TRUST: Malcolm Gladwell on How We Talk To Strangers
Roses are red, violets are blue, and Malcolm Gladwell has written yet another bestseller. It's called "Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know," and it's all about the...
10 Dec 201941min
POWER: Why You Have More Than You Think
Colleges, businesses, and bureaucracies have long operated on an "old power" model — rigid hierarchies that rule from the top down. But Henry Timms says that paradigm is going extinct. In his book, "N...
3 Dec 201943min
PERCEPTION: Why What You See Is Not Reality
What you see is what you get, right? Nope. In his mind-bending new book, "The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes," Don Hoffman argues that what we see, smell, touch, and t...
26 Nov 201944min
UNCENSORED: What Free Speech Debates Teach Us About Empathy
As a college student, Zachary Wood ignited a national debate when he invited controversial speakers — anti-feminists, climate-change deniers, and self-proclaimed racists — to lecture on campus. Critic...
19 Nov 201947min
CONFLICT: How to Have More Productive Disagreements
Have you ever had one of those arguments — whether with a friend or a colleague, a loved one or a perfect stranger — that you both vehemently disagree, and it boils your blood? Too often these days, a...
12 Nov 201943min
JOYFUL: Why Ordinary Objects Can Make You Extraordinarily Happy
Conventional wisdom tells us that real joy comes from within: from exercise or meditation, acts of service or the way we look at the world—pretty much anything except material possessions. But author/...
6 Nov 201941min
CODERS: The Invisible Architects Who Shape Our Lives
Our world is awash in code, and those zeroes and ones aren't as impersonal as you might think. In his new book, "Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World," journalist Clive Thom...
30 Okt 201941min
RACIAL BIAS: Why We Have It and What We Can Do About It
Stanford psychology professor Jennifer Eberhardt has spent years studying how racial bias affects all of us — yes, all — in ways we don't realize. In her new book, “Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Preju...
22 Okt 201943min
