Hosted by Meredith Hackwith Edwards · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 346 episodes
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A weekly podcast covering societal taboos & cultural blind spots. Join host Meredith Hackwith Edwards as she deep dives with curiosity & nuance into philosophy, society & culture with expert guests. Episodes frequently feature philosophers, researchers, historians & journalists.
Meredith Hackwith Edwards hosts The Curious Introvert, a society show with 346 episodes published.
Does “tough on crime” actually work? Could Ban the Box policies backfire? Jen Doleac, PhD, is Executive Vice President of Criminal Justice at Arnold Ventures, a philanthropy maximizing evidence based policy & minimizing
She used to ask "how could anybody do that?" Then it happened to her family. Laura & Aaron Beck were devoted parents who, like many, were in the habit of judging other parents who left their child in the back seat of a c
Is the skepticism around breast implant illness driven by science or the cosmetic surgery industry? What protocols (for keeping & removing) are working for patients? Robert Whitfield, MD is a fellow of the American Colle
Could your mouthwash be causing high blood pressure? Can your spit predict cancer? Nikki Eisenhauer is a licensed professional counselor, chemical dependency counselor, and professional psychotherapist. She is also an in
Could your mouthwash be causing high blood pressure? Can your spit predict cancer? Dr. Staci Whitman is a Functional Dentist board-certified in pediatrics with additional certifications in functional medicine, integrativ
What is it like to change your mind on something you wrote a best seller on? Joshua Harris is the author of I Kissed Dating Goodbye, a best-selling book in the late ’90s touting courtship as the superior way to find God’
Do dreams happen in our minds? What can lucid dreaming tell us about the nature of consciousness? Dave Green is a London-based artist who creates drawings not FROM his dreams, but IN his dreams, which he re-creates upon
Would you go to a psychic Olympics? Does psi have real-world benefits or is it just a way to make people feel like their special? Hakim Isler served 4 years in the Army as a psi op specialist in special operations forces
What is orgasmic meditation? Where is the line between cutting-edge wellness & cult behavior? Is the word “cult” too divisive to be helpful? Ellen Huet is an award-winning investigative journalist who writes for Bloomber
"We made an agreement with each other that we would not eat each other no matter how hungry we got." Douglas Robertson is the author of The Last Voyage of the Lucette . He was just a teenager when his family was lost at
What made the American funeral industry what it is today? Why do we embalm? How do societal status & funeral styles overlap? Gary Laderman, PhD, is the Goodrich C. White Prof of Amer Religious History & Cultures at Emory
Is the “ick” factor of cannibalism nature or nurture? What does history tell us (& how much of it is a lie)? Bill Schutt, a PhD zoologist & author of Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History , answers these questions by
This is the first of a series of episodes that feature opposing sides of a hot topic. Today it’s the a tech entrepreneur who founded a grief bot service vs a cyberpsychologist specializing in the ethics of death & the di
What exactly is considered "sexless"? What are we counting as sex? What would cause someone to not want to have sex all of a sudden? These are all questions I unpacked with Xanet Pailet. She was a successful healthcare l
Can napping replace medication? How do you get your brain to slow down enough to take a nap? Dr. Hector Rodriguez is a psychiatrist, who views naps as medicine for your brain. He is the owner of the White Butterfly Clini
Meredith for Real: the curious introvert is now The Curious Introvert! When I started this show in 2019, there were a few other shows with the words curious & introvert in them, but fewer with the name Meredith. Now that
What’s the difference between social anxiety & social anxiety disorder? What should you do if you’re spiraling? Dr. Ali Mattu was so socially anxious as a child, that he had selective mutism. Since then, he’s become a cl
Did the NFL cover up what they knew? Is football causing early dementia? Mark Fainaru-Wada is an award-winning investigative reporter & journalist with ESPN. He’s also the co- author of League of Denial, the book co-writ
Is it possible to age without aches & pains? Are some people just cursed with bad genes? Eileen Kopsaftis is a physical therapist with a Fellowship in Applied Functional Science & a nutrition educator diploma with decade
How are these abusive teen rehab centers still open? Why are parents still sending their kids there? Can’t they be shut down? Maia Szalavitz is an award-winning author and journalist who covers addiction and neuroscience
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The Curious Introvert is hosted by Meredith Hackwith Edwards. The show is categorised under society (culture) and has published 346 episodes.
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