Episodes: 173
Frequency: Every two weeks
Rating: 4.9/5.0
Estimated listeners: 1,000 - 10,000
Listener location: USA
YouTube: 861 subscribers
Instagram: 690 followers
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Kensy Cooperrider - Cognitive scientist and writer whose work focuses on minds, intelligence, and cognition across humans and other beings.
Rachna Reddy - Chimpanzee Adolescence, Life History, Social Behavior, Caregiving, Dominance, Mentorship, Female Dispersal, And The Ngogo Chimpanzee Community.
Damin Blasi - Linguistic Diversity, Language Change, Language Evolution, Cognitive Science’s Dependence On English, Linguistic Inequality, And The Grambank Database.
Sam England - Electroreception, Electrical Sensing In Aquatic And Terrestrial Animals, Electrolocation, Electrostatic Pollination, And The Ecological Roles Of Electricity.
Sheina Lew-Levy - Childhood Across Cultures, Child Development Among Foraging Communities, Peer Cultures, Play, Teaching, Toys, And The Evolution Of Childhood.
Dorsa Amir - Childhood Across Cultures, Developmental Psychology, Risk, Peer Cultures, Parenting Norms, And The WEIRD Problem.
Culture, from birth to death (metal)
October 23, 2026
Culture can be a little hard to wrap our minds around. It's seemingly everywhere, enveloping us—but where is it exactly? What are its core properties? How does culture change? Why does it change? What tools and techniques should we be using to understand its vagaries? How can we illuminate this living, breathing, omnipresent, amorphous thing? My guest today is Dr. Jacob Foster. Jacob is a Professor of Informatics and Cognitive Science at Indiana University – Bloomington; he's also an Externa...
Island of the tool users
October 09, 2026
Tool use is rare in the animal kingdom—but maybe not as rare as we once thought. Since Jane Goodall famously observed a chimpanzee fishing for termites, many new examples of animals using tools have come to light. Birds using sticks to forage for grubs. Sea otters using rocks to smash open mussels. Digger wasps using stones to close off their burrows. But as these examples mount, so do the scientific questions. What is tool use, really? What different forms does it take? Does it always imply ...
Cognitive offloading and its consequences
September 25, 2026
For thousands of years—maybe for as long as we've been human—we've offloaded our thinking. We've counted on our fingers. We've carved tallies into bone. We've invented a long series of tools to help us reason, remember, and manage information—tools like abacuses, calendars, writing systems, calculators, smartphones, and many, many more. So cognitive offloading is hardly new—but the questions around it seem newly urgent. As cognitive technologies accumulate, as opportunities for offloading tem...
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