Researcher Paul Craddock discusses 16th-century skin grafts, 18th-century tooth transplants, and modern-day medical breakthroughs.
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How to make your anxiety work for you
Tracy Dennis-Tiwary, a psychology and neuroscience professor, explains why, she says, anxiety is tied to hope, and why linking it to disease is an outmoded way of thinking.
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What we still don’t know about mental illness
Writer Daniel Bergner discusses his brother’s journey with a bipolar diagnosis and the medications he was put on—and how drug-based treatments are still based on a lot of assumptions.
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Do you still have privacy in the digital age?
Law professor Amy Gajda discusses the ethics of data privacy in the tech age, from modern muckraking journalism to a person’s right to be forgotten—and if we even still have it.
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This is a show about sex robots
Harper’s Magazine contributor Sam Lipsyte joins host Krys Boyd to discuss his trip to Las Vegas to visit a sex robot and to explore the morals and ethics of what might be the next phase in sexuality.
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The number one killer of creativity is fear
New York Times science reporter Matt Richtel talks about creativity and what awakens it, the conditions where it thrives and what happens when it’s blocked.
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Has the digital world broken American democracy?
Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt discusses how tech companies have sowed rifts and how the communication breakdown means we are now being ruled by mob dynamics.
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Hey, Siri, what happens when AI talks like humans?
Steven Johnson from New York Times Magazine talks about how computers are learning languages so accurately that it’s hard to know you aren’t talking to a human.
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There’s no point in seeking closure — and that’s OK
Prof. Pauline Boss discusses the pain from our collective loss of the pandemic, which lacks clarity, and the ongoing struggle to understand the new normal around us.
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Your attitude about aging could be a self-fulfilling prophecy
Becca Levy, a professor of epidemiology and psychology, discusses the beliefs around aging and how policy changes and positive thinking can create successful outcomes.
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From crickets to whales, the sounds of a healthy planet
David George Haskell explains sonic diversity and its importance to human and animal life – and how we are silencing those critical noises around us.
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We can all accomplish more — here’s how
Ayelet Fishbach discusses research into why we can’t always find the mental strength to take on a new task, how to clear the distractions that get in the way, and ways to stay on target to reach your goals.
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