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

Today, we’re going to hear some big ideas from the 2022 book Speaking in Thumbs: A Psychiatrist Decodes Your Relationship Texts So You Don't Have To by Mimi Winsberg. And if you're nursing a broken heart this Valentine's Day, stay tuned. In the second half of the show, we’re brin ...  Show more

Tom Bellamy's new book, Smitten: Romantic Obsession, the Neuroscience of Limerence, and How to Make Love Last, is out now. 

Amanda Montell is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality, as well as Cultish: ...

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

Why does time fly when you’re having fun – and slow to a crawl when you’re not? Ruth Ogden, PhD, talks about how our experiences and emotions influence our sense of time, why time seems to go by faster as we get older, why changing to daylight saving time feels so disruptive and ...  Show more