Education, Parenting & Personal Growth
521: Neil deGrasse Tyson | Cosmic Queries for the Acutely Curious
Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) is the Frederick P. Rose Director of the Hayden Planetarium, host of StarTalk Radio, and author. He rejoins us to discuss his latest book, Cosmic Queries: StarTalk’s Guide to Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We’re Going. What We Discuss with Neil deGrasse Tyson: How Neil learned to […]
VIEW EPISODE519: Dacher Keltner | The Power Paradox
Dacher Keltner is a professor of psychology at University of California in Berkeley, one of the world’s foremost scientists specializing in the study of power, and author of The Power Paradox: How We Gain and Lose Influence. [Note: this is a rebroadcast from the vault.] What We Discuss with Dacher Keltner: You don’t have to be […]
VIEW EPISODE518: Daniel Kahneman | When Noise Destroys Our Best of Choices
Daniel Kahneman is a celebrated psychologist, economist, Nobel Prize winner, and author of the much-lauded Thinking, Fast and Slow and his latest, Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment. What We Discuss with Daniel Kahneman: Why we don’t always produce the same results when faced with the same facts on two different occasions. How noise — […]
VIEW EPISODE516: Mike Massimino | Unlocking Science Secrets with an Unlikely Spaceman
Mike Massimino (@Astro_Mike) is the astronaut who sent the first tweet from space and one of the few spacefarers we’ve had on this show! He’s the author of Spaceman: An Astronaut’s Unlikely Journey to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe. [Note: this is a rebroadcast from the vault.] What We Discuss with Mike Massimino: How […]
VIEW EPISODE515: James Jani | Repelling the Law of Attraction Myth
James Jani (@jamesvjani) is a YouTuber who makes documentary-style videos about money, business, and life, including The Law of Attraction: Fact or Fiction? and The Dark World of New Age Gurus. What We Discuss with James Jani: Why “hustle culture” is a bankrupt paradigm that makes it easy for fake gurus to prey upon society’s […]
VIEW EPISODE514: Distancing from Junkie Sibling’s Self-Jinxing | Feedback Friday
In spite of what you’ve done to help your addiction-prone sibling stay off of hard drugs, he keeps relapsing. When is it time to let a self-jinxing junkie suffer for the consequences of their own actions? This and more here on Feedback Friday! And in case you didn’t already know it, Jordan Harbinger (@JordanHarbinger) and […]
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