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Sex in 3 places: Your brain, your bedroom, and in society
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25 min
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with
Helen Fisher
A melting yellow smiley face on a black background.
Happiness poison—and the antidote
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15 min
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with
Robert Waldinger
A woman holding up a picture of a smiling mouth.
Give up on happiness. Go hard at wonder.
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6 min
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with
Monica Parker
Mcdonald's mcdonald's mcdonald's mcdonald.
Gary Vee: Rules of billion-dollar brands
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7 min
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with
Gary Vaynerchuk
A blurry image of a man's head.
3 ways to defend your mind against social media distortions
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16 min
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with
Luke Burgis
A close up of a man with curly hair.
Master your anxiety to unleash your genius, with Jesse Eisenberg
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9 min
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with
Jesse Eisenberg
The cover of colorblind philosophy.
Is race politics poisoning young minds? Coleman Hughes offers his argument.
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37 min
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with
Coleman Hughes
Barbed wire with the word free speech on it.
Building a free speech culture with Greg Lukianoff
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32 min
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with
Greg Lukianoff
The ceo playbook on a blue background.
The CEO playbook: 3 critical tips from 1,000 interviews
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5 min
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with
Adam Bryant
The u s vs itself.
10 biggest world threats of 2024, ranked
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34 min
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with
Ian Bremmer
The future with rays of light in the background.
Debunking doomerism: 4 futurists on why we’re actually not f*cked
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30 min
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with
Kevin Kelly
A man is walking towards a crate with the number 60 on it.
You probably won’t retire when your parents did—here’s why that’s not all bad news
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7 min
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with
Lynda Gratton
Employees over customers.
Work culture in the U.S. is broken. It’s on employers to fix it.
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6 min
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with
Tiffani Bova
Two men in suits standing next to each other, discussing fraud.
Fraud abounds — meet the three kinds of people stealing your money
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8 min
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with
Kelly Richmond Pope
President Barack Obama delivers a persuasive speech from a podium.
The psychology of persuasion, as told by an Ivy League professor
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6 min
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with
Jonah Berger
A man and woman standing at a podium in front of an american flag.
How productive arguments can bring us closer together
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11 min
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with
Bo Seo
A window that says fail better on a yellow background.
It doesn’t matter if you fail. It matters how you fail. 
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7 min
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with
Amy Edmondson
A yellow and black snake with a black background.
Why the wrong people end up in power
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11 min
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with
Brian Klaas
The black holes logo with a starry background.
Einstein, Hawking, and the conceptual problem of black holes
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13 min
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with
Brian Cox
A coffee mug with the words world's best boss on it.
Adam Grant’s #1 phrase to unlock potential
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8 min
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with
Adam Grant
A silhouette of a boy jumping into the water.
What the sexual revolution has done to modern families
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13 min
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with
Richard Reeves
The burnout antidote on a yellow background.
The #1 cause of burnout is not what you think 
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6 min
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with
Liz Wiseman
A man in a tie and suspends holding a crate.
How to deal with Debbie in HR — and other terrible coworkers
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6 min
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with
Amy Gallo
A man in a blue shirt with his hands outstretched.
A Harvard career coach’s “unspoken rules” for getting promoted
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6 min
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with
Gorick Ng
The Roman Empire in 40 minutes, with Cambridge scholar Mary Beard 
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40 min
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with
Mary Beard
The words uber innovation on a black background.
Failure is the key to “ultimate success”
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9 min
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with
Emil Michael
A man in a suit and tie is pointing to a quantum computer.
Quantum computing is the next revolution
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11 min
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with
Michio Kaku
An image of a face with a blurred background.
Argue smarter, not harder, with Harvard’s former debate coach Bo Seo
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1:13:43 min
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with
Bo Seo
A man's hand holding a pair of dumbbells on a black background.
The #1 way to strengthen your mind is to use your body
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with
Wendy Suzuki
a green bitcoin logo on a black background.
Kevin O’Leary: I invested in FTX. Here’s the big problem with crypto.
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7 min
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with
Kevin O’Leary
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