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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, 7 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, 7 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, 8 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, 8 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, 9 months ago
259 - Think Again - Adam Grant (rebroadcast)
How to manage procrastination according to Margaret Atwood, how to work around your first-instinct fallacy, the upsides of imposter syndrome, the bes…
2 years, 9 months ago
258 - Under Alien Skies - Phil Plait
Astronomer Phil Plait joins us to discuss his new book, Under Alien Skies, in which he describes what it would be like (through human eyes and real p…
2 years, 10 months ago
257 - What Do You Mean? - Celeste Kidd
Is a hotdog a sandwich?
Well, that depends on your definition of a sandwich (and a hotdog), and according to the most recent research in cognitive sci…
2 years, 10 months ago
256 - The Persuaders - Anand Giridharadas
This is the third episode in a three-part series about how to have difficult conversations with people who see the world differently, how to have bet…
2 years, 11 months ago
255 - Good Arguments - Bo Seo
This is the second episode in a three-part series about how to have difficult conversations with people who see the world differently, how to have be…
2 years, 11 months ago