Podcast Episodes featuring Robert Sapolsky

Dr. Robert Sapolsky: What Does It Take to Really Understand Our Decisions?

Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda - September 24, 2019 01:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.3K ratings
What can animals teach us about our own decision-making process? Every summer for 25 years, Dr. Robert Sapolsky has been studying baboons on the plains of Africa, where he's learned a surprising amount about why we behave the way we do. In this episode Alan Alda speaks with Dr. Sapolsky about hi...

Drive with Dr. Peter Attia: #51 - Robert Sapolsky, Ph.D.: The pervasive effect of stress - is it killing you?

Podcast Notes Playlist: Nutrition - May 02, 2019 22:48 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
Podcast Notes Key Takeaways The main hormone associated with the stress response is cortisol (also known as a glucocorticoid) One downstream side effect of cortisol is that it increases glucose levels in the blood (it facilitates its release from storage sites in the liver and muscle) “What y...

Episode 188 - Robert Sapolsky

Talk Nerdy with Cara Santa Maria - December 12, 2017 06:55 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 923 ratings
Cara is joined by famed neuroendocrinologist Dr. Robert Sapolsky, author of the new book "Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst." They discuss the interplay between neurobiology, environment, development, and evolution in our decision-making processes, for better or worse. In seekin...

113 Robert Sapolsky - Being Human

Inquiring Minds - December 04, 2015 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 821 ratings
Robert Sapolsky is a MacArthur “Genius” Fellow, a professor of biology and neurology at Stanford University, and a research associate with the Institute of Primate Research at the National Museum of Kenya. We talked to Sapolsky about what it means to be human, what we humans can learn from oth...

Robert Sapolsky

Freethought Radio - February 03, 2007 21:51 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 524 ratings
Featured guest is bestselling science author, Stanford scientist and atheist Robert Sapolsky, with a lively discussion of primates, atheism, evolution and naturalistic explanations for the origin of religions. The show includes an update on the Foundation's faith-based challenge, going before the...