Binary Thinking, Falling in Love , The Truth About Caffeine

Binary Thinking Ryan Long is a legal advisor to technology, media, and design professionals in intellectual property, litigation, and corporate matters. Fellow of Stanford Law School's Center for Internet and Society. Expert in intellectual property and related litigation/transactional. Ryan Long shares his thoughts about the dangers of binary thinking and how it could lead to bad choices. Falling in Love is the Easy Part Mandy Len Catron is a writer living and working in Vancouver, BC. She blogs at The Love Story Project, a collage of research, memoir and family mythology. Ms. Catron teaches English and Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia. She is the author of the New York Times Article, “To Fall in Love With Anyone, Do This” and talks to Dr. Townsend about her experience with 36 Questions that help to determine if a person is right for you. The Truth About Caffeine (13:38) Dr. Maggie Sweeney is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. She received her doctorate in Psychology from Utah State University in 2014 where she studied basic conditioning, learning, and decision making phenomena in animals and humans. Her current applies conditioning and learning processes to human behavioral pharmacology and clinical problems of drug abuse. She is co-investigator on a study assessing the effects of alcohol and caffeine co-consumption, as well as a brief intervention for individuals who are interested in cutting down or quitting their caffeine use. She talks with Dr. Townsend about the findings of her study and shares some ideas on how to best reduce caffeine consumption.