The Next Big Idea Club Presents — "Immortality: A User's Guide"
What if you could live forever? Okay, maybe not forever, but for a long, long time — like to 150. First of all, is that even possible? And second, what would that mean for your family, your career, th...
2 Touko 202310min
Steven Johnson & Michael Specter on the Future of Life
Last month, longtime New Yorker staff writer Michael Specter released a brand new audiobook with our friends at Pushkin. It’s called “Higher Animals: Vaccines, Synthetic Biology, and the Future of Lif...
27 Huhti 202357min
You Need a Bedtime (from The Next Big Idea Daily)
What if we told you that every day, in just a few minutes, you could get a master class in better, smarter living from the world's best writers? Sounds too good to be true, right? Well, if you think t...
25 Huhti 202314min
SENSES: Gretchen Rubin’s Guide to Getting Out of Your Head and Into the World
What do your five senses — sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch — have to do with happiness? According to Gretchen Rubin, a great deal. The world around us, she says, has the potential to dazzle, t...
20 Huhti 202355min
PSYCH: The Story of the Human Mind
In his expansive new book, "Psych: The Story of the Human Mind," Paul Bloom, a professor of psychology at the University of Toronto, lays out, in his words, "basically everything I know about the mind...
13 Huhti 20231h 2min
PREPPY: The Surprising Origins of American Style
How did Oxford shirts, cashmere sweaters, and chinos become staples of American fashion? How did a style born on Ivy League campuses make its way into the mainstream? What does the way we dress say ab...
6 Huhti 20231h 3min
SUCCESSION: The True Story Behind the Hit Show
So "Succession" is back. The Emmy Award-winning series returned to HBO for its fourth and final season last Sunday. The show, if you haven't seen it, centers on Logan Roy, the aging CEO of a media con...
30 Maalis 202346min
ABOLISH POVERTY: Matthew Desmond on How We Can Do It
RUFUS GRISCOM: Could you share with us your broader mission and how your new book, “Poverty, by America,” supports that mission? MATTHEW DESMOND: I want to end poverty. I want to be part of the moveme...
23 Maalis 20231h 1min
