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A retrospective episode featuring Tyler Cowen and producer Jeff Holmes reflecting on the year's podcast highlights, discussing the most popular episodes, AI's impact, listener questions, and Tyler's pop culture picks from 2015.
In this episode, Adam Grant and digital anthropologist Rahaf Harfoush explore the concept of hypernormalization, discussing how people cope with unprecedented changes by pretending everything is normal while feeling internally destabilized and disconnected.
Derek Thompson explores the decline of math achievement in America, revealing a crisis where students are getting higher grades but demonstrating lower mathematical skills, driven by complex factors including education policy changes, grade inflation, and the rise of technology.
A deep dive into the psychology of communication with Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker, exploring how humans use language, common knowledge, and social intelligence to coordinate, build relationships, and navigate complex interactions.
Steven Pinker explores how "common knowledge"—what everyone knows that everyone else knows—shapes everything from romantic attraction and negotiations to financial panics and political polarization, revealing the hidden logic behind society's unspoken rules and signals.