Neuroscientist Kelly Clancy - How Games Change Reality
Kelly Clancy is both a neuroscientist and a physicist, and has held positions at MIT and DeepMind. She's also the author of Playing With Reality, a new intellectual history of games that explores the ...
12 Jul 202443min
Bestselling Sociologist Sarah Thornton - Why Breasts Matter
After years of biopsies, best-selling author Sarah Thornton made the difficult decision to have a double mastectomy. But, after her reconstructive surgery, she was perplexed: What had she lost? And ga...
9 Jul 202434min
Stephanie Harrison - How to Get Happiness Right in a World That’s Got it Wrong
In a society where stress and competition run rampant, how can we find a more fulfilling sense of happiness? Well-being expert and founder of The New Happy Stephanie Harrison joins us to not only addr...
5 Jul 20241h 5min
Ruchir Sharma - How Capitalism Went Wrong
What went wrong with capitalism? Drawing on his decades of experience as a world-leading investor and FT columnist, leading financial analyst Ruchir Sharma offers an insider’s perspective, offering a ...
2 Jul 20241h 1min
Olympic Gold medallist and entrepreneur Mark Tuitert – How Stoic Philosophy Can Change Your Life
For twenty years, Mark Tuitert has used the principles of Stoic philosophy to become a gold-medal winning Olympic champion athlete, successful entrepreneur, as well as to deal with the challenges in h...
28 Jun 20241h 3min
Yanis Varoufakis - The Rise of Technofeudalism
Welcome to technofeudalism. The owners of big tech have become the world’s feudal overlords—replacing capitalism with a new system that defies democracy and rewrite the rules of global power. But this...
25 Jun 20241h 14min
Bestselling Science Writer David Robson - The Laws of Social Connection
Social connection is essential to our wellbeing, not only fuelling creativity and enriching our sense of meaning in life, but also adding years to our life span. And yet, many of us struggle to form s...
21 Jun 20241h
Clover Stroud - On Home, Belonging, and Letting Go
When her husband's work required journalist Clover Stroud to uproot from Oxfordshire to Washington DC, she began a deep and profound reflection on the many ways she was tethered to her home -- from fa...
14 Jun 20241h 4min
