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174 - Bad Advice - Paul Offit (rebroadcast)
In this episode, we sit down with vaccine expert Dr. Paul Offit to discuss his new book, Bad Advice or Why Celebrities, Politicians, and Activists Ar…
6 years ago
173 - Rule Makers, Rule Breakers - Michele Gelfand
In this episode, we sit down with psychologist Michele Gelfand and discuss her new book: Rule Makers, Rule Breakers: How Tight and Loose Cultures Wir…
6 years ago
172 - Team Human - Douglas Rushkoff (rebroadcast)
In this episode of the You Are Not So Smart Podcast we sit down with one of the original cyberpunks, the famed journalist, documentarian, media theor…
6 years, 1 month ago
171 - Partisan Brains
Jay Van Bavel studies “from neurons to social networks...how collective concerns -- group identities, moral values, and political beliefs -- shape th…
6 years, 1 month ago
170 - Mark Sargent
In October of 2019 I sat down with prominent Flat Earther Mark Sargent in Stockholm, Sweden at the Gather Festival to try and understand the reasonin…
6 years, 2 months ago
169 - Art
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 …
6 years, 2 months ago
168 - Not a Scientist (rebroadcast)
Our guest in this episode of the You Are Not So Smart Podcast is Dave Levitan, a science journalist with a new book titled: Not a Scientist: how poli…
6 years, 3 months ago
167 - How to Talk to People About Things (rebroadcast)
In this episode, we sit down with negotiation expert Misha Glouberman who explains how to talk to people about things -- that is, how to avoid the pi…
6 years, 3 months ago
166 - Prevalence Induced Concept Change (rebroadcast)
In this episode we explore prevalence induced concept change. In a nutshell, when we set out to change the world by reducing examples of something we…
6 years, 4 months ago
165 - The Friendship Cure (rebroadcast)
On this episode, we welcome journalist Kate Leaver to talk about her new book The Friendship Cure in which she explores the crippling, damaging, life…
6 years, 4 months ago