Viorica Marian is a professor of psychology at Northwestern University. She explains why she believes we all have the capacity to be multilingual and how that affects the ways we perceive the world.
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How learning a new skill helps you appreciate mastery
New Yorker staff writer Adam Gopnik joins us to discuss what it takes to master a skill and to explain why the real benefit comes not in becoming a virtuoso but, rather, in just forcing your brain to try something hard.
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When A White Supremacist Attended Shabbat
Derek Black and Matthew Stevenson join us to talk about the time Matthew invited Derek to attend a Shabbat dinner – and how that interaction paved the way to a new understanding.
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Often Wrong But Never In Doubt: Political Polarization in America
Michael Patrick Lynch, Director of the Humanities Institute at University of Connecticut, joins us to talk about intellectual snobbery and how it corrupts real understanding.
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Don’t Force Your Kid to Be a Prodigy
David Epstein joins us to talk about scientific research that shows we should strive to learn a little bit about a lot of things rather than dive deep into one area.
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Known Unknowns: Learning When You’re Wrong
Brian Resnick joins us to talk about how stubbornness stands in the way of scientific advancements which he writes about in his Vox essay “Intellectual Humility: The Importance of Knowing You Might be Wrong.”
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The Science Of Learning
Ulrich Boser joins us to talk about new research into the science of learning.
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Intellectual Gaming
Parents and educators alike decry the many hours kids spend playing video games. But what if video games are actually the key to more sophisticated learning?
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School Daze
We’ll talk this hour about how we can better serve our teachers with Dana Goldstein. She writes about the past, present and future of education in The Teacher Wars: A History of America’s Most Embattled Profession.
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Learning In The Digital Age
This hour, we’ll talk about how informal learning can supplement what students are taught in the classroom with Milton Chen, a senior fellow and former executive director of The George Lucas Educational Foundation. He’s in town to participate in “Learning Crossroads – The Digital Future: A National Forum” at the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History.
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Boys To Men
We’ll talk this hour with Judy Chu from the Program in Human Biology at Stanford University. She explores a recent two-year study in the new book When Boys Become Boys: Development, Relationships, and Masculinity.
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