S28 E5: How To Say No To Pushy Askers (V...

Why are we so much chattier than other species? Madeleine Beekman has a surprising answer: blame the babies. Madeleine is professor emerita of evolutionary biology at the University of Sydney, and in her new book, The Origin of Language: How We Learned to Speak and Why, she expla ... Show More

You’re busy. Your team is busy. Everyone’s working hard. But for all that effort, does it ever feel like not much actually gets done? According to today’s guests, the culprit usually isn’t laziness — it’s lousy workflow design. Emails that should’ve been meetings, meetings that s ... Show More

Most of us like to think we could spot a con artist. But according to Emmy-winning television producer and investigative podcaster Johnathan Walton, the truth is much scarier: Scammers don’t look like strangers. They look like friends, neighbors, even soulmates. In his new book ⁠ ... Show More

When someone asks us to do something we don’t want to do, we often say yes even though we want to say no, because we think that saying no will feel terrible. But my guest, Dr. Vanessa Patrick, says the opposite is true: we actually feel great when we say no.So why do we have such ... Show More

In this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast, recorded before the Covid-19 lockdowns, the political philosopher Elizabeth Anderson explains why we need to be prepared to talk more, even with people with whom we strongly disagree.    

On the debut of ’The Interview,' the actress talks to David Marchese about learning to let go of other people’s opinions. 

Today's guest, Vanessa Van Edwards , is a behavioral investigator and founder of human behavior research lab, the Science of People.She's also known as a human lie-detector, master of influence and someone who has spent her adult life decoding human interaction, influence, social ... Show More

Vanessa Van Edwards is an author, Huffington Post columnist and behavioural investigator. Sheconsults Fortune 500 companies and is a professional people watcher—speaking, researching and cracking the code of interesting human behaviour for audiences around the world. Vanessa’s gr ... Show More

Scarlett Russell chats to Vanessa Vallely, the founder of WeAreTheCity, the network organisation supporting women in business. Vanessa talks about how she approached her boss- when she worked in banking- on starting her side hustle, why she went to business school at 38 years old ... Show More

On the debut of ’The Interview,' the actress talks to David Marchese about learning to let go of other people’s opinions. For more on the show, please visit nytimes.com/theinterview. 

Clea talks about Taylor Swift’s breakup with Joe Alywn and why the news is stressing her out so much. Joanna recaps her jury duty, which was also stressful and Clea shares when she decided just not to go to jury duty in New York City. And they take DMs about Clea’s love of Bob Dy ... Show More