KERA’s Think | 16 September 2022 | 0h 35m | Listen Later 
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Interview with Seirian Sumner about her book Endless Forms: The Secret World of Wasps. Discusses the wild world of wasps, their diversity, complex social lives, and their critical role in nature, particularly as pest controllers.
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What it’s Like Being Autistic in a Neurotypical World
KERA’s Think | 9 August 2022 | 0h 33m | Listen Later | Podcasts | Spotify
Interview with Devon Price about his book Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity. Discusses the effort required by autistics to “mask” so as to appear neurotypical.
How the First Americans Really Got Here
KERA’s Think | 1 March 2022 | 0h 32m | Listen Later | Podcasts | Spotify
Interview with Jennifer Raff about her book Origin: A Genetic History of the Americas. Discusses what new research into early migration patterns has found about the early human history of the Americas.
We Can’t Have Medical Progress Without Risk
KERA’s Think | 29 September 2021 | 0h 33m | Listen Later | iTunes | Spotify
Interview with Paul Offit about his book You Bet Your Life: From Blood Transfusions to Mass Vaccination, the Long and Risky History of Medical Innovation. Describes the history of the risks run and sacrifices made to progress the medical technologies and lifesaving therapies that we rely on.
Why We Sweat
KERA’s Think | 2 August 2021 | 0h 31m | Listen Later | iTunes | Spotify
Interview with Sarah Everts about her book The Joy of Sweat: The Strange Science of Perspiration. Discusses the science of sweat, the many advantages it sweat confers and the industry built to fight our body’s natural function.
Useful Delusions
Hidden Brain | 5 April 2021 | 0h 49m | Listen Later | iTunes
Interview with Shankar Vedantam about his book Useful Delusions: The Power and Paradox of the Self-Deceiving Brain. Discusses and how self-deceptions can bind together marriages, communities, and even entire nations.
Confessions of a Recovering Chess Addict
KERA’s Think | 21 August 2019 | 0h 47m | Listen Later
Interview with Sasha Chapin about his memoir All the Wrong Moves: A Memoir About Chess, Love, and Ruining Everything. Insightful throughout, with perspectives beyond chess on relationships, social skills, travel, psychology, decision making, talent versus 10,000 hours, and, of course, chess.
I’ve since read the book, which is beautifully well written. It reminded me of William Finnegan’s Barbarian Days, also a beautifully written memoir of growing up and relationships, but anchored on surfing rather than chess.
The Evolution Of Human Violence
KERA’s Think | 12 February 2019 | 0h 48m | Listen Later | iTunes
Interview with anthropologist Richard Wrangham about the ideas in The Goodness Paradox: The Strange Relationship Between Virtue and Violence in Human Evolution. Draws on evolutionary evidence to suggest that as we domesticated ourselves, we reduced our tendency to reactive violence, whilst simultaneously retaining our capacity for organised violence.
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