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Outrage Bonus – Do I Know You? A Journey Through Neurodiversity and Inner Lives – Sadie Dingfelder
Aired Jan 15, 2025 In this episode of Outrage Overload, we dive into the fascinating world of neurodiversity with journalist and author Sadie Dingfelder, whose experiences with aphantasia and face blindness shed light on how differently people perceive and process the world around them. Aphantasia, the inability to visualize mental images, is just one example…
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Outrage 51 – How Neuroscience Can Help Us Fight Burnout in an Age of Outrage and Division – Gary Simonds, MD
David Beckemeyer
Aired Nov 6, 2024 In this episode, we talk with Gary Simonds, MD, a neurosurgeon who teaches at the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine and the Virginia Tech School of Neuroscience. Dr. Simonds first encountered burnout among his surgical team, where the emotional and physical demands of the job were overwhelming. To address this,…
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Outrage 26 – The Science of Changing Minds – David McRaney
Aired Nov 15, 2023 In this episode of the Outrage Overload podcast, we hear from David McRaney, a renowned science journalist, author, and podcaster. In this thought-provoking conversation, McRaney talks about his book “How Minds Change” and shares his wisdom on the art of changing minds and the challenges we face in an increasingly polarized…
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Outrage 011 – Put your oxygen mask on first – Alex Korb
David Beckemeyer
achieve, actions, alexcorbphd, anxiety, autopilot, bestsellingauthor, complexworld, control, controllable, distinguish, divisiveness, effort, emotionalcontrol, emotions, focus, goal, lowerthetemperature, mood, neuroscience, nextstep, otherpeoplesreactions, OutrageOverload, politicalpolarization, Psychology & Neuroscience, smalllifechanges, stress, theupwardspiralapproach, thoughts, tribalismAired Apr 19, 2023 This is part-two of a two-part series on “The Neuroscience of Outrage Porn.” We’re talking with Dr. Alex Korb, a neuroscientist and best-selling author. If you haven’t listened to part-one yet, it’s time to go listen because you don’t want to miss it. In part one, we learned about some of…
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Outrage 010 – How understanding our own limitations can help break us out of our outrage spiral -Alex Korb
David Beckemeyer
Aired Apr 5, 2023 When I set out to cover this topic, “The Neuroscience of Outrage Porn,” I had this naive vision of a neat little Schoolhouse Rock cartoonish picture: when this happens, this part of the brain turns on, kind of thing. Of course, the reality is much more complicated than that and it…
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