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Twenty years ago, Dr. Eric Oliver started teaching a course on how to know your self at the University of Chicago. In the class, Eric would ask his students nine questions that were essential for crafting “a well-examined life.” For this podcast, he poses these same nine questions to some of our wisest and most interesting fellow humans. We hope these conversations will shed some light on your own lived experience and tell you something you didn’t know about this mysterious process we call a ...
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The Fight Addicts is a podcast that explores the past, present, and future of MMA. Co-hosted by Seth Oliver and Ben Corn, The Fight Addicts serves as a podcast for MMA fans both new and old, as topics range from the latest and breaking MMA news to "old school" discussion of MMA before the modern era. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thefightaddicts/support
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A Ten part mini series soap opera that mixes it up with hot women, corrupt businessmen and innocent teens.
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Tom Levinson is one of the most multifaceted people we know. A former lawyer and divinity student, he is the author of ALL THAT’S HOLY: A Young Guy, an Old Car, and the search for God in America. Tom is co-founder of LK Advisors, LLC, which provides families with help navigating the complexities of life with money. He is also cohost of Money, Meet …
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Brittney Hartley is an author, secular spiritual counselor, and self described Nihilism survivor. She was raised in a strong Mormon community in Idaho and was a history teacher and mother when she began questioning her faith. This led her to graduate study in theology and eventually a life today as a meditation teacher and spiritual counselor for p…
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Dale Borglum is the founder and Executive Director of A Living/Dying Project. He is a pioneer in the conscious dying movement and has worked directly with thousands of people with life-threatening illness and their families for over 30 years. In 1981, Dale founded the first residential facility for people who wished to die consciously in the United…
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Sam Patten is a political consultant who spent the first half of his career promoting democracy and advising political campaigns in Asia, Africa, and Eastern Europe. He gained notoriety in 2018 when he became the target of the Muller Investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 campaign, due largely to his connection with Konstantine Kilimin…
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The Neuroscience of Well Being - Camilla Nord
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Camilla Nord is fellow and director of Studies in Psychological and Behavioral Sciences at Cambridge University. Her research tries to bridge the gap between neuroscience and treatments for mental health disorders, She is also the author of a new book called The Balanced Brain: The Science of Mental Health. Support the Show.…
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Emotions, Negotiation, and Comedy - Dr. Hillary Elfenbein
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Hillary Anger Elfenbein has been a business school professor at the Olin School of Washington University in St. Louis since 2008. She holds a Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior, a Master’s degree in Statistics, and undergraduate degrees in Physics and Sanskrit, all from Harvard University. Dr. Elfenbein served for five years on faculty at the Haas Sc…
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The Mysteries of Consciousness - Anil Seth
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Anil Seth is Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience at the University of Sussex, where he is also Director of the Sussex Centre for Consciousness Science. He is also Co-Director of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) Program on Brain, Mind, and Consciousness, and of the Leverhulme Doctoral Scholarship Programme: From…
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Mindful Politics - Steve Israel & Tim Ryan
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Former Congressman Steve Israel left Capitol Hill – unindicted and undefeated – to pursue a career as a writer. He heads the non-partisan Cornell University Institute of Politics and Global Affairs in New York City. Israel was a Member of Congress for sixteen years. He left in 2017, having served as House Democrats chief political strategist betwee…
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Eric Oliver is Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago. He studies American politics, public opinion, political psychology, local politics, racial attitudes, the politics of science, and the self. Recent research papers examine why Americans believe in conspiracy theories, how credulous Americans are about misinformation, why 20…
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Amy Owen is a birth doula, meditation teacher, and yoga instructor in Chicago. She started her career in the 1980s as a fashion model and began practicing mediation in her early 20s. A few years later she learned yoga and has been teaching yoga since 2008. She created the outreach prenatal yoga program serving Northwestern Hospital’s ambulatory car…
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Tom Turcich is a writer, motivational speaker, and adventurer. After the early death of a close friend, he decided to walk around the entire globe. He spent several years planning this journey and seven years actually doing it. Along the way he faced sickness, theft and other numerous challenges. But he also met incredible people and discovered how…
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The Secrets Behind Gestures - Susan Goldin-Meadow
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Susan Goldin-Meadow is the Beardsley Rumi Distinguished Service Professor in the Departments of Psychology, Human Development, and the Committee on Education at the University of Chicago. She has won numerous awards and written several books on language and gesture including her latest book: Thinking With Your Hands: The Surprising Science Behind H…
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Alan Lightman is a professor of humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). In addition to publishing numerous scientific papers in physics on the nature of gravity, he has published the best selling novels Einstein’s Dreams and The Diagnosis, which was a finalist for a national book award. He recently hosted the tv series “Searc…
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Rama Ranganathan, M.D. Ph.D. is a Joseph Regenstein Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Chicago. Rama’s research has focused the atomic and cellular structure, function, and evolution in biological systems. His work has led to new models for the architecture of natural proteins. He is also the dire…
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Richard Lang is Co-ordinator of the Shollond Trust, the UK charity set up in 1996 to help share the Headless Way as widely as possible in the world. He first saw who he really was when he attended a workshop with Douglas Harding in 1970. He is committed to making this Vision as widely available as possible. He has written two books, Seeing Who You …
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The Premonitionist - Stephanie Arnold
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Stephanie Arnold is an American producer and author. In 2013, she was clinically dead for 37 seconds after suffering an amniotic fluid embolism immediately after giving birth to her second child. In her book, 37 Seconds, she recounts this event and her life afterwards. It was said that she predicted her flatlining and details of how it would happen…
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The Psychedelic Psychologist - Harriet De Wit
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Harriet De Wit is a professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience at the University of Chicago, her research investigates the effects of psychoactive drugs on healthy people, examining what they can tell us about normal brain function. Support the Show.By Eric Oliver
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Oliver Burkeman is a British author and journalist, formerly writing the weekly column This Column Will Change Your Life for the newspaper The Guardian. In 2021, he published Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals, a self-help book on the philosophy and psychology of time management and happiness. For more information please visit https:/…
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Join us as we get to know a whole new round of amazing guests for, what is to be, an exciting Season Two of Nine Questions with Eric Oliver. Support the Show.By Eric Oliver
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Richard Wrangham is Ruth B. Moore Research Professor of Biological Anthropology at Harvard University and founded the Kibale Chimpanzee Project in 1987. He has conducted extensive research on primate ecology, nutrition, and social behavior. He is best known for his work on the evolution of human warfare, described in the book Demonic Males, and on …
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Rachel Nuwer is an award-winning freelance journalist who reports about science, travel, food and adventure for the New York Times, National Geographic, Scientific American and more. Her multi-award winning first book, Poached: Inside the Dark World of Wildlife Trafficking, was published in 2018 with Da Capo Press. Her second book, I Feel Love: MDM…
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Andrea and Eric recap season one’s highlights and what season two might have in store. Support the Show.By Eric Oliver
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The Skeptical Provocateur - Chris Kavanagh
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Chris Kavanagh is a post-doctoral researcher at Oxford in the Centre for Social Cohesion at the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography and an Associate Professor at the College of Contemporary Psychology at Rikkyo University in Tokyo. His research interests include East Asian religions, ritual behavior, and the bonding effects of shared dysp…
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Carl Trueman is a Christian theologian and ecclesiastical historian. He was Professor of Historical Theology and Church History at Westminster Theological Seminary, where he held the Paul Woolley Chair of Church History. In 2018 he became a professor at Grove City College in Pennsylvania. He has published several books including The Creedal Imperat…
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Dan Hooper is an American cosmologist and particle physicist specializing in the areas of dark matter, cosmic rays, and neutrino astrophysics. He is a Senior Scientist at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and a Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Chicago. Dan is the author of several books, including Dark Cosmos: In Sea…
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Therese Rowley is an educator, business consultant, and spiritual medium. She holds an MBA from the Kellogg School at Northwestern and a PhD in organizational leadership. She is the author of Mapping a New Reality, Discovering Intuitive Intelligence. She also describes herself as an audiovoyant, which means she’s able to access spiritual forces thr…
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The Spiritual Entrepreneur - Hitendra Wadhwa
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As Professor of Practice at Columbia Business School and Founder of the Mentora Institute, Hitendra has coached dozens of Fortune 100 C-suite executives and taught 10,000+ MBAs and Executives. His class on Personal Leadership & Success is one of the most popular at Columbia Business School, for which he has won the Dean’s Award for Teaching Excelle…
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Here and Not Here - Laurie Anderson
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Laurie Anderson is an American avant-garde artist, composer, musician, and film director whose work spans performance art, pop music, and multimedia projects. Initially trained in violin and sculpting, Anderson pursued a variety of performance art projects in New York during the 1970s, focusing particularly on language, technology, and visual image…
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The Interpreter of Shadows - Andrew Solomon
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Andrew Solomon, PhD is a writer and lecturer on politics, culture and psychology; winner of the National Book Award; and an activist in LGBTQ rights, mental health, and the arts. He is Professor of Clinical Medical Psychology (in Psychiatry) at Columbia University Medical Center, Lecturer in Psychiatry at Yale University, and a former President of …
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Amanda Stern is the author of The Long Haul and eleven books for children written under the pseudonyms AJ Stern and Fiona Rosenbloom. In 2003, she founded the legendary Happy Ending Music and Reading Series, which required creative artists to take risks on stage. The multi-disciplinary series became the gold standard for literary events; many of to…
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Jennifer Freed PhD is the best selling author of Use Your Planets Wisely and a renowned psychological astrologer and social and emotional education trainer. She has spent over thirty years consulting clients and businesses world wide on psychological, spiritual, and educational topics. She has served as the clinical director of Pacifica Graduate In…
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Nicholas Epley is the John Templeton Keller Distinguished Service Professor of Behavioral Science, and Director of the Center for Decision Research, at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. He studies social cognition—how thinking people think about other thinking people—to understand why smart people so routinely misunderstand each o…
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Mike Levine, known by his nickname Vino, is an American sports agent and executive known for being co-head of CAA Sports, the sports division of Creative Artists Agency (CAA). He has been ranked as one of the most influential people in sports by Worth and Sports Business Journal. Levine has been co-head of CAA Sports, a division of CAA which handle…
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Jackie is President of The Acho Group, a strategy and leadership consulting firm. Prior to founding The Acho Group in 2005, she was a Partner of McKinsey & Company. She has worked for technology, industrial, academic, nonprofit, and economic development clients on a variety of issues, with particular focus on growth and innovation, strategy, and le…
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Jack Zimmerman holds a BA, MA and PhD from Yale University, Harvard University and the University of Southern California, respectively. He is the co-author of Flesh and Spirit: The Mystery of Intimate Relationship with his life partner, Jaquelyn McCandless, and co-author of The Way of Council with Gigi Coyle. Jack held several leadership roles at T…
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Jane Dowling is a Registered Nurse with over 30 years of experience, including working with pediatric and adult emergency care, post-trauma reconstructive surgery and as clinical coordinator for NIH/NIAID AIDS Clinical Trials Group at NYU Medical Center. It was in clinical, epidemiological and ethnographic research that she most closely worked with…
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Nicholas Vreeland is a photographer, Buddhist monk and abbot of the Rato Dratsang monastery in India. He was born to American parents and his grandmother was Diana Vreeland, long time editor of Vogue magazine. He is the subject of the documentary Monk with a Camera. Support the Show.By Eric Oliver
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Yuan-Qing Yu is assistant concertmaster of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. An international award-winning violinist, she leads an active life as a soloist, chamber musician, teacher and advocate for the orchestra. A native of Shanghai, China, Yuan-Qing Yu won the Chinese Nationwide Violin Competition at the age of 17. The following year, she captur…
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The Psychedelic Philosopher - Chris Bache
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Chris Bache is a philosopher, author, and psychedelic explorer. He received a B.A. from Notre Dame and a Ph.D. from Brown University and taught for over 40 years as a professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Youngstown State University, adjunct faculty at the California Institute of Integral Studies, Emeritus Fellow at the Institute of Noet…
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Rosanna Warren is a poet, biographer, and classics scholar. Since 2012 she has been the Hanna Holborn Gray Distinguished Service Professor in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. She is the recipient of awards from the Academy of American Poets, The American Academy of Arts & Letters, the Lila Wallace Foundation, the Guggen…
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Bill Ayers is an educator, political activist, and writer. He is most famous for being one of the founding members of the Weather Underground, a cadre of leftist revolutionaries who sought to overthrow the US government in the late 1960s and 1970s by bombing government buildings and military installations. He is the host of the podcast Under the Tr…
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Kato Wittich is an LA based filmmaker, Rosen method practitioner and facilitator in Family Constellations Therapy. She is the founder of Liquid Soul Ecstatic Dance, a movement collective. You can see an example of her work on Episode 5 of Sex, Love, and Goop on Netflix. If you want to hear more from Kato, and all of our wonderful guests, head over …
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In 2001, Maxwell Ryan started blogging about helping people make their living spaces more beautiful, organized, and healthy. This blog grew into Apartmenttherapy.com and Thekitchn.com, two of the most popular websites on home design, food, and living well. Maxwell now lives with his daughter in Brooklyn, New York. If you want to hear more from Maxw…
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Adrian Danzig is a performer, circus clown, and teacher. He was the founder of 500 Clown performance company and a co-founder of the Redmoon theater in Chicago. His credits include Comedy of Errors at California Shakespeare Festival, The Feast: an intimate Tempest at Chicago Shakespeare, The Seagull at Lake Lucille, Orlando at The Court Theater and…
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Dr. Laura Berman is a world renowned couples and sex therapist. She has had shows on the Oprah TV and radio networks. She's written numerous books about everything from how to have better sex to what quantum physics can tell us about love. She currently has a podcast called Listen and Learn. If you want to hear more from Laura, and all of our wonde…
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Get to know a little bit more about our exciting, new podcast! Support the Show.By Eric Oliver
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#25 - UFC 242 Preview w/ Jason Hartley (from MMA on Point)
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In this episode, Seth and Ben preview the UFC 242 card with Jason Hartley, the co-founder of the YouTube channel MMA on Point. Sound effects obtained from https://www.zapsplat.com Twitter Follow the official account on Twitter - https://www.twitter.com/thefightaddicts/ Follow Seth on Twitter - https://twitter.com/TFA_Seth Follow Ben on Twitter - ht…
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Seth is joined by UFC bantamweight Chris "El Guapo" Gutierrez to discuss his win at UFC Fight Night 156. Sound effects obtained from https://www.zapsplat.com Twitter Follow the official account on Twitter - https://www.twitter.com/thefightaddicts/ Follow Seth on Twitter - https://twitter.com/TFA_Seth Follow Ben on Twitter - https://twitter.com/TFA_…
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In this episode, Seth and Ben give their picks for their lock, underdog, co-main, and main event winners for UFC on ESPN+ 15. Following their preview of the card, the guys answer some listener questions. Sound effects obtained from https://www.zapsplat.com Twitter Follow the official account on Twitter - https://www.twitter.com/thefightaddicts/ Fol…
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