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Reading TogetherEp 14 - A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century - A Book ReviewWe are living through the most prosperous age in all of human history, yet we are listless, divided and miserable. Wealth and comfort are unparalleled, but our political landscape is unmoored, and rates of suicide, loneliness and chronic illness continue to skyrocket. How do we explain the gap between these truths? And how should we respond?
For evolutionary biologists Heather Heying and Bret Weinstein, the cause of our woes is clear: the modern world is out of sync with our ancient brains and bodies. We evolved to live in clans, but today many people don't even know...2022-03-0806 min
Reading TogetherEp 13 - A Serial Killer's Daughter - A Book ReviewIn 2005, Kerri Rawson opened the door of her apartment to greet an FBI agent who shared the shocking news that her father had been arrested for murdering ten people, including two children. That’s also when she first learned that her father was the notorious serial killer known as BTK, a name he’d given himself that described the horrific way he committed his crimes: bind, torture, kill. As news of his capture spread, the city of Wichita celebrated the end of a thirty-one-year nightmare. For Kerri Rawson, another was just beginning.
In the weeks and years that followed, Kerri was...2022-03-0306 min
Reading TogetherEp 12 - The Commonwealth Of Cricket - A Book ReviewWhen Ramachandra Guha began following the game in the early 1960s, India was utterly marginal to the world of cricket: the country still hadn't won a Test match overseas; by the time he joined the Board of Control for Cricket in India, fifty years later, India had become world cricket's sole superpower.
The Commonwealth of Cricket is a first-person account of this astonishing transformation. The book traces the entire arc of cricket in India, across all levels at which the game is played: school, college, club, state, country. It presents vivid portraits of local heroes, provincial icons, and international stars.
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Reading TogetherEP 11 - The Patient Assassin - A Book ReviewThe dramatic true story of a celebrated young survivor of a 1919 British massacre in India, and his ferocious twenty-year campaign of revenge that made him a hero to hundreds of millions—and spawned a classic legend.
When Sir Michael O’Dwyer, the Lieutenant Governor of Punjab, ordered Brigadier General Reginald Dyer to Amritsar, he wanted Dyer to bring the troublesome city to heel. Sir Michael had become increasingly alarmed at the effect Gandhi was having on his province, as well as recent demonstrations, strikes, and shows of Hindu-Muslim unity. All these things, to Sir Michael, were a precursor to a seco...2022-03-0105 min
Reading TogetherEp 10 - How the Buddha was many centuries ahead of particle physics?link to the book
Book recommendation in 100 seconds!
How the Buddha was many centuries ahead of particle physics?
Why there is no “I”?
Why is attachment is at the heart of all suffering?
Find out 'which book' answers these questions in this episode…2021-12-2202 min
Reading TogetherEp 9 - How did LSD and meditation lead to the creation of today’s tech gadgets?link to the book
Book recommendation in 100 seconds!
How did LSD and meditation lead to the creation of today’s tech gadgets?
Why Woody or Buzz Lightyear wouldn’t exist without Steve Jobs?
Why Jobs (tragically) believed he could cure his cancer with acupuncture and eating fruit?
Find out which book answers these questions in this episode…2021-12-2002 min
Reading TogetherEp 8 - How did Xerox play a huge role in the development of the modern computer?link to the book
Book recommendation in 100 seconds!
How did Xerox play a huge role in the development of the modern computer?
How did one Silicon Valley business almost invented the iPhone, ten years before the iPhone?
why Google’s founders never really wanted to start a business?
Find out in this episode...2021-12-1903 min
Reading TogetherEp 7 - What do introverts and extroverts have in common?link to the book
Book recommendation in 100 seconds!
What do introverts and extroverts have in common?
How to say “I love you” in five different languages?
Why changing your behavior, not your personality, is the key to good relationships?
Find out in this episode...2021-12-1802 min
Reading TogetherEp 6 - How blockchain is giving people hope for a brighter future?link to the book
Book recommendation in 100 seconds!
How blockchain is giving people hope for a brighter future?
How blockchains become more secure as more people join them?
How blockchain could lead to a fleet of autonomous self-driving cars?
Find out in this episode...2021-12-1702 min
Reading TogetherEp 5 - Why did Aristotle ban zero?link to the book
Book recommendation in 100 seconds!
why did the Babylonians invent zero?
why did Aristotle ban it?
why is infinity zero's twin?
Find out in this episode...2021-12-1602 min
Reading TogetherEp 4 - How does sexual desire work in relationships?link to the book
How does sexual desire work in relationships?
Why do healthy sexual relationships struggle with sex?
What are some new perspectives for approaching intimacy problems?
Find out in this episode...2021-12-1502 min
Reading TogetherEp 3 - Why economists think you should avoid paying your cab fare?link to the book
why economists think you should avoid paying your cab fare?
why government planning won’t always lead to Soviet Russia?
why winning the Nobel Prize for Economics doesn’t make you a financial expert?
Find out in this episode...2021-12-1401 min
Reading TogetherEp 2 - How many things you have in common with a banana?link to the book
How many things you have in common with a banana?
How you can hear the remnants of the big bang today?
Why we owe our very existence to the good graces of bacteria?
Find out in this episode's book recommendation!2021-12-1201 min
Reading TogetherEp 1 - How a country with only 5 percent of the world’s population came to rule a country four times its size?link to the book
In August 1765 the East India Company defeated the young Mughal emperor and forced him to establish in his richest provinces a new administration run by English merchants who collected taxes through means of a ruthless private army - what we would now call an act of involuntary privatisation. The East India Company's founding charter authorised it to 'wage war' and it had always used violence to gain its ends. But the creation of this new government marked the moment that the East India Company ceased to be a conventional international trading corporation dealing i...2021-12-1102 min
Future Forward HubNBP103 - What’s Your Relationship with Your Sleep Christine Hansen is a holistic international sleep expert, speaker, and sleep coach. The creator of the “5 Step Sleep Like A Boss Process” focusing on sleep foundations, gut health, thyroid issues, nutrition and hormones that helps people to fall and stay asleep without having to rely on sleeping tablets. A certified Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Practitioner, Spencer Institute Certified Sleep Science Coach and Nutritional Therapist, Christine combines emotional, lifestyle, and biochemical stress management in bespoke programs for her clients. TOPICS DISCUSSED IN THIS PODCAST EPISODE: (3:17) Doing something with horses was a dream (6:00) What h...2019-04-1428 min