Highlights
Season 11
"I grieve the changes to the four seasons that are happening here in Montana. One of the great things about this place is having four distinct season…
2 years, 3 months ago
RICK BASS - Environmentalist & Story Prize Award-winning Author of “Why I Came West”, “For a Little While”
Season 11
Rick Bass, a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist for his memoir Why I Came West, was born and raised in Texas, worked as a petroleum geologis…
2 years, 3 months ago
How Do Whales Communicate and Express Love? - NAN HAUSER - Highlights
Season 11
"I remember years ago, my Ph.D. advisor had asked me, 'How do you get such incredible footage of the whales and get them to stay with you?' So I said…
2 years, 3 months ago
NAN HAUSER - Whale Researcher - President, Center for Cetacean Research & Conservation - Director, Cook Islands Whale Research
Season 11
Nan Hauser is the President and Director of the Center for Cetacean Research & Conservation and the Director and Principal Investigator of Cook Islan…
2 years, 3 months ago
The Power of Empathy: How Literature Expands Our Worldview with JIM SHEPARD - Highlights
Season 11
"In terms of what I'm writing, I'm always trying to make myself a more interesting human being. And so that means I'm coming across these human dilem…
2 years, 3 months ago
JIM SHEPARD - Author of The Book of Aron, Project X, The World to Come starring Casey Affleck, Vanessa Kirby, Katherine Waterston
Season 11
How can literature help us extend our empathic imaginations? How can writing and reading expand our curiosity and compassion for people in situations…
2 years, 3 months ago
The Feminist Killjoy Handbook with SARA AHMED
Season 11
In this episode of the Speaking Out of Place podcast, Professor David Palumbo-Liu and Azeezah Kanji talk with Sara Ahmed about her new book, The Femi…
2 years, 4 months ago
BENOIT DELHOMME - Cinematographer of At Eternity’s Gate w/ Willem Dafoe, The Theory of Everything w/ Eddie Redmayne - Part 1
Season 11
What makes films memorable and meaningful? Great cinematographers are not only translators of a director’s vision but are involved in a dance between…
2 years, 4 months ago
ROB VERCHICK - Leading Climate Change Scholar - Author of The Octopus in the Parking Garage
Season 11
Rob Verchick is one of the nation’s leading scholars in disaster and climate change law and a former EPA official in the Obama administration. He hol…
2 years, 4 months ago