Weekend Whats

What to Book: “Come inside a jury room as one juror leads a starkly divided room to consensus. Join a young CIA officer as he recruits a reluctant foreign agent. And sit with an accomplished surgeon as he tries, and fails, to convince yet another cancer patient to opt for the less risky course of treatment.” The excellent Charles Duhigg is back with a much-anticipated, sure bestseller: Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection. “Communication is a superpower and the best communicators understand that whenever we speak, we’re actually participating in one of three conversations: practical (What’s this really about?), emotional (How do we feel?), and social (Who are we?). If you don’t know what kind of conversation you’re having, you’re unlikely to connect.”

+ What to Doc: What’s a great way to measure how food and different behaviors directly affect our health? Test twins. A Netflix limited series: You Are What You Eat: A Twin Experiment. (You might want to eat your bucket of movie popcorn before starting the doc.)

+ What to Vid: The official video for Billy Joel’s new single, Turn the Lights Back On uses AI and archival footage to show Joel singing the song at various points in his career. (It’s an ironic title given that most men over fifty spend their time yelling at family members to remember to turn the lights off.)