Hidden Brain

How to Make a Difference: Part 2

If you think about what makes someone a good person, you might think about their values, their character, their integrity. But researchers who study effective altruism argue that being a good person is not enough — you also have to think carefully about how to translate good intentions into good outcomes.

Daily Stoic

Why The Greatest Authors Still Understand You | Rich Cohen

Most of the people in the past thought that they were doing the right thing. So in order to judge them it's not just that you're having more information and everything. You have to believe that you are doing the right thing right now. You have to believe that what you're doing the things you're not even thinking of won't be judged very harshly in 30 or 40 years by your grandkids.

Radiolab

23 Weeks 6 Days

Their story contains an entire universe of questions about the lines between life and death, reflex and will, and the confusing tug of war between two basic moral touchstones: doing no harm...and doing everything in our power to help.

Book of the Day

Mary Beard's 'Talking Classics' examines our obsession with the ancient world

I've never wanted to say that the classical world offers us ready-made lessons to solve our own problems. But, whatever I morally think about some of the things that the ancient world in general stood for, I do know that the ancient writers faced the same kinds of problems that we face.

Radiolab

Oliver Sipple

What happens next makes us wonder what a moment, or a movement, or a whole society can demand of one person. And how much is too much?

Radiolab

What is a Pig Worth?

During his trial, Wayne made a truly bizarre argument that forced the jury, and all of us, to stare straight at our complicated, sometimes uncomfortable relationship with animals.