Jun 2025

Never Do Nothing Tips To Start Exercising

In this excerpt, Dr. Natalie Marshall shares tips on starting exercise routines. Dr. Marshall emphasizes how doing something, exercise-wise, is significantly better than doing nothing. Series: "Osher WISE: Well-being and Integrative Science for Everyone" [Health and Medicine] [Sh ... Show More

4m 55s

Jun 2025

How Do We Increase Muscle Mass?

In this excerpt, Dr. Natalie Marshall focuses on numerous forms of strength training as it is the best way to increase muscle mass and and it will help you get started “building muscle for life." Series: "Osher WISE: Well-being and Integrative Science for Everyone" [Health and Me ... Show More

2m 19s

Jun 2025

Carbohydrates Are Not Your Enemy

In this program, Dr. Sean Spencer explores the healthy way in which carbohydrates are digested throughout the body. To understand this concept Dr. Spencer discusses the difference between digesting simple sugars and complex carbohydrates. Series: "Osher WISE: Well-being and Int ... Show More

9m 11s

Jan 2022

Once More from the Top

Poet Fiona Sampson, conductor Alice Farnham, and broadcaster Tom Service join Ian McMillan to explore the maths, metaphors and musical terms that make up the language of conducting. Plus comedy writer Jack Bernhardt takes a sideways look at Hollywood's take on the tortured genius ... Show More

44m 5s

Jun 2020

Wisdom for the future

It’s possible to create extraordinary beauty in the face of stress, separation, and illness. Explore the value of music during this difficult time with Richard Kogan, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical Center, and noted concert pianist. Guided by the life s ... Show More

24m 27s

Sep 2022

We Contain Multitudes

In an era dominated by labels, how can we fully embrace the nuances of being human? This hour, TED speakers share ideas for reconciling conflicting emotions and circumstances to make art and find joy. Guests include authors Gabby Rivera and Susan Cain, musician and podcast creato ... Show More

49m 38s

Jun 2014

The Medicalisation of Depression

In an age where pharmacy is a global industry, stigma and medicine are now in the position where they are the co-constructors of illness on one hand and mutually exclusive players on the other. Professor Sonia Ryang (Anthropology and International Studies, University of Iowa) ext ... Show More

35m 32s

Jun 2023

Gut instinct

The Skeptic Editor Michael Marshall talks to Matthew Sweet about how we judge actions and truth. They're joined by New Generation Thinkers Elsa Richardson, who is a historian of the emotions at the University of Strathclyde working on a popular history of the gut-brain connection ... Show More

45m 58s

Sep 2023

Illuminating an Inclusive Path Through Recognition

Michèle Lamont, Professor of Sociology at Harvard University, discusses her book Seeing Others: How Recognition Works and How It Can Heal a Divided World. Hosts: Tim Stenovec and Simone Foxman. Producer: Paul Brennan. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

9m 53s

Sep 2023

Power Play

This week, we drop in on a conversation between Mary Beard and two former TLS editors; and Anne Enright joins us to talk about turning poet in her new novel.'Emperor of Rome: Ruling the ancient Roman world', by Mary Beard'Big Caesars and little Caesars: How they rise and how they ... Show More

1h 5m

Mar 2019

Home truths - trailer

People who have faced extreme hardships share their story and life learnings with Wendy Searle. Wendy speaks to people who have been bent by adversity, have faced it head-on and have come out the other side stronger. These people share how they overcame the dark times and what it ... Show More

1m 31s

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