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Maya Chen examines storytelling as humanity's essential cognitive technology, blending neuroscience with cultural analysis to reveal how narratives synchronize brains, persuade effectively, and transmit wisdom across generations. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.aiThis show includes AI-generated content.

SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER ‘If you want to write a novel or a script, read this book’ Sunday Times ‘The best book on the craft of storytelling I’ve ever read’ Matt Haig ‘Rarely has a book engrossed me more, and forced me to question everything I’ve ever read, seen or written. A...

Humans live in landscapes of make-believe. We spin fantasies. We devour novels, films, and plays. Even sporting events and criminal trials unfold as narratives. Yet the world of story has long remained an undiscovered and unmapped country. It's easy to say that humans are "wired" for story, but why? In this delightful and original book, Jonathan Gottschall offers the first unified theory of storytelling. He argues that stories help us navigate life's complex social problems.

World-renowned data storytellers Mike Cisneros, Alex Velez, and SWD founder Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic guide you through proven methods to strengthen your communications, sharing the thought process behind each redesign so you can confidently apply the concepts to your work.

The official channel for the show about everything: four dorks discuss the most amazing facts they’ve learned over the last seven days. The multi award-winning, globe-travelling, 600-million-download phenomenon. Hosted by Dan Schreiber, James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray and Anna Ptaszynski.

Volcanoes. Trees. Drunk butterflies. Mars missions. Slug sex. Death. Beauty standards. Anxiety busters. Beer science. Bee drama. Take away a pocket full of science knowledge and charming, bizarre stories about what fuels these professional -ologists' obsessions. Humorist and science correspondent Alie Ward asks smart people stupid questions and the answers might change your life.

Brought to you by Penguin. The trailblazing scientist returns with a book that centres nature’s cycles of renewal in the future vision of our forests When the forest breathes out, we breathe in. When the forest thrives, we thrive. The world-renowned forest ecologist Suzanne Simard has...

Storytelling, a tradition that built human civilization, may soon destroy it Humans are storytelling animals. Stories are what make our societies possible. Countless books celebrate their virtues. But Jonathan Gottschall, an expert on the science of stories, argues that there is a dark side to...

Every drink has a story. Most of them are stranger than you think.Distillate is a narrative podcast about the history, science, culture, and human stakes behind what people drink. Not technique. Not recipes. The story — the people, the chemistry, the politics, the accidents, and the moments in history where what was in the glass reflected something larger about the world.Rum built an empire on the back of slavery and molasses waste. Gin brought 18th-century London to its knees before it became a symbol of craft and refinement. Coffee didn't just wake people up — it reorganized how they ...

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Storytelling Animals is a green new podcast where we use books to help make sense of the ecological crisis – and think about what comes next. For most episodes, host Dayton Martindale will interview authors about their new or recent fiction and nonfiction, and talk about how we might build better relations with each other and our fellow creatures. Sometimes, he'll review books or talk with academics and activists, too.Patreon subscribers at all tiers get early access to locked episodes, and Patreon subscribers above $7/month can also join a subscribers-only book club hosted by Dayton to dig ...

The Sociology of Everything Podcast offers listeners a (sometimes) comedic and accessible look at the wonders of sociology. It is created and hosted by Eric Hsu and Louis Everuss, who are sociologists at the newly created Adelaide University. A review recently published in Teaching Sociology describes the podcast as 'a model for public sociology in the podcast era'. www.sociologypodcast.com

3 THINGS is a delightfully delicious bit of fluff designed to make one laugh a little, think a bit, and perhaps even learn a thing or three. Give a listen and enjoy yourself! Waiting for new episodes to hit each and every Monday? Please enjoy the Vintage Episodes from Dinosaur Times.Email? 3thingspod@gmail.com or Comments? 3things.podomatic.com Buy your host a cuppa at ko-fi.com/3things

Join host Juniper Snout as she separates purr-fect fact from feline fiction, tackling everything from nine lives and landing myths to training misconceptions and black cat superstitions. With science, humor, and genuine cat love, discover the surprising truths behind the folklore that shapes how we understand our whiskered companions. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.aiThis show includes AI-generated content.

After nearly a decade living and working in the Okavango Delta, filming hit Natural History wildlife shows including Big Cats 24/7, Living With Leopards, Surviving Paradise and Our Planet II, Greg Hartman, Rea Shulte to Brinke and Tristen Woodward face their biggest challenge yet - swapping the savannah for suburbia and losing the big budgets that go with it. Wildly Off Track dives into the lives of three friends and colleagues, who are more intimidated by supermarket self-service checkouts, UK health & safety rules and sunsets taking place later than 7pm, than they ever were by the lions, ...

The Dirty Talk Podcast is exploring the history, science, and cultural significance of the more odd and ribald topics of human existence.

How can storytelling help you succeed? David Axelrod, Chief Strategist for Barack Obama's presidential campaigns, shares his secret to success. Revolutionary Insights is curated from the Computer History Museum's Revolutionaries interview series and is brought to you by Audible. This talk was originally recorded on February 18, 2015.

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In this first season of waterbodies: short talks on Lake Ontario, we focus on the 2023 Lake Ontario CSMI. The CSMI, or Cooperative Science and Monitoring Initiative is a binational effort to coordinate monitoring and research activities across the Great Lakes. The goal of the CSMI is to address specific science priorities for each lake, which are established by the Lake Partnerships under the Lakewide Management Annex of the 2012 Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement, 4 priority areas for the 2023 Lake Ontario CSMI were identified: chemical contaminants, nutrient and bacterial pollution, habitat...

Ask a scientist about Hollywood, and you'll probably get eye rolls. But ask someone in Hollywood about science, and they'll see dollar signs: Moviemakers know that science can be the source of great stories, with all the drama and action that blockbusters require. That's a huge mistake, says Randy Olson: Hollywood has a lot to teach scientists about how to tell a story - and, ultimately, how to do science better. With Houston, We Have a Narrative, he lays out a stunningly simple method for turning the dull into the dramatic.