Podcast Episodes featuring Nicholas Christakis
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Nicholas Christakis — How We’re Wired for Goodness
On Being with Krista Tippett - June 10, 2021 18:05 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 9.6K ratingsElemental human capacities like friendship and love, teaching and learning, have tremendous, constant, practical force. We don’t think of these in terms of what has given our species the grit to endure through hard times and even evolve in the long run. They’re lived social intelligence, part of...
[Unedited] Nicholas Christakis with Krista Tippett
On Being with Krista Tippett - June 10, 2021 18:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9.6K ratingsElemental human capacities like friendship and love, teaching and learning, have tremendous, constant, practical force. We don’t think of these in terms of what has given our species the grit to endure through hard times and even evolve in the long run. They’re lived social intelligence, part of...
Nicholas Christakis with Dr. Vivek Murthy: The Enduring Impact of Coronavirus
Commonwealth Club of California Podcast - October 30, 2020 22:05 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 273 ratingsNicholas Christakis is a physician and sociologist at Yale University who explores the ancient origins and modern implications of human nature. Christakis’ research focuses on the social, mathematical and biological rules that form social networks as well as the implications of human connection t...
41: Humanity's Capacity For Teaching with Nicholas Christakis
WISE On Air - January 11, 2020 14:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsAPPLY FOR THE 2020 WISE AWARDS: https://bit.ly/2t5Vqsw ----------------------------------------------------- Author of Connected and Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of A Good Society, Nicholas Christakis joins us to discuss the human being's innate ability to teach and learn from one another,...
#149: How Our Genes Shape Societies Ft. Nicholas Christakis
Politics and Polls - August 08, 2019 18:27 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 116 ratingsHistory is rife with examples of people behaving badly, sometimes with truly evil intent. Yet noted scholar Nicholas Christakis argues that humans are actually wired for goodness. His recent book, “Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society,” makes the case for what he calls a “socia...
#085 - Professor Nicholas Christakis - How Evolution Shaped Our Societies
Modern Wisdom - July 08, 2019 05:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratingsNicholas Christakis is a Professor at Yale University and an author. Much of what I've covered on the podcast has focussed on evolution's effects on the individual, but today we look at how evolution has shaped us as a collective. Expect to learn... Why is it that we live in groups? Why can we (m...
Amanpour: Fraser Nelson, Martin Fletcher, Valerie Jarrett and Nicholas Christakis
Amanpour - June 19, 2019 19:09 - 55 minutes ★★★★ - 475 ratingsFraser Nelson, editor of The Spectator, and Martin Fletcher, former foreign editor of The Times, join Christiane Amanpour to discuss the Tory leadership contest in the UK and front-runner Boris Johnson. Valerie Jarrett, former senior adviser to President Obama, reminisces about her career in poli...
49 | Nicholas Christakis on Humanity, Biology, and What Makes Us Good
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas - June 03, 2019 13:45 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3.7K ratingsIt’s easy to be cynical about humanity’s present state and future prospects. But we have made it this far, and in some ways we’re doing better than we used to be. Today’s guest, Nicholas Christakis, is an interdisciplinary researcher who studies human nature from a variety of perspective...
The Good Fight: Nicholas Christakis
Slate Daily Feed - April 24, 2019 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 1K ratingsIn this episode of The Good Fight, Yascha Mounk talks to Nicholas Christakis, the Sterling Professor of Social and Natural Sciences at Yale University, and the author of Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society, about whether human nature predisposes humans to conflict or cooperation...
Nicholas Christakis on the Evolutionary Origins of Ethics, Morality, and a Good Society
Hidden Forces - April 01, 2019 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratingsIn Episode 82 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Dr. Nicholas Christakis about the evolutionary origins of ethics, morality, and a good society. A renowned sociologist and physician, Dr. Christakis was named to Time Magazine’s 2009 list of the 100 most influential people in the worl...