Each week we bring you a new, in-depth exploration of the space where science and society collide. We’re committed to the idea that making an effort to understand the world around you though science and critical thinking can benefit everyone—and lead to better decisions. We want to find out what’s true, what’s left to discover, and why it all matters.
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Donna Karlin and Steve Harper have spent over 15 years percolating about life, business, and the myriad of perspectives we have about ourselves within it all and now we’re inviting you to listen in. Inquiring Minds is about life and the conversations we have to navigate it —Conversations to help us learn, evolve and challenge how we think about ourselves and others so we make better, more informed choices.
Are you so focused on getting that promotion or bonus that it's all about you? What if your impact could make a huge difference in someone else's life, to your team, the planet as a whole? Join Donna and Steve in conversation about finding that WHY. Looking at what has meaning to you but to so many others as well. When we look beyond ourselves, the…
This week we talk to philosopher and animal ethicist David Peña-Guzmán about his new book When Animals Dream: The Hidden World of Animal Consciousness. David explores the idea that there really is a subjective world—a dream world—that lights up when animals sleep, what that actually looks like, and its moral implications. Support the show: https://…
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Perfection is the silent dream stealer!
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f you strive for perfection and are so focused on that end state, it takes all the joy and magic of realizing your dreams. You're so busy beating yourself up that it's not good enough that you can't enjoy the realization of having embarked on achieving that dream. What's standing in your way of going after your dream? Do you feel it might not measu…
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Are you picking your dream or someone else's for you?
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If you're going to be spending most of your waking hours at work, then why not on your dream? When you're doing what you love to do, want to do, and honor that which has the most meaning to you, it's not work at all. It truly is what we call, "Living the dream" Join Donna and Steve in conversation about what that looks like and how you can choose Y…
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When we blame others, we give up our power to change
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If it's someone else's fault, then we don't own our contribution to what happened or desire to change to make things better in some way. Join Steve and Donna in conversation about what happens when it's everyone else's fault and how we can turn it around.Autor: Steve Harper
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Rippling with the incredible Laurie Wagner
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Laurie Wagner is a writing teacher + coach, author of 7 books, mixed-media artist, fervent collage-maker, mother of two, and one-time amateur racquetball champion. She's the author of Living Happily Ever After: Couples Talk about Long Term Love and Expectations: Women Talk about Becoming a Mother, as well as Holding the Dream – The Art of Marlene L…
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Everything starts and ends with our minds; how we think, view the world and ourselves within it.
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We can rationalize what we did or change things for the better. We can strive for more and always measure ourselves against people and status or we can want less and be happier. We can compare ourselves against others or against who we were yesterday and stretch and grow today. Join Donna and Steve in conversation about how we think, what serves us…
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The Science of Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion
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This week we’re joined by podcaster, journalist, and author David McRaney to discuss his latest book How Minds Change: The Surprising Science of Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion. It’s a deep look at what we know about what it takes to change someone’s mind and why it’s more complicated than you might think. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/…
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The language of food, science, and critical thinking with J. Kenji López-Alt
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This week we welcome back James Beard award winning food science writer J. Kenji López-Alt. He talks about growing up around science, studying architecture at MIT, and how, strangely enough, both subjects pertain to cooking. Kenji is the author of the bestselling The Food Lab and the recently released The Wok: Recipes and Techniques. Support the s…
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Do you give yourself permission to do nothing and not feel guilty about it?
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Weekends are your charging stations. Do you disconnect from the chaos of the week so you can replenish? Join Steve and Donna in our conversation about what it means to disconnect and be at peace with not always "being on"Autor: Steve Harper
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Are you focusing on what you lack or what you have?
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Do something you're already successful at and become masterful at it. Join Donna and Steve in conversation about how to achieve mastery, what to focus on and what NOT to focus on.Autor: Steve Harper
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Are you REALLY the smartest person in the room?
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You can believe that or you can approach life from a place of curiosity and inquisitiveness and then ACTUALLY be the smartest person in the room. Join Steve and Donna in conversation about what it looks like when you turn the camera back on yourself and truly look through an honest lens.Autor: Steve Harper
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There is no self-development without self-awareness
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You can read as many books or take as many courses as you want but if you're unable to read yourself, you'll never learn a thing. Join Donna and Steve in conversation about what you really need to look at in order to learn and move forward in your life and your work.Autor: Steve Harper
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Derek Gow Is Turning His Farm Into an Ark for Lost Species
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You might not be aware of it, but the UK is experiencing a wildlife crisis. Ecologist Derek Gow joins us this week to talk about what we ought to do about it and how he’s trying to rewild the country with his farm-turned-wildlife breeding center. Gow wrote the bestselling Bringing Back the Beaver and will soon release his latest book Birds, Beasts …
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Do you act out of obligation or choice?
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Do you act out of obligation because you haven't set boundaries? Have a difficult time communicating no? Do others know that when you say yes, you're doing it by choice and respect the 'Nos' more because of that? Join Donna and Steve in conversation about how we approach life from this viewpoint and, in turn, strengthen relationships at the same ti…
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Wild but Delicate: What Hawks Can Teach Us About Nature, Life, and Love
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On the show this week we’re joined by naturalist, author, and returning guest Sy Montgomery. Throughout her career, Montgomery has repeatedly shown an incredible ability to understand, befriend, and interact with animals. We last heard from her in episode #128 where she talked about her 2016 book The Soul of an Octopus, but she’s written about ever…
Is it to support? Advocate? Demolish someone? Be supportive? How do you want to be seen and heard? Join Donna and Steve in conversation about presence, contribution, point of view and all the other facets of what this question brings to mind.Autor: Steve Harper
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Can Fish Count? What Animals Reveal About Our Uniquely Mathematical Minds
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On the show this week we’re joined by Brian Butterworth, emeritus professor of cognitive neuropsychology and author of the new book Can Fish Count? What Animals Reveal About Our Uniquely Mathematical Minds. He’s spent his career looking at the genetics and neuroscience of mathematical ability—and not just in humans. Support the show: https://www.pa…
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How can you get curious about who you can become?
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What would you like to discover about yourself? Are you pushing yourself to be a certain way, do something you always thought you should be doing? Or are you curious about what you don't know about yourself and set off on a journey to find that out?Autor: Steve Harper
Are you living life looking at what was rather than what is or what can be? So many of us rest on our laurels or lament how things in the past were so much better. Join Donna and Steve in conversation to look at when we do this and how we can (literally) turn it around.
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The Science of Creativity and How It Can Help You
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How do you feel fear and be creative anyway? How is letting your mind wander key to coming up with, and following through on, creative ideas? Returning to the show this week is journalist Matt Richtel, winner of the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for a series on distracted driving, and author of numerous books. His latest book, Inspired…
How do you see the world? The world as a whole and your place within it? Everything is about interpretation. What if things weren't exactly as you initially saw them? If you make decisions, judgments and take actions based on interpretations it can get you and so many others into trouble. Join Steve and Donna in conversation about our viewpoints an…
Are you aware of how much you criticize yourself? Are you placing limitations on what you can do because of that? Or are you embedding an idea in someone else's mind that you're sub-par? Join Donna and Steve in a conversation about how you can be your worst critic and the ramifications of it.
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The Misunderstood Nature of Pain with Haider Warraich
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How do you define how painful something is? On the show this week we welcome back physician, writer, and clinical researcher Haider Warraich to talk about his new book The Song of Our Scars: The Untold Story of Pain. Warraich explores the idea that far from being something objective and easily defined, pain is complex, misunderstood, and culturally…
Is it by the promotion you just got? Size of your bank account? Status? Join Donna and Steve in a conversation about success and all its facets.Autor: Steve Harper
We are encouraged to meditate and find space in our lives to think, but how can we not think, or think of nothing? Is it possible? Join Steve and Donna in conversation about how our minds work and some tips to disconnect at a fundamental level.Autor: Steve Harper
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The Untold Story of the Neuron with Benjamin Ehrlich
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This week we’re joined by Benjamin Ehrlich, author of The Brain in Search of Itself: Santiago Ramón y Cajal and the Story of the Neuron. It’s a book about the discoveries and life of Spanish neuroscientist Santiago Ramón y Cajal, who has been called the ‘father of modern neuroscience.’ While today relatively unknown outside of his field, Cajal’s di…
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You can't outsource personal change and growth.
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How many courses and trainings have you been on? Have you changed anything because of them? Some people are serial course-takers and yet haven't integrated any of the learning into who they are or what they do. How are you integrating change into your life?Autor: Steve Harper
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Hope is not a commitment; it's a caveat!
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When has someone told you, "I hope to be there" and never showed up. That's because hope is a way to hedge your bets or get out of a commitment. What does that do to relationships?Autor: Steve Harper
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Up to Date | Cell Adaptation, Creativity Measurement, and Visual Perception
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This week, we examine a recent discovery that certain types of cancer cells may allow us to better understand how cells adapt to the intracellular environment (and explain what the intracellular environment is). Indre discusses how she and her students have recently been working on methods of measuring creativity. And we look at some new research f…
Your plan is affected by the inclinations, choices and actions of the other player. You must modify constantly But to what end? For you? For the greater good? Somewhere in-between? Join Donna and Steve in conversation about how one has to learn to dance in real time with whatever the moment brings.Autor: Steve Harper
Each has a power or impact all on its own. Listen in with Donna and Steve to when and where either are appropriate and how it can turn confrontational communication into a collaborative one.Autor: Steve Harper
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How to Make Use of Our Limited Time in This Tiny Part of Space with Sean Carroll
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During the pandemic, one thing we’ve had a little more of--at least sometimes--is time. Time to panic and stress and worry, but also time to think and reflect. This week, in the spirit of reflection, we’re revisiting a conversation with theoretical physicist Sean Carroll recorded back in 2016. At the time he had just written a book called The Big P…
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What Might Have Happened If You Made A Different Decision
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Think of a moment when you had to make a tough decision. What might have happened if you made a different decision? What would the consequences have been? Who would you have become as a result? Donna and Steve discuss decision making and, in reflection, what did we learn about ourselves in making them? How can that guide us in making future critica…
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Why You Can’t Know What It’s Like for a Bat to Be a Bat with Jackie Higgins
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We can never know what it’s like for a bat to be a bat. Or even if there is something that it is like for a bat to be a bat. But if there is something, we would speculate that the bat has some kind of consciousness or sentience. That’s the argument Jackie Higgins makes in her new book Sentient: How Animals Illuminate the Wonder of Our Human Senses,…
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If you had to let go of 3 things today, what would they be?
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If you had to let go of 3 things today, what would they be? What would you gain by letting them go? Donna and Steve talk about what we really want to let go of and what that would bring to our lives. #lettinggo #decisions #choices #freeing #coachingtips #inquringmindsAutor: Steve Harper
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Exploring the Extended Mind with Annie Murphy Paul
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One of the fascinating things about neuroscience is that it gives us something tangible to study in the biology of the brain that can tell us something about the mind, which is so intangible. But what if that approach leaves us missing a big piece of the puzzle? What if the mind actually extends far beyond the biology of the body? Today, Indre is j…