Photographer, author, and visionary Kevin Kelly talks about his book Excellent Advice for Living with EconTalk's Russ Roberts. His advice includes how... more

When physician Walter Freeman died in 1972, he still believed that lobotomies were the best treatment for mental illness. A... more

Tolkien read it as a tale about mortality. The poet David Whyte said it was a metaphor for the psychological... more

Since at least Adam Smith, the common wisdom has been that the transition from hunter-gathering to farming allowed the creation... more

Do psychologists know anything? Psychologist Paul Bloom says yes--but not the things that you might think. Bloom discusses his book... more

When psychiatrist Marco Ramos of Yale University prescribes antidepressants to patients in distress and they ask him how they work,... more

Psychologist Adam Mastroianni says peer review has failed. Papers with major errors make it through the process. The ones without... more

According to neuroscientist and philosopher Sam Harris, rationality is the key to safeguarding everything we cherish, and its only true... more

Oncologist and epidemiologist Vinay Prasad argues that too many very expensive drugs get approved by the FDA that have very... more

Dwayne Betts was a 16-year-old in solitary confinement when a fellow inmate slid a book of poetry under his cell door.... more