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269 - Deconstructing How Minds Change - Michael Taft
In celebration of How Minds Change, my new book, turning one-year-old, in this episode Michael Taft interviews David McRaney about how minds do and d…
2 years, 7 months ago
268 - The Status Game - Will Storr (rebroadcast)
In this episode we welcome back author Will Storr whose new book, The Status Game, feels like required reading for anyone confused, curious, or worri…
2 years, 8 months ago
267 - Do Your Own Research - Sedona Chinn
Sedona Chinn, who studies how people make sense of competing scientific, environmental, and health-related claims, joins us to discuss her latest res…
2 years, 8 months ago
266 - Project Alpha - Brian Brushwood
We sit down with Brian Brushwood to discuss how he put together this most recent season of The World's Greatest Con, his podcast about incredible sca…
2 years, 9 months ago
265 - Chess Queens - Jennifer Shahade (rebroadcast)
In this episode we sit down with Jennifer Shahade, a two-time U.S. Women’s Chess Champion, author, speaker, and professional poker player whose new b…
2 years, 9 months ago
264 - Nobody's Fool - Dan Simons and Christopher Chabris
In an era in which we have more information available to us than ever before, when claims of “fake news” might themselves be, in fact, fake news, Dan…
2 years, 10 months ago
263 - The Truth Wins - Tom Stafford (rebroadcast)
Deliberation. Debate. Conversation. Though it can feel like that’s what we are doing online as we trade arguments back and forth, most of the places …
2 years, 10 months ago
262 - If It Sounds Like a Quack - Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling
At the peak of COVID-19, Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling set out to write a book about the widespread pushback against masks and vaccines as away to discuss…
2 years, 10 months ago
261 - Hack Your Bureaucracy - Marina Nitze
Marina Nitze is a professional fixer of broken systems – a hacker, not of computers and technology, but of the social phenomena that tend to emerge w…
2 years, 11 months ago
260 - The Science of Stuck - Britt Frank (rebroadcast)
Feeling stuck? Can't build momentum to escape all the loops keeping you from moving forward? Our guest in this episode is professor, author, therapis…
2 years, 11 months ago