Carpe Diem: Why Horace Meant Pluck the Day, Not Seize It
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The phrase carpe diem first appears in the Odes the Roman poet Horace published around 23 BC, an...
28 Okt 18min
Carol Dweck's Growth Mindset: From an IQ Seating Chart to Failed Trials
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In the 1950s at PS 153 in Brooklyn, a sixth grade teacher seated students by IQ score, and the t...
28 Okt 21min
Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics: The Cellar Manuscript and the Golden Mean
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics was never meant as a published book. It survives as lecture notes...
28 Okt 27min
Xuanzang: Fugitive Monk, Nalanda Scholar and 657 Sanskrit Texts to Chang'an
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Xuanzang was born around 602 CE near Luoyang to a family of scholars and officials. After his fa...
27 Okt 22min
Woodes Rogers: Rescuing Alexander Selkirk, Then Purging Pirate Nassau
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Woodes Rogers was born around 1679 and in 1706 inherited his father's Bristol shipping business,...
27 Okt 26min
Zhuge Liang: The Longzhong Plan, Meng Huo and the Wooden Ox Carts
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Zhuge Liang was orphaned as the Han dynasty collapsed in the late second century, followed his u...
27 Okt 23min
Mark Antony: Lion Chariots, Caesar's Funeral Speech and Defeat at Actium
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Mark Antony was born in 83 BC, shortly before Sulla marched an army on Rome. His father failed i...
27 Okt 22min
Grigori Perelman: Ricci Flow Surgery, Poincaré, and a Refused Fields Medal
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Grigori Perelman was born in Leningrad in 1966 to Lyubov, who gave up graduate study in mathemat...
27 Okt 19min
