227 - Imaginable - Jane McGonigal
Jane McGonigal's new books details how she creates alternate reality games in which people take part in virtual worlds, and, in so doing, gain a sensitively to the cues (and a familiarity with the con...
6 Mar 202259min
226 - The World's Greatest Con - Brian Brushwood
In this episode, we sit down with famed stage magician, infamous instructor of the school of scams, Brian Brushwood, whose new podcast explores the world's greatest con artists and con jobs from World...
20 Feb 202254min
225 - Blindsight and Neuromarketing
In this episode, neuromarketing experts Prince Ghuman and Matt Johnson discuss the many strange examples from their book, Blindsight, in an effort to make us all smarter consumers, empowered to make b...
6 Feb 202259min
224 - The Conversation Lab - Misha Glouberman
In this episode of the You Are Not So Smart Podcast, we sit down once again with Misha Glouberman, an expert on conflict and conversation, to discuss how best to improve your communication skills and ...
23 Jan 20221h 2min
223 - To Persuade is Human?
This episode, featuring Andy Luttrell of the Opinion Science Podcast, is all about a machine, built by IBM, that can debate human beings on any issue, which leads to the question: is persuasion, with ...
9 Jan 20221h 5min
222 - The Power of Surprise - Michael Rousell
Not all surprises trigger change, but almost all change is triggered by surprise. In this episode, Micheal Rousell, author of The Power of Surprise, explains the science of surprise at the level of ne...
27 Des 20211h 1min
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 Des 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 Nov 202158min
