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How to Age UpBest of “How To”: Spend Time on What You ValueThis new season of How To is a collection of our favorite episodes from past seasons—a best-of series focused on slowing down, making space, and finding meaning in our hectic lives. This first episode, from our third season called How to Build a Happy Life, features the Harvard Business School professor Ashley Whillans in conversation with host Arthur Brooks. The two explore how to think differently about the time you crave and the time you actually have. Write to us at howtopodcast@theatlantic.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm...2024-11-2534 min
La philanthropie en question(s)(23) Inciter les riches et puissants à donner - Kessler, Milkman & ZhangLes donateurs dits "riches" et "puissants" réagissent-ils différemment que les autres quand on leur donne l’impression qu’ils peuvent choisir à quoi sera affecté leur don ?
Dans cet épisode, Arthur Gautier, professeur et directeur exécutif de la Chaire Philanthropie de l'ESSEC, présente une étude de Judd Kessler, Katherine Milkman et Yiwei Zhang publiée en 2019 dans la revue Management Science. Cette étude expérimentale de terrain cherche à voir si un mailing donnant l’impression de pouvoir flécher son don est plus efficace, en termes de collecte, qu’un même mailing sans p...2023-06-2812 min
How to Age UpHow to Spend Time on What You ValueWe try to use our time wisely—both at work and in leisure—but we often waste it. We may blame work for stripping us of recreation, but when valuable free time comes around, we can often revert back to more work.What explains the gap between how we use our time and how we want to use our time? A conversation with Harvard Business School professor Ashley Whillans helps us analyze our complex relationship with time and how to orient our time use around what we value. This episode was produced by Rebecca Rashid and i...2022-10-2434 min
Mcast (English)Arthur C. Clarke - Mysterious World - The Missing ApemanThis episode is divided equally between considering evidence for the Bigfoot and Yeti. Interviewees for the segment on the Yeti include Don Whillans, Lord Hunt and Eric Shipton. Lengthy consideration is given to the Patterson-Gimlin film, and interviewees include Grover Krantz - who demonstrates several casts of alleged Bigfoot tracks that he feels bolsters his belief that the creature represents a relative of Gigantopithecus.
Clarke concludes that, although Russian scientists who studied the Patterson-Gimlin film declared the stride to be 'quite inhuman', special effects used in the 1968 movie "2001: A Space Odyssey" showed that it is possible to create very convincing...2013-08-2923 min