Behavioral Scientist Reads
The podcast that explores what it means to be human through conversations at the intersection of science and culture, and books that illuminate who we are and who we can become.
Published by Behavioral Scientist magazine.
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Episodes
6 episodes
Episode 5: What Are You Walking Away From? What Are You Walking Towards?
The Camino de Santiago is an ancient pilgrimage that dates back over a thousand years and traces its roots back to medieval stories and miracles. In the final episode of our Flights Summer Book Club, host Stephanie Tam shares h...
Episode 4: Found in Translation
What goes into translating a book from one language to another? How do you preserve something when your task is to change everything? What do translation and travel have in common? And why is translation, like travel, such an elusive concept?
Episode 3: ‘Seeing Is Knowing’
In Flights, we encounter human anatomy in a number of ways—body parts in jars, wax figures, and the search for a secret preservation formula. Why did this kind of bodily preservation begin? How did it transform medical science and our ...
Episode 2: What Is Travel Psychology?
Is “travel psychology” a real thing? How have our definitions of where we’re from changed over history? What do highways, our passports, and the lines and lounges in an airport reveal about travel and movement in the modern world? And what happ...
Episode 1: Where Did We Come From? Where Are We Going?
Why did we choose this strange, fragmented novel for the summer book club? What do we know about its author, Olga Tokarczuk? And what are some “reading maps” we can use to start finding our way in this very different kind of story?—<...