Science-based advice columnist and author Amy Alkon and animal behaviorist and author Dr. Jennifer Verdolin lay out science news you can use to solve your relationship problems or just improve your relationships and have a better life. Starting from the evolutionary origins of friendship—”Let’s pair up so we won’t get eaten!”—we go on to explain […]
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Science Meets Ancient Chinese Philosophy, with Dr. Edward Slingerland
On tonight’s show, science gets together with ancient Chinese philosophy, and it likes what it finds. Dr. Edward Slingerland, an internationally renowned Chinese philosophy expert, draws on both cutting-edge science and ancient Chinese strategies to show how our modern Western approach of striving our guts out doesn’t seem to lead to success or happiness. In […]
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Defeat The Mean Girls With Science, with Amy Alkon & Dr. Jennifer Verdolin
Science-based advice columnist and author Amy Alkon and animal behaviorist and author Dr. Jennifer Verdolin lay out science news you can use to solve your relationship problems or just improve your relationships and have a better life. Join us tonight for an enlightening show laying out the science on why Mean Girls are so mean, […]
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Amy Alkon: Low-carb Pioneers Dr. Michael Eades & Dr. Mary Dan Eades
Welcome to Amy Alkon’s HumanLab: The Science Between Us, interviewing the luminaries of behavioral science. Low-carb pioneers Dr. Michael Eades and Dr. Mary Dan Eades are my guests this week. Since the 1980s, they have been behind evidence-based ways to eat, and have helped thousands and thousands of people drop pounds without starving themselves. They […]
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Amy Alkon: Wise Decisions—Dr. Francesca Gino on science-based goal setting & achievement
Welcome to Amy Alkon’s HumanLab: The Science Between Us, interviewing the luminaries of behavioral science. Adorably, we humans see ourselves as rational animals. Research shows us to be anything but. We are swayed in ways we wouldn’t expect in both our decision-making and how well we stick to our plans. The good news is, the […]
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Amy Alkon’s HumanLab: The Science of Successful Negotiating, with Harvard’s Dr. Michael Wheeler
Welcome to Amy Alkon’s HumanLab: The Science Between Us, interviewing the luminaries of behavioral science. There have been two major schools on negotiating—Ury, Fisher and Patton’s “win-win”/”relationships are everything” approach and Roger Cohen’s “nail ’em to the wall” hardball approach. Harvard Business School professor Michael Wheeler finds that these rigid, one-size-fits-all strategies often clash with […]
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Whatever, Mom
27 and counting
At the request of a local Source Weekly reader (and mama-to-be), I’ve compiled my go-to list of motherly tips. “Not parenting clichés,” she specified. “Just simple, meaningful suggestions.” 1.Take it or leave it. It’s the best part about advice. 2. Allow yourself to feel. Elation, anger, heartbreak, confusion—let your feelings happen, but don’t let them […]
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Ask Mrs. Claus
Our expert solves your most troubling holiday gift-giving problems
Dear Mrs. Claus: I give gift certificates. Ten punches at The Yoga Lab. Dessert at Zydeco. $50 for Vanilla. It is a gift that I would like to get, so much more so than an ugly sweater or a sunflower print dress. But giving a gift certificate also seems like I’m not an original or […]