Conversations with Tyler | 11 January 2023 | 0h 53m | Listen Later |
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Interview with Katherine Rundell about her book Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne. Discusses how she became obsessed with John Donne, the power of memorizing poetry, the political implications of suicide in the 17th century, the new evidence of Donne’s faith, the contagious intensity of thought in 17th-century British life, the effect of the plague on the national consciousness, the brutality of boys’ schooling, and more.
Category: Life
Polly Morland on A Fortunate Woman
Baillie Gifford Prize | 31 October 2022 | 0h 30m | Listen Later |
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Interview with Polly Morland about her book A Fortunate Woman: A Country Doctor’s Story. Discusses how she reprises John Berger’s medical classic A Fortunate Man, writing about the work of a country doctor in the same valley as Berger’s work – all while managing her mother’s care for dementia.
A Hidden World of Sound
Many Minds | 14 December 2022 | 0h 58m | Listen Later |
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Interview with Karen Bakker about her book The Sounds of Life: How Digital Technology Is Bringing Us Closer to the Worlds of Animals and Plants. Discusses the twin fields of “bioacoustics” and “ecoacoustics”, why sound is such a ubiquitous signalling medium across the tree of life, why scientific discoveries about sound have often been resisted, whether animal communication systems constitute languages, efforts to decode those systems using AI.
Russ Roberts on Wild Problems
The Tim Ferriss Show | 5 August 2022 | 1h 57m | Listen Later |
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Interview with Russ Roberts on lessons from F.A. Hayek and Nassim Taleb, decision-making insights from Charles Darwin, the dangers of scientism, his book Wild Problems: A Guide to the Decisions That Define Us, learnings from the Talmud, the role of prayer, and the journey to transcendence.
John Goetz: Tracking Down a Torturer
The Prospect Interview | 7 June 2022 | 0h 43m | Listen Later |
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Interview with John Goetz about his article What happened in Guantánamo: a former prisoner and interrogator speak 17 years on. Describes the story of former Guantanamo prisoner Mohamedou Ould Slahi and the man who tortured him, Mr X; how Goetz and his colleague Bastian Berbner tracked down Mr X seventeen years later; and what it taught them about the war on terror.
Self-Help for Data Nerds
People I (Mostly) Admire | 14 May 2022 | 0h 52m | Listen Later |
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Interview with Seth Stephens-Davidowitz about his book Don’t Trust Your Gut: Using Data to Get What You Really Want in Life. Offers advice for everyday life distilled from mountains of data. Covers appearance, wealthiest occupations, factors that predict entrepreneurial success, the relative importance of genetics across various sports, mental health and beating depression, Google trends, racism, dating, and desensitising rejection.
Amy Bloom: Grief is the Price You Pay for Love
Just the Right Book with Roxanne Coady | 10 March 2022 | 0h 49m | Listen Later |
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Interview with Amy Bloom about her book In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss. Discusses her life with her husband, his decline with Alzheimer’s, and his death by voluntary euthanasia.
Tamar Haspel on First-Hand Food
EconTalk | 28 February 2022 | 1h 04m | Listen Later |
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Interview with Tamar Haspel about her book To Boldly Grow: Finding Joy, Adventure, and Dinner in Your Own Backyard. Discusses what she learned from her quest to eat at least one thing she’d grown, caught, or killed every day. Reflects on the joy of learning and acquiring new skills to solve problems.