Ep79 - Barbara Sahakian: "Sex, Lies, and Brai...

Jay Foreman and Mark Cooper-Jones, better known as Map Men, are comedians, cartography enthusiasts, YouTube sensations, and educators. With over 100 million views across platforms, they have single-handedly cornered the "pop-geography" market, becoming the saviors of every geogra ...  Show more

Buena Vista Social Club is a Tony Award-winning Broadway musical. Inspired by true events, the musical brings the Grammy award-winning album to life, recounting the story of the legends who lived it. Step into the heart of Cuba, beyond the glitz of the Tropicana, to a place where ...  Show more

Dr. Kevin Volkan is a founding faculty member and Professor of Psychology at California State University Channel Islands, where he researches and teaches courses in psychopathology and atypical behaviors, personality theory, as well as Nazi Germany, and Eastern philosophy. He als ...  Show more

On this episode, J.J. Mull interviews author Hannah Zeavin about her new book, The Distance Cure: A History of Teletherapy (MIT Press, 2021). Among Zeavin’s central interventions in the book is to reframe what is normally understood as the “therapeutic dyad” as always already a t ...  Show more

How do you feel right now? Excited to listen to your favorite podcast? Anxious about the state of American politics? Annoyed by my use of rhetorical questions? These questions seem pretty straightforward. But as my guest today, psychologist Lisa Feldman Barrett, points out there ...  Show more

Technosleep: Frontiers, Fictions, Futures (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023) draws on a variety of substantive examples from science, technology, medicine, literature, and popular culture to highlight how a new technoscientifically mediated and modified phase and form of technosleep is n ...  Show more