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#105. How Mandela Averted Civil War in South Africa
Season 1 Episode 105
Justice Malala is one of South Africa’s foremost political commentators, both in print and on television. A longtime weekly columnist for The Times of South Africa, he has also written for The Washin…
Published on 1 year, 6 months ago
#104. The Promise and Shortcomings of Massive Open Online Courses
Season 1 Episode 104
Justin Reich is a professor in Comparative Media Studies and director of the Teaching Systems Lab, both at MIT. He is the host of a podcast called TeachLab; one of the earliest researchers in the dev…
Published on 1 year, 6 months ago
#103. Cognitive Biases that are Amplified by Social Media
Season 1 Episode 103
Amanda Montell is a linguist, cultural commentator, and host of the weekly podcast Sounds Like a Cult. In addition to essays published in Time, Cosmopolitan, and other magazines, she has published th…
Published on 1 year, 6 months ago
#102. How Bayesian Statistics Underpins Both Scientific Prediction and Everyday Functioning
Season 1 Episode 102
Tom Chivers is a science writer who has won several awards, including the Royal Statistical Society’s award for statistical excellence in journalism, the Association of British Science Writers’ scien…
Published on 1 year, 6 months ago
#101. Schadenfreude (Pleasure From Someone Else's Misfortune)
Season 1 Episode 101
Colin Wayne Leach is a social and personality psychologist at Columbia University, who researches Schadenfreude -- i.e., deriving pleasure from witnessing someone else's misfortune -- and related emo…
Published on 1 year, 6 months ago
#100. What Life Was Like in the Prehistoric Past
Season 1 Episode 100
Ran Barkai is the co-author, with Eyal Halfon, of the recently published book, They Were Here Before Us: Stories from the First Million Years. Dr. Barkai is a professor of archaeology at Tel Aviv Uni…
Published on 1 year, 6 months ago
#99. Ethical Dilemmas of Non-Invasive Prenatal Testing
Season 1 Episode 99
Vardit Ravitsky is a Professor of Bioethics at the University of Montreal and President of the International Association of Bioethics. Her research focuses on the ethical, legal and social implicatio…
Published on 1 year, 7 months ago
#98. Re-examining the Evidence for the Genetic Basis of Mental Illness
Season 1 Episode 98
Jay Joseph is a clinical psychologist in the San Francisco Bay Area. Dr. Joseph challenges the empirical evidence behind the mainstream view that mental illness is genetically based, and argues inste…
Published on 1 year, 7 months ago
#97. How to Best Help the Most Vulnerable Children? Start Before They're Even Born!
Season 1 Episode 97
David Olds is a professor at the Pediatrics-Prevention Research Center at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. He has devoted his long and distinguished career to the developing and testing…
Published on 1 year, 7 months ago
#96. Compassionate Care for a Devastating Disease
Season 1 Episode 96
In 2003, Ron Hoffman became the founder of an organization in Falmouth, Massachusetts called Compassionate Care ALS (CCALS.org), which has helped well over 1000 families with Lou Gehrig’s disease on …
Published on 1 year, 7 months ago