Brain Food Dude #49

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A Long Swim

Awesome TED Talk...

The Super Bowl

Nothing I love more than going to a Super Bowl party armed with some good statistics. Listen to this week's episode of Freakonomics to learn more.

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How to Make Your Team More Creative

Jonah Lehrer recently wrote a New Yorker article about how to improve teamwork, and why brainstorming doesn't work. He discusses his article on this episode of The New Yorker Out Loud.

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Read the full article here.

Making Your Workplace Creative

How do you make your workspace more creative? Learn on this episode of the HBR Ideacast, with Scott Doorley & Scott Witthoft, authors of Make Space.

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Glock

On Fresh Air this week, and interview with Paul Barrett, author of Glock: The Rise of America's Gun.

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What's the Healthiest Brain Food?

Michael Pollen says when you go to the supermarket, stick to the edges, and consume mostly foods that are whole and unprocessed. What's the brain food equivalent? Reading a bill? Reading a piece of classic literature? Let us know your thoughts and ideas.

Brain Food Dude #48

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Nassim Taleb

This week on Econ Talk, a discussion with one of my favorite thinkers, Nassim Taleb.

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Middle Age

Patricia Coen wrote the book on middle age. Listen to this interview with Coen on the NY Times Book Review Podcast, about her new book: In Our Prime: The Invention of Middle Age.

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Information Diet

Some of my favorite brain food is about brain food, such as this NPR interview with Clay Johnson, author of The Information Diet: A Case for Conscious Consumption.

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Who Wrote That Book?

Studio 360 did a great segment about ghost writers, who are probably more prominent than you had thought.

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David Brooks

David Brooks talks social science on politics, on this episode of Big Ideas.

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Brain Food Dude #47

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Laugh Tracks

On the Media did a great segment about the history of the laugh track.

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The Bad Show

Radiolab did an entire show titled "the bad show," which is really quite good.

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Sweatshops

This week's This American Life is one of the best podcasts I've heard in a long time.

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Trend Forecasting

This week on To the On the To the Best of Our Knowledge, a show all about trend forecasting.

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The Brain Foodie Awards

Finally, after much speculation and predictions, here are the best podcasts of 2011:

6) Freakonomics
5) The Moth
4) WTF
3) Fresh Air
2) Radiolab
1) This American Life

Plus, the dude's bonus picks:
-TED Talks
-Thomas Jefferson Hour
-Planet Money

Brain Food Dude #46

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This podcast is about a lot of things, including terrorism, psychology, hiring practices, heroes, and the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel.

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What's Wrong With Washington?

Laurence Lessig, author of Republic Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress and How to Stop It has a lot to say about government, and what's wrong with it. If you pay attention to politics, this episode of On Point is a must-listen podcast.

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How We Decide

This week on To the Best of Our Knowledge, an interview with Jonah Lehrer, author of How We Decide.

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Trading Adds Value

This week on Planet Money they discuss economics, how trade adds value, and why giving gifts for Christmas is inefficient.

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Economics for Humans

Economics are broken according to Umair Haque. Listen how on this episode of the HBR Ideacast.

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Science, Brian Greene, and the Higgs Boson

Nobody makes science interesting like Brian Greene, and he was interviewed last week on Point of Inquiry talking about science, Higgs Boson, his television series Fabric of the Cosmos, and much more.

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