Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchWhat Technology Can (And Can't) Do | Rosalind Picard & Joshua Knobe
Season 13
Advances in artificial intelligence and computing technology are happening at breakneck speed. Yet even the best A. I. today still falls short. Wheth…
1 year, 10 months ago
More Than Just Okay? Religion, Purpose & Human Flourishing | Thompson & Strecher
Season 13
The speakers in today’s forum engage with two main questions: What stories are you telling yourself? And how can you learn to tell better ones?
You’l…
1 year, 11 months ago
Can Truth and Tolerance Coexist? | Volf & Pendakur
Season 13
For many of the key issues today, it’s challenging to simply agree to disagree. Not only do we have serious differences in opinion and belief, but ho…
1 year, 11 months ago
Is the Grindset Mindset Working? | Dugdale & Fontaine
Season 13
In college, it's common to feel the pressure to do everything—overload classes, join clubs, apply to internships, and more. But rarely do we stop to …
2 years ago
The Opposite of Depression Is More Than Just Mental Health w/ David Carreon | Beyond the Forum
Season 13
What if there was a way to alleviate the symptoms of depression in just five days by changing a person’s brain activity? Obviously, this kind of shif…
2 years ago
Three Skills for Disagreeing Better in 2024 w/John Inazu | Beyond the Forum
Season 13
One of our faculty partners and frequent Veritas Forum speakers, John Inazu (WUSTL), has a new book out — Learning to Disagree: The Surprising Path t…
2 years, 1 month ago
What Mother Teresa Taught Me | Mary Poplin
Season 13
It would be great if the world was a better place. More kindness and friendship. Less war and injustice. For “everything sad to become untrue” (to pa…
2 years, 1 month ago
Happier Doctor—Healthier Patient? | Arthur Brooks & Bernard Chang
Season 13
We spend — on average — 90,000 hours of our life working. So it’s no wonder we want our jobs to bring us happiness. Yet, all too often, work doesn’t …
2 years, 2 months ago
Are We Living in the Best of All Possible Worlds? | Lennox & Lowenstein
Season 13
The concept of a “multiverse” — formerly an obscure idea in philosophy and theoretical physics — is now mainstream. Movies like best-picture winner E…
2 years, 2 months ago
The Messiness of Meaning | Devadoss & Firestein
Season 13
Meaning can be straightforward — a red octagon means “Stop!”, a hand wave with a smile means “Hello,” or adding two and two equals four.
But meaning…
2 years, 2 months ago