313 - The 3.5 Percent Rule - Erica Chenoweth
If you want to overthrow a dictator, resist an authoritarian regime, or create a movement that can change the national status quo, you don't need half the country, you only need 3.5 percent of the pop...
12 Touko 202559min
312 - Chaos and Complexity - Neil Theise (rebroadcast)
Professor Neil Theise, the author of Notes on Complexity, provides an introduction to the science of how complex systems behave – from cells to human beings, to ecosystems, the known universe, and be...
28 Huhti 202559min
311 - Cascades of Change - Greg Satell (rebroadcast)
In this episode we sit down with Greg Satell, a communication expert whose book, Cascades, details how rapid, widespread change can sweep across groups of people big and small, and how understanding t...
14 Huhti 20251h 6min
309 - They Thought We Were Ridiculous - Andy Luttrell (rebroadcast)
In 1974, two psychologists, Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky, as the New Yorker once put it, "changed the way we think about the way we think." The prevailing wisdom, before their landmark research we...
17 Maalis 20251h 12min
308 - Magical Thinking - Matt Tompkins
In this episode, the story of Clever Hans, the horse who changed psychology for the better. We also sit down with psychologist and magician Matt Tompkins. Matt is the author of The Spectacle of Illusi...
3 Maalis 20251h 19min
307 - Concordance Over Truth Bias
In this episode, we sit down with three disinformation researchers whose new paper found something surprising about both our resistance and our susceptibility to both true news we wish was fake and fa...
17 Helmi 20251h 9min
306 - I Never Thought of it That Way - Mónica Guzmán (rebroadcast)
This episode’s guest is Mónica Guzmán, the author of I Never Thought of It That Way – a book with very practical advice on how to have productive conversations in a polarized political environment via...
3 Helmi 202552min
