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unSILOed with Greg LaBlanc

unSILOed is a series of interdisciplinary conversations that inspire new ways of thinking about our world. Our goal is to build a community of lifelong learners addicted to curiosity and the pursuit of insight about themselves and the world around them.*unSILOed Podcast is produced by University FM.*

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00:50:56

Business School and Its Relevance to Modern Society...

unSILOed with Greg LaBlanc ·

2022/09/09

Philip Delves Broughton was a news journalist before going to business school. And he ended up continuing his career as a writer since leaving. Now, there are not many journalists that have been to business school, giving Philip a unique perspective on this branch of academia. Philip is a journalist and author, now known for his business journalism. His books include “Ahead of the Curve” and “The Art of the Sale.” He chats with Greg about why he went to business school after being a journalist,

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01:00:38

What Dating and Sports can Teach us About Economics...

unSILOed with Greg LaBlanc ·

2022/09/07

You can apply economics to just about anything. Economics provides you with a perspective and a toolbox that enables you to see things that you wouldn't otherwise see before. This is part of our guests specialty, with books titles like “An Economist Goes to the Game: How to Throw Away $580 Million and Other Surprising Insights from the Economics of Sports,” and “Everything I Ever Needed to Know About Economics I Learned from Online Dating.”Paul Oyer is the Mary and Rankine Van Anda Entrepreneurial

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01:01:51

Toxic Coworkers and What To Do About Them feat. Tessa...

unSILOed with Greg LaBlanc ·

2022/09/05

We’ve all had to deal with problematic bosses or coworkers at some point in our career journeys. But the issue is how can you deal with them in a productive way, so everyone still feels comfortable in the workplace and gets their work done.Tessa West is a Professor of Psychology at New York University and a leading expert in the science of interpersonal communication. Her research focuses on questions such as: How can we improve communication across cultural and national divides, and what hurdles do

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00:54:10

Rethinking Our Ideas Around “Success” feat. Brad...

unSILOed with Greg LaBlanc ·

2022/09/02

Has the idea of “peak performance” as the general public sees it, run its course? It seems like nowadays, there is much more of a focus & value placed upon rest and recuperation, rather than the unsustainable burnout culture & hustle to get ahead that we’ve seen for ages.Brad Stulberg is a writer and fellow at the University of Michigan’s graduate school of public health. He says his work explores principles of mastery and well-being that transcend capabilities and domains, with a focus on the

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00:56:57

The Psychology of the Arts feat. Ellen Winner

unSILOed with Greg LaBlanc ·

2022/08/31

We don't really question the importance of studying mathematics, or the importance of studying science. We don't even question the importance of athletics! But when it comes to the arts, people don't really understand their significance. They think of them as frills, as fun and pretty, but they don't understand their deep significance for humans.Ellen Winner's research focuses on cognition in the arts in typical and gifted children. She studies the impact of arts education on the development of

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01:10:47

Why Smart Leaders Make Bad Decisions feat. Zachary Shore

unSILOed with Greg LaBlanc ·

2022/08/29

Can we teach leaders to become better strategic decision makers? Our guest Zach Shore says we can. Part of the problem he says is that people get stuck in rigid mindsets, which often involve the failure to take alternative perspectives.. In his books “Blunder: Why Smart People Make Bad Decisions,” and “sense of the enemy’ he aims to create a taxonomy of blunder causing mindsets and recount examples of effective strategic empathy through historical story telling. Zach Shore is a historian of

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00:57:32

Choices and Transparency in the American Healthcare...

unSILOed with Greg LaBlanc ·

2022/08/26

In our guest's latest book “Sick to Debt,” Peter Ubel theorizes whether it is a bigger insult to call someone a doctor or an economist. Well, Peter is actually both!Peter Ubel M.D. is a physician and behavioral scientist whose research and writing explores the mixture of rational and irrational forces that affect our health, our happiness and the way our society functions. Ubel is the Madge and Dennis T. McLawhorn University Professor of Business, Public Policy and Medicine at the Duke University

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01:03:06

Learning For The Sake of Learning feat. Zena Hitz

unSILOed with Greg LaBlanc ·

2022/08/24

When was the last time you learned something just out of curiosity? Not for school or to advance your career, with no end goal in sight. To learn something new just to learn it? Zena Hitz is a Tutor at St. John’s College in Annapolis and the author of “Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life.” Her book explores the meaning and the value of learning through images and stories of bookworms, philosophers, scientists, and other learners, both fictional and historical. She writes

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01:07:54

The Erratic and Chaotic Worlds of Physics and...

unSILOed with Greg LaBlanc ·

2022/08/22

When the general public thinks about physics, they’re usually thinking about the origins of the universe, quantum theory; other terms that have bled into pop culture. But true physics isn't elegant in the way it is seen in textbooks. Our guest says the science is much more chaotic than that and Economics has a lot to learn from physics.Mark Buchanan is a physicist and science writer with Bloomberg, and is the author of the book "Forecast: What Physics, Meteorology and the Natural Sciences Can Teach

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01:00:55

The Evolution of Sibling Rivalry feat. Douglas Mock

unSILOed with Greg LaBlanc ·

2022/08/19

Sibling rivalry seems to exist in all families, whether human or non-human.. So why would animals want to compete, and maybe even kill their nearest relations??This is the focus of the work of Douglas Mock. He is a Professor in the Department of Zoology at the University of Oklahoma and co-author of “The Evolution of Sibling Rivalry.”Doug and Greg analyze some of our most intimate relationships in this episode, touching on scarcity mindsets, siblicide, birth order, and progeny selection.Episode

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01:12:58

The Constitution of Knowledge feat. Jonathan Rauch

unSILOed with Greg LaBlanc ·

2022/08/17

Its hard to believe that a book like The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth,” hasn't been written before, which surfaces the structures that we need in order to convert contention into facts and knowledge. Jonathan Rauch is a senior fellow in the Governance Studies program at the Brookings Institute, and the author of eight books and many articles on public policy, culture, and government. He is a contributing writer for The Atlantic and recipient of the 2005 National Magazine Award, the

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01:01:03

Hunt, Gather, Parent feat. Michaeleen Doucleff

unSILOed with Greg LaBlanc ·

2022/08/15

The science of parenting…isn't really a science. It's a lot of myths and advice and stories from elder generations. But let's think about where we are getting that advice. Our guest Michaeleen Doucleff wrote her New York Times bestseller “Hunt, Gather, Parent ”after traveling to three continents with her 3-year-old daughter, Rosy. She says Maya, Inuit, and Hadzabe families showed her how to tame tantrums, motivate kids to be helpful, and build children’s confidence and self-sufficiency. Michaeleen

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01:00:11

Beliefs Are Real For Those Who Hold Them feat....

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2022/08/12

“Belief” as a word can take on so many meanings. Most people only think about it in terms of religion. But our guest says belief plays a central role in many other critical distinctively human things, including economics, love and politics. He further defines belief as the “capacity humans have to commit wholly and fully to this mix of experience, imagination, ideology, thoughts, and ideas.” Agustín Fuentes is a primatologist and biological anthropologist at Princeton University whose research

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00:53:17

Bernoulli’s Fallacy: Statistical Illogic and the...

unSILOed with Greg LaBlanc ·

2022/08/08

Greg says our guest's book, “Bernoulli’s Fallacy: Statistical Illogic and the Crisis of Modern Science” is “a bombshell in a sense,” making some very, very bold claims. Aubrey Clayton is an applied mathematical researcher, lecturer, and writer. He currently teaches graduate courses in the philosophy of probability at the Harvard Extension School, and has written for publications like the New York Times, Boston Globe, and Nautilus. Additionally, Aubrey says he technically “worked on Wall Street” but

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00:56:31

We Must Stay Curious feat. Ian Leslie

unSILOed with Greg LaBlanc ·

2022/08/05

The last time you had a definitive question about something: an actor in that movie, or maybe something your friend did at a party last week. Did you try to figure it out on your own and think over the answer, or head to the internet to confirm your quandaries? Are we losing our ability to be naturally curious by always having concrete answers available in mere seconds?Ian Leslie is a writer and author of acclaimed books on human behaviour. Ian’s first career was in advertising, as a creative

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00:55:11

Understanding Human Creativity feat. Marcus du Sautoy

unSILOed with Greg LaBlanc ·

2022/08/03

As machine learning and AI mature and adapt to the humans that created them, it's important we think carefully about not only what is creativity, but what is uniquely human about creativity.Marcus du Sautoy is the Charles Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science at the Oxford University, a chair he holds jointly at the Department of Continuing Education and the Mathematical Institute, as well as a Professor of Mathematics and a Fellow of New College.His many books dive deep into the

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01:13:15

It’s Never Too Late To Examine Your Philosophy of...

unSILOed with Greg LaBlanc ·

2022/08/01

When Greg found out that Massimo Pigliucci had a PhD in biology and a PhD in philosophy, he knew that this was somebody he had to get on the show.Massimo Pigliucci has a PhD in Evolutionary Biology from the University of Connecticut and a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Tennessee, and is currently the K.D. Irani Professor of Philosophy at the City College of New York. His research interests include the philosophy of science, the nature of pseudoscience, and practical philosophies like

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00:50:08

The Surprising History of How We Are Born feat. Tina...

unSILOed with Greg LaBlanc ·

2022/07/29

When Tina Cassidy set out to write her book “Birth: The Surprising History of How We Are Born,”in 2006, it was the first time in about 50 years an extensive work had been written on the subject, and the first by a woman. Birth is such an essential and important part of every life cycle, and all of us have been through it. Why haven't we seen more on the topic?Tina Cassidy writes about women and culture. In addition to “Birth,” she is the author of “Mr. President, How Long Must We Wait? Alice Paul,

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01:02:55

So, ARE Corporations Really People Too? feat. Adam...

unSILOed with Greg LaBlanc ·

2022/07/27

It was August 2011 when Mitt Romney famously told a crowd at the Iowa State Fair, "corporations are people, my friend." Corporations have had what you could call a civil rights history of their own, which has gone on in parallel to all other civil rights movements. But with so much knowledge in this field publicly available to us, how could this entire history be so poorly understood?This is highlighted in Adam Winker’s work, and most recently his book, “We the Corporations: How American Businesses

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01:07:10

The Evolution of Desire: Strategies of Human Mating...

unSILOed with Greg LaBlanc ·

2022/07/25

David Buss is one of the founders of the field of evolutionary psychology, currently at the University of Texas at Austin. His primary research focus is on strategies of human mating, and he is most well-known for his studies on mate selection, tactics of mate attraction, infidelity, tactics of mate retention, tactics of mate poaching, and the mating emotions of jealousy, lust, and love.David has also authored several books for wide audiences, such as “The Evolution of Desire: Strategies of Human

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