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Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg

Spencer Greenberg

Clearer Thinking is a podcast about ideas that truly matter. If you enjoy learning about powerful, practical concepts and frameworks, wish you had more deep, intellectual conversations in yo...

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Listen to Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg, a Science & Medicine podcast by Spencer Greenberg. Stream 316 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.

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The Twelve Levers for a better life (with Jeremy Stevenson)

Read the full transcript here. Why is so much self-help useless, and why is some of it genuinely life-changing? What separates a powerful ps...

00:42:47Jun 19, 2026

The Hidden History of Evidence-Based Everything (with Helen Pearson)

Read the full transcript here. How do we know whether the things we do every day actually work? Why do so many practices in medicine, parent...

01:17:00Jun 12, 2026

Is cash a better form of charitable aid? (with Nick Allardice)

Read the full transcript here. How much good is lost when charity optimizes only for what can be measured? When does a cost-effectiveness mo...

01:15:34Jun 5, 2026

When painful thoughts feel true but aren't (with Christine Padesky)

Read the full transcript here. Why do our minds sometimes need experiments more than insight? What changes when therapy becomes a way of pra...

01:20:23Jun 1, 2026

Could an international agreement protect us from dangerous AI? (with Malo Bourgon)

Read the full transcript here. What are the world’s leading AI companies actually trying to build when they talk about superintelligence? Is...

01:27:44May 22, 2026

Is patriarchy gone or hiding in plain sight? (with Kate Manne)

Read the full transcript here. What should count as trauma, and what gets lost when the word expands to cover ordinary distress? Why do some...

01:38:05May 13, 2026

Is string theory BS or the most promising theory in physics? (with Christian Ferko)

Read the full transcript here. How do we tell the difference between a theory that is incomplete and a theory that is simply wrong? What sho...

01:38:16Apr 24, 2026

What's true and what's myth about trauma? (with George Bonnano)

Read the full transcript here. What should count as trauma, and what gets lost when the word expands to cover ordinary distress? Why do some...

01:21:52Apr 24, 2026

Are we in an honesty crisis? (with Christian B. Miller)

Read the full transcript here. Is dishonesty best understood as a permanent feature of human nature or as a condition that worsens when ince...

01:14:52Apr 17, 2026

What impact will AI have on jobs and the economy? (with Anton Korinek)

Read the full transcript here. Could AI trigger an economic break as large as the Industrial Revolution, or even larger? What changes when l...

01:19:45Apr 9, 2026

The seductiveness of secular gurus (with Christopher Kavanagh)

Read the full transcript here. What makes broad, all-encompassing worldviews so attractive in periods of institutional distrust? Why do char...

02:00:31Apr 3, 2026