
Mental Health
An update on the U.S. Guantanamo Bay detention facility
CAROL ROSENBERG, BENJAMIN WITTES & DAVID FRAKT At least 31 prisoners at the ...
Air Date: April 1, 2013
ListenGuest: Marlene Zuk Have you tried barefoot running, the Caveman Diet or attachment parenting? Taking lessons fr ...
Air Date: April 1, 2013
ListenPsychopaths. They’re often depicted as smooth-talking liars, devoid of guilt and empathy and immune to healthy fears and stress. Many ...
Air Date: March 28, 2013
ListenNew Jersey’s gay conversion therapy ban is up for debate
Guests: BRIGID HARRISON, PETERSON TOSCANO and CLINTON ANDERSON Last week the New Jersey State Senate committee pa ...
Air Date: March 27, 2013
ListenDouglas Rushkoff’s Present Shock
Guest: DOUGLAS RUSHKOFF Do you often feel you aren’t on your game because you’re not hip to the new trend and ...
Air Date: March 27, 2013
ListenAlexandra Horowitz: “On Looking”
Guest: Alexandra Horowitz Take a walk around the block and look around — what do you see? What don’t yo ...
Air Date: March 14, 2013
ListenGuest: DANIEL PINK According to the 2012 Bureau of Labor Statistics, one in nine people work in sales. And the ot ...
Air Date: March 4, 2013
ListenBullying. From the playground to cyberspace, for victims it can be a minefield of teasing, taunting, threatening, shunning, and sometime ...
Air Date: February 22, 2013
ListenAddiction: tightening the gap between research and practice
Are addiction treatment centers prepared to provide the care necessary for sustainable sobriety? And how can we successfully track those ...
Air Date: February 19, 2013
ListenLaughing, sneezing, burping and more: the science of curious behavior
[REBROADCAST] Scientists have sent rovers to Mars and decoded our DNA but they rarely look at the strange assortment of ...
Air Date: February 18, 2013
ListenLearning about love from arranged marriages; then the science behind online dating
Guests: ROBERT EPSTEIN, REVA SETH and BENJAMIN KARNEY The notion of an arranged marriage (by choice) seems odd ...
Air Date: February 14, 2013
ListenSeparating fact from fiction on weight loss and obesity
GUESTS: DAVID SARWER and STELLA VOLPE An article in last week’s issue of ...
Air Date: February 12, 2013
ListenWhen we’re afraid and overwhelmed, it’s easy to turn away from ourselves for comfort. In her new book True Refuge: Finding Peace ...
Air Date: February 11, 2013
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