Science: Social Sciences

Start your journey toward living a more intentional and fulfilling life -⁠⁠ https://a.co/d/aDYCQ9o --- In this conversation, Anne-Laure Le Cunff discusses her journey from a successful career at Google to embracing a more experimental approach to life through her book, 'Tiny Experiments.' She explores the pitfalls of t

Brynn Quick speaks with Dr. Lauren Gawne, about cross-cultural variation in gesture use. In this episode, Brynn and Lauren discuss a paper that Lauren wrote in 2024 with co-author Dr. Kensey Cooperrider entitled “Emblems: Meaning at the interface of language and gesture”. Brynn and Lauren talk all about how emblems are

Bright colors, long tails, and dances of seduction: they may hurt a bird's chances of survival in the wild, but they seem to increase the chances of reproduction. Is this all part of natural selection or is sexual selection its own force in the bird world? Is there such a thing as beauty for beauty's sake? What can we

Join Jason and me for a discussion about building systems that work well for you and your team’s culture. Jason Barnard is the founder of Kalicube, an AI branding company. One of my favorite parts of this interview is the system he uses for cross-team collaboration. You can get the Magnetic Systems Method (and other sy

Just over a year ago, my father died. I was 53. Thousands of people testified to his positive impact in their lives. Me included. And…the event helped me reveal some patterns I’d repeated, that were not constructive for my life. One of the stories I share in my book, What Drives You, is that of Lori Harder. Lori was ra

This week, Scott is joined by Dr. Richard Wiseman, a psychologist renowned for his work on magic, illusion, deception, luck, and self-development. As the UK's only Professor of the Public Understanding of Psychology at the University of Hertfordshire, Dr. Wiseman has published over 100 academic papers and authored best