Latif Nasser - "Connected," Intellectual Humility, and the Truths Baked into Our World

Slo Mo: A Podcast with Mo Gawdat

Mo Gawdat

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2020

⏱️ 62 minutes

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I'm a massive fan of Latif Nasser, my guest on today's show. Latif is the host and executive producer for the Netflix science documentary series, Connected. He is also the Director of Research at the award-winning New York Public Radio show Radiolab, where he has done stories on everything from snowflake photography to medieval robots to a polar bear who liked to have sex with grizzly bears. Earlier this year, he hosted the miniseries The Other Latif, about his Moroccan namesake who happens t...

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0:00.0	I am so glad you could join us. I'm your host Mo Gaudette. This podcast is nothing more than a
0:10.4	conversation between two good friends sharing inspiring life stories and perhaps some
0:16.5	nuggets of wisdom along the way.
0:20.2	This is your invitation to slow down with us.
0:25.7	Welcome to Slo-Mob. I am a massive fan of today's guest. Latif Nasser is the director of
0:40.2	research for an award-winning New York public radio show, Radio Lab.
0:46.0	There he has done stories on everything from Snowflake photography to medieval robots to polar bears who liked to have sex with
0:58.7	grizzly bears. Earlier this year he hosted the miniseries the other Latif about his Moroccan namesake
1:07.1	who happened to be the detainee number 244 at Guantanamo Bay.
1:13.4	In addition, Latif is the host and executive producer of my favorite,
1:20.3	absolute favorite new show, the Netflix Science Documentary Series connected.
1:27.0	He has also given two TED Talks and written for the Boston Globe Ideas section.
1:34.0	He has a PhD from Harvard on History of Science. Hey, well. There you are.
1:47.0	Okay, hey, oh my God, I know you, I know you well, I know you well I know you really how are you doing I'm doing well it's so good to see
1:58.4	you a lot if I'm I'm a huge fan oh that's very sweet of you to say.
2:03.0	No, no, it really is true.
2:04.8	I mean, I never ever in my life ever, ever binge watch anything on Netflix.
2:09.1	As a matter of fact, if anything has more than two episodes I avoided completely.
2:13.4	And then I arrived at my daughter's place,
2:16.1	I think like a couple of days after you launched,
2:19.2	and she said you have to see this.
2:21.6	And that was it.
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