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Ben Lord
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S3E32 The Chains You Can't See: Stories of Inner Freedom
What if the chains holding you back… are on the inside? What if the rules constraining what you do and say and think … are ones you didn’t even know you were following? In this episode, the biggest…
S3E31 The Monk, The Dynamo, and John McPhee
Anybody out there like to do big things? Anybody out there feel like your life is so full sometimes you can barely think? Anybody out there wonder if there’s a better way? Yeah … me too. In this much…
S3E30 The Case for Smiling at Strangers
A cheery greeting to people on the street can come off as fake or even intrusive. Here why I do it anyway.
S3E29 Death in Every Bite: Eating Gently in a World of Pain
I’d been a vegetarian for over a decade, when a desert survival trip changed how I thought about food. This episode explores the hidden costs behind everything we eat and asks, “If we must kill to…
S3E28 The Astonishing Luck of Earth's Moon
"Earth’s moon is more than just a pretty light in the night sky—it’s jackpot of a cosmic lottery. From perfect eclipses to a stable axis, discover why our moon is the most astonishing stroke of luck…
S3E27 You Don’t Cut Them Oaks: Keeping a 500-Year Promise
What if the solution to your problem was worked out for you … 500 years ago. This is the story of the Oak Beams of New College, Oxford, and a secret plot that lasted for five centuries. In this…
S3E26 What the Circus Taught Me About Art
I didn’t think I liked the circus.But one night under a Cirque du Soleil tent changed that. In this episode, I reflect on why — and what it taught me about beauty, teamwork, and the fine line between…
S3E25 On Wonder, the Hedonic Treadmill, and a Canoe I Haven’t Fixed
Feeling like you’ve got this whole life thing figured out? Yeah, me neither. In this episode . . . lessons learned from trying to live a more appreciative life and screwing it up over and over again.…
S3E24 How One Boring Rock Broke All of Time
Rocks seem almost like the dictionary example of “boring.” But in 1788, some curious guys standing on a rugged Scottish shoreline saw something entirely different — a revelation that shattered the…
S3E23 The Unexpected Genius of Writing by Hand
What are you thankful for? Take a second to think … Got it? … Whatever it is, I’d bet it’s not your ballpoint pen. But maybe it should be.
S3E22 Escaping QAnon Through the Power of Radical Listening
When Megan fell into QAnon, it nearly cost her everything. This is a story about a conspiracy theory and how one person’s radical listening helped Megan break free. I’m Ben Lord. Let’s talk about…
S3E21 We're on Vacay
Back on Wednesday, July 9th.
S3E20 Dear Bicycle: A Love Letter to the World's Most Elegant Machine
What does it mean to be free? Sometimes it means two wheels and an open road. This episode is a love song to and a celebration of the bicycle--from a dead-end American suburb, to a trail in Quebec,…
S3E19 How Lord of the Rings Taught Me to Hope in Dark Times
How do we live in dark and difficult times? There are lots of places that people look to answer those questions. One place I find wisdom is J.R.R. Tolkein’s classic story, The Lord of the Rings. In…
S3E18 Unpopular Opinion--Textbooks Actually Rock
Look I know what you’re thinking … You’re thinking, “Are you kidding? Textbooks are the dullest, most lifeless, deepest vortexes of soul-suck known to humankind. Their suck goes down to the…
S3E17 The Forgotten Alternative to Age-Based Education
Who invented first grade? Or second and third for that matter? Someone had to. Someone had to decide that it was a good idea to put all of the kids of the same age in one room and have one person…
S3E16 This Library Is Trash — Literally: The Turkish Garbage Library
It’s the last place you’d expect to find a library--the long hallway of an old brick warehouse at the sanitation department . . . Long rows of white garbage trucks parked nearby. What the heck? Why…
S3E15 How One Simple Rule Transformed Child Nutrition in Vietnam
This is the story of positive deviance . . . the story of how a simple, counterintuitive approach transformed the lives of children suffering from malnutrition, empowered their families, and changed…
S3E14 How A “Petty Bureaucrat” Saved America from Thalidomide
In 1960, one woman was all that stood between American families and a medical disaster of epidemic proportions. In this episode, the story of how that woman saved untold numbers of children and how…
S3E13 Ball Lightning: Weather’s Strangest Mystery
Glowing balls of energy appear out of nowhere only to vanish a few seconds later. Ball lightning is strange, rare, and unexplained. In this episode, we explore the mystery, prod at the boundary…
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