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The Really Big Questions
by SoundVision Productions
The Really Big Questions is where scientists, thinkers and people who are generally curious about the world come together to talk about what it means to be human.
Episodes
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TRBQ Podcast #5 — Death in Seattle
Americans don’t seem to have much trouble with violent death at the movies. But real death is a different story. Slow, lingering death from old age, funerals, embalming, cremation – these are not really dinner table conversation. A group called The Order of the Good Death is trying to change…
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TRBQ Podcast #4 — Sharing with strangers
Why do people share? In this episode we hear from Yochai Benkler about his research into people who write Wikipedia articles, and we meet Sam Harnett who moonlights giving people rides — and recording their stories. Download audio Any given day, in any given place, someone is giving away…
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TRBQ Podcast #3 — The joy is in the giving
Money can make you happy. Especially if you give it to someone else. A growing body of research shows that giving money to other people is more likely to make you happy than keeping the money. In this episode, Michael Norton from the Harvard Business School tells Dean about his fascinating…
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TRBQ Podcast #2 — Love in Shanghai
TRBQ pays a visit to the marriage market in Shanghai to talk with parents who are looking for mates for their adult children, and host Dean Olsher talks with scientists about brain scans of people who are in love. The question is, does “love” mean the same thing in different cultures? And it...
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TRBQ Podcast #1 — The science of love
We look at brain scans of people who are madly in love. We talk with the neuroscientists who did the scans. And we talk with writer A.J. Jacobs, who compares his love for his wife to a ride on a Segway. Download audio Researchers discover romantic love Head to your local university library, and...
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The Really Big Questions is where scientists, thinkers and people who are generally curious about the world come together to talk about what it means to be human.
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