Simple Questions Podcast

🎙Asking experts simple questions.

[Simple Questions Podcast @SimplePod]

🏆Episode 63📈: How Are High Performers Made? – features Dr. Alex Auerbach, exploring the science of how high performers optimize stress, environment, and psychology to deliver consistent results under pressure.

Listen Here 👉 https://t.co/dhES6SET6N

[Simple Questions Podcast @SimplePod]

🔍Episode 60👤: What is prosopagnosia? – features Dr. Brad Duchaine, exploring face blindness and how the brain's face-processing system can break down, offering a window into memory, identity, and social perception.

Listen Here 👉 https://t.co/dhES6SET6N

[Visual Snow Initiative @VisualSnowInit]

📱New #Resource for the #VisualSnowSyndrome community!

Created by software developer and Simple Questions Podcast host Dylan Carnahan, VSS Guide is a new app designed to help people living with Visual Snow Syndrome (VSS) better understand, explain, and navigate the condition.

[Simple Questions Podcast @SimplePod]

📻Episode 61〰️: What is Morse Code? – features James Wades, President of the Morse Telegraph Club and Advisor on Steven Spielberg's Lincoln, exploring the language of dots and dashes.

Listen Here 👉 https://t.co/dhES6SFqWl

#morsecode #hamradio #communication #history #telegram

[Simple Questions Podcast @SimplePod]

Exoneree Marvin Cotton Jr. — spent 19 years, 7 months, and 12 days in prison for a murder he didn't commit, and reveals the war mindset that got him through it. Just like you assume survival is about staying calm, until you learn it's actually about refusing to relax.

[Simple Questions Podcast @SimplePod]

Author of A Field Guide to Lucid Dreaming, Jared Chiang-Zeizel, reveals why turning around and facing the monster in a nightmare can make it disappear for good. Just like you assume running is the only option, until you learn that confronting it is what actually makes it stop.

[Simple Questions Podcast @SimplePod]

Major League Eating pro competitive eater George "The Smorgasbord" Chiger reveals what actually happens to your body and mind five minutes into a competitive eating contest. It's a fight against your own instincts telling you to stop.

[Simple Questions Podcast @SimplePod]

Emmy-winning animator Scott DaRos (Robot Chicken, Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio) and Alexis Deprey explain why a full day of work on a feature film might only get you a single wave animation. TV wants five times that, no matter what.

[Simple Questions Podcast @SimplePod]

Death doula Kacie Gikonyo breaks down the deathbed regret she hears more than any other, and how it completely changed the way she runs her own life. Nobody wishes they worked more.

[Simple Questions Podcast @SimplePod]

UFC fighter Angela Hill breaks down why so many fighters burn out before they ever make it big. Just like you can't fake loving a grind you actually hate, you can't fake enjoying a process you picked for the wrong reasons.

[Simple Questions Podcast @SimplePod]

🧠Episode 60💭: What is mind-wandering? – features Dr. Jonathan Schooler, exploring how the wandering mind shapes creativity, consciousness, and the way we understand attention.

Listen Here 👉 https://t.co/dhES6SFqWl

#mindwandering #psychology #neuroscience #consciousness

[Simple Questions Podcast @SimplePod]

Dr. Jonathan Schooler (a UC Santa Barbara cognitive psychologist and pioneer in mind-wandering research) on aphantasia and attention.

Key insight: verbal mind-wandering makes you more aware when you've zoned out compared to visual/image-based wandering.

[Simple Questions Podcast @SimplePod]

⚖️Episode 59🗝️: How Do Jails Work? – features David Thaxton, who explores the differences between jails and prisons, the reality of daily operations, and how the justice system can better serve society.

Listen Here 👉 https://t.co/dhES6SFqWl

#CriminalJustice #LawAndOrder

[Simple Questions Podcast @SimplePod]

🫀Episode 58🐟: What Are Omega-3s? – features Dr. Clemens von Schacky, creator of the Omega-3 Index, who explains what omega-3s are, why they matter for your health, and how to optimize your levels.

Listen Here 👉https://t.co/dhES6SFqWl

#Omega3 #FishOil #HeartHealth

[Dylan Carnahan @DylCarn]

One conversation on @SimplePod sparked a first-of-its-kind tool for the wrongfully convicted in this country!

https://t.co/nUe5E8xz2R

[Simple Questions Podcast @SimplePod]

🐾Episode 57🐈: How Do Cats Behave? – features Dr. Mikel Delgado, a leading cat behavior expert and researcher who shares her insights into the feline mind and how we can better understand our feline companions.

Listen Here 👉https://t.co/P5mUBkVjWI

#CatBehavior
#FelineScience
#PetWelfare
#AnimalCognition
#CatOwners

[Simple Questions Podcast @SimplePod]

🧠Episode 56🔒: How Do You Survive Solitary Confinement? – features Leon Benson, who shares his journey from wrongful conviction and 10 consecutive years in solitary confinement to eventual exoneration.

Listen Here 👉 https://t.co/8i0Iel4HQ1

#WrongfulConviction #Exoneree #CriminalJustice #SolitaryConfinement #Justice

[Simple Questions Podcast @SimplePod]

🖌️Episode 54🎨: What is good design? – features @debbiemillman, breaking down good design as intention, effortlessness, and respect for the human experience.

Listen Here 👉 https://t.co/dhES6SFqWl

#design #graphicdesign #creativity #branding #designthinkin

[Simple Questions Podcast @SimplePod]

🧴Episode 54: What Is Dermatology? – features board-certified dermatologist Dr. Edidiong Kaminska as she breaks down the most common skin issues, the biggest myths in skin care, and how to build an effective routine backed by science.

🎧 Listen: https://t.co/8i0Iel4HQ1

#Dermatology #SkinCare #SkinHealth

[Simple Questions Podcast @SimplePod]

💪Episode 53: What Is Creatine? – features one of the world’s most published creatine researchers Dr. Richard B. Kreider as he breaks down how creatine actually works, what the research shows, and who benefits most.

🎧 Listen: https://t.co/P5mUBkVRMg

#Creatine #FitnessSupplements #GymSupplements