The Connection with Marty Moss-Coane

The Connection with Marty Moss-Coane From WHYY and NPR Podcasts, weekly conversations about the qualities that make us unique and human.

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09/04/2026

Angela Duckworth has a new book, Situated: Find the People and Places that Bring out Your Best. She’s spent her career studying motivation and achievement and wrote the best seller, Grit, but says hard work and willpower are often not enough.

We talk about how to create relationships and environments that help us do what we want to do: https://whyy.org/episodes/angela-duckworth-on-the-importance-of-getting-situated/

08/12/2026

We human beings love certainty. In fact, we love it so much that we’re more stressed by a 50 percent chance we’ll get an electric shock than by a 100 percent certainty of one!

Cognitive scientist Maya Shankar says we are not very good at predicting how we’ll respond to big changes in our lives. She also says that there can be a place for denial and avoidance when we’re feeling overwhelmed.

Listen: https://whyy.org/episodes/making-the-most-of-what-we-least-expected/

08/03/2026

The nearly three-thousand-year-old story of Odysseus and his ten-year struggle to get home has been told, retold, interpreted, and reinterpreted.

Why does Homer’s epic poem endure, and what does it have to say about the human condition?

UPenn classics professor Emily Wilson and Oxford psychiatrist Neel Burton join Marty Moss-Coane to talk about Christopher Nolan's new film and the legacy of its story: https://whyy.org/episodes/why-the-odyssey-endures/

Here’s a behind the scenes sneak preview of this week’s guests. We talked about The Odyssey on film and on the page. Tha...
07/30/2026

Here’s a behind the scenes sneak preview of this week’s guests. We talked about The Odyssey on film and on the page. That’s translator Emily Wilson whose critical review of Nolan’s film has kicked up quite a storm and psychiatrist/ philosopher Neel Burton.

07/24/2026

Kinsey Institute director and evolutionary biologist Justin Garcia says intimacy is vital for our wellbeing and has helped us survive as a species.

It’s a topic that Garcia explores in his book, The Intimate Animal: the Science of S*x, Fidelity and why we Live and Die for Love.

We're revisiting his conversation with Marty Moss-Coane today on The Connection: https://whyy.org/episodes/why-we-live-and-die-for-love/

07/17/2026

For most of human history, we had no idea what we looked like. This was before mirrors and cameras became part of everyday life. We might catch our reflection in a glass window, or, like Narcissus, see ourselves looking back from a pool of water. If we didn’t know what we looked like, who did we think we were? How much of our sense of self is based on our face?

This week: how our faces became so central to our identity. Our guest is historian Fay Bound-Alberti, author of a new book, The Face: A Cultural History. She also has face blindness, a neurological condition that makes it difficult for her to recognize familiar faces…even the face of her own child.

https://whyy.org/episodes/the-face-and-identity-from-renaissance-portraits-to-modern-selfies/

07/13/2026

We all know that eating fruits and vegetables, engaging in regular exercise, and getting a good night’s sleep are critical to our well-being — whether we do them is a different story.

But what about going to a concert or museum, taking up painting or dancing, joining a book group, or going to the movies? Does that improve our health?

This week The Connection with Marty Moss-Coane explores our need for creative expression with award-winning scientist Daisy Fancourt, author of the book "Art Cure."

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