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Behavioral Scientist Reads

by Behavioral Scientist

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. behavioralscientist.org

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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

Sep 3
1 h 07 min

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

Aug 13
1 h 31 min

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 a

Jul 30
54 min

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 t

Jul 23
42 min

Trailer: Behavioral Scientist Reads ‘Flights’

Introducing Behavioral Scientist Reads, the podcast that explores what it means to be human through conversations at the intersection of science and culture, and books th

Jul 16
2 min