137 - Joyce Carol Oates: Craft in Fiction and Poetry
Joyce Carol Oates is the Rogers S. Berlind ’52 Professor Emerita in the Humanities at Princeton University with the Program in Creative Writing. She is among the most widely-recognized and respected w...
6 Sep 20231h 33min
136 - Andrew Strominger: String Theory, Black Holes, and Extra Dimensions
Andrew Strominger is Gwill E. York Professor of Physics and Director of the Center for the Fundamental Laws of Nature at Harvard University, where he works on some of the deepest questions in physics,...
3 Sep 20232h 16min
135 - Thomas Hertog: Stephen Hawking, Cosmology, and the Origin of Time
Thomas Hertog is Professor and Head of Theoretical Physics in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at KU Leuven in Belgium. He was a doctoral student and close collaborator of Stephen Hawking. In t...
1 Sep 20231h 24min
134 - Christopher Capozzola: Uncle Sam, the Draft, and Vigilantes in World War I
Christopher Capozzola is Professor of History and MacVicar Faculty Fellow at MIT, where he works on the history of citizenship, war, and the military in modern American history. In this episode, Robin...
30 Aug 20231h 29min
133 - Ian Hutchinson: Plasma Physics & The Compatibility of Science and Religion
Ian Hutchinson is Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering in he Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering and the Plasma Science and Fusion Center at MIT. He works in both plasma physics and ...
27 Aug 20232h 12min
132 - Jonathan Shedler: Freud, Psychoanalysis, and Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
Jonathan Shedler is Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco and a faculty member at the San Francisco Center for Psych...
25 Aug 20231h 25min
131 - Tal Ben-Shahar: What Is Happiness?
Tal Ben-Shahar did his undergraduate and graduate work at Harvard, where he later lectured on positive psychology and taught the most popular course in the university’s history. He is now a speaker an...
23 Aug 20231h 6min
130 - Donald Hoffman: The Illusion of Reality
Donald Hoffman is Professor in the Department of Cognitive Sciences at the University of California, Irvine, where he also has joint appointments in the Department of Philosophy, the Department of Log...
20 Aug 20231h 57min
