What You Learn From Losing Everything

Becoming a parent changes your life—but what happens to your brain? Neuroscientist Susana Carmona explores the remarkable transformations of pregnancy and parenthood in A Mother’s Brain: The New Science of the Neuro-Maternal Revolution, and explains why “mommy brain” isn’t quite ...  Show more

Algorithms increasingly shape what we see, think, and value—but who gets to decide how that power is used? In Trias Algorithmica: What Code Rules, AI researcher Hamilton Mann argues that algorithms wield a new kind of societal power, and makes the case for checks to keep it from ...  Show more

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Fire strips everything away, leaving only what truly matters. In the wake of the Los Angel ...

Today’s guest, Amelia Mattingly, went through a gut-wrenching experience that ripped her book collection away from her – shelves and all – along with countless other precious signifiers of home. As a result of this experience, the books she craves are different now, and every boo ...  Show more

In this episode, I share my recent experience of losing my home and three beloved pets to a devastating house fire.

I explore the deep connections between heartbreak and losing everything to destruction.

Join me as I discuss three ways I'm coping with this loss ...