
The Strange Power of Rituals
Why do humans keep inventing rituals—from weddings and funerals to morning coffee routines and lucky socks? Today, we explore the strange, soothing power of repeated acts with two books that take ritual seriously without

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Why do humans keep inventing rituals—from weddings and funerals to morning coffee routines and lucky socks? Today, we explore the strange, soothing power of repeated acts with two books that take ritual seriously without

What if the answer to our late-stage collapse isn’t grim sacrifice, but a more joyful, humane way to live? Today, we hear from Elizabeth Dunn and Jiaying Zhao, authors of Leave the Lights On: How Joyful Decisions Can Sav

What if the thing holding you back isn’t the world saying no—it’s the voice in your head asking, Are you sure you’re allowed to do this? Today, we’re exploring two books about moving through hesitation and into action: C

What does it actually take to get better—and keep getting better—once talent has taken you as far as it can? Today, we’re exploring two books about the disciplined, sometimes uncomfortable work of growth: Ryan Hawk’s The

What does it take to launch something people actually love—and then keep it lovable as it grows? Today, Mark Pincus, founder of Zynga, shares lessons from Life at the Speed of Play: Launch Products People Love!, a practi

What if some problems aren’t meant to be solved head-on—and others should’ve been prevented long before they became emergencies? Berthold Gunster, author of Flip Thinking: The Life-Changing Art of Turning Problems into O

What happens when ordinary people decide not to look away? In this episode, Julia Angwin and Ami Fields-Meyer’s On Courage and Elie Honig’s Untouchable explore two sides of the same question: how power holds, and how it’

The lone-genius myth is overdue for retirement. In No One Is Self-Made, entrepreneur and community builder Lakeysha Hallmon argues that true success is never a solo act — it's built on relationships, reciprocity, and the

In Gerontocracy in America, Yale legal historian Samuel Moyn makes the case that older generations have systematically hoarded wealth and power, leaving younger Americans with fewer opportunities and a shrinking share of

Therapy is everywhere — in our language, our social media feeds, and increasingly, our daily routines. But is all that self-examination actually making us better? In Therapy Nation, therapist and author Jonathan Alpert a

What happens when a society forgets what public health is for? In today's episode, MIT professor Thomas Levenson shares ideas from A Pox on Fools: The True Believers, Grifters, and Cynics Who Convinced Us to Reject Vacci

What does it actually mean to get ahead — and stay sane doing it? On Monday's episode, career coach Emily Durham (a.k.a. Emily the Recruiter, with 3 million+ followers across social media) cuts through the noise with her

The Fourth of July is tomorrow — which makes today the perfect moment to ask what, exactly, the Founding Fathers actually built, and whether it's holding up. Law professor Jonathan Turley argues the revolution they launc

With America's 250th birthday just days away, two books ask the same urgent question from very different angles: what does it mean to be American—and are we living up to our own ideals? In All We Say, former Obama speech

We've been told for decades to slather on sunscreen and stay in the shade. But what if the real health risk is avoiding the sun? Rowan Jacobsen, award-winning science writer, spent nine years diving into the research — a

Margie Lachman is a psychology professor at Brandeis University where she conducts research on adult development and aging. She is an investigator on the Midlife in the United States (MIDUS) study, in which they have fol

It turns out fatherhood isn't just a role — it's a biological transformation. Darby Saxbe, an award-winning psychologist at USC, draws on decades of research in Dad Brain to show how the fathering brain literally rewires

What happens when screens stop being something we watch…and become a place we live? Today, The Atlantic writer Megan Garber unpacks the strange new social reality she explores in Screen People: How We Entertained Ourselv

Most of us know we should reach out more — call the friend, chat with the stranger, strike up the conversation. And yet we hold back. Why? Behavioral scientist Nicholas Epley has spent decades studying this gap between w

Whether you're in a face-to-face conversation or firing off a Slack message, most of what you communicate has nothing to do with the words you choose. Today we're unpacking the hidden language beneath our language — from
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