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Category Archives: Podcasts

The history of human emotions by Tiffany Watt Smith from TED Talks Daily

https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ted-talks-daily/id160904630?mt=2&i=1000397690787 The words we use to describe our emotions affect how we feel, says historian Tiffany Watt Smith, and they’ve often changed (sometimes very dramatically) in response to new cultural expectations and ideas. Take nostalgia, for instance: first defined in 1688 as an…

Meditation: Transforming Fear from Tara Brach 

https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/tara-brach/id265264862?mt=2&i=1000397826921 This guided practice invites us to identify a situation where we habitually become anxious or fearful, and then to explore bringing mindfulness and self-compassion to where we feel most vulnerable. By engaging fear with an embodied and caring presence, we discover the…

Bitcoin, Blockchain, Ethereum, Altcoins, Fintech and Cryptocurrency for Newbies in Podcasts

https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/bad-crypto-podcast-bitcoin-blockchain-ethereum-altcoins/id1261133600?mt=2&i=1000400019753 What is this Bitcoin thing all about? People are making mad money. It may look and feel like magical internet money, but the truth is that cryptocurrency is personal property. At least that is the statement from the United States Internal Revenue service.…

Mel Gibson & Dr. Neil Riordan

https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-joe-rogan-experience/id360084272?mt=2&i=1000400100219 Mel Gibson is an actor and filmmaker. Neil Riordan, PA, PhD is one of the early pioneers and experts in applied stem cell research. What do these two have in common? Listen and you will find out. Stem-cell therapy is the use…

Loretta Breuning: The Science of Happiness: How to Hack Your Brain & Become A Happier Person

https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-james-altucher-show/id794030859?mt=2&i=1000400657387 Loretta Graziano Breuning is founder of the Inner Mammal Institute, which helps people manage the ups and downs of their mammalian brain chemicals. As a professor and a mom, she was not convinced by prevailing theories of human motivation. She learned that…

Bitcoin Losers

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2018/01/05/576087864/episode-816-bitcoin-losers Plenty of people will tell you they’re getting rich off of bitcoin. They could be right. But there’s another group of bitcoin owners that aren’t so ecstatic. Because they might be rich, too, but they lost the passkey that would let them…

How I Built This Podcast featuring Burton Snowboards Jake Carpenter

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How I Built This Podcast featuring Burton Snowboards Jake Carpenter https://www.acast.com/howibuiltthis/burton-snowboards-jake-carpenter How I Built This is a podcast about innovators, entrepreneurs, and idealists, and the stories behind the movements they built. Each episode is a narrative journey marked by triumphs, failures, serendipity and…

Found My Fitness with Dr. Rhonda Patrick with Dr. Dominic D’Agostino

Found My Fitness with Dr. Rhonda Patrick interview with Dr. Dominic D’Agostino on Ketosis

Found My Fitness with Dr. Rhonda Patrick interview with Dr. Dominic D’Agostino on Ketosis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQ7pSXIWHrI Dom’s efforts at teasing out the differences between induced nutritional ketosis (through a low carbohydrate, high fat diet) and ketosis from the dietary introduction of exogenous ketones, like…

Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History King of Kings III

Dan Carlin Hardcore History King of Kings III

Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History King of Kings III http://www.dancarlin.com/product/hardcore-history-58-kings-kings-iii/ Carlin takes readers on a tour of some of the most popular subjects in history in this series including Alexander the Great, Thermopylae, Marathon, and Salamis. The difference, is that this tale is told…

Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History King of Kings II

an Carlin Hardcore History King of Kings II

Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History King of Kings II http://www.dancarlin.com/hardcore-history-57-kings-kings-ii/ There really wasn’t a moment in this entire marathon of text where I wasn’t deeply intrigued by what Carlin was talking about, and I think that in many ways that’s because I was so…