221 - Conversations and Conversions at the Portable Planetarium
In this episode we sit down with Joey Rodman (@okiespacequeen), a science educator in Oklahoma whose recent Twitter thread about using a portable planetarium to reach out to flat earthers went viral t...
12 Joulu 202143min
220 - A Very Short History of Life on Earth - Henry Gee
In this episode, we sit down with Henry Ernest Gee, the paleontologist, evolutionary biologist and senior editor of the scientific journal Nature. I was honored to get the opportunity chat with one of...
28 Marras 202158min
219 - Irrational Labs - Evelyn Gosnell
In this episode we sit down with expert in behavioral economics Evelyn Gosnell, who is also the managing director of Irrational Labs, an organization that uses social science to help other organizatio...
14 Marras 202144min
218 - Unwinding Anxiety - Jud Brewer
In this episode, Dr. Jud Brewer, a neuroscientist and addiction psychiatrist, discusses the biological origins of anxiety and how to unwind our feedback loops using techniques derived from his lab’s r...
31 Loka 202157min
217 - Livewired - David Eagleman (rebroadcast)
In this episode we sit down with neuroscientist David Eagleman to learn how brains turn noise into signal, chaos into order, electrical spikes into meaning, and how new technology can expand subjectiv...
17 Loka 20211h 13min
216 - Shape - Jordan Ellenberg
In this episode, we sit down with Jordan Ellenberg, the John D. MacArthur Professor of Mathematics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His writing has appeared in Slate, the Wall Street Journal, t...
3 Loka 20211h 10min
215 - Jerks at Work - Tessa West
In this live taping of the podcast at Caveat in NYC, Dr. Tessa West, the author of Jerks at Work, conducts quizzes to see what kind of jerk you are and what kind of jerk most-easily persuades you in t...
19 Syys 20211h 20min
214 - Exploring Genius
Over the course of this audio documentary series, David McRaney explores the history and science of intelligence, IQ, and remarkable talent through interviews with dozens of intelligence experts and a...
3 Syys 202135min
