Laugh and Learn EP07
1) Anatomy of a New Yorker cartoon | Bob Mankoff 2) A scientific approach to the paranormal | Carrie Poppy 3) The history of the world according to cats - Eva-Maria Geigl 4) A pro wrestler's guide to confidence | Mike Kinney
1) Anatomy of a New Yorker cartoon | Bob Mankoff 2) A scientific approach to the paranormal | Carrie Poppy 3) The history of the world according to cats - Eva-Maria Geigl 4) A pro wrestler's guide to confidence | Mike Kinney
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1) A mouse with two dads — and a new frontier for biology | Katsuhiko Hayashi 2) Democracy is being tested. Citizen assemblies can help | Ketakandriana Rafitoson 3) K-pop, cutting-edge tech and other ways Asia is shaping the world | Neeraj Aggarwal 4) The next computer? Your glasses | Shahram Izadi
1) My journey to thank all the people responsible for my morning coffee | A.J. Jacobs 2) The secret messages of Viking runestones | Jesse Byock 3) The ancient, earth-friendly wisdom of Mongolian nomads | Khulan Batkhuyag 4) My long walk across India for women's freedom | Srishti Bakshi 5) How germs travel on planes -- and how we can stop them | Raymond Wang 6) For more tolerance, we need more ... tourism? | Aziz Abu Sarah
1) I let algorithms randomize my life for two years | Max Hawkins 2) My journey mapping the uncharted world | Tawanda Kanhema 3) Why is colonialism (still) romanticized? | Farish Ahmad-Noor 4) My failed mission to find God -- and what I found instead | Anjali Kumar 5) The African swamp protecting Earth's environment | Vera Songwe
1) A better way to talk about love | Mandy Len Catron 2) The Chinese legend of the butterfly lovers | Lijun Zhang 3) The mathematics of love | Hannah Fry 4) Why should you read "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy? | Laura Wright 5) How understanding divorce can help your marriage | Jeannie Suk Gersen
1) Falling in love is the easy part | Mandy Len Catron 2) 3 ways to build a happy marriage and avoid divorce | George Blair-West 3) The wicked wit of Jane Austen | Iseult Gillespie 4) Rethinking infidelity ... a talk for anyone who has ever loved | Esther Perel
1) Why thinking about death helps you live a better life | Alua Arthur 2) Want to be happy? Be grateful | David Steindl-Rast 3) Would you opt for a life with no pain? - Hayley Levitt and Bethany Rickwald 4) Why 30 is not the new 20 | Meg Jay
1) Why having fun is the secret to a healthier life | Catherine Price 2) The philosophy of cynicism - William D. Desmond 3) How cohousing can make us happier (and live longer) | Grace Kim 4) Why do our bodies age? | Monica Menesini 5) What really matters at the end of life | BJ Miller
1) How some friendships last — and others don't | Iseult Gillespie 2) An ethicist's guide to living a good life | Ira Bedzow 3) A new vision of healthy masculinity | Davonte Green 4) Are we still human if robots help raise our babies? | Sarah Blaffer Hrdy
1) Why friendship can be just as meaningful as romantic love | Rhaina Cohen 2) How to be an "apocalyptic optimist" | Dana R. Fisher 3) Can you love your body — and still want to change it? | Gabriella Lascano 4) 5 signs you're a good driver | Iseult Gillespie 5) Parkour! How the sport keeps your body and mind fit | Taylor Lynn Carpenter 6) Why does uncertainty bother us so much? | Adam Kucharski
1) The hidden cost of the green transition's mineral rush | Galina Angarova 2) The big idea funding forest conservation | Andika Putraditama 3) What is true confidence? A photographer and a brand builder answer | David Suh and Molly Graham
1) Solar energy is even cheaper than you think | Jenny Chase 2) The rise of China's homegrown brands — and why they matter | Roger Hu 3) Why joy and flexibility are good for business | Rosie Sargeant 4) How to handle grief at work and beyond | Meredith Wilson Parfet 5) How to finance the future of farming | Berry Marttin 6) How industrial fishing sinks communities | Lamin Jassey
1) How "second chance" laws could transform the US justice system | Sheena Meade 2) What if mental health workers responded to emergency calls? | Leslie Herod 3) An unsung hero of the civil rights movement - Christina Greer 4) The multibillion-dollar US prison industry -- and how to dismantle it | Bianca Tylek 5) The Standing Rock resistance and our fight for Indigenous rights | Tara Houska 6) The dark history of the Chinese Exclusion Act | Robert Chang 7) Why genetic research must be more diverse | Keolu Fox
1) Let's get real about free speech | Greg Lukianoff 2) Where DEI falls short — and how to rethink it | Y-Vonne Hutchinson 3) The role of art and forgiveness in democracy | Marc Bamuthi Joseph and Wendy Whelan 4) A fresh approach to resolving conflicts | Darya Shaikh 5) The AI arsenal that could stop World War III | Palmer Luckey
1) A new way to study the brain's invisible secrets | Ed Boyden 2) How menopause affects the brain | Lisa Mosconi 3) How puberty changes your brain | Shannon Odell 4) How sleep affects your emotions | Matt Walker 5) This is your brain on communication | Uri Hasson
1) The miracle of organ donation — and a breakthrough for the future | Abbas Ardehali 2) The new science of personalized vaccines | Ofer Levy 3) Your body vs. implants - Kaitlyn Sadtler 4) The agony of opioid withdrawal -- and what doctors should tell patients about it | Travis Rieder 5) How did we get fertility so wrong? | Mona Chalabi 6) How I'm using biological data to tell better stories -- and spark social change | Heidi Boisvert
1) Why body language is the key to self-expression — and hot selfies | David Suh 2) Do you really need to take 10,000 steps a day? | Shannon Odell 3) Yes, tiny mites live on your face — but is that a bad thing? | M. Alejandra Perotti 4) Can you "see" images in your mind? Some people can't | Adam Zeman 5) My Big Idea (Ep. 3): The monthly miracle packed with scientific potential | Karli Büchling 6) How do drugs make you hallucinate? | Anees Bahji
1) The mysterious life and death of Rasputin - Eden Girma 2) The forgotten queen of Egypt | Abdallah Ewis 3) The world's most mysterious book - Stephen Bax 4) Did Ancient Troy really exist? - Einav Zamir Dembin 5) History's deadliest king | Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja 6) Why was India split into two countries? | Haimanti Roy 7) A day in the life of a Mongolian queen - Anne F. Broadbridge 8) History vs. Sigmund Freud - Todd Dufresne 9) The dark history of bananas | John Soluri 10) The first and last king of Haiti | Marlene Daut 11) The history of Tea - Shunan Teng
1) The tragedy of the one guy who was right about the Trojan Horse | Noah Charney 2) Why did people wear powdered wigs? | Stephanie Honchell Smith 3) Ugly History: The Armenian Genocide | Ümit Kurt 4) The woman who broke the Great Wall of China | Juwen Zhang 5) The tragic romance of Tristan and Isolde | Iseult Gillespie 6) The dark history of arsenic | Neil Bradbury 7) The history of the world according to rats | Max G. Levy 8) A day in the life of a martial artist in medieval China | Peter Lorge 9) One of the most controversial medical procedures in history | Jenell Johnson
1) A new way to study the brain's invisible secrets | Ed Boyden 2) How menopause affects the brain | Lisa Mosconi 3) How puberty changes your brain | Shannon Odell 4) How sleep affects your emotions | Matt Walker 5) This is your brain on communication | Uri Hasson
1) The brain may be able to repair itself -- with help | Jocelyne Bloch 2) What causes migraines? | Marianne Schwarz 3) Could we treat Alzheimer's with light and sound? | Li-Huei Tsai 4) How memories form and how we lose them | Catharine Young 5) What is so special about the human brain? | Suzana Herculano-Houzel 6) How the food you eat affects your brain | Mia Nacamull
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