Podcast Episodes

My cousin Anna

As a Korean adoptee, I’d never expected to meet a blood relative. Then a 23andMe email landed in my inbox.

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6 months, 3 weeks ago

Stronger

When grief and distraction spun my mind out of control, only the strain of my muscles could keep it intact.

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6 months, 3 weeks ago

We should invent new names for feelings

There are only so many actual words to describe our specific emotional states. Why not come up with some of your own?.

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6 months, 4 weeks ago

I tested whether cannabis really can boost the runner’s high

Runners, yogis and others claim weed improves their routines. Curious, I looked at the research and gave it a go myself.

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6 months, 4 weeks ago

How to give a compliment

Delivering sincere compliments is a skill you can learn – and, done well, it’s an easy way to spread more joy in the world.

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6 months, 4 weeks ago

Why chatbot therapists can’t offer what we need

Today’s world is fuelling a craving to be truly seen by another – and that’s exactly what AI therapists can’t ever deliver.

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7 months ago

She found the Mother Tree

Her science revealed that trees look after one another in the forest. Now, Suzanne Simard says, the only way to save the Earth is to put Indigenous e…

7 months ago

Defensible space

My husband was in crisis and our home faced wildfire. When it came, I saw the cost of holding the line.

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7 months ago

How to use AI chatbots to make you smarter, not dumber

Use AI thoughtlessly and it dulls your mind. But with a strategic approach and the right prompts, it can be a powerful tool.

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7 months ago

The capacity to be alone depends on the sense of being held

The overwhelm of grief and parenthood showed me what psychoanalysis assumes – we need to be held to feel safe in solitude.

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7 months ago