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Why We Love Novelty & Change

January 30, 2012

 

Interview with Winifred Gallagher, author of the book New: Understanding Our Need for Novelty and Change

 

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Mike Carruthers:
Unlike any other species on the planet human beings crave novelty and change.

 

Winifred Gallagher:
We are natures novelty specialists who are primed both biologically and psychologically to engage with the new and different and to adjust to change.
 
Winifred Gallagher

What You Didn't Know About The Sun

September, 27, 2011

 

Interview with Richard Cohen, author of the book Chasing the Sun: The Epic Story of the Star That Gives Us Life

 

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Mike Carruthers:
We’re discovering more and more about the sun, like the surface of the sun – actually there’s no such thing.

 

Richard Cohen:
It doesn’t actually have a surface there’s more gold in the sun than there is anywhere on earth there’s a huge amount. The sun’s core is 27 million degrees Fahrenheit.
 
Richard Cohen

Why Fingers Wrinkle When They Get Wet

August 16, 2011

 

Interview with Mark Changizi, author of the book Harnessed: How Language and Music Mimicked Nature and Transformed Ape to Man

 

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Mike Carruthers:
Humans have excellent color vision and it’s long been thought we have that to help us find food in the wild in order to survive.

 

Mark Changizi:
And I was able to provide evidence that “no” your color vision is in fact really peculiar and it’s turned out to be optimized for seeing blood in the skin.
 
Mark Changizi

Weird Things That Don't Make Sense

August 5, 2011

 

Interview with Michael Brooks, author of the book 13 things that don't make sense

 

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Mike Carruthers:
Might it just be that we have received communication from aliens? You see there was a signal...

 

Michael Brooks:
This was a signal that was received by a telescope in Ohio in 1977 and it looks exactly like a signal that we were expecting from aliens.
 
Michael Brooks

Why Expert Predictions Are Usually Wrong - Part 2

March 22, 2011

 

Interview with Dan Gardner, author of the book Future Babble: Why Expert Predictions Are Next to Worthless, and You Can Do Better

 

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Mike Carruthers:
For years the talking heads on TV have been predicting the future of politics, the stock market and world events and up till now they’ve mostly been wrong.

 

Dan Gardner:
And so the question then is, “Well if the experts were failing to predict the future in the past are they any better now?”  And I think the answer is no.
 
Dan Gardner

Why Expert Predictions Are Usually Wrong

March 21, 2011

 

Interview with Dan Gardner, author of the book Future Babble: Why Expert Predictions Are Next to Worthless, and You Can Do Better

 

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Mike Carruthers:
When you watch television, news and business shows there’s no shortage of experts predicting the future of politics, world events and the stock market. Are they accurate?

 

Dan Gardner:
What you need of course to access expert prediction accuracy is a proper experiment unfortunately that experiment has been done.
 
Dan Gardner

News From The Future

February 24, 2011

 

Interview with Mark Stevenson, author of the book An Optimist's Tour of the Future: One Curious Man Sets Out to Answer

 

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Mike Carruthers:
Have you heard of something called bacterial fuels? Someone is actually doing this.

 

Mark Stevenson:
They’re making gasoline by putting carbon dioxide into a bacteria, the bacteria eats the carbon dioxide and it excretes gasoline. It’s not science fiction this is happening right now. 
 
Mark Stevenson

Fascinating New Theory About The Universe

 

February 23, 2011

 

Interview with Brian Greene, author of the book The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos

 

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Mike Carruthers:
See if you can get your head around this concept that our universe may not be the only universe.

 

Brain Greene:
We have evidence from mathematical investigations that our reality may be a small part of a much grander whole that itself may contain other universes.
 
Brian Greene

Human Attachement

January 3, 2011

 

Interview with Amir Levine, author of the book Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find—and Keep—Love

 

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Mike Carruthers:
Attachment, connecting with someone seems to be human nature and apparently always has been.

 

Amir Levine:
Because there was a huge advantage throughout evolution to have someone else who really cares about you and your wellbeing was really important to them.

 
Amir Levine

Human Attachement - Part 2

January 4, 2011

 

Interview with Amir Levine, author of the book Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find—and Keep—Love

 

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Mike Carruthers:
The science and psychology of human attachment it’s really remarkable because we’re probably more dependent than we think.

 

Amir Levine:
We’re wired to be dependent on our partners that’s our biology, we can’t help that. But if the dependency is good then actually paradoxically we become more independent. Because we have that feeling of security and we can go out into the world and do more things.
 
Amir Levine


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