223 - To Persuade is Human?
This episode, featuring Andy Luttrell of the Opinion Science Podcast, is all about a machine, built by IBM, that can debate human beings on any issue, which leads to the question: is persuasion, with ...
9 Jan 20221h 5min
222 - The Power of Surprise - Michael Rousell
Not all surprises trigger change, but almost all change is triggered by surprise. In this episode, Micheal Rousell, author of The Power of Surprise, explains the science of surprise at the level of ne...
27 Dec 20211h 1min
221 - Conversations and Conversions at the Portable Planetarium
In this episode we sit down with Joey Rodman (@okiespacequeen), a science educator in Oklahoma whose recent Twitter thread about using a portable planetarium to reach out to flat earthers went viral t...
12 Dec 202143min
220 - A Very Short History of Life on Earth - Henry Gee
In this episode, we sit down with Henry Ernest Gee, the paleontologist, evolutionary biologist and senior editor of the scientific journal Nature. I was honored to get the opportunity chat with one of...
28 Nov 202158min
219 - Irrational Labs - Evelyn Gosnell
In this episode we sit down with expert in behavioral economics Evelyn Gosnell, who is also the managing director of Irrational Labs, an organization that uses social science to help other organizatio...
14 Nov 202144min
218 - Unwinding Anxiety - Jud Brewer
In this episode, Dr. Jud Brewer, a neuroscientist and addiction psychiatrist, discusses the biological origins of anxiety and how to unwind our feedback loops using techniques derived from his lab’s r...
31 Okt 202157min
217 - Livewired - David Eagleman (rebroadcast)
In this episode we sit down with neuroscientist David Eagleman to learn how brains turn noise into signal, chaos into order, electrical spikes into meaning, and how new technology can expand subjectiv...
17 Okt 20211h 13min
216 - Shape - Jordan Ellenberg
In this episode, we sit down with Jordan Ellenberg, the John D. MacArthur Professor of Mathematics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His writing has appeared in Slate, the Wall Street Journal, t...
3 Okt 20211h 10min
