Life Examined KCRW
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KCRW's Life Examined is a one-hour weekly show exploring science, philosophy, faith — and finding meaning in the modern world. The show is hosted by Jonathan Bastian. Please tune in Sundays at 9 a.m., or find it as a podcast.
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Uprooted: Climate migration and scientist activism
Journalist Abraham Lustgarten and scientist-turned-activist Rose Abramoff discuss the impacts of climate research on human migratory patterns and activism.
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KCRW’s “How’s Your Sex Life” discusses falling in love and falling apart with Jonathan Bastian
KCRW Life Examined host Jonathan Bastian makes a guest appearance on KCRW’s How’s Your Sex Life, and talks about his insights on relationships, divorce and heartbreak.
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Midweek Reset: Scott Galloway on Blessings
This week, Scott Galloway NYU professor, podcaster and author of “ The Algebra of Wealth: A Simple Formula for Financial Security,” reflects on life’s blessings. Galloway says he’s grateful for the many successes in his life, which he attributes not to hard work but to the people, time and circumstances that made them possible. His message to others who share his good fortune, "don't hoard wealth,” spend it on time and experiences with your friends and your family.
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Border Crossings: Navigating identity, language, and belonging
After years of working at the intersection of immigration and education, journalist Lauren Markham offers a different approach to writing about immigration that may lead to greater understanding. In her book A Map of Future Ruins: On Borders and Belonging , Markham talks about challenging narratives and stories, looking at our own history, and asking what it means to belong to a place.
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Midweek Reset: Michael Pollan on psychedelics
This week, renowned writer and author Michael Pollan on the new science of psychedelics. Pollan describes how new treatments using psilocybin can open pathways in our minds and when used with supervision, have been successful in treating depression, anxiety and addiction.
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Michael Pollan’s long and strange trip: shifting perspectives on food and psychedelics
Renowned writer and author Michael Pollan delves into his three-decade odyssey exploring America's food systems. With six bestselling books to his name, Pollan's pioneering inquiries have raised the fundamental question: ‘What’s in our food, and where it comes from?’ Pollan also explores plants that influence our consciousness, citing caffeine as a prime example.
Customer Reviews
Heartbreak and divorce
I’m listening to the guy who is saying, it was a bunch of little things that led to the divorce, I wonder if his wife would say the same thing. I do congratulate him on his self reflective and admitting that he was the one in the relationship that was not caring for his wife as much as he should. I can relate with the wife.
I really appreciate his example about the glass of water being on the counter. In my situation during a 26 year marriage, it was shoes not being taken off when walking into our home. I asked my then husband if he could please take his outside shoes off and haga e him a thorough explanation as to why I prefer for us to take off our outside shoes when we come home. Well, he told me, I’ll take them off in the bedroom, I explained to him that means that you are tracking the grime and dirt into our living room, kitchen, maybe bathroom. Him never, ever asking me how important this was to me, told me he really didn’t care what I thought, therefore he didn’t care about me.
Some people make think this is trivial. To me it was not, when we had a baby crawling on the floor and I cleaned the floor and vacuumed, because I stayed home with our daughter.
Thank you for the show!
Great show
Appreciate the thoughtful conversations.
Why not push Sapolsky on obesity?
If obesity is genetic, why were there so many fewer morbidly obese Americans 50 years ago? Why do I suddenly see so many people over 300 pounds? Genetics is not a valid scientific conclusion here.
People eat too much and the food is bad quality. They are sedentary due to tech. Yes, this might trigger a genetic predisposition, but it can not be solely blamed on genetics.