
Laugh and Learn EP06
1) 5 steps to remove yourself from drama at work | Anastasia Penright 2) What does the future hold? 11 characters offer quirky answers | Sarah Jones 3) How to land on a comet | Fred Jansen

1) 5 steps to remove yourself from drama at work | Anastasia Penright 2) What does the future hold? 11 characters offer quirky answers | Sarah Jones 3) How to land on a comet | Fred Jansen

1) The joy of taking out the trash | Aparna Nancherla 2) Confessions of a recovering micromanager | Chieh Huang 3) A funny look at the unintended consequences of technology | Chuck Nice 4) Why should you read Kurt Vonnegut? - Mia Nacamulli 5) An entertainment icon on living a life of meaning | Norman Lear

1) How to support and celebrate living artists | Swizz Beatz 2) Why should you read "Kafka on the Shore"? | Iseult Gillespie 3) Life lessons from Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 | Benjamin Zander 4) Wild, intricate sculptures — made out of my hair | Laetitia Ky 5) An architect's subversive reimagining of the US-Mexico border wall | Ronald Rael

1) Can art amend history? | Titus Kaphar 2) How we see color | Colm Kelleher 3) Why theater is essential to democracy | Oskar Eustis 4) What's the point(e) of ballet? | Ming Luke 5) Sculptures that'd be at home in the deep sea | Shih Chieh Huang 6) How volumetric video brings a new dimension to filmmaking | Diego Prilusky

1) How do you stop caring what others think? A filmmaker and a therapist answer | Baron Ryan and Stephanie R. Yates-Anyabwile 2) Confessions of a recovering people pleaser | Baron Ryan 3) Can AI help with the chaos of family life? | Avni Patel Thompson 4) Let your ambition light you up, not burn you out | Tarveen Forrester

1) What you miss when you focus on the average | Sharon Zicherman 2) Listen to your intuition — it can help you navigate the future | Hrund Gunnsteinsdóttir 3) Your relationship expectations could be holding you back | Stephanie R. Yates-Anyabwile 4) How to reclaim your life from work | Simone Stolzoff 5) 3 reasons to take risks like a teenager | Adriana Galván 6) Is perfectionism just procrastination in disguise? | Jon Youshaei 7) Why you feel stuck — and how to get motivated | Shannon Odell

1) Quantum computers aren't what you think — they're cooler | Hartmut Neven 2) How (and why) Russia hacked the US election | Laura Galante 3) What is an AI anyway? | Mustafa Suleyman 4) How community-led research drives social change | Monica Malta

1) How to end malaria once and for all | Abdoulaye Diabaté 2) 12 predictions for the future of technology | Vinod Khosla 3) A cleaner world could start in a rice field | Jim Whitaker and Jessica Whitaker Allen 4) How to spot authoritarianism — and choose democracy | Ian Bassin

1) There's more to life than being happy | Emily Esfahani Smith 2) Why are we so attached to our things? - Christian Jarrett 3) Helping others makes us happier -- but it matters how we do it | Elizabeth Dunn 4) Why some of us don't have one true calling | Emilie Wapnick 5) How to live passionately—no matter your age | Isabel Allende

1) How we're helping local reporters turn important stories into national news | Gangadhar Patil 2) Earworms: Those songs that get stuck in your head - Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis 3) What streaming means for the future of entertainment | Emmett Shear 4) Why a free and fair internet is more vital than ever | Priscilla Chomba-Kinywa 5) The luminous mystery of fireflies | Wan Faridah Akmal Jusoh 6) The weirdest (and coolest) tongues in the animal kingdom | Cella Wright

1) A mysterious design that appears across millennia | Terry Moore 2) Why can't you put metal in a microwave? | Aaron Slepkov 3) 3 sneaky tactics that websites use to make you spend | Wendy De La Rosa 4) The true cost of gold | Lyla Latif 5) How one small idea led to $1 million of paid water bills | Tiffani Ashley Bell 6) How to find joy in climate action | Ayana Elizabeth Johnson 7) Can the metaverse bring us closer to wildlife? | Gautam Shah 8) The continents are moving. When will they collide? | Jean-Baptiste P. Koehl

1) The new political story that could change everything | George Monbiot 2) The psychology of inequality and political division | Keith Payne 3) The psychological traits that shape your political beliefs | Dannagal G. Young 4) Do politics make us irrational? | Jay Van Bavel 5) 3 kinds of bias that shape your worldview | J. Marshall Shepherd

1) Strange answers to the psychopath test | Jon Ronson 2) How gratitude rewires your brain | Christina Costa 3) What you can do to prevent Alzheimer's | Lisa Genova 4) Why we're more honest with machines than people | Anne Scherer

1) How to live a meaningful life | Brian S. Lowery 2) How art transforms brokenness into beauty | Lily Yeh 3) Do you talk to yourself? Here's how to harness your inner voice | Ethan Kross 4) What introverts wish everyone else knew | Shalewa Sharpe

1) What hallucination reveals about our minds | Oliver Sacks 2) What is consciousness? - Michael S. A. Graziano 3) What we'll learn about the brain in the next century | Sam Rodriques 4) How stress affects your brain - Madhumita Murgia 5) The brain benefits of deep sleep -- and how to get more of it | Dan Gartenberg 6) The mysterious science of pain - Joshua W. Pate

1) How to connect with depressed friends | Bill Bernat 2) 3 steps to turn everyday get-togethers into transformative gatherings | Priya Parker 3) The science of hearing - Douglas L. Oliver 4) How to write less but say more | Jim VandeHei 5) 3 strategies for effectively talking about climate change | John Marshall

1) How miscommunication happens (and how to avoid it) - Katherine Hampsten 2) How to foster productive and responsible debate | Ishan Bhabha 3) How do you know whom to trust? | Ram Neta 4) Can beauty open our hearts to difficult conversations? | Titus Kaphar 5) What happened when we paired up thousands of strangers to talk politics | Jochen Wegner 6) How to use rhetoric to get what you want | Camille Langston 7) How do our brains process speech? | Gareth Gaskell

(1) How sugar affects the brain - Nicole Avena (2) A guerrilla gardener in South Central LA | Ron Finley (3) Teach every child about food | Jamie Oliver (4) Got millet? How marketing could improve the lives of African farmers | Zoë Karl-Waithaka (5) Will the ocean ever run out of fish? - Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Jennifer Jacquet

1) Our savory, spicy, significant relationship with food | June Jo Lee 2) The foods humanity forgot — and how we're bringing them back | Helianti Hilman 3) A menu of foods we might lose forever | Sam Kass 4) The food that fertilizes itself | Giles E.D. Oldroyd 5) The delicious potential of rescuing wasted food | Jasmine Crowe-Houston

1) Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert 2) How craving attention makes you less creative | Joseph Gordon-Levitt 3) The neuroscience of imagination | Andrey Vyshedskiy 4) The surprising habits of original thinkers | Adam Grant