Are We Living in an Age of Magical Overthinki...

What happens when you let AI run your life—your work, your parenting, even your health? NBC News chief tech analyst Joanna Stern did exactly that for a year, and she’s here with big ideas from I Am Not a Robot: My Year Using AI to Do (Almost) Everything about how to use these too ...  Show more

What if “getting older” didn’t have to mean managing decline? Today, Michael Clinton explores the new landscape of modern longevity—from culture shifts to cutting-edge science—in Longevity Nation: The People, Ideas, and Trends Changing the Second Half of Our Lives. Then we get pr ...  Show more

Amanda Montell is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality, as well as Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism and Wordslut. Amanda is a linguistics major from NYU and all of her work centers around the way that words— ...  Show more

Allison knows something is fundamentally different about her. She looks different and she feels different from the other girls in school. But when her parents refuse to acknowledge just how different she is, it becomes harder and harder for her to reckon with who she is, and who ...  Show more

A quoi sert la philosophie ? Quelle différence avec le développement personnel ? S'applique-t-elle à nous ? En quoi peut-elle nous aider à vivre, concrètement ? Est-elle efficace pour guérir nos souffrances et nos peines ? Pourquoi se pose-t-on en général la question du sens ...

If the algorithm knows what we want before we do… who’s really in charge? This week, host Amanda Montell(@amanda_montell) is joined by linguist, creator, and internet culture observer Adam Aleksic (@etymologynerd) to spiral deep into the invisible yet all powerful force shaping o ...  Show more