Nervous Habits With Ricky Rosen
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- Duration: 113:59:14
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Synopsis
Join neurotic hyper-caffeinated host Ricky Rosen on a harrowing, spastic journey through the pitfalls of society.If you've ever been at the check-out aisle of the supermarket when you remembered that you left the bathroom light on, this show is absolutely for you.
Episodes
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Nervous Habits - Episode 58 (Part II): Facial Recognition for Purchases, Brain Machine Interface Technology, ’Cyber Doubles,’ and ‘Memorial Bots:’ The Future of You with Futurist Tracey Follows
11/06/2021 Duration: 01h39minNervous Habits host Ricky Rosen is joined by Futurist and author of the book, The Future of You, Tracey Follows to explore issues including… —Why in the future, you might be paying for your goods at the supermarket, not with a credit card or cell phone, but by using your face to make transactions, —How people might be able to ‘thought control’ machines in the future, —How, by preserving and uploading your mind files, it might be possible to create a digital version - or cyber double - of yourself, and finally, —How some companies are collecting users’ data so that AI can enable them to continue to have text or voice conversations with their loved ones after they die.
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Nervous Habits - Episode 58 (Part I): Digital Life Extension, Toilets As Mini-Laboratories, Robotic Pets, and 3D Printed Fast Food: A Vision of the World in 2050 with Futurologist Dr. Ian Pearson
04/06/2021 Duration: 01h36minNervous Habits host Ricky Rosen is joined by futurologist Dr. Ian Pearson to forecast what the world will look like in 2050, including: —Digital life extension; —The toilets of the future; —The prospect that sex with robots might occur more often than sex between humans; —Hypersonic travel; —3-D printed fast food; and finally —A digital afterlife.
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Nervous Habits - Episode 57: Monkey See, Monkey Do: The Power of Mimetic (Imitative) Desires In Our Everyday Lives With Best-Selling Author of “Wanting” Luke Burgis
21/05/2021 Duration: 01h30minNervous Habits host Ricky Rosen is joined by Best-Selling Author Luke Burgis to explore issues including… —Why exactly we want the things that we want, —What’s so special about mirror neurons, —How babies learn to imitate within minutes of birth, —Why fulfillment stories are an effective way to overcome your mimetic impulses, and finally… —Why you should pick one desire to suffer over, and let go of lesser desires.
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Nervous Habits - Episode 56: The 21st Century Space Race: Elon Musk’s Relentless Efforts to Disrupt the Aerospace Industry (And Toast His Pop-Tarts) with Senior Space Editor Eric Berger
07/05/2021 Duration: 01h16minNervous Habits host Ricky Rosen is joined by Senior Space Editor at Ars Technica, and author of Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days that Launched SpaceX, Eric Berger to explore issues including… —How Elon Musk demands the impossible from his employees - and more often than not gets it, —The specific challenges associated with creating a commercially developed, privately funded rocket, —SpaceX’s early struggles with competing with industry titans like Boeing and Lockheed, and launching the Falcon 1, and finally… —The likelihood that SpaceX will get us to Mars within our lifetime.
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Nervous Habits - Episode 55: Multi-Tasking, Motivation, and The Science of Behavior Change with Best-Selling Author, Researcher, and the Founder of the Stanford Behavior Design Lab Dr. BJ Fogg
23/04/2021 Duration: 01h09minNervous Habits host Ricky Rosen is joined by Best-Selling Author, Researcher, Behavior Scientist and Founder of the Stanford Behavior Design Lab Dr. BJ Fogg to explore issues including: —The evolutionary advantage to habits, and whether other animals exhibit them, —How habits make multi-tasking (or task-switching) possible, —The incentive shift from extrinsically motivated behavior to intrinsically motivated behavior, —The tiny habits recipe to adopting new behaviors, and finally… —How Dr. Fogg is using the principles of behavior design on projects ranging from screen-time reduction to climate action.
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Nervous Habits - Episode 54: The Business of Love: Why Dating Apps Aren’t Invested In Your Happily Ever After’s with Best-Selling Author of “Date-onomics” Jon Birger
09/04/2021 Duration: 01h33minNervous Habits host Ricky Rosen is joined by Best-Selling Author and Dating Expert Jon Birger to explore issues including… —Why you should think of dating apps more like visiting the eBay marketplace than actually looking for a life partner… —Why offline relationships are shown to be three or four times longer lasting than online relationships… —How the disproportionately high number of female, relative to male, college graduates affects the dating culture… —Why the workplace is the best place to meet someone, and what is responsible for the decline in workplace relationships over the last decade, and finally… —The suitor’s advantage - why whichever party makes the first move is most likely to achieve the best outcome.
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Nervous Habits - Episode 53: LSD, DMT, and Magic Mushrooms: The Anti-Depressants of the Future: Exploring the Possibility of Psychedelics to Treat Mental Health Disorders with Professor of Neuroscience Dr. Austin Lim
26/03/2021 Duration: 01h09minNervous Habits host Ricky Rosen is joined by Professor of Neuroscience Dr. Austin Lim to explore issues including… —Why psychedelics like LSD, DMT and magic mushrooms are classified as Schedule I controlled substances… —What sort of impact these drugs have on the neurotransmitters in your brain in both the short and long-term… —Why the placebo effect is so prevalent in the treatment of depression and anxiety, and finally… —How likely it will be that these drugs might be used in the future, in lieu of antidepressants, to treat mental health disorders.
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Nervous Habits - Episode 52: Hail to the Chiefs: Rankings America’s Best (and Worst) Presidents with Chair of the Department of Political Science at the University of Chicago Professor William Howell
12/03/2021 Duration: 01h12minNervous Habits host Ricky Rosen is joined by Professor in American Politics, and chair of the Political Science Department at the University of Chicago, William Howell. Professor Howell and Ricky explore issues including: —How the historical rankings of the American presidents will change in the coming years as society’s values shift over time… —Whether there is a correlation between a president’s approval ratings and their historical rankings… —Whether any presidents might be added or removed from Mount Rushmore in the next few decades, and finally… —What will ultimately be the defining legacy of the Trump presidency, and how the Republican Party can move forward in the next four years.
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Nervous Habits - Episode 51: A Catastrophic Extinction Event Is Right Around the Corner: A Conversation With Award-Winning Documentary Filmmaker, and Director of the Netflix Documentary “A Life On Our Planet” Dr. Keith Scholey
26/02/2021 Duration: 01h31minNervous Habits host Ricky Rosen is joined by Award-Winning Documentary Filmmaker, Director of the Netflix Documentary “A Life On Our Planet,” and Executive Producer of the Netflix Documentary Series “Our Planet,” Dr. Keith Scholey to explore issues including: —Why biodiversity in our wildlife isn’t just nice to have - it is critical to the continuation of the human race; —Why the ocean is a key ally in our battle against global warming; —Why, if we continue on the path that we are on, it will lead to a crisis in global food production, parts of the earth being rendered uninhabitable, and eventually another mass extinction event for most animal species; —Why the crashing insect populations all around us poses a threat to our food supply; and —What all of us can do TODAY to prevent this terrifying future from becoming a reality.
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Nervous Habits - Episode 49: We Are Ants Fighting Atop A Grain of Sand: Probing the Existence of Extraterrestrial Life with Astrophysicist and Chair of the Department of Astronomy at Harvard University Professor Avi Loeb
12/02/2021 Duration: 01h13minNervous Habits host Ricky Rosen is joined by astrophysicist and Professor of Science at Harvard University Avi Loeb to explore issues including: —How confident we can be that there is extraterrestrial life somewhere in our galaxy, —What exactly scientists are looking for when they look for life beyond earth, —Why the scientific community has been reluctant to invest in the search for extraterrestrial life, and finally… —The likelihood that the earth will ever be drawn into a black hole.
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Nervous Habits - Episode 48: Checkmate: A Crash Course in Chess with Grandmaster and U.S. Olympic Gold Medallist Sam Shankland
29/01/2021 Duration: 01h36minNervous Habits host Ricky Rosen is joined by American chess grandmaster and U.S. Olympic Gold Medallist Sam Shankland to explore issues including: —The onerous process of becoming a grandmaster in chess, and why SO few chess players ever earn the title of grandmasters, —Just how realistic the Netflix series, the Queens Gambit, was at portraying chess,—Why some chess games can last up to 7 hours,—Whether or not humans will ever be able to compete with computers at chess, and finally… —Why people who have never played chess before should still care about chess.
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BONUS EPISODE Featuring Two-Pound Burger-Eating Challenge Amidst A Conversation About Life After 75, Near-Death Experiences, and the Afterlife
15/01/2021 Duration: 58minCheck out the full video on the official Nervous Habits Podcast Youtube channel! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKl2NHIDUNo&feature=youtu.be
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Nervous Habits - Episode 47: Level Up: Using the “Lazy Genius” Life Hacks to Save You Time and Energy with Best-Selling Author Kendra Adachi
13/11/2020 Duration: 01h16minNervous Habits host Ricky Rosen is joined by Best-Selling Author, and Podcaster, Kendra Adachi to explore issues including: —Why we should remove the stigma from being “lazy”, —Why you should pick and choose one or two things to be a genius at, and be comfortable being *lazy* about everything else… —How to use the "Lazy Genius" principles to survive the carousel of crises of 2020.
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Nervous Habits - Episode 46: The Chaos Antidote: A Skeptic’s Guide to Mindfulness and Meditation with Author Aimee Morgan
09/10/2020 Duration: 01h05minNervous Habits host Ricky Rosen is joined by Author, and Meditation and Mindfulness Expert, Aimee Morgan to explore issues including: —How you can train your mind and body into being responsive instead of reactive... —The importance of meta-attention in mindfulness (paying attention to what you’re paying attention to)... —Some alternatives to meditation for people who can’t seem to turn off their stream of consciousness, and finally… —Why you should consider a half-day or a full-day of complete silence.
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Nervous Habits - Episode 45: An Afternoon Inside the Dark Web
24/09/2020 Duration: 43minNervous Habits host Ricky Rosen addresses those pressing issues that are keeping you awake at night, including: —In general, why you should be wary of using search engines on the mainstream web... —How to access the hidden part of the internet that makes up 95 to 96 percent of the total internet landscape, and is not accessible by search engines, and finally… —How you can actually harness the anonymous power of the dark web for good (and not to engage in illicit or nefarious activities).
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Nervous Habits - Episode 44: The Shopping Cart Theory, and Eat Real Food with Certified Health and Life Coach Denise Stegall
11/09/2020 Duration: 01h13minNervous Habits host Ricky Rosen is joined by Certified Health and Life Coach and C.E.O. of LivingHealthyList.com, Denise Stegall, to explore issues including: —What is responsible for the explosion in demand for organic and locally grown foods in the last decade, —The problem with eating fruits with pesticides on them, —Why you should avoid eating meat that has been injected with antibiotics at all costs, and finally… —The Dirty Dozen: the 12 fruits and vegetables that you should be buying organically.