The Atlantic’s Katherine Wu discusses the possibilities of what an endemic future might look like and how humans will need to learn to co-exist with this virus.
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Is your personality permanent?
Olga Khazan talks about her quest to change five traits of her personality and the lessons she learned along the way.
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Humans didn’t evolve to exercise (but we should anyway)
Daniel E. Lieberman, professor of human evolutionary biology at Harvard University, joins us to talk about why we exercise and how that’s changed, the myths and realities of its benefits, and helpful motivations for getting off the couch.
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The pressure to act happy when your child has special needs
Heather Lanier joins us to discuss the personal struggles she faces parenting her daughter, a child with a very rare genetic disorder, while navigating a world that expects parents to raise high-achieving children.
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Rediscovering the world beyond your devices
Journalist Johann Hari discusses why we’re only able to focus on tasks for minutes at a time, what happened to our attention span, and how these racing thoughts can be monetized by big tech.
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In a disaster, she put the bottle down
Danielle Tcholakian discusses the first year she lived without alcohol – a year during which so many people lived in fear and isolation at the beginning of the pandemic.
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Nature Is Our Nurturer
Lucy Jones joins us to talk about her story of overcoming addiction by forming a deep connection with the beauty of nature, and the biological reasons humans need to be outside.
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It’s time to retire retirement
Bradley Schurman, founder and CEO of The Super Age, a global strategic research and advisory firm, discusses what he sees as a social and market force tipping point: when 20 percent or more of a given population is over age 65.
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A battle-tested guide to confidence
Nate Zinsser, director of West Point’s Performance-Psychology program, lays out his step-by-step guide to overcoming the mental pressures holding us back.
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How to heal your broken heart
Journalist Florence Williams talks about her painful divorce and how that led her to uncover the latest research on loneliness and its connection to health.
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Ladies who lift: Women, exercise and power
Danielle Friedman talks about how getting in shape morphed from simply being a beauty tool to a force for physical and emotional well-being, and what that says about feminism.
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How our emotions guide our decisions
Theoretical physicist Leonard Mlodinow discusses emerging science working to better understand how our decisions, big and small, are influenced by our emotions.
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