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052 - Learned Helplessness
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…
10 years, 8 months ago
051 - Work - Laszlo Bock
Work often sucks, but it doesn't have to. In this episode we interview Lazlo Bock, head of People Operations at Google, who helped his company make w…
10 years, 8 months ago
050 - Happy Money - Elizabeth Dunn (rebroadcast)
It’s peculiar, your inability to predict what will make you happy, and that inability leads you to do stupid things with your money. Once you get a d…
10 years, 9 months ago
049 - Rejection - Jia Jiang
What if you could give yourself a superpower? That's what Jia Jiang wondered when he began a quest to remove the fear of rejection from his brain and…
10 years, 9 months ago
048 - Contact
Can you change a person's mind on a divisive social issue? The latest science says...yes. But it will require two things: contact and disclosure. In …
10 years, 10 months ago
047 - Public Shaming - Jon Ronson
Public shaming is back. Once done in town squares, the subjects of our ridicule locked in pillories and unable to avoid the rotten fruit and insults …
10 years, 10 months ago
046 - Inbetweenisode 11 - Steven Novella
In this inbetweenisode you will hear an excerpt from a lecture I gave at DragonCon2014 and an interview with neurologist and host of The Skeptic's Gu…
10 years, 11 months ago
045 - Doctors - Danielle Ofri
In this episode, we talk to Danielle Ofri, a physician and author of "What Doctors Feel" - a book about the emotional lives of doctors and how compas…
10 years, 11 months ago
044 - Inbetweenisode - James Burke And Matt Novak (Rebroadcast)
This episode is a rebroadcast of two interviews from episode 20 all about how we are very, very bad at predicting the future both in our personal liv…
11 years ago
043 - Misremembering - Julia Shaw and Dan Simons
Did Brian Williams lie, exaggerate, or misremember? How certain are you that your most vivid memories are real? How easily could someone implant a fa…
11 years ago