ULTRA-PROCESSED: What Fake Food Is Doing to Our Health
Ultra-processed food makes up 60 percent of the American diet. Though to call it food is a stretch. Because it is not, strictly speaking, food at all. It is an industrially produced edible substance. ...
17 Aug 20231h 15min
How to Succeed by Quitting (2022)
In “Quit: The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away,” cognitive scientist turned professional poker player turned bestselling author Annie Duke says mastering the art of quitting is the key to making sma...
10 Aug 20231h 8min
Why the Modern World Puts Us All at Risk for Addiction (2021)
In “Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence,” Dr. Anna Lembke says today’s superabundance of pleasurable stimuli makes us all vulnerable to overindulgence. But don’t lose hope. Anna,...
3 Aug 20231h 14min
WORK: Henry David Thoreau on Making a Meaningful Living
Henry David Thoreau was a philosopher, poet, and pencil-maker. He was a great resigner and, above all, a superb writer whose masterpiece, "Walden," is considered by many to be America's first environm...
27 Jul 202351min
RISE AND SHINE: How to Have the Perfect Morning
Research has shown that how you spend your morning can have a significant impact on the rest of your day. If you start off feeling anxious and frazzled, chances are you'll end the day feeling the same...
20 Jul 20231h
Artificial Intelligence Meets Virtual Worlds: The Future of Sentience
The two hottest topics in tech right now are the rise of generative AI and, with Apple’s recent push into spatial computing, the mainstreaming of augmented reality. Will silicon-based machines develop...
13 Jul 20231h 19min
You Should Have More Fun This Summer. Here’s Why.
Are we all so busy doom-scrolling and binge-watching that we’ve forgotten how to have fun? Real fun. Tingly-all-over, natural-high, I-hope-this-never-ends fun. Catherine Price thinks so. But don’t des...
6 Jul 20231h 13min
PARKING: How It Explains the World
For decades, urban planners have blanketed our cities with the cheap and convenient car storage known as parking. They've swapped sidewalks for strip malls and bulldozed bright, inviting storefronts t...
29 Jun 20231h 8min
