Podcast Episodes

POST CORONA: Predicting the Future With Scott Galloway

We don’t know when the pandemic will end, but we do know this: while we’ve been stuck at home, the world has been spinning faster than ever. Name any…

4 years, 10 months ago

Season 3: New Ideas, Same Great Taste

The Next Big Idea returns on February 25th.

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4 years, 10 months ago

LET’S BE REASONABLE: Sam Harris and Rufus in Conversation

Neuroscientist, philosopher, podcaster, author, meditation guru, and unabashed atheist Sam Harris is one of our best-known — and most controversial —…

5 years, 3 months ago

MIND GAMES: What Poker Can Teach Us About Luck, Skill, and Ourselves

You have to play with the hand you’re dealt. At least that’s what we’re always told. But is it really true? How much of what we achieve in life is th…

5 years, 4 months ago

TRANSCENDENCE: Finding Fulfillment Beyond Ourselves

You may have heard about Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, which sees human development as a sort of a pyramid, with survival needs at the bottom, social …

5 years, 4 months ago

HUMANKIND: Finding Hope in Human History

Our society is built on the assumption that we’re all a broken stoplight away from reverting to our animal selves. It’s what we’ve come to call “real…

5 years, 4 months ago

MIGRATION: Why Human Beings Were Built to Move

Birds do it, bees do it, even fishes in the seas do it. So why do we have such a hard time when people migrate from one place to another? Science wri…

5 years, 5 months ago

BREATH: Harnessing the Power of a Lost Art

We do it 25,000 times a day, but most of us rarely give breathing a thought. Author James Nestor says we’re missing out on one of the most powerful p…

5 years, 5 months ago

PERSUASION: How to Change People’s Minds

Businesses want people to buy their products. Parents want their kids to eat their vegetables. We all want to convince someone to do something. So we…

5 years, 5 months ago

ALCHEMY: How Our Creations Recreate Us

Since humans sharpened the first stick and lit the first fire, we have been on an innovation spree, constantly developing new tools and materials to …

5 years, 5 months ago