#51 - Live at the VCA
A few months ago, we sat down to do something we'd never done before: a live Labyrinths episode! And we knew there was no better place to do it than our home, Vashon Island. Most people haven't heard ...
31 Aug 202253min
#50 - Everyone's Biased But Me (Itiel Dror)
Dr. Itiel Dror is used to facing resistance to his work. It comes with the territory when you're a neuroscientist studying cognitive bias in experts: no one wants to believe they have biases they're n...
17 Aug 202246min
#49 - On the Edge (Andrew Gold)
Journalist Andrew Gold explores the extreme in his podcast On the Edge, where he’s interviewed controversial people, including a former white supremacist, an ex-crime boss, and a self-professed psycho...
3 Aug 202235min
#48 - The Post-Partum Shadow (Amy Kuber)
Last year, we brought you through the labyrinths of infertility and pregnancy, but what happens after birth? What happens when you find yourself utterly alone in that 4th trimester, a shadow hanging o...
18 Jul 202248min
#47 - The Summit Can't Be the Goal (Alison Levine)
Is it possible to succeed when you fail? Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton did just that, and so has modern adventurer and mountaineer Alison Levine, leader of the First American Women's Everest ex...
1 Jun 202249min
#46 - The Aha Moment (AJ Jacobs)
Amanda and Chris get lost in the wide world of puzzles with AJ Jacobs, author of the The Puzzler: One Man's quest to solve the most baffling puzzles ever, from crosswords to jigsaws to the meaning of ...
4 Mai 202243min
#45 - The Ultimate Putz (Jens Soering)
When we first met Jens, he was still serving a life sentence for a double homicide he didn't commit. We devoted a whole season of our prior podcast, The Truth About True Crime, to his case (link below...
13 Apr 202251min
#44 - Modeling Cruelty, Modeling Courage (Emily Wilson)
Emily Wilson traveled the world over the course of her modeling career. But one photoshoot always...haunted her. She was accustomed to be valued for her beauty, but that fateful day, she was used as a...
8 Mar 202246min
