132. Karl Ove Knausgaard (writer) – The Way I Should Be in the World
Wherever you are right now, take a look around you. Let your eyes rest on the first thing that catches your attention. For me, while writing this, it’s a bowl in Big Think’s offices. Highly polished, ...
27 Jan 201842min
131. Daniel Alarcón (writer) – There's No Such Thing as Glamor, Really
A listener commented the other day on Twitter that on two completely different recent episodes of this show – one about technology and the other one about jellyfish, the same idea came up: that storie...
20 Jan 201858min
130. Mark Epstein, MD (Buddhist psychiatrist) – I, Me, Mine
All through the day… I, me mine, I me mine, I me mine… That George Harrison song on the Beatles’ last album pretty much sums it up. They recorded it in 1970, and 47 years later, our egos seem to be r...
13 Jan 201857min
129. Fatih Akin (film director) – This Blood-Drenched Earth
All of us—you, me, everybody—we’re living our lives subject to often invisible forces beyond our control. Culture, politics, economics, history, even the weather. They all have the power to shape our ...
16 Des 201746min
128. Noël Wells (actor/director) – Out of Context
100,000 or so years of human history and young adulthood is still getting weirder. Jason Gots: My guest today is actor and filmmaker Noël Wells. She’s been a cast member of Saturday Night Live. She ...
9 Des 20171h
127. Manoush Zomorodi (journalist) – The Upside of Downtime
When was the last time you were bored? I mean really, well and truly, staring at the patterns in the wallpaper bored? Statistics suggest that you’re probably listening to this show on a smartphone. W...
2 Des 20171h 1min
126. Maya Jasanoff (Historian) – Civilization and Its Discontents
Jason Gots: I want to read you a quote: “For reasons which can certainly use close psychological inquiry the West seems to suffer deep anxieties about the precariousness of its civilization and to hav...
25 Nov 20171h 3min
125. Reza Aslan (author) – Deus Ex Hominem
Jason Gots: As far back as we’re able to peer into human history, way past the written or pictoral record, into the gravesites of our most ancient ancestors, there’s evidence of what you might call sp...
18 Nov 201755min
