Tim Ferriss on accelerated learning, peak performance and living the good life
Three time bestselling author and human guinea pig Tim Ferriss discusses how to become top 5% in the world with a new skill in just 6-12 months.
Beautiful Minds
Insights into intelligence, creativity, personality, and well-being
Ryan Holiday on Stoicism, strategy and creativity
Best selling author Ryan Holiday discusses how Stoicism can help us transform trials into triumph. It's a pragmatic episode, full of strategies to invert obstacles and wrest opportunity from adversity...
Are Social Daydreams Related to Well-Being?
Daydreaming often gets a bad reputation. While yes– researchers have associated “lapses of attention” with memory loss and depression, here’s the thing: not all daydreaming is a lapse of attention...
Examining standardized testing with Anya Kamenetz
Award-winning education writer Anya Kamentez provides practical guidance for parents looking to understand standardized testing. She and Scott roll up their sleeves and delve deep into the nature, origins, drawbacks and future of our high-stakes testing culture...
Ungifted: Intelligence Redefined Is Out in Paperback!
Here's to the kids who are different, The kids who don't always get A's The kids who have ears twice the size of their peers, And noses that go on for days .
Imaginary worlds and creativity with Michele Root-Bernstein
Creativity scholar Michele Root-Bernstein discusses her work exploring the playful imaginative worlds of children and their correlation with creativity.
The Creative Life and Well-Being
The Creative Life is full of new possibilities, discoveries, exploration, experimentation, self-expression, and invention. It’s a habit, a way of being, a style of existing.
Peter Sims on how "little bets" spur big creative successes
Award-winning author Peter Sims shares some heartening research on how people like Steve Jobs, Chris Rock and Frank Gehry use small experiments to lay the groundwork for big creative successes...
Is an Optimistic Mind Associated with a Healthy Heart?
“Health is a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease and infirmity.” — World Health Organization (1946) Many poets, philosophers, and thinkers throughout history have recognized the intimate link between physical and mental health...
How to change your habits with Dr. Art Markman
Dr. Art Markman discusses tools, tips and tricks for editing our behaviors and achieving our goals. It's an incredibly practical episode for those of us who want to lose that weight, write that book and change our lives...
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Anthropology in Practice
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Budding Scientist
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Dark Star Diaries
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Dog Spies
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Extinction Countdown
News and research about endangered species from around the world
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Eye of the Storm
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Hot Planet
Climate science in a changing world
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Illusions, Delusions, and Everyday Deceptions
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Discussion and news about planets, exoplanets, and astrobiology
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Roots of Unity
Mathematics: learning it, doing it, celebrating it.
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Adventures in the good science of rock-breaking.
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A Blog About the Weird Wonderfulness of Life on Earth
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Exploring and celebrating diversity in science.
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