PROF JOEL PEARSON: Gut feeling is (scientifically) real; this is how to use it
Prof. Joel Pearson (Neuroscientist; AI and intuition expert) developed the first scientific test to measure intuition, dragging it out of the woo-woo realm and into a cognitive framework. He’s now wri...
19 Mar 20241h 13min
PETER FRANKOPAN: How climate collapsed civilisations (and will it ours?)
Peter Frankopan (Silk Roads author, Oxford historian) has just written a mega-history book called The Earth Transformed that reframes human history not via various major battles and legendary leaders ...
12 Mar 202453min
AMA with a Palestinian peace broker: What should we be doing to help, not hinder, the crisis? Does posting on social media do ANYTHING?
Today’s question has come in from many of you over recent weeks. It’s an important one to ask as we grapple with the horror in the Middle East and our sense of powerlessness, as leaders around the wor...
7 Mar 202458min
KELLY WEINERSMITH: Why settling Mars is a really dumb idea
Dr Kelly Weinersmith (behavioural ecologist and space expert) and her husband Zach have just spent four years researching a subject that perplexes many of us – why all the fuss about moving to Mars? W...
5 Mar 202455min
DEVIN MOSS: An atheist death row chaplain on how to die without God
Devin Moss (atheist chaplain and humanist) late last year ministered a convicted murderer to his death by execution in the state of Oklahoma. Significantly he provided the prisoner, Phillip Hancock, s...
27 Feb 202449min
AMA: Do we create art in the apocalypse?
I’ve been doing a bunch of Substack meetups around Australia over the past few weeks (the Sydney and Northern NSW ones are happening in March and you can register in the Substack post here). And sever...
22 Feb 202418min
MAGGIE JACKSON: Why “not knowing” is 2024’s survival superpower
Maggie Jackson (award-winning author and journalist) has just written a book - Uncertain: The Wisdom and Wonder of Being Unsure – that argues that while humans crave certainty, we actually experience ...
20 Feb 20241h
AMA: Why does hiking “work”?
More than 43,000 studies have been done to show how and why walking in nature (hiking) has so many mental and physical benefits. In this episode, prompted by listener Stefan’s question that came throu...
15 Feb 202418min
