Rodents and Red Wine with Maria Konnikova

Revisionist History

Pushkin Industries

Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Author, psychologist and professional poker player Maria Konnikova joins the show as Revisionist History’s first ombudsman. Maria advocates for the audience, reading letters from listeners and challenging Malcolm on matters great and small. They discuss how iodized salt is changing lives, the ethics of the Minnesota starvation experiments, and the ever-changing guidance around drinking alcohol. If you’d like to keep up with the most recent news from this and other Pushkin podcasts, be sure to sign up for our email list at Pushkin.fm.

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0:00.0	I'm in Vegas right now, yeah.
0:25.0	Just got back here two days ago.
0:28.3	Nice.
0:29.3	Did I tell you that I was in Las Vegas and I had an afternoon and I sat in this coffee
0:35.2	shop and there were three people next to me having the most interesting conversation.
0:42.0	And one of the guys started talking and I realized he was talking about you.
0:47.1	Really?
0:48.1	Yeah.
0:49.1	He was a lawyer, some kind.
0:52.6	Who like was a writer?
0:53.8	A writer, lawyer or something?
0:54.9	I don't know.
0:55.9	I couldn't figure it out.
0:56.9	And I was even shopping in a conversation for like forever and it was like the most
1:01.3	interesting conversation.
1:03.9	I love that story now.
1:06.4	You did not tell me and I have no idea who you're talking about.
1:12.0	Allow me to introduce a new voice to this podcast, Maria Conocova.
1:17.9	In basketball they call people like Maria Swiss Army knives, people who do everything.
1:24.0	Maria got a PhD with a famous Walter Michelle, the guy who invented the marshmallow test.
1:28.9	She's written a bunch of brilliant New York Times bestsellers.
1:32.3	She decided at one point that she was interested in poker, taught herself poker, became a poker
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