Podcast Episodes

329 - Point Taken - Steven Franconeri

Dr. Steven Franconeri explains the powerful insights and opportunities offered by a game he and his team created for having better disagreements abou…

4 months, 2 weeks ago

328 - Shape - Jordan Ellenberg (rebroadcast)

We sit down with Jordan Ellenberg, a world-class geometer, who takes us on a far-ranging exploration of the power of geometry, which turns out to hel…

5 months ago

327 - The Trolley Solution - Joshua Greene

Philosopher, neuroscientist, and psychologist, Joshua Greene tells us how the brain generates morality and how his research may have solved the infam…

5 months, 2 weeks ago

326 - The Origin of Language - Madeleine Beekman

We sit down with Dr. Madeleine Beekman, a professor emerita of evolutionary biology and behavioral ecology at the University of Sydney, Australia, wh…

6 months ago

325 - Cognitive Dissonance - Part Two (rebroadcast)

In this episode we welcome Dr. Sarah Stein Lubrano, a political scientist who studies how cognitive dissonance affects all sorts of political behavio…

6 months, 2 weeks ago

324 - Cognitive Dissonance - Part One (rebroadcast)

In this episode, the story of a doomsday cult who predicted the exact date and circumstances of the end of the world, and what happened when that dat…

6 months, 4 weeks ago

323 - Job Therapy - Tessa West (rebroadcast)

Are you unhappy at your job? Are you starting to consider a change of career because of how your current work makes you feel? Do you know why? 

Accord…

7 months, 1 week ago

322 - Intellectual Humility - Tenelle Porter

Can intellectual humility be measured? What influences it and affects it, limits it and enhances it? What even is it, scientifically speaking? We exp…

7 months, 3 weeks ago

321 - Easy Crafts for the Insane - Kelly Williams Brown (rebroadcast)

This episode is about suicide prevention and awareness. Author Kelly Williams Brown tells us about her book, Easy Crafts for the Insane, in which she…

8 months, 1 week ago

320 - Misguided - Matthew Facciani

What is misinformation? How does it differ from disinformation or just plain ‘ole propaganda? How do we protect ourselves from people with nefarious …

8 months, 3 weeks ago