Health, Wellness & Medicine
596: Andrew Gold | Exorcisms On the Edge
Andrew Gold (@andrewgold_ok) is an award-winning BBC and HBO journalist who interviews the world’s most controversial and inspiring figures in his On the Edge with Andrew Gold podcast. What We Discuss with Andrew Gold: What Andrew discovered while making a documentary about someone claiming to be a modern-day exorcist. Is professional wrestling “real?” What you […]
VIEW EPISODE592: Do the Math: Am I a Psychopath? | Feedback Friday
Thinking back on how you’ve navigated your life, you’re concerned that certain human interactions reveal a tendency toward behavior that our former guest, behavioral expert Thomas Erikson, might categorize as psychopathic. Weighing the evidence for and against, you really want an answer to this question: “Am I a psychopath?” We’ll try to get to the […]
VIEW EPISODE566: Brian Chesky | Lessons Airbnb Learned to Survive the Pandemic
Brian Chesky (@bchesky) is co-founder and CEO of the peer-to-peer lodging service Airbnb, named as one of Time magazine’s 100 Most Influential People of 2015. What We Discuss with Brian Chesky: How Airbnb not only survived the pandemic after losing 80 percent of its business during the first eight weeks, but is now thriving like […]
VIEW EPISODE554: Laurie Santos | Practical Lessons from The Happiness Lab
Laurie Santos (@lauriesantos) is a professor of psychology at Yale University, instructor of Coursera’s The Science of Well-Being course (adapted from her popular Psychology and the Good Life course at Yale), and host of The Happiness Lab podcast. What We Discuss with Laurie Santos: Happiness is actually a set of skills we can learn and […]
VIEW EPISODE543: R. Douglas Fields | Understanding Why We Snap
R. Douglas Fields (@RDouglasFields1) is a neuroscientist specializing in the cellular mechanisms of nervous system development, plasticity, and memory, and author of Why We Snap: Understanding the Rage Circuit in Your Brain. [Note: This is a previously broadcast episode from the vault that we felt deserved a fresh listen!] What We Discuss with R. Douglas […]
VIEW EPISODE532: A Veteran Fights to Be Free from Smack and PTSD | Feedback Friday
You’re a veteran who’s been lucky enough to return home from war in one piece only to fight a new battle on two fronts: heroin and PTSD. How are you going to fight your way free of this doubly dangerous burden? We’ll try to help with this and more here on Feedback Friday! And in […]
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