Learn to connect better with others in every area of your life. Immerse yourself in spirited conversations with people who know how hard it is, and yet how good it feels, to really connect with other people – whether it’s one person, an audience or a whole country. You'll know many of the people in these conversations – they are luminaries in our culture. Some you may not know. But what links them all is their powerful ability to relate and communicate. It's something we need now more than ever.
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Kelly and Zach Weinersmith: A Second Home on Mars?
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Should we be planning to establish settlements on the moon and Mars? To many, including a couple of billionaires, the idea has become almost an obsession. An unlikely husband and wife duo has spent years digging deeply into plans to colonize space. Their conclusion: not so fast.Bobi NYC tarafından oluşturuldu
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Rebecca Boyle: Moonstruck
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We exist because of the moon. Rebecca Boyle relates the amazing story of how the moon, born of a cataclysmic collision with an infant earth, has shaped our history, our evolution, and even our very existence.Bobi NYC tarafından oluşturuldu
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Doris Kearns Goodwin: In the Rooms Where it Happened
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Her new book tracks the momentous events of the 1960s when her husband, Dick Goodwin, worked closely with both JFK and LBJ, and Doris worked with LBJ, as the two very different presidents shaped the future.Bobi NYC tarafından oluşturuldu
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Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda - Season 25 trailer
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Alan and Executive Producer Graham Chedd chat about and play excerpts from Alan's conversations with some of the guests in the new season, beginning next week. Guests include newspaper editor Adam Moss; science journalist Rebecca Boyle; and writers Kelly and Zach Weinersmith.Bobi NYC tarafından oluşturuldu
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Stephen Dubner: Feynman on Our Mind
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Stephen Dubner, host of Freakonomics Radio, has long been fascinated by the great physicist Richard Feynman. As has Alan. Stephen has devoted a year to making a remarkable podcast series on Feynman, and Alan has played Feynman on the stage for a year. They compare notes on what they’ve come to learn about him.…
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Remembering Frans de Waal
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In this special episode of Clear and Vivid we reflect on Frans’ life-long commitment to revealing how much we humans have in common with our primate cousins.Bobi NYC tarafından oluşturuldu
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Justice Stephen Breyer: Understanding What They Meant
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When interpreting the Constitution, the dangers of relying solely on the words and what they meant at the time, without taking into account the purpose and values expressed in those words.Bobi NYC tarafından oluşturuldu
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Shohini Ghose: Women’s Time and Space
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A leading physicist herself, Shohini Ghose has wonderful stories about the trials and triumphs of the many mostly unsung women whose work helped open up the universe.Bobi NYC tarafından oluşturuldu
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Tali Sharot: Take Another Look
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We can get used to things to the point where even something we once thought wonderful can lose its luster. More sinister, we can also get used to the drip, drip of falsehoods till we become dulled to their danger. How to overcome habituation, and even take advantage of it.Bobi NYC tarafından oluşturuldu
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Keith Houston: There’s More to Writing Than Words.
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The intriguing stories behind the often weird and baffling origins of punctuation and other symbols we use to communicate. And it’s not just commas, colons and periods. There are pilcrows, octothorps, interrobangs and a whole menagerie more.Bobi NYC tarafından oluşturuldu
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Terry Greiss: Acting to Connect
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The Irondale Ensemble Project, a theater company rooted in improvisation, created a program to help police and community build trust and mutual understanding through theater games.Bobi NYC tarafından oluşturuldu
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Robert Sapolsky: You Have No Choice
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You may think you were free to choose that chocolate ice cream over the vanilla. But maybe the choice was made for you before you were even born – that the free will you believe you are exercising in your everyday decisions is an illusion.Bobi NYC tarafından oluşturuldu
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Tom Hanks: Making a Book About Making a Movie
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And what a book it is, a rich sprawling novel called The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece, which Tom himself describes as a “primer on the long slog of bringing an idea from somebody’s head to a theater near you.”Bobi NYC tarafından oluşturuldu
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