AFTERLIFE: Sebastian Junger’s Journey to the Edge and Back
On a June night several years ago, Sebastian Junger, bestselling author of "The Perfect Storm" and co-director of the Oscar-nominated documentary "Restrepo," lay on an operating table, dying. An undia...
23 Maj 20241h 3min
FUNNER: How Language Evolves and Why It Matters
You may think the English language is static, solid, set in its ways. But the language of Shakespeare has changed quite a bit since the Bard's day. Some rules have been bent, others broken. Old words ...
16 Maj 20241h 8min
DEMON OF UNREST: Why the Civil War Matters Today (with Erik Larson)
Erik Larson is probably the most successful popular historian working today. His books, which include “The Devil in the White City” and “The Splendid and the Vile,” have sold a staggering 12 million c...
9 Maj 202453min
ALGEBRA OF WEALTH: Scott Galloway’s Formula for Financial Success
Scott Galloway is a podcaster, bestselling author, and professor of marketing at NYU. He's irreverent, cocky, brutally honest, and surprisingly humble. He's also wildly successful — and he doesn't car...
2 Maj 202453min
WHY WE REMEMBER: The New Science of Improving Your Memory
"The only things that are important in life," declared the French filmmaker Jean Renoir, "are the things you remember." But what do we remember and why? That's the subject of a new book, "Why We Remem...
25 Apr 20241h 11min
SLOW PRODUCTIVITY: Can We Get More Done by Doing Less?
What if doing less is the secret to achieving more? That's the counterintuitive argument at the heart of productivity guru Cal Newport's new book, "Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Wi...
18 Apr 20241h 2min
MAGICAL OVERTHINKING: Why Modern Life Is Making Us More Irrational
Raise your hand if you've ever belittled a stranger online, made a decision based on astrology, or, heaven forbid, fallen for a conspiracy theory. No? Well, then, consider yourself lucky. And if your ...
11 Apr 202455min
Everything Paul Bloom Knows About Psychology
In “Psych: The Story of the Human Mind,” Paul Bloom, a professor of psychology at the University of Toronto, lays out, in his words, “basically everything I know about the mind.” And when he says “eve...
4 Apr 20241h 55min
