Michael Tomasello On the Surprising Origins of Communication and Cooperation
How do we actually learn to communicate? How is it different from how other animals learn it? Michael Tomasello explores what may be at the very heart of relating and communicating: shared attention. ...
12 Mar 201937min
Sarah Vowell on Writing with Clarity (and Shenanigans)
Sarah Vowell is not short on facets. She’s writer, a historian, a satirist, a radio star and an actor. While he writing voice can be satirical, you might recognize her speaking voice as that of Violet...
5 Mar 201946min
Sherry Turkle on How We're Losing Touch With One Another and What We Can Do About It
Sherry Turkle is an expert on both our cultural and personal well-being. She's a professor at MIT, an author, a licensed clinical psychologist, and someone who's deeply concerned about how people conn...
26 Feb 201946min
Stephen Fry On How Our Myths Help Us Know Who We Are
Stephen Fry loves words. But he does more than love them. He puts them together in ways that so delight readers, that a blog or a tweet by him can get hundreds of thousands of people hanging on his ev...
19 Feb 201944min
Dr. Ruth on Communicating Under the Covers and Above
Her name is Ruth Westheimer, but we all know her as Dr. Ruth, the helpful lady who’s spoken to us for decades about sex. She's always direct, to the point, and bubbling with insight about ourselves an...
12 Feb 201945min
The Actors from M*A*S*H — On How M*A*S*H Changed Our Lives
M*A*S*H is the most beloved and one of the most watched TV shows of all time. It set viewing records that have never been broken and is ranked as one of the top 25 shows of all time. In this exclusive...
5 Feb 20191h 8min
Sheila Nevins on Age, Sex, Love, Life, and Everything Else
Sheila Nevins has explored the human condition in the thousand or so documentaries she produced for HBO. From more than 30 years of telling us stories about ourselves, to her experience as a woman in ...
29 Jan 201942min
Official Trailer - The Actors from M*A*S*H — On How M*A*S*H Changed Our Lives
Coming Tuesday, February 5th! M*A*S*H will be back for a one-time, exclusive episode with all your familiar friends -- join Alan Alda, Loretta Swit, Jamie Farr, Mike Farrell, and Gary Burghoff for an...
27 Jan 201939s
