Are Smart People Actually Happier? - Adam Mastroianni - #585
Adam Mastroianni is a postdoctoral research scholar at Columbia Business School and a writer whose research focuses on how people perceive and misperceive their social worlds. Does being smart make y...
4 Feb 20231h 11min
How To Take Control Of Your Attention - Dr Gloria Mark - #584
Dr Gloria Mark is the Chancellor's professor in the Department of Informatics at the University of California and an author whose research focuses on human-computer interaction. Not being able to foc...
2 Feb 20231h 14min
Is Population Collapse A Real Risk? - Stephen J. Shaw - #583
Stephen J Shaw is a data scientist and filmmaker. Over the last 7 years, Stephen has visited 24 countries and analysed millions of piece of data to work out what is happening with global birthrates a...
30 Jan 20231h 25min
TikTok Dancing Through The Apocalypse - Zack Telander - #582
Zack Telander is a weightlifter, coach & YouTuber. TikTok may be a colossal waste of time, but at least most people consider it to be harmless. A recently blog post made me think differently and toda...
28 Jan 20231h 13min
Understanding The Wonders Of Science - Neil deGrasse Tyson - #581
Neil deGrasse Tyson is an astrophysicist, planetary scientist, author and science communicator. The universe is filled with mystery. Science has answered a lot and yet there's still so many fundament...
26 Jan 20231h 5min
What Use Are Female Friendships? - Dr Tania Reynolds - #580
Dr Tania Reynolds is an Assistant Professor in Psychology at the University of New Mexico whose research focuses on women's intrasexual competition, biases in moral evaluations and social and sexual s...
23 Jan 20231h 18min
The Mindset Secrets Of Elite Performers - Peter Diamandis - #579
Peter Diamandis is an engineer, physician, founder of the X Prize Foundation and cofounder of Singularity University. If you got rid of Elon Musk's money, or Steve Jobs' factories, they would likely ...
21 Jan 202357min
Lessons From The World's Longest Study On Happiness - Dr Robert Waldinger - #578
Robert Waldinger is a psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, Zen priest and Director of the Harvard Study of Adult Development, the longest-running study of adult life ever conducted. What makes for a good lif...
19 Jan 20231h 8min
