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What Is Technology's Toll on Intimacy?
Episode 120
Thanks to technology, we are more connected than ever—digitally. But at what cost? How have technologies, like online dating sites and apps like Tind…
9 years, 7 months ago
How to Survive Our Faster Future
Episode 119
The world is more complex and volatile today than at any other time in modern history. In order to successfully navigate a rapidly changing world, au…
9 years, 7 months ago
Race and History
Episode 118
As the US continues to grapple with issues of race, history is proving to be an invaluable tool to underscore and discuss uncomfortable truths still …
9 years, 7 months ago
Universal Basic Income: Can It Renew Our Economy?
Episode 117
Author and former labor union leader Andy Stern thinks universal basic income is the key to solving problems plaguing America’s economy. He wrote abo…
9 years, 8 months ago
Healthy Gut, Healthy Body
Episode 116
How are diet and lifestyle linked to bacterial communities in the gut? How can growing knowledge about gut health be used to develop new therapies? R…
9 years, 8 months ago
How a Nudge Can Change Everything
Episode 115
Those who study human behavior have learned that simply by encouraging—or “nudging”—individuals toward the right decisions for themselves, dramatic i…
9 years, 8 months ago
The Obama Legacy
Episode 114
In these final days of Barack Obama’s presidency, we consider how the future will view his leadership. Will economic recovery and health care victori…
9 years, 8 months ago
The Science of Meditation
Episode 113
What actually happens to the brain when we meditate? Published studies have documented the many physical and mental health benefits of meditation, in…
9 years, 9 months ago
On Being a Transgender American
Episode 112
“I spent the first half of my life being afraid,” says Jennifer Finney Boylan, author of the bestselling memoir of transgender experience, She’s Not …
9 years, 9 months ago
Thriving in the Age of Accelerations
Episode 111
Author and New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman says the world has entered an age of dizzying acceleration, and in this episode, he explains h…
9 years, 9 months ago