A Thousand Things to Talk About

By Andrea Parrish

Questions to spark conversations. 2-3 minutes every weekday and the occasional weekend deep dive.... more

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The podcast currently has 751 episodes available.

A Thousand Things to Talk About episodes:

August 19, 2016 165: Last words
What do you hope (or plan on) your last words will be?
Show notes and links:
Digital Death and Afterlife Online Services List (The Digital Beyond)
Focusing on Lasting Legacy Prompts Environmental Action (Association for Psychological Science)
Leaving a Legacy Neutralizes Negative Effects of Death Anxiety on Creativity (Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin)
64 People and Their Famous Last Words (Mental Floss)
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3min
August 18, 2016 164: Star crossed
Can logic be applied to emotions?
Show notes and links:
Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (Wikipedia)
Decisions Are Emotional, Not Logical: The Neuroscience behind Decision Making (Big Think)
What’s Better for Business: Logic or Emotion? Answers From Neuroscience (Forbes)
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3min
August 17, 2016 163: Quality
What items do you make the decision to pay for higher quality, if you can?
Show notes and links:
Supply and Demand (Econ Library)
Higher Price, Better Product? (Living Rich Cheaply)
Low Pay, Low Quality (Education Next)
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3min
August 16, 2016 162: Stress relief
What’s your favorite stress relief?
Show notes and links:
Stress in America — Paying With Our Health (American Psychological Association)
Fact Sheet on Stress (National Institute of Mental Health)
Healthy Lifestyle Stress Management (Mayo Clinic)
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3min
August 15, 2016 161: An assumption
Is trust built on an assumption?
Show notes and links:
You assume, we guarantee: Methodology and case studies (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)
The Meanings of Trust (University of Minnesota Carlson School of Management)
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3min
August 12, 2016 160: The unknown
Is being private the same as hiding?
Show notes and links:
Private vs. Secret — what is the difference? (Jung at Heart)
You May Have ‘Nothing to Hide’ But You Still Have Something to Fear (ACLU)
Americans’ Attitudes About Privacy, Security and Surveillance (Pew Research Center)
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3min
August 11, 2016 159: Emotional choice
What’s your differentiation between baggage and price of entry?
Show notes and links:
Emotional Baggage: Unresolved Grief, Emotional Distress, Risk Perception, and Health Beliefs and Behaviors. (American Psychological Association)
Relationship Baggage Claim (Multiamory)
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3min
August 10, 2016 158: Formal ends
How do you say goodbye?
Show notes and links:
The Meaning of Goodbye (Scientific American)
Game Over (99 Percent Invisible)
On Grief and Grieving (Google Books)
The Art of Saying a Professional Goodbye (Harvard Business Review)
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3min
August 09, 2016 157: Verbosity
Do you think a point is better made short and sweet or with a tsunami of words?
Show notes and links:
The need for articulate messages in user interfaces can outweigh the need to keep things brief (IBM Developer Works)
Humans have shorter attention span than goldfish, thanks to smartphones (The Telegraph)
How To Start a YouTube Channel (2Veritasium)
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3min
August 08, 2016 156: Big gestures
What’s your opinion on grand romantic gestures?
Show notes and links:
I Dated Christian Grey: How Women Are Groomed For Abuse (The Mary Sue)
I Did It Because I Never Stopped Loving You (Communications Research)
Put down the boom box: 28 romantic gestures that are actually creepy (AV Club)
12 Wildly Romantic Gestures in Movies (That Don’t Cost a Thing) (The Simple Dollar)
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3min

FAQs about A Thousand Things to Talk About:

How many episodes does A Thousand Things to Talk About have?

The podcast currently has 751 episodes available.