SYSK Choice: Why Your Perceptions Often Deceive You & How Smart People Fall Victim to Fraud
Have you ever put your car in “Drive” while it is still rolling backwards a little bit? People do it all the time – yet it is terrible for your car. I’ll explore this and several other things drivers ...
16 Touko 202046min
Who Actually Discovered Fire and Other Amazing Firsts & How to Find A Job Now
It is a bicyclist's nightmare – dooring! It is when someone in a car along the side of the road opens the door just as you drive by and – WHAM! It happens a lot more than you might think – and it prob...
14 Touko 202050min
How to Stop Eating Plastic (and You Eat a Lot) & Understanding Your Cognitive Bias
Every year a lot of pedestrians crossing the street get hit by cars. So if you are out walking around, there is one technique that will drastically reduce your risk of getting hit. This episode begins...
11 Touko 202052min
SYSK Choice: How to Heal Emotional Injury & How Trust Works
If you use a wire brush to clean your outdoor grill – you should stop because someone could get hurt. I’ll start this episode by explaining why. http://www.aol.com/article/2016/05/31/study-highlights-...
9 Touko 202038min
How to Deal with Defensive People & Understanding the Mother-Son Relationship
Why are names so hard to remember? This episode begins with an explanation and an experiment that explains why so many of us forget people’s names and what we can do to remember names better. http://n...
7 Touko 202047min
Interesting Secrets of Great Entrepreneurs & How to Speak in Public Like a Pro
Birds are building nests and laying eggs all over the place this time of year. And you have probably heard that if a baby bird falls out of the nest you shouldn’t put it back because the mother will a...
4 Touko 202052min
SYSK Choice: How to Learn Anything Better and Faster & Are People Inherently Good or Evil?
Have you ever heard of misophonia? It’s a real thing. If you have it, that means that certain sounds – like someone chewing their food with their mouth open or slurping their soup – drive you crazy. B...
2 Touko 202043min
The Benefits of Doing Nothing (or At Least Less) & When Math Goes Terribly Wrong
Have you ever had a headache that seemingly came on for no apparent reason? This episode begins with an interesting and unusual list of reasons why headaches happen and you likely haven’t heard of man...
30 Huhti 202052min
