Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchNature, Nurture, and Identical Twins (with David Bessis)
Episode 1033
Are your genes your destiny? Despite famous studies of identical twins that seem to answer in the affirmative, mathematician David Bessis says: Not s…
9 months, 1 week ago
The Mattering Instinct (with Rebecca Newberger Goldstein)
Episode 1032
Philosopher and author Rebecca Newberger Goldstein discusses her new book, The Mattering Instinct, which argues that our lives are a quest to validat…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
Conversation, Interintellect, and Arcadia (with Anna Gat)
Episode 1031
If technology is ruining the art of conversation, maybe it can save it, too. Anna Gat--poet, screenwriter, playwright, and founder of Interintellect-…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
In Defense of Intuition (with Gerd Gigerenzer)
Episode 1030
Psychologist Gerd Gigerenzer explains the power of intuition, how intuition became gendered, what he thinks Kahneman and Tversky's research agenda go…
10 months ago
David Deutsch on the Pattern
Episode 1029
A world-class physicist makes a shocking claim: across 2,500 years and every kind of society, there has been a recurring moral exception carved out j…
10 months, 1 week ago
Free Will Is Real (with Kevin Mitchell)
Episode 1028
Are we truly characters with agency, or are we just playing out our programming in the great video game of life? Contrary to those in his field who c…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
Colonialism, Slavery, and Foreign Aid (with William Easterly)
Episode 1027
Can the promise of economic progress ever justify conquest, coercion, and control over other people’s lives? Economist William Easterly joins EconTa…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
The Perfect Tuba: How Band, Grit, and Community Build a Better Life (with Sam Quinones)
Episode 1026
Journalist and author Sam Quinones talks about his newest book, The Perfect Tuba: Forging Fulfillment from the Brass Horn, Band, and Hard Work with E…
10 months, 4 weeks ago
The Status Game (with Will Storr)
Episode 1025
Will Storr talks about his book The Status Game with EconTalk host Russ Roberts, exploring how our deep need for respect and recognition shapes our b…
11 months ago
The Wonder of the Emergent Mind (with Gaurav Suri)
Episode 1024
How is your brain like an ant colony? They both use simple parts following simple rules which allows the whole to be so much more than the sum of the…
11 months, 1 week ago