Why and how did America, in a catastrophically enormous failure, become the world leader in COVID deaths? In this Episode, […]
443 – The Neuroscience Behind the Power of Emotions with Dr. Julia DiGangi
You may feel as if you don’t control your emotional energy, that it’s an inevitable consequence of the world around […]
442 – Life is Hard: How Philosophy Can Help Us Find Our Way with Kieran Setiya
Kieran Setiya teaches philosophy at MIT, working mainly in ethics, epistemology, and the philosophy of mind. He is an author […]
441 – Threshold: Terminal Lucidity and the Border Between Life and Death, with Dr. Alexander Batthyany
Prof. Alexander Batthyány, PhD, holds the Chair of the Research Institute for Theoretical Psychology and Personalist Studies at Pázmány Péter […]
440 – If we are the only sentient beings, what does that mean for how we live? A manifesto for living with Physicist, Marcelo Gleiser.
Marcelo Gleiser is a theoretical physicist and public intellectual at Dartmouth College working on basic research ranging from cosmology and […]
439 – The Perfection Trap – Learning to let go and focus on what matters most with Thomas Curran
Thomas Curran is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science at the London School of Economics. […]
438 – Interstellar: The Search for Extraterrestrial Life and Our Future in the Stars with Harvard Astronomer Avi Loeb
Avi Loeb, the longest serving Chair of Harvard’s Astronomy Department, presented a theory that shook the scientific community: our solar system, Loeb […]
437 – Dealing with Stress, Anxiety, and Panic. How to turn anxious energy into a useful tool with Dr. Luana Marques
Dr. Luana Marques is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Harvard Medical School and Director of Community Psychiatry PRIDE at […]
436 – How to see things as they really are. A better way to pay attention in a distracted world with Christian Madsbjerg.
Paying attention is a crucial human skill, yet many of us have forgotten how to listen carefully and observe intentionally. […]
435 – Your IQ doesn’t matter, it’s all about XQ. How to leverage experiential intelligence with Soren Kaplan
First we had IQ to predict success. Then Emotional Intelligence (EQ). Now, Experiential Intelligence (XQ) expands our understanding of what’s […]