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199 - Math Without Numbers - Milo Beckman
In this episode we explore the weirdness and wonder of Math Without Numbers with mathematician Milo Beckman who wrote a book about the math behind mu…
5 years, 3 months ago
198 - Reflection and Insurrection
In this episode, we explore the psychological mechanisms that led to the the storming of the Capitol, an event that sprang from a widespread belief i…
5 years, 3 months ago
197 - Conspiratorial Thinking
Over the last few years, this show has devoted many shows to the psychology behind what we saw in the Capitol in January 2021. So, in this episode, w…
5 years, 4 months ago
196 - Art (rebroadcast)
Moira Dillon studies how “the physical world in which we live shapes the abstract world in which we think,” and in this episode we travel to her Lab …
5 years, 4 months ago
195 - Clearer Thinking - Spencer Greenberg
In this episode we sit down with Spencer Greenberg to discuss how to be better critical thinkers using his FIRE method and other insights from his we…
5 years, 4 months ago
194 - Because Internet - Gretchen McCulloch
Our guest in this episode is Gretchen McCulloch, who is a linguist, but also, I’d say a MEME-ologist, evidenced by that the fact that in her New York…
5 years, 5 months ago
193 - Gossip
In this episode we sit down with psychologist Robb Willer to discuss the psychology of gossip: how much we do it, why we do it, its major functions, …
5 years, 5 months ago
192 - The Dunning-Kruger Effect (rebroadcast)
In this episode, we explore why we are unaware that we lack the skill to tell how unskilled and unaware we are.
The evidence gathered so far by psych…
5 years, 6 months ago
191 - Livewired - David Eagleman
In this episode we sit down with neuroscientist David Eagleman to learn how brains turn noise into signal, chaos into order, electrical spikes into m…
5 years, 6 months ago
190 - Learned Helplessness (rebroadcast)
Stuck in a bad situation, even when the prison doors are left wide open, we sometimes refuse to attempt escape. Why is that?
In this episode learn al…
5 years, 7 months ago