Summary: <p><span class="caps">ENCORE</span> If two is company and three a crowd, what’s the ideal number to write a play or invent a new operating system? Some say you need groups to be creative. Others disagree: breakthroughs come only in solitude.</p> <p>Hear both sides, and find out why you always have company even when alone: meet the “parliament of selves” that drive your brain’s decision-making.</p> <p>Plus, how ideas of societies lead them to thrive or fall, and why educated conservatives have lost trust in science.</p> <h2>Guests:</h2> <ul> <li> <strong><a href="http://www.thepowerofintroverts.com/">Susan Cain</a></strong> – Author of <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0307352145/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=arweal-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0307352145">Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking</a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=arweal-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0307352145" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style=""></i> </li> <li> <strong><a href="http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~ksawyer/">Keith Sawyer</a></strong> – Psychologist at Washington University in St. Louis and author of <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001E95J7A/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=arweal-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B001E95J7A">Group Genius: The Creative Power of Collaboration</a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=arweal-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B001E95J7A" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style=""></i> </li> <li> <strong><a href="http://www.eagleman.com/%20">David Eagleman</a></strong> – Neuroscientist, Baylor College of Medicine and author of <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0307389928/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=arweal-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0307389928">Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain</a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=arweal-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0307389928" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style=""></i> </li> <li> <strong><a href="http://www.shepscenter.unc.edu/2013/05/13/gordon-gauchat-ph-d/">Gordon Gauchat</a></strong> – Sociologist, University North Carolina, Chapel Hill</li> <li> <strong><a href="http://www.cnr.usu.edu/htm/facstaff/memberid=837%20">Joseph Tainter</a></strong> – Professor, Environment & Society Department, Utah State University and author of <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/052138673X/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=arweal-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=052138673X">The Collapse of Complex Societies </a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=arweal-20&l=as2&o=1&a=052138673X" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style=""></i> </li> </ul><p><strong><a href="http://www.seti.cl/podcast-del-instituto-seti-pensando-en-grupo/">Descripción en español</a></strong></p> <p>First released April 30, 2012.</p>
