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The evolutionary origins of a good society

This episode is with Nicholas Christakis. He is the Sterling Professor of Social and Natural Science at Yale University, where he directs the Human Nature Lab. He is also the Co-Director of the Yale Institute for Network Science. His research focuses on social networks and the socioeconomic, biosocial, and evolutionary determinants of behavior, health, and longevity. Here we talk about nature nurture, The social suite which includes eight core properties of any good society, The forbidden experiment in sociology, and morality.

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can language describe reality?

This episode is with Nick Enfield. He is a Professor of Linguistics at the University of Sydney. Nick's research on language, culture, cognition and social life is based on long term field work in mainland Southeast Asia, especially Laos. His books include Natural Causes of Language, Distributed Agency, and How We Talk. His latest book is 'Language vs Reality: Why language is good for lawyers and bad for scientists'. In this conversation we talk about evolution of language and How well it can describe reality?, Can language nudge our thoughts?, Math as a language, evolution of human reason and rationality.

Biology. Psychology. 2022/10/01

This episode is with Nick Enfield. In this conversation we talk about evolution of language and How well it can describe reality?, Can language nudge our thoughts?, Maths as a language, evolution of rationality.

Biology. Psychology. 2022/06/04

This episode is with Hakwan Lau, author of In Consciousness we Trust. Here we talk about current theories of consciousness, neural correlates, methods to study consciousness, and Perceptual reality monitoring theory.

Biology. Psychology. 2022/04/22

This is a conversation with Matthew Cobb. Here we talk about contribution of philosophy and psychology in understanding brain, modeling of a brain, importance of connectomes, understanding consciousness and future of neuroscience.

This is a conversation with Dr. Anna Lembke. In this conversation we talk about what is addiction, how to detect addiction, role of dopamine in addiction, pleasure-pain balance, tools to avoid and conquer addictions and societal role to fight addiction.

Biology. Psychology. Health. 22/02/12

Psychology. 2021/11/26

This is a conversation with Nancy Segal. In this discussion we talk about nature-nurture debate why study twins?, lessons from twin studies, what factors shape our behavior, and major questions today for the understanding of nature-nurture.

Psychology. 2021/11/13

This is the conversation with Nancy Etcoff. The event was a part of a fundraising event for Panashi Foundation. In this conversation we talk about why we find something beautiful, what is beauty, biases toward beauty and if it leads to happiness.

Biology. Psychology. 2022/05/28

This is a conversation with Dean Burnett. In this conversation we talk about Evolution of the brain, motion sickness, sleep disorders, Egotistic nature of the brains, attention, personalities, and mental illness.

Biology. Psychology. 2022/04/20

This is a conversation with Robert Plomin. Here we talk about nature-nurture debate, Twin and adoption studies, role of genetics and environment in shaping human behavior, and importance of chance in the life.

Biology. Psychology. 2021/12/04

This conversation is with Richard Nisbett. In this conversation we discuss about his work in social psychology, reward system in the society, rationality, free will and measure of IQ in different cultures.

Psychology. Philosophy. 2021/11/12

This conversation is with Andy Norman. Here we discuss how science and evidence-based reasoning relate to faith and religion, and what practical steps individuals can take to boost their mental immune systems.

Biology. Psychology. 2023/06/30

This episode is with John Bargh. IIn this conversation we talk about unconscious mind, priming effects, evolution of consciousness, unconscious biases, and can we train our unconscious?  

Biology. Psychology. 2023/06/04

This episode is with Robert Aumann. In this conversation we talk about the topics related to his scientific journey including game theory, Nash equilibrium, and future directions of game theory.

Biology. Psychology. 2023/02/26

This episode is with Nicholas Christakis. Here we talk about nature nurture, The social suite which includes eight core properties of any good society, The forbidden experiment in sociology, and morality.

Biology. Psychology. 2021/11/18

This is a conversation with Gina Rippon. In this discussion we talk about her career as scientist, her work on sex differences and her views on women in society and STEM.

Biology. Psychology. Philosophy. 2021/11/17

This conversation is with Mark Solms. Here we discuss about Mark's work on sleep, dreaming, what is consciousness, consciousness through evolution, how psychoanalysis can be helpful to understand consciousness and can we create consciousness?

Psychology. 2021/11/05

This is a conversation with Gale Sinatra. Here we talk about role of algorithms in knowledge transfer, role of culture and religion in science denial, why it is important to be skeptic and action plan to rectify science denial.

Psychology. Philosophy. 2021/10/29

This conversation is with Lee McIntyre. In this conversation we talk about what is science, importance of scientific method, science deniers, flat earthers, Anti-Vaxx, GMO deniers and climate change deniers.

Biology. Psychology. Philosophy. 2021/09/19

This conversation is with Desmond Morris, a renowned zoologist, surrealist painter, writer and a TV presenter from UK. In this discussion we talk about his early life, his interest in zoology and surrealism, Human tribalism, gender roles in human society and what is the secret of a long life.