Gender Inequality and Peace, Worm Robot, Self-Expectations

The Matt Townsend Show - Season 4, Episode 33

Feb 26, 2015 2:00 pm
2:20:13 mins

Gender Equality and World Peace (12:01) Perhaps if we treated women better globally, we'd do a better job achieving world peace. Matt talks with Valerie M. Hudson, Professor and George H. W. Bush Chair in the Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University. Worm Robot and the Brain (1:01:16) Timothy Busbice has built a "worm robot." It's a machine that mimics the thought processes inside's a worm's mind. He says he built it in an effort to understand better how neurons work. Self-Imposed Expectations and Happiness (1:46:25) Matt talks with Jaime Kurtz, Ph.D., an associate professor at James Madison University, about the effect of self-imposed expectations on our emotional state, specifically: How to achieve sustainable happiness and how to enjoy the important events of our lives without unrealistic expectations.

Episode Segments

Episode Segments

Gender Equality and World Peace

49m

Perhaps if we treated women better globally, we'd do a better job achieving world peace. Matt talks with Valerie M. Hudson, Professor and George H. W. Bush Chair in the Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University.

Worm Robot and the Brain

45m

Timothy Busbice has built a "worm robot." It's a machine that mimics the thought processes inside's a worm's mind. He says he built it in an effort to understand better how neurons work.

Self-Imposed Expectations and Happiness

34m

Matt talks with Jaime Kurtz, Ph.D., an associate professor at James Madison University, about the effect of self-imposed expectations on our emotional state, specifically: How to achieve sustainable happiness and how to enjoy the important events of our lives without unrealistic expectations.