Pragmatism and the Third Way with Trygve Throntveit
In the late 19th century, a tiny group of intellectuals who called themselves Pragmatists were to have an outsized influence on the nation and the world. They were inspired by Darwin and included well...
27 Maj 202048min
Evolving the Future of Corporations: A Conversation with Toby Shannan
Meet Toby Shannan--the son of hippy parents growing up in rural Canada, high school jock, college dropout, construction worker--and Chief Support Officer of Shopify, the world's second largest online ...
25 Maj 20201h 15min
Tightening and Loosening Up for the Coronavirus Pandemic with Michele Gelfand
TVOL's first podcast with Michele Gelfand explored an axis of cultural variation from "tight" (strong norms, strongly enforced) to "loose" (tolerant of individual differences). In this new podcast, we...
5 Maj 202056min
Finding Purpose in Evolution Education
Evolution education is often considered solely the domain of the biology classroom, with evolutionary explanations centered largely on genetic change over generations. In this TVOL Podcast, David Sloa...
27 Apr 20201h 11min
Evolutionary Mismatch in the Workplace with Mark van Vugt and Max Beilby
Max Beilby and Mark van Vugt discuss the science of evolutionary mismatch how it can help us understand human behavior in modern novel environments such as the workplace. Mark van Vugt is a professor ...
29 Mars 20201h 1min
PsychTable.org: A Digital Classification Table of Human Evolved Psychological Adaptations. A conversation with Niruban Balachandran and Daniel Glass
In 1992, the evolutionary psychologists Leda Cosmides and John Tooby predicted, "Just as one can now flip open Gray's Anatomy to any page and find an intricately detailed depiction of some part of our...
6 Mars 202032min
Evolution Doesn't Make Everything Nice: A conversation about primate societies with Joan Silk.
The idea that nature, left to itself, reaches some sort of harmonious balance is still widespread in the lay public and some public policy circles. "This View of Life" leads to a different conclusion;...
26 Feb 202044min
Dugnad as part of Norway's Culture of Cooperation: A conversation with Carsta Simon and Hilde Mobekk
What is Dugnad? It is a uniquely Norwegian word that identifies an important aspect of its culture of cooperation. David Sloan Wilson talks with Carsta Simon and Hilde Mobekk on their recently publish...
29 Jan 202041min
