Pseudoscience: Stories about scientific misinformation

Pseudoscience: Stories about scientific misin...

Suivant

Don't Be Dramatic: Stories about downplaying it

In this week’s episode, both of our storytellers look back on moments that might have deserved a little more drama than they got at the time.Part 1: When Jess Nurse feels a throbbing pain in her gut, she chalks it up to heartbreak. Part 2: When Maryam Zaringhalam’s physician moth ...  Afficher plus

Coasting: Stories about having it easy

In this week’s episode, both of our storytellers reckon with what happens when success doesn’t come so easily anymore.Part 1: After years of academic achievement, newly minted professor Stephanie Rowley is caught off guard when every paper she submits is rejected. Part 2: Growing ...  Afficher plus

Épisodes Recommandés

FROM IIT TO IMDb ft. Amol Parashar | Cyrus Says
Cyrus Says

In this episode of Cyrus Says, actor and IIT graduate Amol Parashar joins Cyrus for a wide-ranging conversation that’s equal parts funny, insightful, and unexpected. The two dive into the everyday madness of parking in Mumbai, before getting into a bizarre but hilarious crooked f ...  Afficher plus

The Life Scientific: Kip Thorne
Discovery

Kip Thorne is an emeritus professor of theoretical physics at Caltech, the California Institute of Technology, and someone who has had a huge impact on our understanding of Einsteinian gravity. Over the course of his career Kip has broken new ground in the study of black holes, a ...  Afficher plus

Joseph Cone, "Seeing Opera Anew: A Cultural and Biological Perspective" (Routledge, 2023)
New Books in Anthropology

What people ultimately want from music-drama, audience research suggests, is to be absorbed in a story that engages their feelings, even moves them deeply, and that may lead them to insights about life and, perhaps, themselves. Joseph Cone's Seeing Opera Anew: A Cultural and Biol ...  Afficher plus

#1263 - An Untold Story of Akbar, Birbal & Tansen
The Sadhguru Podcast - Of Mystics and Mistakes

Sadhguru narrates the story of Tansen – the finest musician in Akbar’s court – and two remarkably talented young musicians who did not give into Akbar’s request to sing in his court, but instead gave up their lives. He also speaks about how sound and music could be used to access ...  Afficher plus