Podcast Episodes
Back to Search31 | Who has the rights to resources?
Episode 32
Resource management is a difficult problem. Deciding who gets access to certain resources, and how much of it they have access to, can often be exist…
11 months, 4 weeks ago
30 | How do we decide who to learn from?
Episode 31
What makes someone a good source to learn from?
Melissa Koenig explains how we learn from others: from the strategies we use to the biases we lean on…
1 year ago
29 | Exploring curiosities
Episode 30
Joining the podcast is Reto Schneider, veteran science journalist who has dealt with everything from the science of opinion formation to the origins …
1 year ago
28 | Whose fault is it?
Episode 29
How do we decide whether someone should be held responsible for something? We sit down with cognitive scientist Katarina Kovačević to talk about as…
1 year, 1 month ago
27 | Student protests in Serbia
Episode 28
This episode was recorded at 11:30 on Tuesday, March 11, 2025. Yesterday (March 10), students blocked access to the state-run Serbian public telev…
1 year, 2 months ago
26 | How does the brain understand comic books?
Episode 27
Making sense of a series of graphic representations is not simple, but our brains manage to do it with little effort.
Our conversation with Neil Cohn…
1 year, 2 months ago
25 | How does toxicity shape conversations?
Episode 26
And how can complexity science help us understand them?
We sit down with network scientist Gabriela Juncosa to discuss how political discourse unfold…
1 year, 3 months ago
24 | What does it mean to be open minded?
Episode 25
We use the terms open mindedness and gaslighting a lot, but do we really understand what they mean?
We sit down with Phyllis Pearson to discuss what …
1 year, 4 months ago
23 | Why do we show emotion?
Episode 24
What is the function of emotional displays?
We sit down with Thomas Ganzetti and discuss the role emotions serve in social contexts and how we use th…
1 year, 5 months ago
22 | How do we experience music?
Episode 23
How does the brain process music and how has the perception of music changed over time? We sit down with cognitive neuroscientist Anja-Xiaoxing Cui t…
1 year, 5 months ago