#196 — The Science of Happiness
Sam Harris speaks with Laurie Santos about the scientific study of happiness. They discuss people's expectations about happiness, the experiencing self vs the remembered self, framing effects, the imp...
10 Apr 202059min
#195 — Social Cohesion is Everything
Sam Harris speaks with General Stanley McChrystal and Chris Fussell about the Covid-19 pandemic. They discuss the nature of the ongoing crisis, the threat of a breakdown in social order, the problem o...
6 Apr 20201h 8min
#194 — The New Future of Work
Sam Harris speaks with Matt Mullenweg about the evolution of distributed work. They discuss the benefits of working from home, the new norms of knowledge work, relevant tools and security concerns, th...
25 Mars 20201h 44min
#193 — Meditation in an Emergency
Sam Harris speaks about social contagion and about the importance of understanding one's own mind in an emergency. If the Making Sense podcast logo in your player is BLACK, you can SUBSCRIBE to gain a...
20 Mars 202021min
#192 — A Conversation with Paul Bloom
Sam Harris and Paul Bloom speak about the psychology of adapting to the coronavirus pandemic, the disastrous analogy between coronavirus and flu, the political siloing of information, true and false c...
17 Mars 202037min
#191 — Early Thoughts on a Pandemic
Sam Harris speaks with Amesh Adalja about the spreading coronavirus pandemic. They discuss the contagiousness of the virus and the severity of the resultant illness, the mortality rate and risk factor...
11 Mars 20201h 6min
#190 — How Should We Respond to Coronavirus?
Sam Harris speaks with Nicholas Christakis about the coronavirus pandemic. They discuss the likely effects on society, proactive vs reactive school closures, community transmission, false comparisons ...
10 Mars 20201h 18min
#189 — Wealth & Happiness
Sam Harris speaks with Scott Galloway about the connection between wealth and happiness. They discuss the problem of wealth inequality, the transfer of wealth from the young to the old, class warfare ...
2 Mars 20201h 11min
