Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchEDUCATION 4o: How AI Will Revolutionize the Way We Learn
AI is coming for education. According to our guest today, Sal Khan, that's a good thing.
Sal is the founder of Khan Academy, which has provided free e…
1 year, 7 months ago
AFTERLIFE: Sebastian Junger’s Journey to the Edge and Back
On a June night several years ago, Sebastian Junger, bestselling author of "The Perfect Storm" and co-director of the Oscar-nominated documentary "Re…
1 year, 7 months ago
FUNNER: How Language Evolves and Why It Matters
You may think the English language is static, solid, set in its ways. But the language of Shakespeare has changed quite a bit since the Bard's day. S…
1 year, 7 months ago
DEMON OF UNREST: Why the Civil War Matters Today (with Erik Larson)
Erik Larson is probably the most successful popular historian working today. His books, which include “The Devil in the White City” and “The Splendid…
1 year, 8 months ago
ALGEBRA OF WEALTH: Scott Galloway’s Formula for Financial Success
Scott Galloway is a podcaster, bestselling author, and professor of marketing at NYU. He's irreverent, cocky, brutally honest, and surprisingly humbl…
1 year, 8 months ago
WHY WE REMEMBER: The New Science of Improving Your Memory
"The only things that are important in life," declared the French filmmaker Jean Renoir, "are the things you remember." But what do we remember and w…
1 year, 8 months ago
SLOW PRODUCTIVITY: Can We Get More Done by Doing Less?
What if doing less is the secret to achieving more? That's the counterintuitive argument at the heart of productivity guru Cal Newport's new book, "S…
1 year, 8 months ago
MAGICAL OVERTHINKING: Why Modern Life Is Making Us More Irrational
Raise your hand if you've ever belittled a stranger online, made a decision based on astrology, or, heaven forbid, fallen for a conspiracy theory. No…
1 year, 9 months ago
Everything Paul Bloom Knows About Psychology
In “Psych: The Story of the Human Mind,” Paul Bloom, a professor of psychology at the University of Toronto, lays out, in his words, “basically every…
1 year, 9 months ago
GET THE PICTURE: Why Bother With Art?
For a long time, Bianca Bosker was not on speaking terms with art. “Going to galleries and museums,” she says on today’s show, “reliably made me feel…
1 year, 9 months ago