Episode 52: Wrapping Our Brains Around Love
Send us Fan Mail In college, one of Mark’s professors warned him not to interpret a memorable line about love in Homer’s Iliad to mean romantic love, which was, she said, a notion that first arose in ...
14 Elo 202241min
Episode 51: Is There a Link Between Abortion and Crime?
Send us Fan Mail A controversial 2001 academic paper suggested that there’s a connection between Roe v. Wade’s legalization of abortion in 1973 and the reduction in crime that followed a generation l...
24 Heinä 202233min
Episode 50: Why We Laugh
Send us Fan Mail It’s strange to think that laughter – involving the involuntary and sometimes loud expulsion of air, and which sometimes renders us helpless, struggling to breathe and with tears str...
10 Heinä 202239min
Episode 49: Are Cities In Trouble?
Send us Fan Mail The COVID-19 pandemic killed millions of people around the globe and devastated cities that experienced the seismic shock of a severe economic downturn that emptied downtowns and shut...
18 Kesä 202242min
Episode 48: I Own It, Now You Pay For It
Send us Fan Mail Mark can’t fathom how it’s legal to take out a big loan to buy a company, then transfer all that debt to the newly-acquired company and force it, in effect, to pay off its own purchas...
29 Touko 202242min
Episode 47: College Is For Girls
Send us Fan Mail On a recent tour of college campuses with his daughter, Joe noticed how many more women were on campus than men, so he asked Mark whether this was true, and if so, why. Join Mark and...
14 Touko 202232min
Episode 46: What We Get From Watching Sports
Send us Fan Mail Sports are not only big business, they’re emotionally meaningful to millions of people throughout the world. But why? Aren’t there so many better and more important things to do with ...
1 Touko 202241min
Episode 45: Spring Forward or Fall Back - Pick One
Send us Fan Mail The U.S. Senate’s recent unanimous passage of a resolution to make Daylight Saving Time permanent would save us the annoying chore of adjusting our clocks twice a year. But is it the...
17 Huhti 202230min
