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447 – The Convergence: Blockchain, AI, Extended Reality, and IOT are coming together with Alex Tapscott

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Alex is an entrepreneur, business author, and seasoned capital markets professional focused on the impact of emerging technologies, such as […]

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446 – Your Wakeup Call: Life Lessons from FBI Negotiation Trainer and Suicide Prevention Specialist, Dr. Mark Goulston

Dr. Mark Goulston is dying to tell you about what mortality is teaching him. He is a distinguished psychiatrist, a hostage negotiations trainer, and […]

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445 – Bridging the Divide: Using Curiosity as a Solution for Division with Scott Shigeoka

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It’s no secret that division, loneliness, and polarization are on the rise—to catastrophic impact on our personal lives. While we […]

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444 – Reflecting on the Pandemic: What We Learned and What We Didn’t with Joe Nocera

https://www.smartpeoplepodcast.com/episode-player/5845/444-reflecting-on-the-pandemic-what-we-learned-and-what-we-didnt-with-joe-nocera.mp3?updated=1700529959

Why and how did America, in a catastrophically enormous failure, become the world leader in COVID deaths? In this Episode, […]

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443 – The Neuroscience Behind the Power of Emotions with Dr. Julia DiGangi

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You may feel as if you don’t control your emotional energy, that it’s an inevitable consequence of the world around […]

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442 – Life is Hard: How Philosophy Can Help Us Find Our Way with Kieran Setiya

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Kieran Setiya teaches philosophy at MIT, working mainly in ethics, epistemology, and the philosophy of mind. He is an author […]

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441 – Threshold: Terminal Lucidity and the Border Between Life and Death, with Dr. Alexander Batthyany

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Prof. Alexander Batthyány, PhD, holds the Chair of the Research Institute for Theoretical Psychology and Personalist Studies at Pázmány Péter […]

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440 – If we are the only sentient beings, what does that mean for how we live? A manifesto for living with Physicist, Marcelo Gleiser.

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Marcelo Gleiser is a theoretical physicist and public intellectual at Dartmouth College working on basic research ranging from cosmology and […]

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439 – The Perfection Trap – Learning to let go and focus on what matters most with Thomas Curran

https://www.smartpeoplepodcast.com/episode-player/5798/439-the-perfection-trap-learning-to-let-go-and-focus-on-what-matters-most-with-thomas-curran.mp3?updated=1694478858

Thomas Curran is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science at the London School of Economics. […]

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438 – Interstellar: The Search for Extraterrestrial Life and Our Future in the Stars with Harvard Astronomer Avi Loeb

https://www.smartpeoplepodcast.com/episode-player/5789/438-interstellar-the-search-for-extraterrestrial-life-and-our-future-in-the-stars-with-harvard-astronomer-avi-loeb.mp3?updated=1692925171

Avi Loeb, the longest serving Chair of Harvard’s Astronomy Department, presented a theory that shook the scientific community: our solar system, Loeb […]

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