Minding Emotions: music edition ... The emotional shift between minor and major chords ... Examining tonal dissonance in Western music ... When melodies become “pregnant with meaning” ... Why we find beauty in disharmony ... Rami: Social class and culture imbue music with meaning, too ... Is music hardwired in humans? ... How practicing art and music hones the eye and the ear ...

Amy's self-help book, Unf*ckology ... Amy’s path from “the cooties girl” to advice columnist ... Impersonating your way to the real you ... How to overcome fear and anxiety ... Why shame is neither good nor bad ... Amy: Be authentic to your values, not to your self ... The wrong way to get people to change ...

Introducing the Mind-Body Problems podcast ... Monistic materialism: there’s only matter ... Dualism: mind and matter are separate things ... Panpsychism: all matter is conscious ... Deepak’s consciousness-only theory ...

Viewing the Trump-Kanye meeting through the lens of mental illness ... The shared traits that make Trump and Kanye irresistible to the media ... How online news and social media created the "attention economy" ... Did reality TV remake reality? ... Jake and Logan Paul: brothers, YouTube superstars, and possible sociopaths ... How social media helps people with mental illness ...

Does democracy have to mean voting? ... Democratic systems as forms of technologies ... Imagining many legislatures, each devoted to a single issue ... Capture and accountability in elections ... How would randomly selected politicians learn about policy? ... Leveraging collective knowledge for political decisions ... Alex: Elections encourage short-term focus and tribalism ...

John's book on unconscious motivations, Before You Know It ... Why thinking about the flu makes you more opposed to immigration ... Are ethnic and gender stereotypes self-fulfilling prophecies? ... The Protestant work ethic as a core part of American psychology ... Don’t resist temptations. Avoid them! ... How to use an "implementation intention" to get things done ... How have John’s famous lever-pulling experiments held up over time? ... Is the "replication crisis" really a crisis? ...

What is it about social media that's so depressing? ... Twitter, the unpopular website that elites love ... Is what happens on social media real or fake? ... Is @laurenoyler the same as Lauren Oyler? ... How everything in life became "toxic" ... Do all online communities eventually become toxic? ... The moral challenge of social media ...

Is Buddhism a philosophy or a religion? ... Surya Das: "I'm enlightened enough for now" ... Attachment, aversion, and "original goodness" ... Is an enlightened person by definition a moral person? ... Not-self and Emerson's "transparent eyeball" ... The Dzogchen approach to enlightenment ... Surya Das: Trump has the spark of Buddha nature (and so do you) ...

The hot new trend of being a homebody ... Social, economic, and technological reasons young people are staying in ... The surprisingly controversial topic of skincare ... Millennials using apps to order food delivered by Millennials ... Netflix and chill and take Instagram selfies wearing sheet masks ... Is being a homebody the modern way to go to Walden Pond? ...

Crispin’s essay on the politics of geography and representation ... Why did rural Americans feel that Trump’s victory was their victory? ... Is “one person, one vote” a wrong-headed view of political representation? ... Where political representation meets art and aesthetics ... Can Americans' interests be represented accurately? ... Is being from a rural area akin to being a racial minority? ... What does our current system of political representation get right or wrong? ...