Today I speak with Dr. Daniel Siegel, founder of Interpersonal Neurobiology, about the mind and how Internal Family Systems (IFS) may function in the brain.
Brian Lagerstrom is a rising star in the among the many food channels on YouTube. He shows people how to make food from his many years as a professional chef and baker.
"You can make world class dough with a bowl and a spoon. Truly. That’s all you need."
The James Webb Space telescope launched from Earth recently and promises to unlock some of the deepest mysteries of the universe.
Today I speak with astronaut veteran of 5 space flights and former NASA science administrator, John Grunsfeld.
I speak with Ken Liu, author of The Paper Menagerie, a short story swept the Hugo, the Nebula, and the World Fantasy awards. In his fantasy series The Dandelion Dynasty, the heroes are engineers, not wizards. Liu's work translating many Chinese sci-fi authors into English has helped many of these authors become huge successes in the U.S., most notably Liu Cixin’s The Three-Body Problem. Ken says his fiction often projects East Asian history and culture onto the backdrop of the modern American...
Dave Ungrady has been a man on a mission to tell the story of U. of MD basketball star Len Bias, who died of a cocaine overdose two days after he was drafted to the Boston Celtics in 1986. Next week Len Bias will finally be inducted into the NCAA Hall of Fame. We talk about the comparisons between Bias and Michael Jordan and former U.S. Drug Zhar Robert DuPont’s statement that Len Biases overdose from cocaine was the single most important date in U.S. history of drug abuse next to the founding...
Kristin Neff is the person perhaps most responsible for researching the effects of self-compassion.
She is the author of the 2011 bestselling book Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself and her newest book, Fierce Self-Compassion: How Women Can Harness Kindness to Speak Up, Claim Their Power, and Thrive.
I speak with Fr Isaac Keeley, Trappist monk and Director of the Spencer Brewery at St. Joseph’s Abbey in the Central MA town of Spencer (my hometown).
I asked Fr Isaac how they fit in the demands of running an industrial scale brewery with the contemplative life of the monastery.
I speak with Jaime Clemmer, author of Heartbroken, But Not Broken, which offers readers an intimate recounting of how she got through any parent's worst nightmare–her son’s sudden death at the age of 10.
I speak with Dr. Patrick Oliver about the only drug approved currently to treat suicidal ideation: Ketamine.
"The depression just seems to go away."
We discuss the safety of Ketamine even in treating severe depression that’s co-occurring with substance abuse.