Shaun meets Michael Greger, the bestselling author of How Not To Die and the How Not To Die Cookbook. They discuss the foods scientifically proven to prevent and reverse disease, ways to make broccoli sexy, and the shocking case of the Oprah Me

Episode 6 - Will Storr

Sep 21st, 2017 32m 4s

We live in the age of the individual. We are supposed to be slim, prosperous, happy, extroverted and popular. This is our culture’s image of the perfect self. We see this person everywhere: in advertising, in the press, all over social media. W

Episode 5 - Tasha Eurich

Jun 30th, 2017 29m 37s

In this episode Shaun meets Tasha Eurich, an organisational psychologist and expert in self-awareness, to discuss her new book Insight. Behold the terror of Bald Steve, and the even more horrifying prospect of The Dinner of Truth... Hosted on A

Episode 4 - Jonathan Taplin

May 16th, 2017 29m 26s

This week we hear from a canary in the Silicon Valley coal mine, in the form of the former tour manager for The Band and producer of Mean Streets, Jonathan Taplin. He breaks down for Shaun why the rise of technological mega-corporations is bad

Episode 3 - Lisa Feldman Barrett

Apr 12th, 2017 36m 2s

World-renowned neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett joins Shaun Keaveny in the studio to discuss her new book How Emotions Are Made. She argues that the perceived scientific wisdom around how emotions are created by the brain is dramatically, ev

Episode 2 - Caroline Webb

Mar 6th, 2017 27m 59s

This week on Not So Simple, Shaun Keaveny spends a morning with Caroline Webb, the author of How To Have Have A Good Day. Caroline is an economist and executive coach who has spent years teaching her clients how to use the latest insights from

Episode 1 - Steven Johnson

Feb 20th, 2017 32m 17s

In our first ever episode, Shaun Keaveny talks to Steven Johnson, one of the world's foremost technology writers, about his new book Wonderland: How Play Made The Modern World. After an exclusive extract from the book, the pair have a wide-rang

Trailer

Feb 16th, 2017 30s

Join Shaun Keaveny as he speaks to some of the world’s foremost experts in biology, psychology, economics, journalism, and beyond, in order to ask burning questions such as: what does that mean? What are you on about? And: huh? Hosted on Acast.