How do perfectionism tendencies tend to affect our close relationships? How does our own critical self-talk sometimes accidentally spill out onto other people around us? Risa Williams talks to Stephanie Van Schaick about how we can start to notice where we're getting stuck in perfectionistic tendencies in our relationships and how we can develop more cognitive flexibility instead. They discuss: -How our perfectionistic "concepts" of what relationships "should be like" sometimes holds us bac...

Why do certain coincidences feel too extraordinary to be random? This episode explores how probability, pattern recognition, confirmation bias, selective attention, and emotional significance shape our perception of unlikely events. It explains why the human brain naturally connects unrelated experiences, why random events often form surprising clusters, and how enormous numbers of everyday opportunities make remarkable coincidences more common than they seem. The episode also examines why

This episode explains how to create community-based prevention programs using three core elements: accurate information, low ecological cost, and identity safety. It gives practical examples for substance use and violence prevention and encourages imagining targeted programs for different populations.It previews upcoming lessons on measuring and evaluating program success, privacy, warm handoffs, and reducing stigma to ensure real-world impact.

Brittany Page discusses the disturbing tricks Republicans are pulling to subvert democracy and disrupt citizen-led initiatives to reverse abortion bans in states like Idaho, where Idaho Attorney General Raúl Labrador released an opinion giving the green light to churches that want to use their enormous wealth to lobby for their political priorities, granting churches in Idaho the ability to funnel cash to oppose political efforts without disclosing their donors. The LDS heard this message loud and

ये बड़ा-सा उपकरण एस्ट्रोनॉमी यानी अंतरिक्ष के विज्ञान को हमेशा के लिए बदल सकता है। हो सकता है कि इसे कोई एलियन जीवन मिल जाए। शायद कुछ ही दिनों में।ये नया ताक़तवर टूल क्या है? यह दूर मौजूद गैलेक्सियों में जीवन की पहचान कैसे कर सकता है? और, अगर इसे जीवन मिल जाता है, तो आगे क्या होगा? "क्या हो अगर" छोटी डॉक्यूमेंट्रीज़ की एक सीरीज है, जो आपको काल्पनिक दुनिया और संभावनाओं के एक दिलचस्प सफ़र पर ले जाती है। आइये, इस काल्पनिक रोमांच पर हमारे साथ चलिए जहाँ उम्मीद है कि हम आपको दुनिया की मुश्किल चीज़ों और

Dr. Curtis Peterson breaks down the major brain lobes and their roles: the temporal lobe for hearing and language (Broca's and Wernicke's areas), the occipital lobe for visual processing, the parietal lobe for touch, spatial orientation, and emerging empathy, and the frontal lobe for motor control and complex social-emotional functions. He also covers the somatosensory and motor strips that coordinate sensation and movement.This episode gives a concise, accessible overview of how different brain

Dr. Curtis Peterson explores brain structure and development, from neurons and glial cells to the limbic system and cerebral cortex. He explains how different lobes support senses, movement, and social behavior, and outlines the sequence of brain maturation—culminating in prefrontal development that shapes planning and impulse control.

Dr. Curtis Peterson explains the cerebellum — the "little brain" connected to the limbic system and cortex — and its key role in coordinating movement, balance, and coherent speech. The episode highlights how repeated head trauma, such as in old-school boxing, can damage the cerebellum and lead to speech difficulties, walking problems, and visual/coordination issues, underscoring its importance in motor and language function.

In the spring of 1929, months before anyone knew the name Peter Kürten, the Düsseldorf police already had a confession. A man had told them he'd done it, and they believed him. This episode is about that confession, the year it cost, and the harder question underneath it: what is a confession actually worth? Before this season reaches the one it's built on, we start here."Southern Gothic" by Kevin Macleod.

Wir gehören zu Familien, Gruppen, Vereinen, Schulen, Unternehmen, Religionen, Nationen und vielen anderen Gemeinschaften.Aber bedeutet Zugehörigkeit automatisch Verbundenheit? Man kann gemeinsam in einem Raum sitzen und sich trotzdem fremd sein. Man kann Teil einer Gemeinschaft sein und ausschließlich den eigenen Vorteil verfolgen. Verbundenheit geht deshalb tiefer. Sie beginnt mit einer Erkenntnis: Der andere Mensch geht mich etwas an. Nicht, weil ich über ihn bestimmen darf. Nicht, weil wir immer

We use the term snake oil to refer any fradulant product, service, or claim that is not what it says it is and lies or misconstrues what it does. You might already know that this comes from a real product that had those exact qualities. You might not know what that product was actuallly based on. We discuss the history of snake oil and why that term stuck around. Click or tap to join our Patreon groupLinks and

This episode explores research on therapist self-disclosure that examined 156 participants and compared personal versus professional disclosures. Both types improved client perceptions and the therapeutic alliance, and combining personal experience with professional expertise produced the most favorable impressions.The host discusses implications for clinicians, arguing appropriate self-disclosure can strengthen trust and confidence in therapy and counters claims that such disclosures are

In this episode, we discuss Paralives, the cozy indie contender bringing flexible building, community-first development, and fresh creative energy to a genre (and angry players) ready for something different in their life sim.

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.userresearchstrategist.comSkills are an essential part of actually making AI feel useful and integrating it into your workflow in a effective and more efficient way. In this video, I walk through three of my UXR skills and the exact components in each of them.I run Introduction to Claude Skills for User Research as a live workshop, and the next one is on September 22nd. We go th…

Hi! Thanks for your feedback on the Dopamine Intro episode. I'm really sorry I haven't given better answers to the huge implied questions you posed - I'm hoping to cover everything in the History of Dopamine Ep 3!

क्या होगा अगर अर्थ का सबसे बड़ा देश फैसला ले कि उसे और ज़्यादा बड़ा राज्य और ताक़त चाहिए? वो इसके लिए जंग पर जा सकता है। रशिया किस देश पर सबसे पहले कब्ज़ा कर सकता है? हमले का प्लान क्या हो सकता है? और रशिया के पास सबसे ख़तरनाक हथियार कौन-सा है?क्या हो अगर, छोटी डॉक्यूमेंट्रीज़ की एक सीरीज है जो आपको काल्पनिक दुनिया और संभावनाओं के एक दिलचस्प सफ़र पर ले जाती है। आइये, इस काल्पनिक रोमांच पर हमारे साथ चलिए जहाँ उम्मीद है कि हम आपको दुनिया की मुश्किल चीज़ों और घटनाओं को आसान और मज़ेदार तरीक़े से बयान कर

Amid the flow, a story out of Singapore from The Wall Street Journal caught my attention. It’s the kind of sidenote feature that can be easily missed, but I feel is very important. So I did a quite live video chat and I’m posting the lede and a gift link from me here.Barrels of Sake and Rooftop Galas: Energy Traders Toast the War BoomAs geopolitical conflict disrupts global supply, commodities brokers and traders are reaping profitsBy Rory Jones and Rebecca Feng, Sept. 17, 2026 10:03 am ETSake and

What happens to the history of humanity when we stop treating its invisible worlds as footnotes?Long before modern categories separated religion from magic, medicine from ritual, astronomy from astrology, or psychology from spirit experience, human beings were already building systems for understanding forces they couldn’t directly see. Ancestors. Gods. Spirits. Dreams. Omens. Stars. Curses. Sacred names. Invisible agencies. Hidden correspondences. Fate. Death. Divination. Mystical experience. In

For 37 weeks, we've been talking about reparenting ourselves from the roots learning to nurture, protect, correct, comfort and actually listen to the person living inside our own skin.But eventually good parenting does something extraordinary: It produces an adult who can increasingly handle her own life. This week we're talking about the moment between feeling and action, making choices without needing someone else to be wrong, creating our own joy, learning from our patterns instead of punishing

Is artificial intelligence going to wipe out humanity? Could AI cause human extinction within the next ten years? Are we living through the beginning of a global collapse, or are our minds being asked to process so many real and possible threats at once that the future itself has begun to feel like an emergency? In Mailbag XLI of The Observable Unknown, Dr. Juan Carlos Rey responds to listener Sarah F., who writes that she is “scared to death” by what she sees happening in the world. She’s worried