From Hippie to Whole Foods Mogul
Whole Foods Market's Cofounder and CEO for 44 years, John Mackey offers an intimate and provocative account of the rise of this iconic company and the personal and spiritual journey that inspired its ...
9 Jul 20241h 19min
Aella — From a Christian Upbringing to Sex Work
Aella is a writer, blogger, data analyst, and sex worker who has written extensively about the psychology and economics of online sex work, conducting extensive surveys and research in order to unders...
2 Jul 20241h 21min
Hong Kong's Turmoil: Insights from an Exiled Political Leader
Nathan Law is a young Hong Kong activist, currently in exile and based in London. During the Umbrella Movement in 2014, Nathan was one of the five representatives who took part in the dialogue with th...
29 Jun 20241h 17min
Living Constitutionally: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Constitution's Original Meaning
A.J. Jacobs learned the hard way that donning a tricorne hat and marching around Manhattan with a 1700s musket will earn you a lot of strange looks. In the wake of several controversial rulings by the...
26 Jun 20241h 35min
Lemuria: A True Story of a Fake Place
Is Lemuria a real place, or the fever dream of crackpots, mystics, conspiracy theorists, and Bigfoot hunters? Below the waters where the Pacific and Indian Oceans lies a lost continent. One of hopes a...
22 Jun 20241h 14min
Born into a Cult (Michelle Dowd)
Michelle Dowd was born into an ultra-religious cult, "The Field," started in the 1930s by her grandfather, who convinced generations of young male followers that he would live five hundred years and a...
18 Jun 20241h 9min
UFOs: What We Know (And Don't Know)
Robert Powell, a founding Board member of the Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies, has studied the UFO subject for 17 years. His work is encapsulated in UFOs: A Scientist Explains What We Know (And D...
15 Jun 20241h 27min
Religion as Make-Believe: A Theory of Belief, Imagination, and Group Identity
We often assume that religious beliefs are no different in kind from ordinary factual beliefs—that believing in the existence of God or of supernatural entities that hear our prayers is akin to believ...
11 Jun 20242h 3min
