WHY WE REMEMBER: The New Science of Improving Your Memory
"The only things that are important in life," declared the French filmmaker Jean Renoir, "are the things you remember." But what do we remember and why? That's the subject of a new book, "Why We Remem...
25 Apr 20241h 11min
SLOW PRODUCTIVITY: Can We Get More Done by Doing Less?
What if doing less is the secret to achieving more? That's the counterintuitive argument at the heart of productivity guru Cal Newport's new book, "Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Wi...
18 Apr 20241h 2min
MAGICAL OVERTHINKING: Why Modern Life Is Making Us More Irrational
Raise your hand if you've ever belittled a stranger online, made a decision based on astrology, or, heaven forbid, fallen for a conspiracy theory. No? Well, then, consider yourself lucky. And if your ...
11 Apr 202455min
Everything Paul Bloom Knows About Psychology
In “Psych: The Story of the Human Mind,” Paul Bloom, a professor of psychology at the University of Toronto, lays out, in his words, “basically everything I know about the mind.” And when he says “eve...
4 Apr 20241h 55min
GET THE PICTURE: Why Bother With Art?
For a long time, Bianca Bosker was not on speaking terms with art. “Going to galleries and museums,” she says on today’s show, “reliably made me feel like I was at least two tattoos and a master’s deg...
28 Mar 202451min
LOOK AGAIN: How to See Your Life With Fresh Eyes
Do you ever feel like your life has become a film loop of the familiar? Maybe you sympathize with the elegiac poet Logan Roy, who said, "Nothing tastes like it used to, does it? Nothing's the same as ...
21 Mar 202451min
GENEROSITY: How Simple Acts of Kindness Can Change the World
Lots of things go viral on the internet: dumb memes, cat videos, one-pan meals, and celebrity gossip. Why not kindness? That’s the delightful question Chris Anderson, the head of TED, asks in his new ...
14 Mar 20241h 6min
BURN BOOK: Kara Swisher Takes on Big Tech
Kara Swisher has been called “pioneering” (the New York Times), “Silicon Valley’s top pundit” (Wired), and “so shrill at this point that only dogs can hear her” (Elon Musk). Thanks to the bad-cop inte...
7 Mar 202449min
