Think Again a Big Think Podcast

52. Jim Gaffigan (Comedian) – You lot're Attacking My Grandpa?

"Information technology's funny or it's not funny. In the finish, people are not coming to my testify because I'm not cursing" – Jim GaffiganJim Gaffigan is a Grammy nominated stand-up comedian and the New York Times all-time-selling writer of "Dad is Fat" and other books, and he's about to launch the second season of  his semi-fictitious TV testify, The Jim Gaffigan Show. On this week'southward episode of Think Again - a Big Think Podcast, Jim and host Jason Gots talk about the souvenir of loving what you practice for a living, "othering" people we disagree with, and how discrimination is a bipartisan phenomenon. Trump comes upward, equally exercise The Simpsons, Richard Pryor, George Carlin, New Yorkers' weird ideas most the Midwest and vice versa, and Jim's Grandpa (sort of).  Surprise discussion clips in this episode: Princeton historian Sean Wilentz on the Trump phenomenon, Dan Pontefract on working with purpose.  Learn more virtually your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

41mins

25 Jun 2016

Rank # 1

Jim Gaffigan

177. Joseph Goldstein (Buddhist teacher) – Lighten Upwards: mindfulness, enlightenment, and everyday life

Dear, money, health, keen sex, peace of mind—withal you ascertain it, happiness in this globe is impermanent and unreliable. But we're all invested in the illusion that nosotros're merely one career motility or i Amazon purchase abroad from permanent bliss. To quote Darth Vader: Search your feelings—you know it to be truthful. Life is sometimes exhilarating and sometimes devastating, but information technology's always, ever in flux. This is the kickoff noble truth of Buddhism. That everything in this life is unreliable and unsatisfactory. Maybe it doesn't sound to you lot like the get-go of a message of hope, but that'southward exactly what information technology is. A couple millennia ago the Indian prince Siddhartha Gautama, meliorate known equally Buddha, offered anyone who would mind a system of grooming the listen to free it from the suffering that comes from clinging to impermanent things, similar how many followers you lot take on Instagram. My guest today is Joseph Goldstein. He's one of the nearly influential Buddhist teachers and writers of the by half-century. In 1975, Along with Sharon Salzberg and Jack Kornfield, he co-founded the Insight Meditation Social club in Barre Massachusetts. Since so, he has done immeasurable good worldwide with his books, dharma talks, and meditation retreats.  4 decades agone he started a journey he's even so on today, helping westerners—very much including myself—benefit from the Buddha'due south ancient insights and techniques. Joseph's latest book, MINDFULNESS: a practical guide to awakening, is his magnum opus: the distilled wisdom of four decades of teaching and practice.  Larn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

1hr 13mins

12 Jan 2019

Rank # ii

Joseph Goldstein

Rationally Speaking Podcast

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

Intelligence Squared

Very Bad Wizards

You Are Not So Smart

Philosophy Bites

Intelligence Squared U.Southward. Debates

Conversations with Tyler

The Noesis Project with Shane Parrish

History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps

The James Altucher Evidence

The Unmistakable Creative Podcast

Design Matters with Debbie Millman

EconTalk

What Information technology Takes

145. Michael Gazzaniga (neuroscientist) – The Impossible Problem

Je pense donc je suis. (I call back, therefore I am.)Huh? Who is this I?How practise I know that it is thinking?What does it even mean to say that I am—that I exist, if it'due south this mysterious,  untrustworthy Ithat says  then? To be fair, René Descartes didn't invent these bug. simply In the centuries afterward his death, his thought experiments sent philosophers, psychologists and after on, neuroscientists reeling and spiraling down a seemingly abysmal chasm In search of Consciousness. What is it? Where is information technology? How did information technology become there? Surely that icky greyness-greenish stuff can't fully business relationship for the sublime perfection of Beethoven's 9th! If you lot've ever heard that there are differences between the left and the correct brain, you can blame my guest today, Michael Gazzaniga, who did many of the pioneering studies in this area. At present he'southward after fifty-fifty bigger game. In his new book The Consciousness Instinct he lays a conceptual framework for closing the gap between the meat of the encephalon and the magic of Consciousness, and peradventure saving us a lot of futurity headaches.  Surprise conversation-starter clips in this episode: Leonard Mlodinow on your brain and original thinkingJohann Hari on inequality and depression/feet Learn more about your advertizement choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

46mins

28 Apr 2018

Rank # three

Michael Gazzaniga

185. Martin Hägglund (philosopher) – What happens to freedom when time is money

What gets a wolf or a pigeon upwards in the morn? No law-breaking to wolves or to pigeons, but it'due south probably not the desire to make the world a meliorate identify. As far as we know, humans are unique in the freedom to decide what's worth doing with our finite time on Earth. Just as my guest today argues, we oft steal that freedom from 1 another or sell it off without even realizing information technology—our finite  lifetime, the one thing we take of real value, is devalued past capitalism and for those who have it, by religious faith in eternal life, or eternal everythingness, or eternal nothingness. . . .It's a long story. These ideas are better expressed in a 400 page book than in a lx second intro. Happily, philosopher Martin Hägglund has given us that much-needed book in This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Liberty. Martin is a professor of Comparative Literature and Humanities at Yale and a Guggenheim Fellowship recipient. And I'thou delighted to have him here with me today.  Surprise conversation starters in this episode: Rob Bell on whether Jesus would take wanted Christianity Larn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

52mins

9 Mar 2019

Rank # iv

Martin Hägglund

The Joe Rogan Experience

TED Talks Daily

The Tim Ferriss Prove

The Daily

Stuff You Should Know

Oprah's SuperSoul Conversations

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

72. Slavoj Žižek (Philosopher) - Against Tolerance

Since 2008, Big Think has been sharing big ideas from artistic and curious minds. The Recollect Once again podcast takes united states out of our comfort zone, surprising our guests and Jason Gots, your host, with unexpected chat starters from Big Think's interview athenaeum. Slavoj Žižek is a Hegelian philosopher,  Lacanian psychoanalist, and political activist. He's the international director of the Birbeck Plant for the Humanities, and Global Distinguished Professor of German at New York Academy. His newest book is Refugees, Terror, and Other Troubles with the Neighbors: Against the Double Bribery. In this spirited, wide-ranging discussion, the voluble Žižek talks virtually why he hates beingness chosen the "Elvis of philosophy," argues against liberal notions of tolerance, and promises to arrange for Jason to get cigarettes and whiskey in the gulag when the revolution comes. Surprise conversation starter interview clips in this episode: Daniel Bergner on Women and Monogamy and Scott Barry Kaufman on Standardized Testing Larn more than about your advertisement choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

53mins

12 November 2016

Rank # 5

Slavoj Žižek

ii. Henry Rollins (Creative person) – Monogamy/Sexual Opportunism

Is monogamy ridiculous? Does this change with age? What do we really desire out of love and sexual activity?In this week'southward episode of Big Think's Recollect Once again podcast, we're joined by legendary hardcore musician and spoken discussion artist Henry Rollins.This clip from columnist Dan Roughshod launches Henry and host Jason Gots on an intense, personal conversation about love, big cities, and whether the two are incompatible. Larn more nearly your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

19mins

27 Jun 2015

Rank # 6

Henry Rollins

112. Richard Dawkins (biologist) – Red in Tooth and Claw

In this episode, which Dawkins described equally "ane of the best interviews I accept ever had," the eminent ethologist and host Jason Gots talk about whether pescatarianism makes whatever sense, where morality should come from (since, as Hume says, "you can't get an 'ought' from an 'is'), the greatness of Christopher Hitchens, and the evils of nationalism.Most the invitee: Today's guest is internationally acknowledged author, speaker, and passionate advocate for reason and science as against superstition Richard Dawkins. From 1995 to 2008 Richard Dawkins was the Charles Simonyi Professor of the Public Understanding of Scientific discipline at Oxford University.  Among his many books are The Selfish Gene, the God Delusion, and his two-part autobiography: An Appetite for Wonder and A Brief Candle in the Nighttime. His latest is a collection of essays, stories, and speeches called Scientific discipline in the Soul, spanning many decades and the major themes of Richard's work.Near Think Once more: Since 2008, Big Think has been sharing big ideas from creative and curious minds. Since 2015, the Think Over again podcast has been taking us out of our comfort zone, surprising our guests and Jason Gots, your host, with unexpected conversation starters from Big Recall's interview archives. Learn more than nearly your advert choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

57mins

19 Aug 2017

Rank # 7

Richard Dawkins

223. Karen Armstrong (theologian) – the fine art of getting outside of yourself

I've spent more of my life than most people I know immersed by choice in what my guest today would call "scripture". I was never much of a Roman Catholic, in spite of existence dragged weekly to church until I was about thirteen and could no longer be dragged, and, in my boredom, sometimes believing I saw the statue of Jesus moving on the cantankerous. Just in late adulthood, the need for spiritual pregnant gripped me tight and wouldn't let go. It led first into Judaism and Jerusalem, and then, for the past couple decades, mostly to Buddhist study and practice.Just I'grand as troubled as all the Enlightenment thinkers I know by scripture-thumping orthodoxy and intolerance of whatsoever kind. Troubled watching my wife Demet's country, Turkey, carve up betwixt retrograde, homophobic and misogynistic Islamism on the one hand and intractable secular nationalism on the other. Moses and I don't have much in mutual, but like him, I get tongue-tied talking about these things. Religious, or spiritual, or scriptural ideas and practices can exist so essential and become so problematic at the aforementioned time. My guest today is Karen Armstrong. On these subjects, she doesn't get natural language-tied. She's i of the clearest and most nuanced thinkers I know of on god, religion, and scripture. Author of THE SPIRAL STAIRCASE and THE CASE FOR GOD, recipient of the TED Prize, and a co-creator of the interfaith Charter for Compassion. Her new book is called THE LOST ART OF SCRIPTURE and I'm so happy information technology brings her to Think Again.  Acquire more than near your advertizement choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

51mins

7 Dec 2019

Rank # 8

Karen Armstrong

61. Alison Gopnik (Developmental Psychologist) – Bogus Intelligence/Natural Stupidity

Alison Gopnik is an internationally recognized expert in children's learning and development. A professor of psychology and affiliate professor of philosophy at UC Berkeley, and the author of many books including the The Philosophical Baby. Her new book The Gardener and the Carpenter is a response to the fact that "parenting" has become a verb, a powerful centre course tendency, a lucrative self-help industry, and sometimes a kind of bloodsport. Meanwhile developmental science paints a very different picture of how children abound and acquire, and what information technology means to be a expert parent. As Gopnik puts it, "It'southward easy to say 'just chill,' but the advice is, basically, simply arctic!"  On this week's episode of Think Once again–a Big Call up Podcast, Alison Gopnik and host Jason Gots discuss play, artificial intelligence, and the trouble with "parenting" as a verb. Surprise "conversation starter" interview clips in this episode:Ryan Holiday, Steven Pinker, and Sonia Arrison.  Acquire more nigh your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

46mins

27 Aug 2016

Rank # nine

Alison Gopnik

100. Neil deGrasse Tyson (Astrophysicist) – The Only "-ist" I Am

Since 2008, Large Think has been sharing big ideas from creative and curious minds. Since 2015, the Recall Over again podcast has been taking u.s.a. out of our comfort zone, surprising our guests and Jason Gots, your host, with unexpected conversation starters from Big Think's interview archives. 100 episodes in, like the universe itself, the testify continues to expand and advance at speeds that boggle the imagination. Neil DeGrasse Tyson is an astrophysicist and the director of the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History in New York Urban center and the spiritual heir to Carl Sagan in getting united states all worked upward well-nigh the Cosmos. He's been appointed to special NASA commissions, hosted multiple TV specials and podcasts, and written many fantabulous books, the latest of which is Astrophysics for People in A Hurry – a succinct, wryly funny book that's surprisingly informative for its size - information technology has the informational density of a blackness hole. In This, Our 100th Episode: Tin can Neil tell the entire history of the universe in 30 seconds? When is information technology possible to move faster than the speed of low-cal? Why is "dark affair" a terrible name for dark matter? And what does Neil's esteemed colleague Lawrence Krauss take in mutual with a pit bull? Surprise conversation starter interview clips:Lawrence Krauss on Optimism, Dean Buonomano on "Presentism" and "Eternalism" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

47mins

27 May 2017

Rank # 10

Neil deGrasse Tyson

164. Jill Lepore (Historian) – Why America keeps going to pieces

As Alexander Hamilton put information technology, the American Experiment puts to the exam the question "of whether societies of men are really capable or not of establishing good government from reflection and choice…or whether they are forever destined to depend for their political constitutions on accident and forcefulness." This question surfaces throughout Jill Lepore's brilliant new history of the Usa: These Truths. Our conversation took identify during the alive-streamed, virally-watched Senate Judiciary hearing on allegations that nominee Brett Kavanaugh committed sexual assault while in loftier school. Jill comments on this historical moment and much more than. Equally she puts it in the book'south epilogue: A nation born in revolution volition forever struggle against chaos. A nation founded on universal rights will wrestle against the forces of particularism. A nation that toppled a hierarchy of birth just to erect a hierarchy of wealth will never know tranquillity. A nation of immigrants cannot close its borders. And a nation born in contradiction, liberty in a land of slavery, sovereignty in a land of conquest, will fight, forever, over the meaning of its history.  Learn more than about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

49mins

29 Sep 2018

Rank # 11

Jill Lepore

87. Yuval Noah Harari (Historian) – Fourth dimension'south Up

Since 2008, Big Think has been sharing big ideas from artistic and curious minds. The Recollect Again podcast takes us out of our comfort zone, surprising our guests and Jason Gots, your host, with unexpected chat starters from Big Call up'southward interview archives.Yuval Noah Harari holds a PhD in History from the University of Oxford and now lectures at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, specializing in World History. His 2014 New York Times bestselling volume Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, is published in nearly forty languages worldwide. His new book Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow, uses historical and current trends to look at where we might we headed equally a species.In this conversation, Harari and Jason hash out giving credit where information technology'south due to genuine signs of homo progress, and the dizzying upstanding questions that environment what'due south coming adjacent –– from superhuman cyborgs to algorithms that know us amend than we know ourselves. Surprise chat starter interview clips:Lawrence Levy on Pixar, mindfulness, and the Middle Way. Daniel Dennett on the development of cultural memes.  Learn more about your advertizement choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

50mins

25 Feb 2017

Rank # 12

Yuval Noah Harari

141. Tara Westover (writer, historian) – Nothing Final Can Be Known

What does your education hateful to you? What would you exist willing to sacrifice for it? For me and my sister, growing upwardly, it was a given that you'd go "well-educated." You'd get good grades, go to a practiced college, and well-nigh likely graduate, medical, law, or business school.  School was just what you lot did…ritualized and rote the way religion is in other families. For my invitee today, Tara Westover, the framework was completely different. In her mountain dwelling house in Idaho, school was seen equally a threat. It was a authorities tool for brainwashing people out of religion in God'due south teachings and into worldly decadence. She went on to become very well-educated by anybody's standards–—studying history at Cambridge University in England and at Harvard. But it came at very high cost. Her start book, EDUCATED, is a powerful and beautifully written memoir about family, loyalty to oneself, and the difficult, even impossible choices nosotros sometimes have to brand. Surprise conversation-starter clips in this episode: Chris Hadfield on an astronaut's global perspective Learn more about your advertizing choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

1hr 2mins

31 Mar 2018

Rank # 13

Tara Westover

130. Marker Epstein, MD (Buddhist psychiatrist) – I, Me, Mine

All through the day… I, me mine, I me mine, I me mine… That George Harrison song on the Beatles' last album pretty much sums it upward. They recorded information technology in 1970, and 47 years later, our egos seem to be running only as rampant equally ever. While the unchecked ego might be popular at parties, it can get us into all kinds of trouble. This is non breaking news. Over 2000 years agone an Indian prince saturday under a tree and thought about the problem of self. His insights and solutions became what nosotros now call Buddhism. And a century ago in Vienna, Sigmund Freud came at the same event from a somewhat dissimilar angle, giving us psychotherapy. Our invitee today, Mark Epstein, Doctor, is a psychotherapist and author who combines both approaches to help his patients and readers live with their demanding egos. His new volume is Advice Non Given: A Guide to Getting Over Yourself. Surprise conversation-starter clips in this episode: Drew Ramsey on diet and depression, Manoush Zomorodi on the wandering mind Learn more about your advertizing choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

57mins

13 Jan 2018

Rank # 14

Marker Epstein

179. Edith Hall (classicist) – from Aristotle to Oprah and back once again: how to live your best life

Nosotros've been talking a lot lately on this bear witness most happiness. What it is, where we can become more than of it, why it does not yet seem to be available on the Internet. Author Ruth Whippman presented some compelling testify that the fashion most Americans are pursuing happiness is making u.s. unhappier. Buddhist principal instructor Joseph Goldstein talked about a style of training yourself to be more generous, and the happiness this has brought to his life. In her new volume ARISTOTLE'S Style, classicist Edith Hall reminds us that Aristotle'southward "virtue ideals" was a sophisticated, subtle approach to the pursuit of lifelong happiness a couple millennia before Oprah thought of inviting us to live our best life. Offer no listicles of the elevation x happiness hacks, Aristotle tried to live and taught the virtues of an ethically guided, purpose driven life with plenty of room for adept friends, sensual pleasures, and long walks on the beaches of Aboriginal Greece, Macedonia, and what is now Turkey.  Edith Hall—my guest today—enjoys putting the pleasure too as the rigor into all aspects of Aboriginal Greek and Roman History, society, and thought. She's a professor of Classics at King's College, London, the author of more than 20 books, and a world leader in the study of ancient theatre and culture. Surprise conversation starter clips in this episode: Nick Offerman on what happiness isStephen Greenblatt on the Adam and Eve story Learn more nigh your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

59mins

26 Jan 2019

Rank # 15

Edith Hall

198. Barbara Tversky (cognitive psychologist) – World makes mind

Y'all're a torso in the globe. From the moment yous're born, from that very first gasp of air, you're taking in sensations, trying to get a handle on things and the relationships betwixt them. There'due south a lot of things to get a handle on. Also many. Then your brain needs to simplify. It makes boxes for objects, maps them onto grids to track their motion. Through this process, the physical earth enters your mind. It makes your mind. And that's where things start to get really interesting. My invitee today is cognitive psychologist Barbara Tversky. Her new book MIND IN Motility: How Action Shapes Idea, upends everything most of us think we know about thinking. Tversky's first law of cognition is that in that location are no benefits without costs. We simplify the physical world—reduce it to lines and boxes. Nosotros build abstruse thought—everything from Shakespeare to string theory to how to pattern a pair of sneakers—on superlative of that same flawed foundation. And that explains all of our superpowers and all of our blind spots. Surprise conversation starters in this episode: Philosopher Alva Noe on the puzzle of perception Larn more about your advertising choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

1hr 3mins

8 Jun 2019

Rank # sixteen

Barbara Tversky

135. Niall Ferguson (historian) – The Ghost of Future Past

Every fourth dimension he sees a triangle these days, my ten-year-quondam son points and says "Gasp! the illuminati!" This is a meme he and all his friends absorbed from YouTube.   Information technology's interesting that several centuries afterward the Illuminati first appeared, as basically a idealistic secret boys' society, followed by the Freemasons, these kinds of shadowy organizations still exert and then much power on our imaginations. That'southward because power doesn't always come up in the shape of Queens, Presidents, CEOs or Members of Parliament. Often it exists in the more or less invisible relationships between people. My guest today is renowned historian Niall Ferguson. His new volume The Square and the Tower: Networks and Hierarchies, from the Freemasons to Facebook looks at the ii ancient power structures that continue to move the world today. Surprise chat-starter clips in this episode: Derek Thompson on why successful people don't try highly-seasoned to everyone's tastes Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

45mins

17 Feb 2018

Rank # 17

Niall Ferguson

63. Eric Kandel (Nobel Laureate neuroscientist) - The Eye of the Beholder

Since 2008, Big Think has been sharing large ideas from creative and curious minds. The Remember Again podcast takes u.s.a. out of our comfort zone, surprising our guests and Jason Gots, your host, with unexpected chat starters from Big Think'south interview archives. On this week'southward episode: Professor Eric Kandel of Columbia University and host Jason Gotsdiscuss abstract art, memory, identity, and the nature of evil. When he was 9 years old, Eric Kandel listened on a brusque-wave radio his blood brother had made as Hitler marched into Kandel's hometown of Vienna, Austria. The next day, a non-Jewish classmate told him "Kandel, I'one thousand never to speak to you again." In the twelvemonth 2000, He won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for pioneering work on understanding how memory is stored in the brain by studying a item blazon of ocean snail with a relatively simple nervous organization. In his recent books, he'south been pioneering in a dissimilar way––trying to span the gap betwixt the "two cultures" of the sciences and the humanities. His current volume Reductionism in Fine art and Brain Science continues this essential work by looking at the ways both mod art and science "reduce" complex phenomena down to their component parts to reach new insights and furnishings.Surprise "conversation starter" interview clips in this episode:Janna Levin, Susan David, George Musser Learn more near your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

41mins

10 Sep 2016

Rank # 18

Eric Kandel

55. Mary Roach (Scientific discipline Writer) – To Nietszche His Own

Sex toy book parties! Penis transplants! Decomposition labs! These are simply a few of the places the intrepid, New York Times bestselling author Mary Roach takes us in hilarious, curiosity-driven books similar Bonk:: The Curious Scientific discipline of Sexual activity and her latest, Grunt: The Curious Scientific discipline of Humans at War. It's some of the best, most engaging science writing out there. On this calendar week'southward episode of Think Once again–a Large Recall Podcast, Mary and host Jason Gots discuss some of the above, then enter more the more abstract territory of dark matter, Nietzche's atheism, and emotional connection with bogus intelligence. Information technology'southward a weird and wonderful talk chance. Surprise give-and-take clips in this episode: Philosopher Simon Critchley on Nietzsche, Physicist Lisa Randall on Dark Matter, Sherry Turkle on Emotions and AI Acquire more almost your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

36mins

16 Jul 2016

Rank # 19

Mary Roach

4. Beak Nye (Science Guy) – Geek Chic/TMI/Future Money

Was Einstein a fashion genius? Why is Malcolm Gladwell unimpressed by search engines? What will coin look similar in 500 years?In this week'southward episode of Large Remember's Think Again podcast, host Jason Gots is joined by beloved actor/educator Bill Nye, host of the "Tuesdays With Bill" serial on Big Think.Big Recall interview clips from Simon Doonan, Malcolm Gladwell, and Kabir Sehgal launch Beak and host Jason Gots on a spirited discussion that spans continents and centuries.And Pecker Nye commits, on record, to wearing a matching bow tie and kilt. Larn more about your advertizement choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

32mins

xi Jul 2015

Rank # 20

Nib Nye

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