052 - Learned Helplessness
Stuck in a bad situation, even when the prison doors are left wide open, we sometimes refuse to attempt escape. Why is that? In this episode learn all about the strange phenomenon of learned helplessn...
23 Juni 201545min
051 - Work - Laszlo Bock
Work often sucks, but it doesn't have to. In this episode we interview Lazlo Bock, head of People Operations at Google, who helped his company make work suck less, way less, by introducing new policie...
5 Juni 20151h 10min
050 - Happy Money - Elizabeth Dunn (rebroadcast)
It’s peculiar, your inability to predict what will make you happy, and that inability leads you to do stupid things with your money. Once you get a decent job that allows you to buy new shoes on a whi...
22 Maj 201545min
049 - Rejection - Jia Jiang
What if you could give yourself a superpower? That's what Jia Jiang wondered when he began a quest to remove the fear of rejection from his brain and become the risk-taking, adventurous person he alwa...
8 Maj 201554min
048 - Contact
Can you change a person's mind on a divisive social issue? The latest science says...yes. But it will require two things: contact and disclosure. In this episode you'll travel to Mississippi to see ho...
25 Apr 20151h 1min
047 - Public Shaming - Jon Ronson
Public shaming is back. Once done in town squares, the subjects of our ridicule locked in pillories and unable to avoid the rotten fruit and insults we hurled at them, now the shaming takes place on t...
8 Apr 201558min
046 - Inbetweenisode 11 - Steven Novella
In this inbetweenisode you will hear an excerpt from a lecture I gave at DragonCon2014 and an interview with neurologist and host of The Skeptic's Guide to the Universe Steven Novella who discusses th...
26 Mars 20151h 1min
045 - Doctors - Danielle Ofri
In this episode, we talk to Danielle Ofri, a physician and author of "What Doctors Feel" - a book about the emotional lives of doctors and how compassion fatigue, biases, and other mental phenomena af...
12 Mars 201556min
