The Ezra Klein Show | 25 January 2019 | 1h 21m | Listen Later | iTunes
Interview with neuroscientist and primatologist Robert Sapolsky based on his book Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers. Principally about how the stress of poverty affects people’s minds but also covers whether free will is a myth, why he believes the prison system is incompatible with modern neuroscience, and inferences about politics from studying baboons.
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Being Human with Robert Sapolsky
Origin Stories | 5 December 2015 | 0h 38m | Listen Later | iTunes
Robert Sapolsky, author of “Behave”, with a fascinating and funny talk about human behaviour and the ways we are the same as, and different from, other animals.