Peter Jones - The Secret History of the Seven Deadly Sins
In 2026 the Seven Deadly Sins have become a bit of harmless fun, more associated with ice creams and videogame villains than the immortal soul. But in the medieval world, the Sins were a guide to the ...
2 Huhti 54min
Neuroscientist Daniel Levitin — How to Harness the Power of Music
Daniel Levitin returns to How To Academy to explore how music can transform our health and wellbeing—repairing our bodies, calming our minds, and healing our deepest psychological wounds. By uncoverin...
31 Maalis 1h 6min
Ayala Panievsky–Fighting Censorship in the Age of Populism
Heavy-handed censorship is unnecessary when one can manipulate people to censor themselves… From the birth of 'the strategic bias', to weaponizing liberal norms against liberal democracy, the populis...
27 Maalis 1h 9min
Oren Harman - The Human History of Metamorphosis
As a boy, Oren Harman set up his own bedroom "laboratory" to uncover the caterpillar's transformation into a butterfly. But these marvellous creatures are far from alone in radically transforming: it ...
24 Maalis 54min
Dr Gavin Francis – Making Sense of Mental Health
Between a quarter and a fifth of young people in the UK now suffer from a mental disorder. One in four adults are prescribed psychiatric medication. These figures reveal an extraordinary expansion in ...
19 Maalis 1h 10min
C. Thi Nguyen - How to Stop Playing Someone Else's Game
C. Thi Nguyen considers games of all kinds to be an art form, no less beautiful than cinema, literature, or music: but the qualities that make games aesthetically valuable are very different to those ...
13 Maalis 50min
Keza MacDonald - How Nintendo Changed the World
Guardian journalist and lifelong Nintendo superfan Keza MacDonald is the author of a new history of that reveals how the company's unique culture transformed a Kyoto playing card manufacturer into one...
6 Maalis 41min
Neuroscientist Paul Goldsmith – How to Thrive in a World We Weren’t Made For
In a world transformed beyond recognition, the neural systems that once kept our ancestors alive now leave us overwhelmed, distracted, and dissatisfied. We battle loneliness, anxiety, and stress. We c...
3 Maalis 56min
