Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchOUTLIVE (Part 1): Peter Attia’s Guide to the Science of Longevity
Peter Attia had a problem. It was 2006. He'd recently graduated from Stanford's medical school and was completing a prestigious surgical residency at…
2 years, 7 months ago
THE WAGER: David Grann Tells a Tale of Shipwreck and Mutiny
David Grann is a staff writer at The New Yorker and the acclaimed author of "The Lost City of Z" and "Killers of the Flower Moon." In his new book, t…
2 years, 7 months ago
THE REAL WORK: Adam Gopnik on the Mystery of Mastery
A few years ago, Adam Gopnik, a longtime writer for The New Yorker and three-time winner of the National Magazine Award, started thinking about all t…
2 years, 7 months ago
JOY OF MOVEMENT: How Exercise Can Help You Find Happiness and Connection
Pay a visit to your local gym, observe the grimacing patrons as they pound the treadmill or march in place on the StairMaster, and you might conclude…
2 years, 7 months ago
BREAKTHROUGH: How to Get Unstuck and Achieve Anything
"To be alive is to battle stuckness." So declares NYU professor Adam Alter in his new book, "Anatomy of a Breakthrough: How to Get Unstuck When It Ma…
2 years, 7 months ago
EXCELLENT ADVICE: Life Lessons From Wired Co-Founder Kevin Kelly
Kevin Kelly has made a career out of looking to the future. He helped pioneer online social networking all the way back in the 1980s, and he co-found…
2 years, 8 months ago
SELFLESS: Why “You” Are a Social Creation
You are not autonomous. You are not an island unto yourself. You, my friend, are a social construct. The “self” you haul around — that yammering voic…
2 years, 8 months ago
The Next Big Idea Club Presents — "Immortality: A User's Guide"
What if you could live forever? Okay, maybe not forever, but for a long, long time — like to 150. First of all, is that even possible? And second, wh…
2 years, 8 months ago
Steven Johnson & Michael Specter on the Future of Life
Last month, longtime New Yorker staff writer Michael Specter released a brand new audiobook with our friends at Pushkin. It’s called “Higher Animals:…
2 years, 8 months ago
You Need a Bedtime (from The Next Big Idea Daily)
What if we told you that every day, in just a few minutes, you could get a master class in better, smarter living from the world's best writers? Soun…
2 years, 8 months ago