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Bundyville
By his own account, Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy never wanted to start a war with the federal government. To hear him tell the story, he is a folksy, rural Nevada rancher trying ...
Thriving in a Digital World
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If youâre an investor in Silicon Valley, work at a tech start-up, or just love to geek out on technology and business analysis, odds are good that Stratechery is on your short l...
The Ministry of Nostalgia and Landscapes of Communism
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A great podcast about architecture and cultural politics. Owen Hatherley writes regularly on architecture and cultural politics for Architects Journal, Architectural Review,Icon...
by Little Atoms
Cut Loose: Your Breakup Stories
When Nan Bauer-Maglin was 60 years old, her husband left her for his 25-year-old student. "I thought about suicide. You know, thereâs a great feeling of rejection especially if ...
Baby Blue Blood Drive
Horseshoe crabs are not much to look at. But beneath their unassuming catcherâs-mitt shell, they harbor a half-billion-year-old secret: a superpower that helped them outlive th...
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Beauty Is an Edge of Becoming
âBeauty isnât all about just niceness, loveliness. Beauty is about more rounded, substantial becoming.â Beloved Irish poet John OâDonohue on beautyâs true grit, and finding it i...
How Anesthesia Works
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The use of general anesthesia is less than 200 years old. Before doctors were able to cause unconsciousness in patients, surgery was brutal for all involved. But despite this ad...
Frank Stephenson: Pushing the Limits of Innovation
Renowned car designer Frank Stephenson teaches the path to mastery, innovation, and taking creative risks. He also gives us a peek into the future of automobiles and what it mea...
How to Become Great at Just About Anything
What if the thing we call âtalentâ is grotesquely overrated? And what if deliberate practice is the secret to excellence? Those are the claims of the research psychologist Ander...
The Kids Are Worth It
Parenting expert and best selling author Barbara Coloroso shares her three foundational principles of child rearing, how to get kids to be accountable for their actions, and wha...
Homo Deus: A conversation with Yuval Harari
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A conversation between Prof Yuval Harari and Azeem Azhar. We cover the compelling insights Yuval makes in his new book Homo Deus. Where are we, as a species, going now that we h...
A Calm Mind, a Fit Body, a House Full of Love
When youâre finally wealthy, youâll realize it wasnât what you were seeking in the first place.
Why a Wall Street rebel left a $1.5 million job
Six years ago Brad Katsuyama walked away from a $1.5 million salary at the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) with the audacious goal of creating a new stock exchange. Katsuyama, the ma...
Cartographer of Meaning in a Digital World
She has called Brain Pickings, her invention and labor of love, a âhuman-powered discovery engine for interestingness.â What Maria Popova really delivers, to hundreds of thousan...
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What We Are Going To Do
"People wanted to put him up for sainthood because he married me, like he'd made the ultimate sacrifice."
S1E1 - The Job Interview
Imagine if your dad wrote a dirty book. Most people would try to ignore it - but not Jamie Morton. Instead, he decided to read it to the world in this groundbreaking comedy podc...
Why You're Not Having Sex
Sheâs never dated anyone seriously. She's never been kissed, and she's never had sex. She's not opposed to any of those things. They just haven't happened for her yet. And sheâs...
Cheating Happens
People cheat. But they don't often talk about the aftermath, and how they and their partners decide what comes next.
The Fresno Drop
In September 1958, Bank of America began an experimentâone that would have far reaching effects on our lives and on the economy. After careful consideration, they decided to con...
The Girl Who Doesn't Exist
In todayâs episode, we meet a young woman from Texas, born and raised, who canât prove that she exists. Alecia Faith Pennington was born at home, homeschooled, and never visi...
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I Cry On The Toilet
We live in a world that can be harsh, brutal and unfair. This weekâs caller drives around and personally helps kids and parents in difficult situations. (Hint: The caller is not...
Fire and Rain
Nestled between the mountains and the ocean, right next to Santa Barbara, sits Montecito, California. The community is charming and geographically isolated. The landscape is a m...
Courage Is Born from Struggle
âHope is a function of struggle.â BrenĂŠ Brown, a researcher and scholar, on the value and power of adversity to give rise to the astonishing strength of which we are all cap...
Luck, Risk and Avoiding Losers
Billionaire investor, author and co-founder of Oaktree Capital Howard Marks discusses risk assessment, how to think different than the crowd, and the three mighty dares that sep...
Sound and Health
Sounds can have serious impacts on our wellbeing, even (or especially) in places focused on health like hospitals. This is an episode about how sound can be designed to reduce h...
39-Year-Old Grandma
A young grandmother with a family tree that involves some unusually complicated math talks with Gethard about rolling with the punches and rising above the obstacles that life p...
Depave Paradise
The largest city in North America, Mexico City, sits at the center of a high valley, 7,000 feet in the air, surrounded by volcanoes. Over a millennium and a half ago, a volcano ...
Sure, I Remember That
Itâs about false memory, particularly in the political realm, and how we are more capable of ârememberingâ an event that never happened if the event happens to synch up with our...
We Choose Our Own Tribes
âThe challenge of our future is to say, are we going to connect and amplify positive tribes that want to make things better for all of us?â Entrepreneur and digital wise man Set...
How to Build a Smart City
We are in the midst of a historic (and wholly unpredicted) rise in urbanization. But itâs hard to retrofit old cities for the 21st century. Enter Dan Doctoroff. The man who help...
Productize Yourself
Figure out what youâre uniquely good at and apply as much leverage as possible.
Converging Cultures - Apocalypse Now
Contagion has haunted so much of 20th century culture, from Camusâs Plague to Romeroâs zombies. In this episode, we examine real and imagined epidemics, and meet the people whos...
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"White Magic" By Ella D'Arcy
A great story by Ella D'Arcy: "I spent one evening last summer with my friend Mauger, pharmacienin the little town of Jacques-le-Port. He pronounces his name Major...
When I almost died
Ellen's near-death experience ended her marriage. Kelsey's forced her into sobriety. And Paul's left him feeling impatient: "Every moment has to matter, but then it doesnât."
La Sagrada FamĂlia
The line to enter Barcelonaâs most famous church often stretches around the block. La Sagrada FamĂlia, designed by Antoni GaudĂ, draws so many people to see it that the neighbor...
Reinventing Food
Rob Rhinehart, like most startup entrepreneurs, was strapped for cash and time as developed his ideas and ultimately a company. What stood out to Rhinehart in that all-consuming...
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Jeff Hunter: Embracing Confusion
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CEO of Talentism, Jeff Hunter, teaches how to rewrite damaging narratives that hold us back, how to give and receive helpful feedback, and why confusion can be a good thing.
Welcome to Jurrasic Art
At least for the time being, art is the primary way we experience dinosaurs. We can study bones and fossils, but barring the invention of time travel, we will never see how thes...
ARRRRR Pirate Peg Legs Really A Thing?
Pirate historian Laura Sook Duncombe tells us about the golden age of pirates. Plus, a tunnel follow up with Dr. Mole: where do the emergency exits in underwater tunnels go? Tha...
Size Matters
In a competition like this - every inch counts.
Over the road
At the Mid-America Trucking Show in Louisville, Kentucky, drivers from all over the country converge each year to show off their chrome and exchange stories, tips and gripes. On...
Sitting Together in the Dark
Writer and photographer Teju Cole says he is âintrigued by the continuity of places, by the singing line that connects them all.â He attends to the border, overlap and interplay...
by On Being
The Worst Video Game Ever
Deep within the National Museum of American Historyâs vaults is a battered Atari case containing whatâs known as âthe worst video game of all time.â The game is E.T. the Extra-T...
There and Back Again
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Here's a simple question: When an animal disappears in the winter, where does it go? Oddly enough, this question completely stumped European scientists for thousands of years. A...
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The Evolutionary Power of Children and Teenagers
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Alison Gopnik understands babies and children as the R&D division of humanity. From her cognitive science lab at the University of California, Berkeley, she investigates the âev...
by On Being
The Prophet
After Andrea is attacked by a stranger in Mexico City, she just wants to figure out who the guy was. Investigating this question drops her right into the middle of one of Mexico...
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Scott Adams: Avoiding Loserthink
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Dilbert creator and author Scott Adams shares cognitive tools and tricks we can use to think better, expand our perspective, and avoid slumping into âloserthink.â As youâll h...
Ralph Mooney: The Sound of Country Music
Ralph Mooney is one of the most important individuals in the history of country music. A legendary pedal steel guitarist, he deserves the reputation he earned on his instrument....
How Friendship and Quiet Conversations Transformed a White Nationalist
Derek Black grew up the heir apparent of a prominent white nationalist family. David Duke was his godfather. When Derek was 11, he designed the kidsâ page for what is known as t...
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The Far Meridian - 1.1 The Outside
A change in circumstance disrupts Peri's routine. Lessons in Stranger Danger.
People Arenât Dumb. The World Is Hard.
You wouldnât think you could win a Nobel Prize for showing that humans tend to make irrational decisions. But thatâs what Richard Thaler has done. The founder of behavioral econ...
Neil Pasricha: Happy Habits
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Neil Pasricha shares the recipe for resilience, an antidote for anxiety, and how his two minute morning routine primes each day for success.
The Secret Lives of Color
Itâs this amazing collection of stories about different colors, the way theyâve been made through history, and the lengths to which people will go to get the brightest splash of...
Strong Back, Soft Front, Wild Heart
âWhen weâre our best selves with each other, I donât think thatâs whatâs possible between people; I believe thatâs whatâs true between people.â A wise thinker and writer, and a ...
by On Being
The Trust Battery: Interview with Shopify Founder Tobi LĂźtke
"We think about Shopify a little bit as itâs sort of the fire flower from Mario" Shopify began as a simple two-man operation selling snowboards online, but it became clear ra...
Choosing Curiosity Over Fear
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Her name is synonymous with her fantastically best-selling memoir Eat Pray Love. But through the disorienting process of becoming a celebrity, Elizabeth Gilbert has also reflect...
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Where Does It Hurt?
Civil rights legend Ruby Sales learned to ask âWhere does it hurt?â because itâs a question that drives to the heart of the matter â and a question we scarcely know how to ask i...
by On Being
Missing the Bus
If you heard that there was a piece of technology that could do away with traffic jams, make cities more equitable, and help us solve climate change, you might think about drive...
How Tea Works
Legend has it that tea was discovered by a curious Chinese emperor after leaves blew into his boiled water. Now tea is the second only to water in popularity worldwide. And desp...
The Path to Perpetual Progress
Atul Gawandeâs one of the worldâs top surgeons, a researcher, a prolific writer at The New Yorker, a multiple time best-selling author, and a husband and father to boot. Here a...
The Pool And The Stream
Itâs hard to say where inspiration comes from. The path from the seed of an idea to its execution is often a long one. The brilliant architect Alvar Aalto expressed this sentime...
The Other Latif
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Radiolabâs Latif Nasser always believed his name was unique, singular, completely his own. Until one day when he makes a bizarre and shocking discovery. He shares his name with ...
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