EconTalk: Conversations for the Curious is an award-winning weekly podcast hosted by Russ Roberts of Shalem College in Jerusalem and Stanford's Hoover... more
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