A Fascinating Look At Why You Are Here & Why We Run Toward People We Love

Something You Should Know

Mike Carruthers | OmniCastMedia

Social Sciences, Science, Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement

4.5 • 4.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2020

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

The sandwich has been around for thousands of years in some form or another. Do you know how many sandwiches the average person eats in a year? Or why some sandwiches are called subs? Listen as I explain some fascinating facts about sandwiches to kickoff this episode. https://allthatsinteresting.com/sandwich-history You have no doubt contemplated questions like: Why am I here? Or what is my purpose? Will my life really matter? What legacy will I leave? Listen as I delve into these and other questions with one of my favorite guests, Brian Greene. Brian is a theoretical physicist, mathematician, professor at Columbia University and authored several books. His latest is Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe (https://amzn.to/2GsvlKO). If you have ever pondered the meaning of life, you will want to hear what Brian has to say. Whenever you are trying to convince someone of something, there is one key ingredient that will make the process a lot easier. And a lot of people miss this completely. Listen as I explain what it is. Source: Mark Magnacca author of So What (https://amzn.to/3cT1De3) Why do we often run to hug people we haven’t seen in a while? Why do we walk slowly when we are sad? And this is really interesting – Parkinson’s patients tend to move slowly but they don’t have to. They could move faster and will move faster if there is a reason to. So what is going on here? What controls the speed at which we move? Reza Shadmehr is a professor of biomedical engineering and neuroscience at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and author of the book Vigor: Neuroeconomics of Movement (https://amzn.to/3ladKpP) and he joins me to discuss this fascinating connection between what is going on in your brain that determines how quickly or slowly you move and why it is important. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Alright, Bobo, what's the story with Nick?
0:02.6	A sense of adventure and he's into cafe hop in, say no more.
0:07.0	You know when you just know, from interest badges to profile prompts,
0:11.4	Bumble helps you find out more about your matches.
0:14.2	Hey, Nick.
0:15.5	I know the perfect spot for coffee in the morning.
0:18.5	So whether you find you have things in common or uncommon,
0:22.6	you can feel confident making the first move.
0:25.3	Are you ready for that feeling?
0:27.8	Find that feeling on Bumble.
0:31.7	Today on something you should know,
0:34.0	why are some sandwiches called subs?
0:37.0	I'll explain that.
0:38.4	Then a fascinating discussion on why we're here.
0:41.8	Why we're here now and why we're here at all.
0:45.2	When you recognize that we're the product of a series of quantum events
0:49.3	that reach all the way back to the big van,
0:51.7	then each of the quantum events that took place could have turned out differently,
0:55.6	building a world in which we would not be here.
0:59.3	And yet we are here.
1:01.3	Then a simple way to be more convincing.
1:04.5	And a fascinating look at the speed at which you move.
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