Alan Castel on Successful Aging

The One You Feed | 29 May 2019 | 0h 35m | Listen Later | iTunes
Interview with Alan Castel about his book, Better with Age: The Psychology of Successful Aging. Explains how our mindset typically changes with age and offers evidence-based advice on preventing cognitive decline and successful aging.

Annaka Harris on Conscious

Making Sense with Sam Harris | 6 June 2019 | 1h 12m | Listen Later | iTunes
Interview with Annaka Harris about her book Conscious: A Brief Guide to the Fundamental Mystery of the Mind. Delves into the illusions of self and free will, the felt experience, where consciousness arises from, and panpsychism – the notion that consciousness might be a fundamental property of matter.

A New View of D-Day

History Extra | 6 June 2019 | 0h 36m | Listen Later | iTunes
Interview with James Holland, author of Normandy ‘44: D-Day and the Battle for France, revisiting the events of 6 June 1944 and challenging myths that have grown up around the Allied landings and the battle for Normandy.

Russ Roberts on Life as an Economics Educator

Conversations with Tyler | 5 June 2019 | 1h 01m | Listen Later | iTunes
Interview with Russ Roberts reflecting on thirteen years of EconTalk conversations. A treasure.

How to Change Your Mind

Freakonomics Radio | 30 May 2019 | 0h 45m | Listen Later | iTunes
Explores the barriers to changing your mind (ego, overconfidence, inertia and cost) and how to get better at changing your mind with neuroscientist (and primatologist) Robert Sapolsky.

A Mortgage for A Cure

a16z | 30 May 2019 | 0h 33m | Listen Later  | iTunes
Interview with economist Andrew Lo discussing how to place an economic value on medicinal cures like gene and cell therapies, who should pay for what, and how. Also discusses the economics and risk of drug discovery and development and how markets might function more like biological systems than anything else.

Alain Bertaud on Cities, Planning, and Order Without Design

EconTalk | 3 May 2019 | 1h 18m | Listen Later | iTunes
Interview with Alain Bertaud about his book Order Without Design: How Markets Shape Cities. Bertaud explores the role of zoning and planning alongside the emergent factors that affect the growth of cities. He emphasizes the importance of cities as places for people to work and looks at how preferences and choices shape cities. Bertaud also reflects upon the differing perspectives of urban planners and economists.

Adam Gopnik on The Moral Adventure of Liberalism

Carnegie Council Audio | 22 May 2019 | 0h 58m | Listen Later | iTunes
Interview with Adam Gopnik about the ideas in his book A Thousand Small Sanities: The Moral Adventure of Liberalism. Argues that rather than emphasizing the role of the individual, the principles of community and compromise are at the core of the liberal project.