On All in the Mind this week, the guru playbook and why we should get smart to their tactics.
On November 12th, 2012, the Accomack County volunteer fire departments got a call. An abandoned house had suddenly gone up in flames. And then, just hours later, a second fire was reported. Then a thi...Show More
Armando Iannucci travels through time - discovering why it seems to accelerate alarmingly as he gets older and what, if anything, can be done to slow it down. How exactly does the human brain calcula...Show More
Sam revisits his chat with best-selling author Malcolm Gladwell about his book, Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know. The book explores examples such as the arrest ...Show More
Whenever Malcolm and Adam Grant cross paths on the book tour circuit, it's always a good time. Here are pieces of two conversations from Clubhouse: one about Malcolm's The Bomber Mafia and another abo...Show More
How would you describe your parents? Nobody's perfect, but some parents leave more of a mark than others.
In 2015, Atlanta Judge Jerry Baxter sentenced ten people to almost 100 years in prison for racketeering. It ended one of the longest trials ever seen in the state of Georgia. Except this was no norma...Show More
In 2015, Atlanta Judge Jerry Baxter sentenced ten people to almost 100 years in prison for racketeering. It ended one of the longest trials ever seen in the state of Georgia. Except this was no nor...Show More
Thereās so much more to this town than Priscilla and Mad Max. Writer Jack Marx takes us to the hidden corners of Broken Hill and its history; from the cross that used to light up the main street every...Show More
The caste system has impacted the lives of many South Asians for thousands of years, but how does it affect communities here in Australia?
A documentary maker canāt forget the hopes and dreams of a 14-year-old boy he interviewed and returns to the same rural town nine years later to track him down.
The story of one man's slide into the white supremacist movement in Canada, and the aftermath. How do we deal with those who've engaged in the politics of hate when they decide to walk away from it?
The story of one man's slide into the white supremacist movement in Canada, and the aftermath. How do we deal with those who've engaged in the politics of hate when they decide to walk away from it?
Expectation and competition are pushing young South Koreans to give up on marriage and kids.
Sami Shah finds out what political correctness is and why itās so darn mad.
Online, on campus, everywhere weāre losing free and frank speech. Sami Shah discovers the consequences of this loss but also finds some solutions.
After a chance encounter with a ghost from her past, Elizabeth Mora is forced to confront a decade old question: did coming to Australia break or save her family? As she reconciles her parentsā compli...Show More
Why are most selective high schools for the academically gifted dominated by Asian Australian students? And what do Asian students and graduates of selective schools think of our education system tha...Show More
Itās been nearly fifty years since gay liberation. Now, queer folk can be who they are almost anywhere, so why do they still love to create specific "queer-friendly" spaces for themselves?
Many of us have heard stories about the difficulty of coming out as a gay person. But how do their families experience the coming out process?
Can you fall in love deliberately, without the chemistry? Using 36 laboratory-tested questions Susan Maushart and her accomplice try.
Susan and her accomplice leave small talk behind and strike out for deeper waters. Will the 36 Questions lead to loveā¦or regret?
Cruise holidays were once only for the wealthy. In recent decades they've found a mass market, but how and at what cost?
This week Palestinians should have been voting in their first election for 15 years, but the election was cancelled and now they are again involved in a battle with Israel. Why?Ā The complexities of P...Show More
In partnership with our friends at Ketel One Botanical Thereās a lot we misunderstand about empathy, says Jamil Zaki, a professor of psychology at Stanford University and the author of The War for Kin...Show More
From the moment we wake up in the morning there are a trillion rules ā big and little ā governing our lives. But sometimes, we encounter one we just can't abide by. In a pitched moment of rule-questio...Show More
People who try simple mind games on othersĀ and find themselves in way over their heads.
What happens when your own community suddenly turns on you?
People put in positions theyāre completely unqualified to handle, but who try to make it work anyway. Including one story of a tough group of soldiers who attempt to save lives through the power of sh...Show More
This week, three men who came together to protest the murder of George Floyd. They were unified, loud, and impressive, but over time these three friends end up in three very different places.
There's always someone whose job it is to decide if you measure up.
Martha's family has their land stolen, and then their identity. More than a hundred years later, Martha wants to set the record straight. "In the still of our hollows, we hear the calling of our Lord....Show More
Martha's family makes a home on Black Mountain, and reckons with the past. "From whence we came, we shall return. From the old ways, our lessons learned." - Martha Redbone Learn more about your ad cho...Show More
Three people, and one animal, who know the path their lives will take until, suddenly, they donāt.
The pandemic broke school. Can we ever go back?
Fantasy writer Elsa Sjunneson has been haunted by Helen Keller for nearly her entire life. Like Helen, Elsa is Deafblind, and growing up she was constantly compared to her. But for a million different...Show More