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Parenting and the Brain with Neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett
Season 1 Episode 102
To understand the brain’s function and methods is to get some much needed distance from family dynamics so that we might understand them mor…
3 years, 9 months ago
Love Hope and Grief with Tim & Camden's Drive to Oregon
Season 1 Episode 28
Tim and Julie Vasquez submitted two lovely essays that Tim wrote when it was time to send their sons off to college. We loved both and toda…
3 years, 9 months ago
Mental Health Check on Advice Giving
Season 1 Episode 57
Katy Milkman caught my ear when she said: unsolicited advice is demotivating. She’s at U Penn’s Wharton’s school and does a lot of research…
3 years, 9 months ago
Teens, Science Moms and Climate finale
Season 1 Episode 101
How do toddlers become tweens who become teens who take themselves so seriously, they get right to work on the biggest, hairiest problem on …
3 years, 9 months ago
Love, Hope and Grief for Joy's Grandmother Zelda
Season 1 Episode 27
Joy Netanya Thompson submitted this moving eulogy for her paternal grandmother Zelda, a Holocaust survivor who endured so much and yet threw…
3 years, 9 months ago
Mental Health Check on Repair and Circularity
Season 1 Episode 56
Thanks to the team at Reasons to be Cheerful, a feed and website started by my old friend from an interview I did for PBS, David Byrne, I ha…
3 years, 9 months ago
Teens, Science Moms and Climate 4
Season 1 Episode 100
Today’s show features two charming, unassuming, determined women. First, a humble teenager named Ardra Charath shares her ideas about what …
3 years, 9 months ago
Love, Hope and Grief for Catherine's 80th Birthday Toast for her Mom Judith
Season 1 Episode 26
Catherine wrote this loving tribute to honor her mother Judith on the occasion of her 80th birthday. Judith is a mother of 4 and grandmothe…
3 years, 9 months ago
Mental Health Check on the Opposite of Depression
Season 1 Episode 55
Something I have long sensed to be true from personal experience and now know is the case, thanks to the work of Dr. Samantha Boardman, auth…
3 years, 9 months ago
Science Moms Wonder About How to Make Change
Season 1 Episode 99
Emma Venarde is a college sophomore at Brown. Joellen Russell is a climate scientist in Arizona. They are leaders in a growing army of ear…
3 years, 9 months ago