BEATING BURNOUT: Cal Newport says We’re Thinking about Productivity Wrong
Cal Newport says we’ve been thinking about productivity all wrong. Cal is an MIT-trained computer scientist and bestselling author specializing in how to work better in our overstimulated world. In th...
12 Jun 202429min
BEATING BURNOUT: We’re in a Burnout Epidemic. There’s Hope.
Harvard Medical School Dr. Aditi Nerurkar says “COVID accelerated everything,” and now 7 in 10 Americans are facing burnout and stress. While many of us expected the post-pandemic period to be a big p...
6 Jun 202429min
The Asian-American Singer Changing the World of Opera
If you ever thought opera was a dead art, you have never talked to Nina Yoshida Nelsen, the new artistic director of the Boston Lyric Opera. Nina, who is Japanese-American, spent years feeling pigeon...
30 Mai 202433min
The Karen Read Trial is “The Most Boston True Crime Case”
It’s hard to say the exact mix of mystery and intrigue that causes a true crime story to blow up. But one thing is true: the viral stories tell us something important about ourselves. Right now in Mas...
21 Mai 202427min
Decoding AI: Robots Are Coming…For Your Chores (and Much More)
Daniela Rus’s dream is to imbue the power of robotics with the wisdom of humanity. She runs MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. As part of his ongoing series on the promise ...
13 Mai 202428min
Amy Tan is Obsessed with Birds
Author Amy Tan doesn’t just watch birds, she “feels the life within them.” Amy’s new book, “The Backyard Bird Chronicles” takes us into her daily journal, drawing and musing on the lives of birds in h...
9 Mai 202436min
RERUN: The Science of Getting Happier
2 Mai 202424min
This Earth Week, H is for Hope with Elizabeth Kolbert
Climate change isn’t just one thing, it’s a million things. It’s “everything everywhere all at once,” according to acclaimed author and New Yorker writer Elizabeth Kolbert. In her new book “H is for H...
24 Apr 202423min
