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Jim talks with Lorraine Besser about the ideas in her book The Art of the Interesting: What We Miss in the Pursuit of the Good Life and How to Cultivate It. They discuss the turning point in Lorraine's life that inspired the book, the meaning of the good life, pleasure vs eudaimonia, Stoicism & Epicureanism, unstructured cognitive engagement, the interesting, Seinfeld's relationship to happiness, problems with the pursuit of pleasure & meaning, the arrival fallacy, saints vs human beings, psychological richness, pursuit mode, Neal Cassady of the Beats, high dimensionality, the show Somebody Somewhere, tips for developing an interesting mindset, how much to go into the danger zone, the value of friendship, interesting vs moral, and much more.
The Art of the Interesting: What We Miss in the Pursuit of the Good Life and How to Cultivate It, by Lorraine Besser
JRS EP 130 - Ken Stanley on Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned
Visions of Cody, by Jack Kerouac
The First Third, by Neal Cassady
JRS EP 269 - Alex Ebert on the War on Genius
The Eudaimonic Ethics: The Philosophy and Psychology of Living Well, by Lorraine Besser
Lorraine Besser, PhD, is a professor of philosophy at Middlebury College, who specializes in the philosophy and psychology of the good life and teaches popular courses for undergraduates on happiness, well-being, and ethics. An internationally recognized scholar, she was a founding investigator on the research team studying psychological richness. She is the author of two academic books (The Philosophy of Happiness: An Interdisciplinary Introduction and Eudaimonic Ethics: The Philosophy and Psychology of Living Well) and dozens of professional journal articles on moral psychology.
Mireia Ginesta y Carmen Alvarez publican con el proyecto ClimaMeter un estudio que analiza las excepcionales condiciones que han producido la DANA de octubre. Raúl Pérez, de CIC Biogune, explica cómo han desarrollado una eficaz herramienta para editar genes basada en CRISPR. LA sucesión de Fibonacci...
On Sunday, more than 50,000 athletes are expected to compete in the New York City Marathon, one of the largest, and most elite marathons in the world. Running a continuous 26.2 miles is a major physical challenge. But what exactly is happening in the body when running such a long distance?Joining guest host Rachel Feltman to answer questions from long-distance runners is Dr. Brandee Waite, Director of UC Davis Health Sports Medicine. Over the past 20 years, Dr. Waite has directed the medical care for multiple marathons and ultra-marathons, and has served as a team physician for USA Track & Field.Transcript for this segment will be available after the show airs on sciencefriday.com.
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A famous fossil formation in the Yixian region of Northeast China has revealed some of the most striking, well-preserved dinosaur remains on record.
Researchers often test experimental pharmaceutical therapies using lab-grown human tissues .
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Dlaczego mamy skłonność do alkoholu i zdecydowanie nie jesteśmy w tym osamotnieni? Kiedy pijaństwo było dobrym rozwiązaniem i dlaczego już nie jest? Oraz jak przeprowadzić w ciągu 30 sekund domowy test pokazujący kondycję fizyczną i neurologiczną.To odcinek z cyklu “Nauka na czasie”, czyli lżejsza wersja naszego podcastu, w której omawiamy dwa wybrane naukowe doniesienia. Cykl ten publikujemy co drugi tydzień, na przemian z dłuższymi odcinkami. Rozważcie wsparcie nas na Patronite - dzięki Waszym wpłatom będziemy mogli utrzymać cotygodniowy rytm ukazywania się nowych odcinków: https://patronite.pl/crazynaukaJeśli wolisz jednorazowo postawić nam kawę, to super. Dzięki! 😊https://buycoffee.to/crazynauka A tu znajdziecie nasze koszulki 😊https://kreatorium.com/pl/c/Crazy-Nauka/109 Zapraszamy do posłuchania naszego podcastu! Przygotowując ten odcinek podcastu, korzystaliśmy z wielu źródeł. Linki do badań, omówień i dodatków:Alkohol:https://www.cell.com/trends/ecology-evolution/fulltext/S0169-5347(24)00240-4 https://kosmos.ptpk.org/index.php/Kosmos/article/view/964/947 https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2410874121 https://popchemat.pl/drozdze-i-ich-metabolity-w-procesie-fermentacji-alkoholowej/ https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0008993https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diagnostics/22689-blood-alcohol-content-bac Test zdrowia:https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0310764https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9103052/https://ojs.lib.uwo.ca/index.php/wurjhns/article/view/15361/12838https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19839175/https://www.sralab.org/rehabilitation-measures/single-leg-stance-or-one-legged-stance-testhttps://agsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/j.1532-5415.1997.tb01479.x
It's Election Day in the United State so we examine why it falls on a Tuesday in November, plus a potential step forward in predicting volcanic activity, and on 'This Day in History', Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot leading to a seemingly ubiquitous mask today.Sponsored By Acorns - Head to at acorns.com/cool or download the Acorns app to start saving and investing for your future today!Why Is Election Day a Tuesday in November?New trigger proposed for record-smashing 2022 Tonga eruption | ScienceDailySomething Weird Happened 15 Minutes Before the Giant Tonga Eruption of 2022 (gizmodo.com)The Man Behind the Mask - Guy FawkesContact the show - coolstuffcommute@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
O kolik let si tím dokážou prodloužit období plodnosti? - Zlínská univerzita jako první v Česku otevře specializační magisterský program pro všeobecné sestry zaměřený na domácí a hospicovou péči - co vše zahrnuje - Jak se zkoumají emoce ve vesmíru a co by se dalo z takového výzkumu přenést do pozemské praxe? Moderuje Renata Kropáčková.Všechno z tématu Věda můžete pohodlně poslouchat v mobilní aplikaci mujRozhlas pro Android a iOS nebo na webu mujRozhlas.cz.
Czy zmiany w społeczeństwie wywołane przez rozmaite nowe technologie wpłyną na nasz rozwój? Czy społeczeństwo ugina się pod naciskiem Sztucznej Inteligencji? W rozmowie z dr Adą Florentyną Pawlak szukamy odpowiedzi
How can everyday people help foster and protect democracy? Detailing her work fighting for people power as an activist in Madagascar, Ketakandriana Rafitoson discusses how citizen assemblies — meetings where ordinary citizens get educated about democracy — empower communities to protect their rights, debate important civic questions and take action to create a brighter future.
How can everyday people help foster and protect democracy? Detailing her work fighting for people power as an activist in Madagascar, Ketakandriana Rafitoson discusses how citizen assemblies — meetings where ordinary citizens get educated about democracy — empower communities to protect their rights, debate important civic questions and take action to create a brighter future.
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