Episodes

Have you ever suffered abuse, sexual assault, a serious car accident, or some other injuries? Life often leaves us with too many psychological traumas and nightmarish memories. We struggle to get rid of them and forget them, ...

What a Plant Knows: A Field Guide to the Senses is a science book published by the Scientific American, the world’s leading popular science magazine. It has been widely praised after its publication, and was listed as Amazon’...

Is the purpose of exercise just to keep fit and lose weight? Of course not. John Ratey and Eric Hagerman use convincing experimental data and case studies to demonstrate that exercise is a natural brain booster. It not only p...

Why does a child who was previously close to their parents suddenly become estranged? The internal need hidden behind children’s rebellious and aggressive behaviors is their desire for emotional attachment and responses. Many...

How does Buffett, known as the Sage of Omaha, invest? This book will take you on a journey through Buffett’s investment history. We’ll learn how Benjamin Graham, Philip A. Fisher, and Charlie Thomas Munger influenced Buffett’...

When it comes to economics, we often think of obscure concepts and principles. However, the book How An Economy Grows And Why It Crashes simplifies this by telling a story of people fishing on an island. Through this story, w...

“The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature” introduces a revolutionary theory that is against the mainstream view of human nature. It constructs new meanings and moral concepts after destroying old ones, and rebuilds...

Do you want to know how Apple founder Steve Jobs, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg and Forbes World's billionaire Mark Cuban manage their time? Based on his interviews with 7 billionaires, 13 Olympic athletes, 29 straight-A stude...

This is a book about anti-cancer methods which are based on compelling scientific research. The author wrote this valuable book using both his perspective as a physician and as a cancer patient himself. In the process of his ...

Trevor Noah was born in South Africa before the elimination of apartheid, a system of institutionalized racial segregation. Because his father is white and his mother is Black, he was born a “crime.” Though he was classified ...

Why is it increasingly difficult for kids from poor families to move upward in a society with little social mobility? In a society with little social mobility, the belief that one can become successful through hard work appea...

“The snowball just happens if you’re in the right kind of snow, and that’s what happened with me. I don’t just mean compounding money either. It’s in terms of understanding the world and what kind of friends you accumulate.” ...

The brain can tell whether a story is good or not. This book uses the findings of innovative brain science research to talk about the creation of Hollywood film scripts, novels, and so on. It reveals the secrets of our …

Bowling Alone is a relevant examination of the level of American civic engagement in community life. Through years of research, the author gathered a lot of statistics and case studies that vividly illustrate the downward tre...

A renowned American journalist reveals to us this exciting and in-depth investigative work, which is the result of years of interviews and tracking. It shows us how a small and wealthy group of radical right individuals, cent...

This book is a memoir of a man who was once known as “The Wolf of Wall Street.” At one point, Jordan Belfort made a whopping $12 million in just three minutes. Forbes magazine called him “a twisted version of …

This book predicts the collapse of capitalism by reviewing the history of its development. Driven by the Internet of Things, the Communications Internet, the Energy Internet, the Logistics Internet, and 3D printing technology...

Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook only at the age of 19. At 25, he already owned a net worth of $4 billion, making him the youngest on Forbes ’ World’s Top 10 Youngest Billionaires list that year. People hailed him as …

Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention is a thought-provoking book that has studied 91 innovators, including 14 Nobel Prize winners, for 30 years. Based on these excellent innovators’ working style, pe...

This book describes how the encrypted virtual currency Bitcoin was created. It also gives a step by step explanation of how virtual currencies became more popular, driven by people with different motivations. In this process,...

Adam Smith regarded The Theory of Moral Sentiments as far more important than his most famous work The Wealth of Nations . He devoted most of his life to revising and improving The Theory of Moral Sentiments . In this …

Looking at the title only, you may mistake this book as an art book that introduces Vermeer’s artworks. But in fact, this book starts from the details in seven of his paintings to explore the drastic social changes that took …

Nobody wants to get sick, especially with hereditary disorders. However, this book tells us that some diseases used to be the natural selection of genes because they could improve our chance of survival under specific environ...

In modern times, we can see that the foundation of modern civilization stems from Europe. Examples of this include democracy, the concept of human rights, and the industrial revolution. They have all left a deep impact on the...