Wharton School organizational psychologist Adam Grant joins us to talk about how sometimes growth comes through unlearning ideas we’ve always thought to be true.
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Why The Government Should Watch The Web
Karen Kornbluh joins us to talk about whether we should establish a government agency to monitor the spread of disinformation online.
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Why Knowing Things Still Matters
This hour, we’ll talk about why internalizing seemingly unconnected data actually makes us better thinkers with William Poundstone. His new book is called “Head in the Cloud: Why Knowing Things Still Matters When Facts are so Easy to Look Up” (Little, Brown and Co.).
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Consumer Compulsion
This hour, we’ll talk about the subtle ways that companies instill desire for their wares deep within us with Nir Eyal, author of Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products.
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Learning And The Brain
We’ll talk this hour about how our brains absorb and retain information with New York Times education reporter Benedict Carey, author of How We Learn: The Surprising Truth About When, Where, and Why It Happens.
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