GATHERING: Mastering the Art of Hanging Out
You’ve posted a photo of your vaccine card on Instagram. The CDC says it’s okay to leave your bunker. Some of your friends have expressed interest in taking off their masks, breaking the six-foot barr...
26 Mai 202146min
EMAIL: Would the World Be Better Without It?
What’s the first thing you do when you wake up in the morning and the last thing you do before bed? If you’re a modern knowledge worker, your answer is probably “check my email.” Makes sense. Your inb...
19 Mai 20211h 13min
WORK: Should You Do Less of It? Adam Grant and James Suzman on the 15-Hour Workweek.
Our work consumes us. But does it have to? Anthropologist James Suzman has spent decades living in the Kalahari Desert with one of the world’s last hunter-gatherer societies, and he’s concluded that o...
12 Mai 202145min
CODE BREAKER: Why Walter Isaacson Thinks CRISPR Will Change Life As We Know It
Almost a decade ago, the biochemist Jennifer Doudna and her team at Berkeley figured out how to rewrite our genetic code using a system called CRISPR. Thanks to this miraculous discovery, we now have ...
5 Mai 20211h 10min
FOOD: Can We Taste Climate Change?
What’s for dinner? How will we answer that question in 50 years? In this thought-provoking (and occasionally hunger-inducing) conversation, science journalist Amanda Little tells Rufus that the single...
28 Apr 20211h 15min
CHATTER: Learning to Love the Voice in Your Head
Whether or not we care to admit it, we all talk to ourselves. A lot. The voice in our heads yaks it up about half the time we’re awake, and it can speak at a rate of 4,000 words per minute. When it re...
21 Apr 20211h 3min
HUMOR: How to Turn Levity Into Your Secret Weapon
Humor is no laughing matter. It inspires innovation, strengthens relationships, disarms tension, and makes you look smart. Seriously. So why are we all afraid to be funny at work? In their new book, “...
14 Apr 20211h 14min
BEGINNERS: The Joys of Being an Amateur
A few years ago, as he watched his young daughter try out one hobby after another, a thought crossed Tom Vanderbilt’s mind: Why do we work so hard to get our kids to learn new skills when most of us a...
7 Apr 20211h 11min
