Kelly Weill explains why people are drawn to the idea that the world is a pancake surrounded by ice and our contemporary moment that leads them there.
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Some introverts find peace while everyone else sleeps
Faith Hill reveals the lives of extreme introverts – people who crave being alone – and the ways they get around interacting with the rest of society.
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How to kick your success addiction and love your work
Arthur C. Brooks discusses his research to understand how to move past waning opportunities for advancement and embrace aging with all its many wonderful possibilities.
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Who really writes movie scores?
Mark Rozzo talks about how name-brand composers often employ assistants to do much of the heavy lifting – and how the credit and money often isn’t shared fairly.
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In Big Tech, work is religion
Carolyn Chen discusses her research in Silicon Valley, where she found spiritual practices like mindfulness are used to increase production while affiliations with places of worship outside the office are slipping away.
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Positive thinking can bring you down
Psychotherapist Whitney Goodman explains why the messages we’re getting about always being happy are making us depressed and anxious, and what to do about it.
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Life as the daughters of immigrants
Daphne Palasi Andreades discusses her new novel, where five daughters of immigrants become friends for life but are tested when views on ambition, loyalty and class begin to diverge.
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Why strong women scare autocrats
Zoe Marks discusses the newest wave of patriarchal authoritarianism sweeping the globe, and the reversals of women’s rights that have followed.
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The case for talking about race at work
Y-Vonne Hutchinson joins us to talk about how employees can have frank and honest conversations with management about race and achieve real results.
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There IS such a thing as too much pleasure
Dr. Anna Lembke, a medical director of Stanford Addiction Medicine, joins us to discuss the neuroscience of pleasure, why our bodies crave it, and the consequences of overconsumption.
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What life is like in an open relationship
Rachel Krantz discusses navigating her relationship with a partner who preferred non-monogamy and her search for connection inside an open relationship.
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Who we build monuments to and why it matters
Paul M. Farber of the National Monument Audit joins us to discuss a recent study of 50,000 monuments across the U.S. and what the research shows about who we memorialize and who we leave out.
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