DELUSIONS: How Self-Deception Can Help You Flourish (Shankar Vedantam & Daniel Pink)
Is it really so bad to be a little bit delusional? Not according to Shankar Vedantam. In his new book, “Useful Delusions: The Power and Paradox of the Self-Deceiving Brain,” he argues that we tell our...
16 Jun 202158min
AI: The Extraordinary Story of the Tech That’s Changing the World
In 1958, a psychologist named Frank Rosenblatt took a five-ton computer, fed it a steady diet of punch cards, and taught it how to recognize the letter “A.” He called his creation the Perceptron, and ...
9 Jun 20211h 10min
MINE: How the Rules of Ownership Control Our Lives
Ownership is simple, right? Something is either yours or it isn’t. Case closed. But who owns the space behind your airplane seat, the results of the DNA you took online, the Netflix password you got f...
2 Jun 20211h 12min
GATHERING: Mastering the Art of Hanging Out
You’ve posted a photo of your vaccine card on Instagram. The CDC says it’s okay to leave your bunker. Some of your friends have expressed interest in taking off their masks, breaking the six-foot barr...
26 Mai 202146min
EMAIL: Would the World Be Better Without It?
What’s the first thing you do when you wake up in the morning and the last thing you do before bed? If you’re a modern knowledge worker, your answer is probably “check my email.” Makes sense. Your inb...
19 Mai 20211h 13min
WORK: Should You Do Less of It? Adam Grant and James Suzman on the 15-Hour Workweek.
Our work consumes us. But does it have to? Anthropologist James Suzman has spent decades living in the Kalahari Desert with one of the world’s last hunter-gatherer societies, and he’s concluded that o...
12 Mai 202145min
CODE BREAKER: Why Walter Isaacson Thinks CRISPR Will Change Life As We Know It
Almost a decade ago, the biochemist Jennifer Doudna and her team at Berkeley figured out how to rewrite our genetic code using a system called CRISPR. Thanks to this miraculous discovery, we now have ...
5 Mai 20211h 10min
FOOD: Can We Taste Climate Change?
What’s for dinner? How will we answer that question in 50 years? In this thought-provoking (and occasionally hunger-inducing) conversation, science journalist Amanda Little tells Rufus that the single...
28 Apr 20211h 15min
