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Think Again - a Big Think Podcast

30. Howard Gardner (Psychologist) – Porn/Art/Good Work

Think Again - a Big Think Podcast

Big Think / Panoply

Arts, Society & Culture

4.6594 Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2016

⏱️ 24 minutes

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At the risk of alienating your southern listeners, the American South is by far the most religious, and on every measure of turpitude it gets very good scores. -- Howard Gardner In this week's episode, Howard Gardner, creator of the theory of Multiple Intelligences and host Jason Gots discuss (among other things) whether or not pornography can be art. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Huh, have you ever wondered what a sandwich sounds like?

0:04.3

Not much to it, is there?

0:06.2

Unless, of course, it's a Walker's sandwich.

0:10.9

Mmm, that is good.

0:12.9

Now that's what Asani should sound like.

0:15.8

Go all crisp in with walkers.

0:19.0

Delicious.

0:20.0

Hi there, I'm Jason Gottz, and you're listening to Think Again, a Big Think

0:23.8

podcast.

0:25.9

Big Think is an online forum for big ideas from the world's most creative thinkers.

0:31.0

With the Think Again podcast, we're in bold and uncharted territory.

0:34.8

Short clips from our interview archives launch spontaneous discussions on every

0:38.9

imaginable subject. My guests have no idea what to expect, and neither do I. My guest today is the

0:45.3

hugely influential Harvard psychologist Howard Gardner. If you're remotely interested in the human

0:50.4

mind, you've heard of his theory of multiple intelligences, which views intelligence

0:55.3

not as a single general ability, think IQ, but as a series of different abilities, including

1:01.7

musical rhythmic, visual, spatial, and many more. Howard is the hero of those of us like me,

1:08.3

who are reasonably creative and clever with words but horrible at math.

1:12.0

Welcome to think again, Howard. Thank you. Your first book on multiple intelligences came out

1:17.3

about 30 years ago, right? And since then, you've been over the past few years working with

1:22.5

the Good Project, which, as I understand it, is a kind of research center into what constitutes goodness in different areas of human endeavor?

1:32.3

Is that?

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