WorkLife with Adam Grant Tuesday, April 27, 2021 Adam Grant: [00:00:00] Hey WorkLifers it's Adam Grant. I hope you're enjoying season four today. I want to share a special bonus conversation with Glennon Doyle. She made an appearance in our episode on conflict. She's a writer and activist well known for her wisdom and openness about her struggle...

How to Be a Better Human How to Make Yourself More Human in an Automated World (with Kevin Roose) (Transcript) July 11, 2022 [00:00:00] Robot Chris Duffy: You’re listening to How to Be a Better Human. I’m your host Chris Duffy and today we’re talking about the surprising ways that artificial intelligence and automation will affect both the fut...

WorkLife with Adam Grant Tuesday, July 20, 2021 Ed Pierson: I'd been retired two months when I heard the news and saw the TV news flash. It was a max airplane that crashed in the ocean. It was shocking. And then the second crash occurs. Adam Grant: In October 2018, a new Boeing 737 max plane flying out of Indonesia crashed and killed all pass...

How to Be a Better Human Monday, July 11, 2022 Robot Chris Duffy: You’re listening to How to Be a Better Human. I’m your host Chris Duffy and today we’re talking about the surprising ways that artificial intelligence and automation will affect both the future of our jobs, and our own behavior beyond the workplace. Chris Duffy: Ok hi this is AC...

The Do’s And Don'ts Of Returning To The Office Tuesday, June 7, 2022 Adam Grant: It's been more than two years since offices shut down, many people were sent home, and meetings turned into video calls...And now leaders want people back to the office! But many people have mixed feelings about that. [MUSIC] Thalia: What do I think about going b...

Body Stuff with Dr. Jen Gunter Wednesday, May 26, 2021 Dr. Jen Gunter: When we're kids, we have a beautiful gift. Rosie: Why does poop smell bad? Wylder: Because of its things inside. Rosie: Yeah. Like diseases. Wylder: Diseases. Dr. Jen Gunter: We can talk freely and happily about something we all make, poop. Rosie: I have red poop...

Body Stuff with Dr. Jen Gunter Wednesday, June 2, 2021 Dr. Jen Gunter: Let me take you back in time to 1800’s France. After a luxurious walk along the Seine and a buttery pastry you wander into a bookshop, where you find a new book by Doctor Charles Pierre Louis De Gardanne. It’s called Of Menopause: Or the Critical Age of Women. It’s cutting...

Body Stuff with Dr. Jen Gunter Wednesday, June 15, 2022 Dr. Jen Gunter: When we decided to make an episode about food allergies, one of the producers for Body Stuff, Camille, told me about a story from her childhood. She was 4 years old, and she LOVED going to the grocery store. [00:00:15] Camille Petersen: Well, first there's the fruit and v...

How to Be a Better Human Monday, June 27, 2022 Chris Duffy: You’re listening to How to Be a Better Human. I’m your host Chris Duffy. Today on the show, we’re talking to one of the most famous street artists in the world, J.R. He’s got this iconic look where he always wears dark glasses and a hat so no one knows exactly what he looks like. And...

Re:Thinking with Adam Grant How free solo climber Alex Honnold faces fear Sept 20, 2022 [00:00:00] Adam Grant: Hey everyone it's Adam Grant. Welcome back to ReThinking, my podcast on the science of what makes us tick. I'm an organizational psychologist and I'm taking you inside the minds of fascinating people to explore how they think and what...

Body Stuff with Dr. Jen Gunter Wednesday, June 1, 2022 Dr. Jen Gunter: So you’ve got an itch… and it’s not going away. You think you might have a yeast infection… a vaginal yeast infection. If you go to your local drugstore looking for a treatment, you’ll find all sorts of products… There are wipes doused in aloe. Anesthetic sprays or creams....

Body Stuff with Dr. Jen Gunter Wednesday, May 18, 2022 Dr. Jen Gunter: I’ve heard so many ways that people try to “boost” their metabolism. Drink green tea to boost your metabolism! Eating spicy food to burn calories! Metabolism boosting smoothies…backed by science! Muscle burns more calories so start lifting weights today! If you boost your met...

Monday, November 29, 2021 Mona Chalabi: One winter a couple years ago, some of my cousins came to visit me in New York. I have about 90 cousins, so I’m not going to say anything controversial about favorites, but I’m really close with these two. They’re sisters and I’ll call them Reem and Leila. I decided to introduce them to my boyfriend at ...

WorkLife with Adam Grant Jon Batiste on the art of pushing your limits May 10, 2022 [00:00:00] Adam Grant: Hey WorkLifers, it's Adam Grant. Welcome back to Taken for Granted, my podcast with the TED Audio Collective. I'm an organizational psychologist. My job is to think again about how we work lead and live. Today, I'm talking to musician, Jo...

How to Be a Better Human How to Find the Comedy in A Messed-Up World (with Maeve Higgins) (Transcript) July 4, 2022 [00:00:00] Chris Duffy: You’re listening to How to Be a Better Human. I’m your host Chris Duffy and today on the show we’re talking about comedy and immigration. Now, those are two topics that you probably don't think go together...

Chance plays a far bigger role in life than we're willing to admit, says psychologist Barry Schwartz. Of course, working hard and following the rules can get you far -- but the rest could boil down to simple good fortune. Schwartz examines the overlooked link between luck, merit and success, offering an intriguing solution to equalize opportunit...

"Life comes at us very quickly, and what we need to do is take that amorphous flow of experience and somehow extract meaning from it." In this funny, enlightening talk, educational psychologist Peter Doolittle details the importance -- and limitations -- of your "working memory," that part of the brain that allows us to make sense of what's happ...

After Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico in 2017, chef José Andrés traveled to the devastated island with a simple idea: to feed the hungry. Millions of meals served later, Andrés shares the remarkable story of creating the world's biggest restaurant -- and the awesome power of letting people in need know that somebody cares about them.

William Ury, author of "Getting to Yes," offers an elegant, simple (but not easy) way to create agreement in even the most difficult situations -- from family conflict to, perhaps, the Middle East.

"I dream of a world where geography classes teach about the climate crisis as this one great challenge that was won by people like you and me," says climate activist Luisa Neubauer. With Greta Thunberg, Neubauer helped initiate "Fridays For Future," the momentous international school strike movement that protests the lack of action on the climat...

Beware: Rives has a contagious obsession with 4 a.m. At TED2007, the poet shared what was then a minor fixation with a time that kept popping up everywhere. After the talk, emails starting pouring in with an avalanche of hilarious references—from the cover of "Crochet Today!" magazine to the opening scene of "The Metamorphosis." A lyrical peek i...

Geneticist Steve McCarroll wants to make an atlas of all the cells in the human body so that we can understand in precise detail how specific genes work, especially in the brain. In this fascinating talk, he shares his team's progress -- including their invention of "Drop-seq," a technology that allows scientists to analyze individual cells at a...

How can we unlock the door to our own authentic sexual well-being? Sex educator Emily Nagoski suggests that the key is realizing that we are all normal, whatever our proclivities. In this playful but informative take on sex positivity, she delves into the science of sexuality to demonstrate how we can shed our insecurities and define pleasure on...

You'd never know from her transformation into the death-dealing Arya Stark on "Game of Thrones" that Maisie Williams' childhood dream was to become a professional dancer. In this personal talk, she maps out the winding path that took her from dance lessons and local talent competitions to the world's most popular TV show. The lesson she learned ...

John Maeda, former President of the Rhode Island School of Design, delivers a funny and charming talk that spans a lifetime of work in art, design and technology, concluding with a picture of creative leadership in the future. Watch for demos of Maeda's earliest work -- and even a computer made of people.

We usually wear our thickest armor at work, and Brené Brown has blazed the trail of teaching us why—and how to shed it. In this conversation, Adam and Brené unpack the power of showing vulnerability at work—and explore how much is too much. Learn when and where to set boundaries, find out how to get more comfortable with being uncomfortable, and...