Outstanding

I subscribe to quite a few podcasts, so many that I don’t have time to listen to all of them. But this one is always at or near the top in my selections. I agree with others that it’s great bedtime listening, but not just for the host’s soothing voice (which I originally found irritating, but have come to like). The content is often uplifting, such as recent guidance on how to achieve happiness or persuade others. Shankar Vedantam picks great topics and interviews people who are doing interesting research on those topics, asking questions that make their work intelligible to anyone, not just other academics.