The Michael Shermer Show
The Michael Shermer Show is a series of long-form conversations between Dr. Michael Shermer and leading scientists, philosophers, historians, scholars, writers and thinkers about the most important issues of our time.Podcasts
Aella From a Christian Upbringing to Sex Work
Published: July 2, 2024, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 21 minutes 12 seconds
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Hong Kongs Turmoil: Insights from an Exiled Political Leader
Published: June 29, 2024, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 17 minutes 22 seconds
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Living Constitutionally: One Mans Humble Quest to Follow the Constitutions Original Meaning
Published: June 26, 2024, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 35 minutes 47 seconds
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Lemuria: A True Story of a Fake Place
Published: June 22, 2024, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 14 minutes 33 seconds
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Born into a Cult (Michelle Dowd)
Published: June 18, 2024, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 9 minutes 47 seconds
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UFOs: What We Know (And Dont Know)
Published: June 15, 2024, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 27 minutes 27 seconds
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Religion as Make-Believe: A Theory of Belief, Imagination, and Group Identity
Published: June 11, 2024, 7 a.m.Duration: 2 hours 3 minutes 12 seconds
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Vulnerable Minds: The Harm of Childhood Trauma and the Hope of Resilience
Published: June 8, 2024, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 47 minutes 41 seconds
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How to Achieve Peace in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Published: June 4, 2024, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 39 minutes 56 seconds
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How Likely Is War Over Taiwan?
Published: June 1, 2024, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 26 minutes 47 seconds
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Cold War 2.0: Artificial Intelligence in the New Battle between China, Russia, and America
Published: June 1, 2024, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 26 minutes 47 seconds
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Neuroscientist Explains Selective Memory (Charan Ranganath)
Published: May 28, 2024, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 38 minutes 20 seconds
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Unlocking the Power of Memory
Published: May 28, 2024, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 38 minutes 20 seconds
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Metaracism: How Systemic Racism Devastates Black Lives
Published: May 25, 2024, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 31 minutes 47 seconds
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How to Think About Social Justice
Published: May 21, 2024, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 34 minutes 55 seconds
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Quanta and Fields
Published: May 18, 2024, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 15 minutes 43 seconds
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Sean Carroll Explains Quantum Field Theory
Published: May 18, 2024, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 15 minutes 43 seconds
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Reporting From the Frontlines of the Culture Wars
Published: May 14, 2024, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 34 minutes 23 seconds
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Co-Founder of The Free Press reports on the Culture Wars (Nellie Bowles)
Published: May 14, 2024, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 34 minutes 23 seconds
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How to Expand Consciousness
Published: May 11, 2024, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 14 minutes 16 seconds
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The Latest Research on Consciousness (Christof Koch)
Published: May 11, 2024, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 14 minutes 16 seconds
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Everything is Predictable: How Bayesian Statistics Explain Our World
Published: May 7, 2024, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 36 minutes 44 seconds
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The New Science of Planet Hunting in the Cosmos
Published: May 4, 2024, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 31 minutes 41 seconds
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The Science of Happines
Published: April 30, 2024, 8:36 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 48 minutes 24 seconds
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How Rhetoric Shapes Your Opinions
Published: April 27, 2024, 3:20 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 11 minutes 13 seconds
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Accomplishment and Happiness (Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker)
Published: April 23, 2024, 1:33 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 23 minutes 18 seconds
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Should We Prepare for Nuclear War? (Annie Jacobsen)
Published: April 20, 2024, 1:46 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 14 minutes 41 seconds
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An AI... Utopia? (Nick Bostrom, Oxford)
Published: April 16, 2024, 6:25 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 45 minutes 45 seconds
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Life on Mars? (Robert Zubrin)
Published: April 13, 2024, 5:46 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 40 minutes 43 seconds
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Robots and the People Who Love Them
Published: April 9, 2024, 5:45 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 13 minutes 15 seconds
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The Formation, Diversification, and Extinction of World Religions
Published: April 6, 2024, 7 a.m.Duration: 2 hours 1 minute 25 seconds
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The Wisdom and Wonder of Being Uncertain
Published: April 2, 2024, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 29 minutes 18 seconds
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The End of Race Politics
Published: March 30, 2024, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 34 minutes 33 seconds
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The End of Race Politics (Coleman Hughes)
Published: March 30, 2024, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 34 minutes 33 seconds
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How to Repair Americas Broken Democracy
Published: March 26, 2024, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 7 minutes 44 seconds
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Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up
Published: March 23, 2024, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 8 minutes 23 seconds
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Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up (Abigail Shrier)
Published: March 23, 2024, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 8 minutes 23 seconds
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An Unfinished History of the Holocaust
Published: March 19, 2024, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 36 minutes 35 seconds
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The Weirdness of the World
Published: March 16, 2024, 7 a.m.Duration: 2 hours 3 minutes 15 seconds
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The Story of Female Empowerment & Getting Canceled: Elite Commando and Kickboxing World Champion Leah Goldstein
Published: March 12, 2024, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 28 minutes 3 seconds
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Who Wrote the Quran, Why, and What Does it Really Say?
Published: March 9, 2024, 8 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 35 minutes 54 seconds
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Purpose in the Eyes of a Psychiatrist
Published: March 5, 2024, 8 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 38 minutes 56 seconds
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How Humanity Functions as a Single Superorganism
Published: March 2, 2024, 8 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 35 minutes 19 seconds
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Does Humanity Function as a Single Superorganism?
Published: March 2, 2024, 8 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 35 minutes 19 seconds
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The Power of Noticing What Was Always There
Published: Feb. 27, 2024, 1:42 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 34 minutes 55 seconds
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China's Grip on Rare-Earth Elements and the Future of Global Energy Security
Published: Feb. 24, 2024, 8 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 5 minutes 20 seconds
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mRNA Vaccines, Mask Mandates, and the COVID-19 Response (Paul Offit)
Published: Feb. 20, 2024, 4:12 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 13 minutes 29 seconds
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Foster Care, Family, and Social Class
Published: Feb. 17, 2024, 3:31 p.m.Duration: 2 hours 7 minutes 59 seconds
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How U.S. Public Health Has Strayed From Its Liberal Roots
Published: Feb. 13, 2024, 6:31 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 25 minutes 29 seconds
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Against the New Politics of Identity
Published: Feb. 10, 2024, 8 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 28 minutes 51 seconds
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What Determines Who Succeeds in the NBA?
Published: Feb. 6, 2024, 5:27 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 23 minutes 23 seconds
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Transforming Mental Health: Little Treatments, Big Effects
Published: Feb. 3, 2024, 8 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 7 minutes 5 seconds
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Overcoming Self-Censorship in the Age of Outrage
Published: Jan. 30, 2024, 2:50 p.m.Duration: 2 hours 11 minutes 18 seconds
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One Couples Vacation Caused 100,000 People to Die
Published: Jan. 27, 2024, 8 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 54 minutes 28 seconds
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Head of TED Talks Shares a New Vision of Generosity
Published: Jan. 23, 2024, 2:50 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 18 minutes 15 seconds
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Are Parallel Universes and Extra Dimensions Real?
Published: Jan. 17, 2024, 8 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 15 minutes 44 seconds
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Michael Shellenberger Explains Government Censorship of Social Media
Published: Jan. 9, 2024, 8 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 27 minutes 6 seconds
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Multiculturalism and Lessons From the Rwandan Genocide
Published: Jan. 3, 2024, 6:31 p.m.Duration: 47 minutes 50 seconds
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The Meaning of Life (A Message for the Holidays)
Published: Dec. 24, 2023, 7:32 p.m.Duration: 2 minutes 8 seconds
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A Trial by Media Ended Caylan Fords Career in 4 Hours
Published: Dec. 19, 2023, 2 p.m.Duration: 2 hours 21 minutes 31 seconds
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How Not to Age
Published: Dec. 16, 2023, 11:27 a.m.Duration: 2 hours 3 minutes 23 seconds
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How to Cultivate Your Imagination as an Adult
Published: Dec. 12, 2023, 8 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 34 minutes 43 seconds
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Nobel Prize Winner Explains Inequality and Capitalism
Published: Dec. 5, 2023, 8 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 18 minutes 35 seconds
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The Purpose of the Universe
Published: Dec. 2, 2023, 8 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 57 minutes 15 seconds
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How Media, Politics, and Identity Drive Our Appetite for Misinformation
Published: Nov. 28, 2023, 8 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 41 minutes 2 seconds
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JFK 60th Anniversary of the Assassination
Published: Nov. 22, 2023, 8 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 55 minutes 52 seconds
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The Scientific Search for Alien Life
Published: Nov. 18, 2023, 8 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 37 minutes 51 seconds
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Ayaan Hirsi Ali Converted to Christianity
Published: Nov. 15, 2023, 8 a.m.Duration: 30 minutes 22 seconds
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UFO: The Inside Story of the U.S. Government's Search for Alien Life
Published: Nov. 14, 2023, 8 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 14 minutes 5 seconds
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Identity Politics and its Discontents
Published: Nov. 11, 2023, 6:05 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 43 minutes 10 seconds
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What Makes Rational People Believe Irrational Things? (Dan Ariely)
Published: Nov. 7, 2023, 2:44 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 29 minutes 37 seconds
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The Role of Iran in the Israel-Hamas Conflict
Published: Nov. 4, 2023, 9:27 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 32 minutes 49 seconds
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The Secret History of Women at the CIA
Published: Oct. 31, 2023, 6:14 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 31 minutes 55 seconds
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America and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Published: Oct. 27, 2023, 2:51 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 50 minutes 24 seconds
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Cancel Culture and What to Do About It (Greg Lukianoff & Rikki Schlott)
Published: Oct. 24, 2023, 2:16 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 33 minutes 28 seconds
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Robert Sapolsky on Free Will and Determinism
Published: Oct. 17, 2023, 3:59 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 53 minutes 39 seconds
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Armageddon in the Middle East? (David Wolpe)
Published: Oct. 13, 2023, 2 p.m.Duration: 57 minutes 31 seconds
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Should Employers Pay For Emotional Labor?
Published: Oct. 10, 2023, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 50 minutes 49 seconds
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Dan Dennett Looks Back on His Career
Published: Oct. 3, 2023, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 28 minutes 8 seconds
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How the American Right Became Radicalized
Published: Sept. 27, 2023, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 27 minutes 37 seconds
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BIG ANNOUNCEMENT
Published: Sept. 26, 2023, 7 a.m.Duration: 3 minutes 11 seconds
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Ways of Thinking That Power Successful People
Published: Sept. 19, 2023, 7 a.m.Duration: 59 minutes 1 second
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How to Fight for Truth and Protect Democracy
Published: Sept. 12, 2023, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 34 minutes 3 seconds
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The Law vs. Separation of Church and State
Published: Sept. 5, 2023, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 59 minutes 37 seconds
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Based on DNA Testing, Only One Twin Was Granted U.S. Citizenship. Why?
Published: Sept. 1, 2023, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 42 minutes 12 seconds
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Evidence of Aliens? Harvard Astronomer Avi Loeb
Published: Aug. 29, 2023, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 31 minutes 59 seconds
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Slavery in the U.S. Analyzed by a Pulitzer Prize-Winning Lawyer and Historian (Ed Larson)
Published: Aug. 22, 2023, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 45 minutes 10 seconds
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Maybe "Good Enough" Is Actually Enough? When Perfectionism Backfires.
Published: Aug. 15, 2023, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 44 minutes 42 seconds
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Is a Human Life Worth $10 Million or Only $187,000? (Bjorn Lomborg)
Published: Aug. 8, 2023, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 33 minutes 53 seconds
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Why We Get Fooled
Published: Aug. 1, 2023, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 54 minutes 46 seconds
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The Saad Truth About Happiness
Published: July 25, 2023, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 57 minutes 7 seconds
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Christopher Rufo Decodes Cultural Shifts in America
Published: July 18, 2023, 1 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 39 minutes 3 seconds
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The Truth About Martin Luther King Jr.
Published: July 12, 2023, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 23 minutes 8 seconds
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An Outsiders Perspective on American Culture Wars
Published: July 5, 2023, 7 a.m.Duration: 2 hours 13 minutes 26 seconds
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Children and Politics
Published: June 27, 2023, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 16 minutes 20 seconds
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The Future of Medicine: What You Need to Know
Published: June 20, 2023, 7 a.m.Duration: 3 hours 2 minutes 44 seconds
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Michael Shellenberger on UFO Whistleblowers
Published: June 14, 2023, 7 a.m.Duration: 59 minutes 19 seconds
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Is the Government Hiding Aliens?
Published: June 8, 2023, 3 p.m.Duration: 32 minutes 51 seconds
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A Guide to Violence and Self-Defense.
Published: June 6, 2023, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 49 minutes 16 seconds
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Identity or Merit: What Matters More? (Heather Mac Donald)
Published: May 30, 2023, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 36 minutes 52 seconds
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Are We Risking Our Ability to Think?
Published: May 27, 2023, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 34 minutes 26 seconds
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Quantum Computers Will Change Everything (Michio Kaku)
Published: May 25, 2023, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 21 minutes 27 seconds
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What Happened to Womens Rights?
Published: May 23, 2023, 7 a.m.Duration: 2 hours 21 minutes 57 seconds
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My Final Lecture: What I Learned About Living a Good Life
Published: May 18, 2023, 7 p.m.Duration: 43 minutes 25 seconds
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Could the American Economy Collapse Like Venezuelas? (Mark Skousen)
Published: May 16, 2023, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 49 minutes 43 seconds
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Scams and Frauds: A Skeptic's Survival Guide
Published: May 13, 2023, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 13 minutes 30 seconds
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What if You Were Born 50 Years Earlier?
Published: May 9, 2023, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 40 minutes 33 seconds
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How Can God Feel So Real?
Published: May 6, 2023, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 28 minutes 56 seconds
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Will We Ever Live in a Post-race World?
Published: May 4, 2023, 7 p.m.Duration: 42 minutes 6 seconds
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346. Kennon Sheldon What the New Psychology of the Self Teaches Us About Free Will, Determinism, and Self-Determinism
Published: May 2, 2023, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 26 minutes 50 seconds
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345. Matt Johnson How Hitchens Can Save the Left: Rediscovering Fearless Liberalism in an Age of Counter-Enlightenment
Published: April 29, 2023, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 39 minutes 13 seconds
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344. What is a Woman, Anyway?
Published: April 26, 2023, 7 p.m.Duration: 36 minutes 57 seconds
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343. Timothy Redmond Political Tribalism in America: How Hyper-Partisanship Dumbs Down Democracy and How to Fix It
Published: April 25, 2023, 7 a.m.Duration: 2 hours 3 minutes 28 seconds
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342. Valerie Fridland Like, Literally, Dude: Arguing for the Good in Bad English
Published: April 22, 2023, 7 a.m.Duration: 2 hours 2 minutes 21 seconds
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341. Secret Scientists & Real Conspiracies John Lisle on Stanley Lovell, the OSS precursor to the CIA, and the Masterminds of World War II Secret Warfare
Published: April 18, 2023, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 46 minutes 24 seconds
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340. Ben Alderson-Day Presence: The Strange Science and True Stories of the Unseen Other
Published: April 15, 2023, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 40 minutes 54 seconds
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339. Gerald and Patricia Posner on Evil
Published: April 11, 2023, 9 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 52 minutes 43 seconds
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338. AI SciFi Physicist, Science Fiction Author, and AI Expert David Brin on ChatGPT and Whether AI Poses an Existential Threat
Published: April 8, 2023, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 36 minutes 48 seconds
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337. On the Origin of Time Thomas Hertog on Stephen Hawkings Final Theory
Published: April 1, 2023, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 25 minutes 31 seconds
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336. The Sacred Depths of Nature Ursula Goodenough on How to Find Sacred Scientific Spirituality
Published: March 28, 2023, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 38 minutes 19 seconds
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335. Jennifer Michael Hecht on How to Find Meaning, Purpose, and Happiness in Everyday Life
Published: March 25, 2023, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 35 minutes 49 seconds
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334. The End of the World: Bart Ehrman on What the Bible Really Says About the End
Published: March 21, 2023, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 42 minutes 24 seconds
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333. Kevin Kelly ChatGPT, OpenAI, and Excellent Advice for Living
Published: March 18, 2023, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 45 minutes 1 second
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332. Wrongfully Convicted, Ultimately Acquitted Amanda Knox on Criminal Injustice and Why It Happens
Published: March 14, 2023, 7 a.m.Duration: 57 minutes 23 seconds
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331. Paul Zak Immersion: The Science of the Extraordinary and the Source of Happiness
Published: March 11, 2023, 8 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 49 minutes 17 seconds
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330. Jim Davies How to Be a Better Person
Published: March 7, 2023, 8 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 47 minutes 21 seconds
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329. Marc Schulz The Good Life: Lessons from the Worlds Longest Scientific Study of Happiness
Published: March 4, 2023, 8 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 51 minutes 20 seconds
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328. Paul Bloom Psych: The Story of the Human Mind
Published: Feb. 28, 2023, 8 a.m.Duration: 2 hours 1 minute 14 seconds
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327. Rachel Moran on Her Years in Prostitution, How She Got Out of It, and Why She Thinks It Is a Form of Sexual Exploitation
Published: Feb. 25, 2023, 8 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 29 minutes 21 seconds
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326. Naomi Oreskes The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market
Published: Feb. 21, 2023, 8 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 54 minutes 16 seconds
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325. Heinrich Pas The One: How an Ancient Idea Holds the Future of Physics
Published: Feb. 18, 2023, 8 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 28 minutes 9 seconds
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324. Andrew Gold on Exorcism, Abortion, Pedophilia, Sex & UFOs
Published: Feb. 14, 2023, 8 a.m.Duration: 2 hours 16 minutes 13 seconds
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323. Elle Hardy Beyond Belief: How Pentecostal Christianity Is Taking Over the World
Published: Feb. 11, 2023, 8 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 55 minutes 36 seconds
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322. Marty Klein Sex Matters
Published: Feb. 7, 2023, 8 a.m.Duration: 2 hours 33 minutes 8 seconds
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321. William Magnuson For Profit: A History of Corporations
Published: Feb. 4, 2023, 8 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 36 minutes 6 seconds
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320. Massimo Pigliucci How to Live a Good Life and Create a Just Society
Published: Jan. 31, 2023, 8 a.m.Duration: 2 hours 6 minutes 35 seconds
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319. Steven Hassan Combatting Cult Mind Control, Freedom of Mind, and The Cult of Trump
Published: Jan. 28, 2023, 8 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 57 minutes 13 seconds
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318. Suzie Sheehy The Matter of Everything: How Curiosity, Physics, and Improbable Experiments Changed the World
Published: Jan. 24, 2023, 8 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 54 minutes 7 seconds
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317. Dacher Keltner Awe: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How It Can Transform Your Life
Published: Jan. 21, 2023, 8 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 41 minutes 27 seconds
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316. Daniel Akst on the Pacifists of the Greatest Generation Who Revolutionized Resistance
Published: Jan. 17, 2023, 8 a.m.Duration: 2 hours 4 minutes 22 seconds
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315. David Bernstein Classified: The Untold Story of Racial Classification in America
Published: Jan. 14, 2023, 8 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 39 minutes 36 seconds
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314. Martin Rees Can Science Save Us?
Published: Jan. 3, 2023, 8 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 39 minutes 53 seconds
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313. Matthew Cobb As Gods: A Moral History of the Genetic Age
Published: Dec. 27, 2022, 8 a.m.Duration: 2 hours 27 seconds
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312. Louise Perry The Case Against the Sexual Revolution: A New Guide to Sex in the 21st Century
Published: Dec. 24, 2022, 8 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 32 minutes 50 seconds
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311. Meghan Daum The Problem With Everything: My Journey Through the New Culture Wars
Published: Dec. 20, 2022, 8 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 38 minutes 33 seconds
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310. Todd Kashdan The Art of Insubordination: How to Dissent and Defy Effectively
Published: Dec. 13, 2022, 8 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 57 minutes 21 seconds
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309. India Thusi on Sex Work, Critical Race Theory, and Moral Progress
Published: Dec. 6, 2022, 8 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 25 minutes 21 seconds
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308. Iris Berent The Blind Storyteller: How We Reason About Human Nature
Published: Nov. 29, 2022, 8 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 23 minutes 29 seconds
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307. Nicholas Dirks on Science Denial, Distrust, and Skepticism
Published: Nov. 22, 2022, 8 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 36 minutes 35 seconds
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306. Stephon Alexander Fear of a Black Universe: An Outsiders Guide to the Future of Physics
Published: Nov. 15, 2022, 8 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 24 minutes 34 seconds
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305. Bethanne Patrick Book World
Published: Nov. 8, 2022, 8 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 38 minutes 47 seconds
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304. Justin Gregg If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal: What Animal Intelligence Reveals About Human Stupidity
Published: Nov. 1, 2022, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 37 minutes 32 seconds
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303. Michael Shermer Conspiracy: Why the Rational Believe the Irrational
Published: Oct. 25, 2022, 7 a.m.Duration: 32 minutes 3 seconds
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302. Tim Palmer The Primacy of Doubt
Published: Oct. 18, 2022, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 59 minutes 55 seconds
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301. Alan Blinder A Monetary and Fiscal History of the United States
Published: Oct. 11, 2022, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 16 minutes 51 seconds
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300. Saleem Ali Earthly Order: How Natural Laws Define Human Life
Published: Oct. 4, 2022, 7 a.m.Duration: 2 hours 8 minutes 56 seconds
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299. Richard Reeves Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do About It
Published: Sept. 29, 2022, 7 a.m.Duration: 2 hours 17 minutes 30 seconds
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298. Neil deGrasse Tyson Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization
Published: Sept. 20, 2022, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 16 minutes 35 seconds
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297. Andrew Doyle How the Religion of Social Justice Captured the Western World
Published: Sept. 13, 2022, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 44 minutes 34 seconds
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296. Stephen Bloom on Jane Elliotts Famous Experiment on Race and Brutality and What It Reveals About Todays Racial Divide
Published: Sept. 6, 2022, 7 a.m.Duration: 2 hours 3 minutes 10 seconds
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295. Marian Tupy & Gale Pooley Superabundance: The Story of Population Growth, Innovation, and Human Flourishing on an Infinitely Bountiful Planet
Published: Aug. 30, 2022, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 54 minutes 16 seconds
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294. Sabine Hossenfelder Existential Physics: A Scientists Guide to Lifes Biggest Questions
Published: Aug. 23, 2022, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 26 minutes 31 seconds
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293. Konstantin Kisin An Immigrants Love Letter to the West
Published: Aug. 19, 2022, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 20 minutes 24 seconds
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292. Gary Marcus Rebooting AI: Building Artificial Intelligence We Can Trust
Published: Aug. 16, 2022, 7 a.m.Duration: 2 hours 3 minutes 40 seconds
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291. Rob Ashton Silent Influence and the Science of Writing, Reading, and Communicating
Published: Aug. 9, 2022, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 45 minutes 40 seconds
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290. Anastacia Marx de Salcedo Eat like a Pig, Run Like a Horse
Published: Aug. 2, 2022, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 35 minutes 7 seconds
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289. James Kirchick Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington
Published: July 26, 2022, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 40 minutes 19 seconds
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288. Lucy Cooke Bitch: On the Female of the Species
Published: July 19, 2022, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 6 minutes 45 seconds
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287. Bobby Azarian Life, the Universe, and Cosmic Complexity
Published: July 12, 2022, 7 a.m.Duration: 2 hours 7 minutes 5 seconds
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286. Kevin McCaffree How Societies Change and Why
Published: July 9, 2022, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 45 minutes 39 seconds
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285. Helen Joyce Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality
Published: July 5, 2022, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 55 minutes 41 seconds
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284. Yoram Hazony on Traditional Conservatism vs. Enlightenment Liberalism
Published: June 28, 2022, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 50 minutes 1 second
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283. Michael Strevens The Knowledge Machine: How Irrationality Created Modern Science
Published: June 25, 2022, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 32 minutes 14 seconds
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282. Anil Seth on the Hard Problem of Consciousness, the Self, and the Essence of Volition
Published: June 21, 2022, 7 a.m.Duration: 2 hours 9 minutes 22 seconds
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281. Moneyball For Your Life: Seth Stephens-Davidowitz on Using Data to Get What You Really Want
Published: June 18, 2022, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 41 minutes 42 seconds
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280. Sam Rosenfeld on Party Polarization in the Postwar United States
Published: June 14, 2022, 7 a.m.Duration: 2 hours 38 seconds
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279. Ian Morris on Deep Time and Big History
Published: June 11, 2022, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 48 minutes 13 seconds
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278. Big Historian David Christian on Time, the Near and Far Future, Transhumanism, Interstellar Migrations, the Fate of Our Species, and the End of Time
Published: June 7, 2022, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 47 minutes 36 seconds
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277. Michel Gagne How to Think About Conspiracy Theories
Published: June 4, 2022, 7 a.m.Duration: 2 hours 3 minutes 13 seconds
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276. Andrew Yang Not Left. Not Right. Forward.
Published: May 31, 2022, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 7 minutes 55 seconds
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275. The Disrupted Mind: Noga Arikha on What Happens to Identity When the Brain Is Assaulted by Disease and Injury
Published: May 28, 2022, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 13 minutes 15 seconds
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274. Frans De Waal on Sex and Gender Across the Primate Spectrum
Published: May 24, 2022, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 27 minutes 50 seconds
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273. Cathy Young The Russian Riddle Wrapped in a Ukrainian Mystery Inside an American Enigma
Published: May 21, 2022, 7 a.m.Duration: 2 hours 5 minutes 42 seconds
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272. Stuart Vyse The Uses of Delusion: Why Its Not Always Rational to Be Rational
Published: May 17, 2022, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 25 minutes 17 seconds
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271. Peter Ward The Price of Immortality: The Race to Live Forever
Published: May 14, 2022, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 26 minutes 17 seconds
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270. Surprising Power of Game Theory to Explain Irrationality (Moshe Hoffman and Erez Yoeli)
Published: May 10, 2022, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 57 minutes 49 seconds
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269. Richard Dawkins Flights of Fancy: Defying Gravity by Design and Evolution
Published: May 7, 2022, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 28 minutes 54 seconds
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268. Douglas Murray on The War on the West: Race, Politics, and Culture
Published: May 3, 2022, 7 a.m.Duration: 59 minutes 27 seconds
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267. Louis Theroux on Neo-Nazis, Jimmy Savile, UFO Cults, and Scientology
Published: April 30, 2022, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 29 minutes 1 second
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266. Jesse Singal on Why Fad Psychology Cant Cure Our Social Ills
Published: April 26, 2022, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 29 minutes 28 seconds
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265. Christopher Blattman on Why We Fight: The Roots of War and the Paths to Peace
Published: April 23, 2022, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 43 minutes 48 seconds
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264. Adam Levin on Identity Theft and How to Protect Yourself from Scammers, Phishers, and Fraudsters of All Types
Published: April 18, 2022, 7:15 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 40 minutes 42 seconds
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263. Dave Rubin Left, Right, and Woke, based on his book Dont Burn This Country: Surviving and Thriving in Our Woke Dystopia
Published: April 16, 2022, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 5 minutes 55 seconds
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262. Oliver Stone on Ukraine, Putin, and the Military-Industrial Complex
Published: April 12, 2022, 7 a.m.Duration: 42 minutes 59 seconds
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261. Jim Al-Khalili on the Joy of Science
Published: April 9, 2022, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 42 minutes 48 seconds
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260. Batya Ungar-Sargon Bad News: How Woke Media Is Undermining Democracy
Published: April 5, 2022, 7 a.m.Duration: 2 hours 19 minutes 19 seconds
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259. Ogi Ogas Journey of the Mind: How Thinking Emerged from Chaos
Published: April 2, 2022, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 41 minutes 52 seconds
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258. Jacek Kugler Putin & Power Transition Theory: China, Russia, and Ukraine
Published: March 29, 2022, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 25 minutes 52 seconds
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257. Simon Conway Morris on Design in Evolution & the Possibility of Purpose in the Cosmos
Published: March 26, 2022, 7 a.m.Duration: 2 hours 23 seconds
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256. Imagining the Future with Reality Game Designer and Futurist Jane McGonigal
Published: March 22, 2022, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 9 minutes 51 seconds
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255. David Chalmers Reality+: Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy
Published: March 19, 2022, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 51 minutes 51 seconds
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254. Ravi Gupta on the Lost Debate: Whatever Happened to Reasoned Discussion and Respectable Disagreement?
Published: March 15, 2022, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 38 minutes 35 seconds
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253. Jennifer Sciubba on Putin, Russia, Ukraine, National & Global Security, and How Population Demographics Shape Our Future
Published: March 12, 2022, 8 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 19 minutes 46 seconds
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252. John Mueller on Putins War: Russia, Ukraine, and NATO
Published: March 8, 2022, 8 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 26 minutes 9 seconds
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251. Kelly Weill on Flat Earthers, Conspiracy Culture, and Why People Will Believe Anything
Published: March 1, 2022, 8 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 42 minutes 47 seconds
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250. Will Sanctions Work? War in Ukraine.
Published: Feb. 25, 2022, 8 p.m.Duration: 22 minutes 38 seconds
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249. Barbara F. Walter on How Civil Wars Start and How to Stop Them, including in the United States
Published: Feb. 22, 2022, 8 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 44 minutes 52 seconds
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248. Elizabeth Weiss on Woke Archaeology and Erasing the Past
Published: Feb. 15, 2022, 8 a.m.Duration: 2 hours 7 minutes 55 seconds
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247. Jacob Mchangama on Free Speech: A History from Socrates to Social Media
Published: Feb. 8, 2022, 8 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 49 minutes 19 seconds
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246. Nick Pope on UAPs, UFOs, Conspiracies, and Cover-ups
Published: Feb. 1, 2022, 8 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 45 minutes 39 seconds
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245. Frank Sulloway on How Lives Turn Out: Genes, Environment, Pluck, and Luck
Published: Jan. 29, 2022, 8 a.m.Duration: 2 hours 41 minutes 47 seconds
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244. Johnjoe McFadden Life is Simple: How Occams Razor Set Science Free and Shapes the UniverseMcFadden Life is Simple: How Occams Razor Set Science Free and Shapes the Universe
Published: Jan. 25, 2022, 8 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 57 minutes 48 seconds
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243. Sally Satel on Addiction, the Opioid Crisis, Deaths of Despair, and How Psychiatry Has Gone Woke
Published: Jan. 22, 2022, 8 a.m.Duration: 2 hours 5 minutes 56 seconds
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242. Jonathan Gottschall The Story Paradox: How Our Love of Storytelling Builds Societies and Tears Them Down
Published: Jan. 18, 2022, 8 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 37 minutes 9 seconds
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241. Jeff Maurer I Might Be Wrong
Published: Jan. 15, 2022, 8 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 36 minutes 57 seconds
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240. Leonard Mlodinow Emotional: How Feelings Shape Our Thinking
Published: Jan. 11, 2022, 8 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 52 minutes 30 seconds
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239. Richard Firth-Godbehere A Human History of Emotion: How the Way We Feel Built the World We Know
Published: Jan. 4, 2022, 8 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 57 minutes 33 seconds
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238. Brian Klass Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How it Changes Us
Published: Dec. 28, 2021, 8 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 40 minutes 51 seconds
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237. David Wengrow on The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
Published: Dec. 21, 2021, 8 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 33 minutes 18 seconds
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236. Fernanda Pirie on The Rule of Laws: A 4,000-Year Quest to Order the World
Published: Dec. 18, 2021, 8 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 28 minutes 26 seconds
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235. Thomas Sowell: The Life and Work of the Legendary Social Theorist (Jason Riley)
Published: Dec. 14, 2021, 8 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 36 minutes 36 seconds
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234. Matt Ridley on the Search for the Origin of COVID-19
Published: Dec. 11, 2021, 8 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 16 minutes 36 seconds
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233. Goodbye Pat Linse, Skeptic Co-founder and My Best Friend...
Published: Dec. 7, 2021, 8 a.m.Duration: 18 minutes 47 seconds
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232. Amishi Jha on Learning How to Pay Attention to Your Attention
Published: Dec. 4, 2021, 8 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 33 minutes 13 seconds
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231. Jason Hill on What White Americans Owe Black People
Published: Nov. 30, 2021, 8 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 41 minutes 6 seconds
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230. Bart Ehrman Did the Christmas Story Really Happen? The Birth of Jesus in History & Legend
Published: Nov. 27, 2021, 8 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 7 minutes 46 seconds
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229. Fritjof Capra on Patterns of Connection: Is there a Tao of physics? Is life a web? Is humanity at a turning point?
Published: Nov. 23, 2021, 8 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 36 minutes 18 seconds
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228. Steven Koonin on what climate science tells us, what it doesnt, and why it matters, based on his book Unsettled
Published: Nov. 20, 2021, 8 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 37 minutes 18 seconds
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227. Richard Nisbett on Thinking & Reason
Published: Nov. 16, 2021, 8 a.m.Duration: 2 hours 14 minutes 54 seconds
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226. Suzanne Nossel on defending free speech for all, based on her book Dare to Speak
Published: Nov. 13, 2021, 8 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 35 minutes 53 seconds
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225. Nancy Segal Deliberately Divided: Inside the Controversial Study of Twins and Triplets Adopted Apart
Published: Nov. 9, 2021, 8 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 46 minutes 15 seconds
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224. Bobby Duffy on The Generation Myth: Why When Youre Born Matters Less Than You Think
Published: Nov. 6, 2021, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 50 minutes 2 seconds
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223. Paul Bloom on the pleasures of suffering and the meaning of life
Published: Nov. 2, 2021, 7 a.m.Duration: 2 hours 24 minutes 3 seconds
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222. Suzanne OSullivan on psychosomatic disorders and other mystery illnesses
Published: Oct. 30, 2021, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 35 minutes 25 seconds
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221. Antonio Damasio Feeling & Knowing: Making Minds Conscious
Published: Oct. 26, 2021, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 42 minutes 6 seconds
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220. Charles Foster on Being a Human: Adventures in Forty Thousand Years of Consciousness
Published: Oct. 23, 2021, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 57 minutes 24 seconds
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219. In-Person Conversation (in Shermers Home) with Steven Pinker on Rationality: What it is, Why it Seems Scarce, Why it Matters in Shermers Home
Published: Oct. 19, 2021, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 49 minutes 22 seconds
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218. Craig Whitlock The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War
Published: Oct. 16, 2021, 7:18 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 31 minutes 15 seconds
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217. Mary Grabar on the 1619 Project, Howard Zinn, Historical Revisionism, and Pseudohistory
Published: Oct. 12, 2021, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 38 minutes 35 seconds
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216. Kathryn Paige Harden The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality
Published: Oct. 9, 2021, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 46 minutes 45 seconds
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215. Mary Eberstadt on God, Religion, Secularization, Sexual Revolution, and Identity Politics
Published: Oct. 5, 2021, 3:11 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 49 minutes 17 seconds
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214. Tom Nichols Our Own Worst Enemy: The Assault From Within on Modern Democracy
Published: Oct. 2, 2021, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 36 minutes 30 seconds
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213. Mike Rothschild The Storm Is Upon Us: How QAnon Became a Movement, Cult, and Conspiracy Theory of Everything
Published: Sept. 28, 2021, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 36 minutes 58 seconds
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212. Gale Sinatra & Barbara Hofer Science Denial: Why It Happens and What to Do About It
Published: Sept. 25, 2021, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes 13 seconds
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211. Ashley Rindsberg The Gray Lady Winked: How the New York Timess Misreporting, Distortions and Fabrications Radically Alter History
Published: Sept. 21, 2021, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 43 minutes 6 seconds
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210. Leidy Klotz on doing more with less, based on his book Subtract: The Untapped Science of Less
Published: Sept. 18, 2021, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 59 minutes 58 seconds
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209. Heather Heying & Bret Weinstein on Evolution and the Challenges of Modern Life, Based on Their New Book a Hunter-Gatherers Guide to the 21st Century
Published: Sept. 14, 2021, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 31 minutes 37 seconds
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208. The Truth About 9/11 and Terrorism
Published: Sept. 10, 2021, 8:50 p.m.Duration: 27 minutes 44 seconds
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207. John Petrocelli The Life-Changing Science of Detecting Bullshit
Published: Sept. 7, 2021, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 35 minutes 54 seconds
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206. Nichola Raihani The Social Instinct: How Cooperation Shaped the World
Published: Sept. 4, 2021, 7 a.m.Duration: 2 hours 7 minutes 21 seconds
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205. Richard Dawkins on evangelizing for evolution, science, skepticism, philosophy, reason, and rationality, based on his book Books Do Furnish a Life: Reading and Writing Science
Published: Sept. 1, 2021, 7 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 27 minutes 3 seconds
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204. Carole Hooven on T: The Story of Testosterone, the Hormone that Dominates and Divides Us
Published: Aug. 28, 2021, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 47 minutes 15 seconds
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203. Lee McIntyre How to Talk to a Science Denier: Conversations with Flat Earthers, Climate Deniers, and Others Who Defy Reason
Published: Aug. 24, 2021, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 35 minutes 35 seconds
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202. Julia Galef The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Dont
Published: Aug. 21, 2021, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 46 minutes 33 seconds
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201. Michael Shermer on Evolution, I.D. Theory, Consciousness, Morality, Gullibility, and Nothing (AMA # 7)
Published: Aug. 18, 2021, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 13 minutes 19 seconds
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200. Philip Zimbardo on the Nature & Nurture of Good & Evil
Published: Aug. 15, 2021, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 49 minutes 52 seconds
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199. David Potter Disruption: Why Things Change
Published: Aug. 10, 2021, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 23 minutes 33 seconds
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198. Bernardo Kastrup on the Nature of Reality: Materialism, Idealism, or Skepticism
Published: Aug. 7, 2021, 7 a.m.Duration: 2 hours 13 minutes 55 seconds
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197. Yaron Brook on Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, and Objectivism
Published: Aug. 3, 2021, 7 a.m.Duration: 2 hours 6 minutes 14 seconds
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196. Annie Murphy Paul The Extended Mind: The Power of Thinking Outside the Brain
Published: July 31, 2021, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 34 minutes 34 seconds
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195. Jamy Ian Swiss The Conjurors Conundrum
Published: July 27, 2021, 7 a.m.Duration: 2 hours 12 minutes 32 seconds
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194. John Mackey (Founder and CEO of Whole Foods Market) on Conscious Capitalism & Conscious Leadership
Published: July 21, 2021, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 47 minutes 59 seconds
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193. Chris Edwards on Educational Reform and Thought Experiments
Published: July 17, 2021, 7 a.m.Duration: 2 hours 3 minutes 13 seconds
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192. Lesley Newson & Peter Richerson A New Look at Human Evolution
Published: July 10, 2021, 7 a.m.Duration: 2 hours 1 minute 40 seconds
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191. Michael Gordin on the Fringe of Where Science Meets Pseudoscience
Published: July 3, 2021, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 31 minutes 58 seconds
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190. Jonathan Rauch The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth
Published: June 26, 2021, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 40 minutes 43 seconds
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189. Daniel Kahneman Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment
Published: June 19, 2021, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 40 minutes 42 seconds
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188. Legendary Undersea Explorer Robert Ballard Into the Deep: A Memoir From the Man Who Found Titanic
Published: June 16, 2021, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 59 minutes 37 seconds
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187. Robert Cialdini Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
Published: June 8, 2021, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 56 minutes 11 seconds
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186. William Nordhaus on the Economics of Global Warming, Pandemics, and Corporate Malfeasance
Published: June 2, 2021, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 6 minutes 48 seconds
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185. Stephen Meyer Return of the God Hypothesis: Three Scientific Discoveries that Reveal the Mind Behind the Universe (and why Shermer remains skeptical)
Published: May 29, 2021, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 58 minutes 10 seconds
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184. Alexander Green on Money & Why It Matters
Published: May 25, 2021, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 41 minutes 9 seconds
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183. Bari Weiss & Bion Bartning The Foundation Against Intolerance & Racism
Published: May 22, 2021, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 29 minutes 9 seconds
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182. A Conversation With UFOlogist Alan Steinfeld on How Believers and Skeptics Think About UFOs
Published: May 18, 2021, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 48 minutes 42 seconds
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181. David Buss When Men Behave Badly: The Hidden Roots of Sexual Deception, Harassment, and Assault
Published: May 15, 2021, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 47 minutes 47 seconds
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180. Andy Norman Mental Immunity: Infectious Ideas, Mind Parasites, and the Search for a Better Way to Think
Published: May 11, 2021, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 35 minutes 42 seconds
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179. Niall Ferguson Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe
Published: May 8, 2021, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 38 minutes 35 seconds
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178. James Hunter & Paul Nedelisky on religious vs. secular morality Science and the Good: The Tragic Quest for the Foundations of Morality
Published: May 4, 2021, 7 a.m.Duration: 2 hours 2 minutes 40 seconds
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177. Angus Fletcher 25 Most Powerful Inventions in the History of Literature
Published: May 1, 2021, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 53 minutes 6 seconds
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176. Minouche Shafik What We Owe Each Other: A New Social Contract for a Better Society
Published: April 27, 2021, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 40 minutes 18 seconds
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175. Brian Keating How it All Began: Cosmic Inflation, the Multiverse, and the Nature of Scientific Proof
Published: April 24, 2021, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 48 minutes 3 seconds
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174. Jordan Peterson Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life
Published: April 20, 2021, 7 a.m.Duration: 2 hours 49 minutes 1 second
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173. Naomi Oreskes Why Trust Science?
Published: April 17, 2021, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 45 minutes 51 seconds
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172. Andrew Doyle Free Speech: And Why it Matters
Published: April 13, 2021, 7 a.m.Duration: 2 hours 15 minutes 14 seconds
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171. John Mueller The Stupidity of War: American Foreign Policy and the Case for Complacency
Published: April 10, 2021, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 49 minutes 17 seconds
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170. Michio Kaku The God Equation: The Quest for a Theory of Everything
Published: April 6, 2021, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 36 minutes 47 seconds
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169. Jeff Hawkins A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence
Published: April 3, 2021, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 47 minutes 17 seconds
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168. Daniel Dennett & Gregg Caruso Just Deserts: Debating Free Will (moderated by Michael Shermer)
Published: March 30, 2021, 7 a.m.Duration: 2 hours 6 minutes 16 seconds
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167. Gary Taubes The Case for Keto: Rethinking Weight Control and the Science and Practice of Low-Carb/High-Fat Eating
Published: March 23, 2021, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 50 minutes 23 seconds
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166. Mine! How the Hidden Rules of Ownership Control Our Lives (Michael Heller & James Salzman)
Published: March 20, 2021, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 34 minutes 57 seconds
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165. John McWhorter The Elect: Neoracists Posing as Antiracists and Their Threat to a Progressive America
Published: March 16, 2021, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 20 minutes 43 seconds
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164. Neil deGrasse Tyson Cosmic Queries: StarTalks Guide to Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where Were Going
Published: March 13, 2021, 8 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 47 minutes 12 seconds
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163. Helen Pluckrose Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything About Race, Gender, and Identityand Why This Harms Everybody
Published: March 9, 2021, 8 a.m.Duration: 2 hours 11 minutes 32 seconds
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162. Benjamin Friedman Religion and the Rise of Capitalism
Published: March 6, 2021, 8 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 52 minutes 28 seconds
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161. Roy Richard Grinker Nobodys Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness
Published: March 2, 2021, 8 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes 20 seconds
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160. Abigail Shrier Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters
Published: Feb. 27, 2021, 8 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 36 minutes 13 seconds
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159. Joshua Glasgow The Solace: Finding Value in Death Through Gratitude for Life
Published: Feb. 23, 2021, 8 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 41 minutes 27 seconds
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158. Jason D. Hill We Have Overcome: An Immigrants Letter to The American People
Published: Feb. 20, 2021, 8 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 38 minutes 4 seconds
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157. Avi Loeb Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth
Published: Feb. 16, 2021, 8 a.m.Duration: 2 hours 2 minutes 9 seconds
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156. Ayaan Hirsi Ali Prey: Immigration, Islam, and the Erosion of Womens Rights
Published: Feb. 9, 2021, 8 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 36 minutes 41 seconds
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155. Martin Sherwin Gambling with Armageddon: Nuclear Roulette from Hiroshima to The Cuban Missile Crisis, 19451962
Published: Feb. 2, 2021, 8 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 43 minutes 6 seconds
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154. David Sloan Wilson Atlas Hugged: The Autobiography of John Galt III
Published: Jan. 26, 2021, 8 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 59 minutes 2 seconds
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153. Kevin Dutton Black-and-White Thinking: The Burden of a Binary Brain in a Complex World
Published: Jan. 19, 2021, 8 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 46 minutes 31 seconds
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152. Politics & Truth Michael Shermer Responds to Critics of His Commentary Trump & Truth
Published: Jan. 17, 2021, 8 a.m.Duration: 21 minutes 54 seconds
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151. Trump & Truth A Commentary by Michael Shermer
Published: Jan. 12, 2021, 8 a.m.Duration: 46 minutes 36 seconds
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151. Michael Shermer on Trump, Truth, and Causality
Published: Jan. 12, 2021, 8 a.m.Duration: 46 minutes 36 seconds
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150. Daniel Lieberman Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do is Healthy and Rewarding
Published: Jan. 5, 2021, 8 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes 11 seconds
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149. The After Time: The Future of Civilization After COVID-19
Published: Dec. 29, 2020, 8 a.m.Duration: 43 minutes 35 seconds
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148. Have Archetype Will Travel: The Jordan Peterson Phenomenon
Published: Dec. 22, 2020, 8 a.m.Duration: 41 minutes 18 seconds
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147. David Barash On the Brink of Destruction
Published: Dec. 15, 2020, 8 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 49 minutes 46 seconds
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146. Donald Prothero Weird Earth: Debunking Strange Ideas About Our Planet
Published: Dec. 8, 2020, 8 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 18 minutes 8 seconds
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145. Greg Lukianoff How Free is Free Speech?
Published: Dec. 1, 2020, 8 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 10 minutes 30 seconds
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144. Agustin Fuentes Why We Believe: Evolution and the Human Way of Being
Published: Nov. 24, 2020, 8 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 40 minutes 25 seconds
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143. Nicholas Christakis Apollos Arrow: The Profound and Enduring Impact of Coronavirus on the Way We Live
Published: Nov. 17, 2020, 8 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 22 minutes 34 seconds
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142. Philip Goff Galileos Error: Foundations for a New Science of Consciousness
Published: Nov. 9, 2020, 8 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 52 minutes 58 seconds
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141. Richard Kreitner Break it Up: Secession, Division, and the Secret History of Americas Imperfect Union
Published: Nov. 2, 2020, 9 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 31 minutes 27 seconds
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140. Rebecca Wragg Sykes Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art
Published: Oct. 27, 2020, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 39 minutes 15 seconds
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BONUS: James RandiA Report from the Paranormal Trenches (1992)
Published: Oct. 25, 2020, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 32 minutes 42 seconds
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139. Shelby Steele Shame: How Americas Past Sins Have Polarized Our Country & the film What Killed Michael Brown?
Published: Oct. 20, 2020, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 38 minutes 8 seconds
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138. Douglas Murray The Madness of 2020
Published: Oct. 16, 2020, 5 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 12 minutes 7 seconds
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137. Marta Zaraska Growing Young: How Friendship, Optimism, and Kindness Can Help You Live to 100
Published: Oct. 13, 2020, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 34 minutes 18 seconds
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136. Gad Saad The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense
Published: Oct. 6, 2020, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 37 minutes 4 seconds
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135. Paul Halpern Synchronicity: The Epic Quest to Understand the Quantum Nature of Cause and Effect
Published: Sept. 29, 2020, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 17 minutes 13 seconds
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134. Joe Henrich The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous
Published: Sept. 22, 2020, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 23 minutes 6 seconds
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133. Michael E. McCullough The Kindness of Strangers: How a Selfish Ape Invented a New Moral Code
Published: Sept. 15, 2020, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 55 minutes 56 seconds
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132. Leonard Mlodinow Stephen Hawking: A Memoir of Friendship and Physics
Published: Sept. 8, 2020, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 27 minutes 56 seconds
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131. Stuart Ritchie Science Fictions: How Fraud, Bias, Negligence, and Hype Undermine the Search for Truth
Published: Sept. 1, 2020, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 40 minutes 47 seconds
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130. Debra Soh The End of Gender: Debunking the Myths About Sex and Identity in Our Society
Published: Aug. 25, 2020, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 46 minutes 32 seconds
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129. Mona Sue Weissmark The Science of Diversity
Published: Aug. 18, 2020, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 58 minutes 29 seconds
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128. Michael Shellenberger Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All
Published: Aug. 11, 2020, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 32 minutes 33 seconds
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127. William Perry and Tom Collina The Button: The New Nuclear Arms Race and Presidential Power from Truman to Trump
Published: Aug. 4, 2020, 7 a.m.Duration: 51 minutes 3 seconds
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126. Sarah Scoles They Are Already Here: UFO Culture and Why We See Saucers
Published: July 28, 2020, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 26 minutes 48 seconds
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125. Bjorn Lomborg False Alarm: How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet
Published: July 21, 2020, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 22 minutes 44 seconds
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124. David J. Halperin Intimate Alien: The Hidden Story of the UFO
Published: July 14, 2020, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 43 minutes 58 seconds
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123. Gerald Posner Pharma: Greed, Lies, and the Poisoning of America
Published: July 7, 2020, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 37 minutes 5 seconds
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122. Walter Scheidel Escape from Rome: The Failure of the Empire and the Road to Prosperity
Published: June 30, 2020, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 13 minutes 34 seconds
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121. Maria Konnikova The Biggest Bluff: How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win
Published: June 23, 2020, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 19 minutes 2 seconds
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120. Andrew Rader Beyond the Known: How Exploration Created the Modern World and Will Take Us to the Stars
Published: June 16, 2020, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 41 minutes 9 seconds
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119. Howard Bloom Einstein, Michael Jackson, and Me: A Search for the Soul in the Power Pits of Rock and Roll
Published: June 9, 2020, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 57 minutes 37 seconds
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118. Stuart Russell Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control
Published: June 2, 2020, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 21 minutes 38 seconds
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117. Matt Ridley How Innovation Works: and Why It Flourishes in Freedom
Published: May 26, 2020, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 34 minutes 53 seconds
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116. Howard Steven Friedman Ultimate Price: The Value We Place on Life
Published: May 19, 2020, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 10 minutes 5 seconds
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115. Matthew Cobb The Idea of the Brain: The Past and Future of Neuroscience
Published: May 12, 2020, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 40 minutes 20 seconds
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114. Katherine Stewart The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism
Published: May 5, 2020, 7 a.m.Duration: 59 minutes 39 seconds
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113. Dave Rubin Dont Burn This Book: Thinking for Yourself in an Age of Unreason
Published: April 28, 2020, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 25 minutes 8 seconds
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112. Ann Druyan Cosmos: Possible Worlds
Published: April 21, 2020, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 32 minutes 52 seconds
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111. Scott Barry Kaufman Transcend: The New Science of Self-Actualization
Published: April 14, 2020, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 36 minutes 45 seconds
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110. Bart Ehrman Heaven and Hell: A History of the Afterlife
Published: March 31, 2020, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 27 minutes 8 seconds
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109. Neil Shubin Some Assembly Required: Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA
Published: March 24, 2020, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes 9 seconds
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108. Brian Greene Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe
Published: March 17, 2020, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 12 minutes 53 seconds
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107. Fred Kaplan The Bomb: Presidents, Generals, and the Secret History of Nuclear War
Published: March 10, 2020, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 19 minutes 56 seconds
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106. Daniel Chirot You Say You Want a Revolution? Radical Idealism and its Tragic Consequences
Published: March 3, 2020, 8 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 37 minutes 31 seconds
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105. Diana Pasulka American Cosmic: UFOs, Religion, Technology
Published: Feb. 25, 2020, 8 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 41 minutes 58 seconds
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104. Judith Finlayson You Are What Your Grandparents Ate: What You Need to Know About Nutrition, Experience, Epigenetics and the Origins of Chronic Disease
Published: Feb. 18, 2020, 8 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 25 minutes 16 seconds
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103. Robert Frank Under the Influence: Putting Peer Pressure to Work
Published: Feb. 11, 2020, 8 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 49 minutes 7 seconds
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102. Christopher Ryan Civilized to Death: The Price of Progress
Published: Feb. 4, 2020, 8 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 44 minutes 46 seconds
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101. Hugo Mercier Not Born Yesterday: The Science of Who We Trust and What We Believe
Published: Jan. 28, 2020, 8 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 59 minutes 16 seconds
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100. Episode Special: Ask Me Almost Anything
Published: Jan. 21, 2020, 8 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 46 seconds
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99. Bobby Duffy Why Were Wrong About Nearly Everything: A Theory of Human Misunderstanding
Published: Jan. 14, 2020, 8 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 33 minutes 33 seconds
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98. Robert Pennock An Instinct for Truth: Curiosity and the Moral Character of Science
Published: Jan. 7, 2020, 8 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 59 minutes 34 seconds
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97. Amber Scorah Leaving the Witness: Exiting a Religion and Finding a Life
Published: Dec. 31, 2019, 8 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 35 minutes 32 seconds
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96. Catherine Wilson How to Be an Epicurean: The Ancient Art of Living Well
Published: Dec. 24, 2019, 8 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 11 minutes 52 seconds
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95. John Martin Fischer Death, Immortality and Meaning in Life
Published: Dec. 17, 2019, 8 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 34 minutes 40 seconds
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94. David Leiser How We Misunderstand Economics and Why it Matters
Published: Dec. 10, 2019, 8 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 22 minutes 39 seconds
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93. Geoffrey Miller Virtue Signaling: Essays on Darwinian Politics & Free Speech
Published: Dec. 2, 2019, 6:18 p.m.Duration: 2 hours 4 minutes 20 seconds
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92. Tim Samuels Future Man: How to Evolve and Thrive in the Age of Trump, Mansplaining, and #MeToo
Published: Nov. 19, 2019, 8 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 47 minutes 12 seconds
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91. James Traub What Was Liberalism? The Past, Present, and Promise of a Noble Idea
Published: Nov. 12, 2019, 8 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 21 minutes 30 seconds
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90. Melvin Konner Believers: Faith in Human Nature
Published: Nov. 5, 2019, 8 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 39 minutes 18 seconds
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89. Richard Dawkins Outgrowing God: A Beginners Guide
Published: Oct. 29, 2019, 7 a.m.Duration: 40 minutes 9 seconds
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88. Daniel Oberhaus Extraterrestrial Languages
Published: Oct. 22, 2019, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 21 minutes 26 seconds
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87. Douglas Murray The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race, and Identity
Published: Oct. 15, 2019, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 10 minutes 45 seconds
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86. Neil deGrasse Tyson Letters from an Astrophysicist
Published: Oct. 8, 2019, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 8 minutes 29 seconds
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85. Deepak Chopra Metahuman: Unleashing Your Infinite Potential
Published: Oct. 1, 2019, 7 a.m.Duration: 55 minutes 12 seconds
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84. Christof Koch The Feeling of Life Itself: Why Consciousness is Widespread but Cant Be Computed
Published: Sept. 24, 2019, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 33 minutes 22 seconds
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83. Peter Boghossian How to Have Impossible Conversations: A Very Practical Guide
Published: Sept. 17, 2019, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 15 minutes 27 seconds
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82. Phil Zuckerman What it Means to be Moral: Why Religion is Not Necessary for Living an Ethical Life
Published: Sept. 10, 2019, 1 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 17 minutes 15 seconds
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81. Bruce Hood Possessed: Why We Want More Than We Need
Published: Sept. 3, 2019, 1 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 39 minutes 45 seconds
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80. Bryan Walsh End Times: A Brief Guide to the End of the World
Published: Aug. 27, 2019, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 3 minutes 35 seconds
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79. Anthony Kronman The Assault on American Excellence
Published: Aug. 20, 2019, 1 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 21 minutes 7 seconds
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78. Dr. Donald Hoffman The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth From Our Eyes
Published: Aug. 13, 2019, 1 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 44 minutes 11 seconds
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77. Dr. Lee McIntyre The Scientific Attitude: Defending Science from Denial, Fraud, and Pseudoscience
Published: July 30, 2019, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 54 minutes 5 seconds
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76. William Poundstone The Doomsday Calculation: How an Equation that Predicts the Future is Transforming Everything We Know About Life and the Universe
Published: July 23, 2019, 1 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 19 minutes 54 seconds
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75. Charles Fishman One Giant Leap: The Impossible Mission that Flew us to the Moon
Published: July 16, 2019, 1:30 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 32 minutes 35 seconds
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74. Shaili Jain, M.D. The Unspeakable Mind: Stories of Trauma and Healing from the Frontlines of PTSD Science
Published: July 9, 2019, 1 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 12 minutes 10 seconds
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73. Andrew Seidel Busting the Founding Myth: Why Christian Nationalism is Un-American
Published: July 1, 2019, 6 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 20 minutes 1 second
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72. Robert Zubrin The Case for Space: Spaceflight Revolution
Published: June 24, 2019, 9 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 39 minutes 9 seconds
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71. Dr. Michael Shermer What is Truth?
Published: June 17, 2019, 5 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 8 minutes 33 seconds
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70. Dr. Brian Keating Losing the Nobel Prize: A Story of Cosmology, Ambition, and the Perils of Sciences Highest Honor
Published: June 11, 2019, 5 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 31 minutes 33 seconds
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69. Dr. Barbara Tversky Mind in Motion: How Action Shapes Thought
Published: June 4, 2019, 7 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 23 minutes 23 seconds
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68. Dr. Michael Ruse A Darwinian Meaning to Life
Published: May 28, 2019, 7 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 39 minutes 6 seconds
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67. Dr. Christian Smith Atheist Overreach: What Atheism Cant Deliver
Published: May 21, 2019, 8:28 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 36 minutes 10 seconds
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66. Dr. Christian List Why Free Will is Real: A response to Sam Harris, Jerry Coyne, and Other Determinists
Published: May 15, 2019, 1:38 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 35 minutes 52 seconds
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65. Jared Diamond Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis
Published: May 7, 2019, 3 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes 18 seconds
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64. Michael Tomasello Becoming Human
Published: April 30, 2019, 7 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 25 minutes 31 seconds
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63. Dr. Hector A. Garcia Sex, Power, and Partisanship: How Evolutionary Science Makes Sense of Our Political Divide
Published: April 24, 2019, 1:52 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 36 minutes 13 seconds
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AMA-5. Dr. Michael Shermer Are the Miracles of Jesus Unbelievable? Debate Postmortem
Published: April 21, 2019, 2 p.m.Duration: 27 minutes 14 seconds
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62. Dr. Mark Moffett The Human Swarm: How Our Societies Arise, Thrive, and Fall
Published: April 16, 2019, 6 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 32 minutes 13 seconds
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61. Dr. Richard Wrangham The Goodness Paradox: The Strange Relationship Between Virtue and Violence in Human Evolution
Published: April 10, 2019, 3:55 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 41 minutes 54 seconds
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60. Nicholas A. Christakis Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society
Published: April 3, 2019, 1 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 35 minutes 17 seconds
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59. Cass R. Sunstein On Freedom
Published: March 26, 2019, 7 p.m.Duration: 59 minutes 30 seconds
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58. Ben Shapiro The Right Side of History: How Reason and Moral Purpose Made the West Great
Published: March 19, 2019, 8 p.m.Duration: 50 minutes 8 seconds
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57. Dr. Frans de Waal Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves
Published: March 12, 2019, 9 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 3 minutes 18 seconds
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56. Dr. Tyler Cowen How an Economist Views the World
Published: March 6, 2019, 2 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 21 minutes
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AMA-4. Dr. Michael Shermer The Problem of Evil
Published: March 3, 2019, 6:24 p.m.Duration: 21 minutes 15 seconds
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55. Dr. David Sloan Wilson This View of Life: Completing the Darwinian Revolution
Published: Feb. 27, 2019, 2 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 43 minutes 8 seconds
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54. Dr. Michele Gelfand Rule Makers, Rule Breakers: How Tight and Loose Cultures Wire Our World
Published: Feb. 20, 2019, 2 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 45 minutes 48 seconds
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53. Adam Higginbotham China Syndrome II: The True Story of What Happened at Chernobyl
Published: Feb. 12, 2019, 8:30 p.m.Duration: 51 minutes 15 seconds
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52. Bruce Schneier Hacked! Security and Survival in a Hyper-Connected World
Published: Feb. 5, 2019, 8 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 12 minutes
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51. Gregg Hurwitz Into the Light: Myths, Narratives, Archetypes, and Trump
Published: Jan. 30, 2019, 6:02 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 33 minutes 3 seconds
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AMA-3. Dr. Michael Shermer Ask Me Anything!
Published: Jan. 22, 2019, 8 p.m.Duration: 35 minutes 31 seconds
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50. Dr. Rachel Kleinfeld A Savage Order: How the Worlds Deadliest Countries Can Forge a Path to Security
Published: Jan. 15, 2019, 6 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 22 minutes 54 seconds
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AMA-2. Dr. Michael Shermer: Ask Me Anything!
Published: Jan. 8, 2019, 8 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 16 minutes 46 seconds
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49. Dr. Gad Saad Doing Gads Work
Published: Jan. 1, 2019, 6:14 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 25 minutes 3 seconds
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48. Sir Martin Rees On the Future: Prospects for Humanity
Published: Dec. 25, 2018, 6:21 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 40 minutes 45 seconds
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47. Dr. Susan Blackmore Altered States and Conscious Beings
Published: Dec. 4, 2018, 6 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 22 minutes 3 seconds
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46. Zac Sechler interviews Michael Shermer about Why People Believe in God
Published: Nov. 27, 2018, 6 p.m.Duration: 46 minutes 15 seconds
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45. Daniel de Vise On Comebacks in Sports and Life
Published: Nov. 13, 2018, 6 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 23 minutes 26 seconds
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44. Dr. David P. Barash Human Nature Through a Glass Brightly
Published: Nov. 6, 2018, 6 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 33 minutes 26 seconds
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43. Dr. Jonathan Haidt Coming Apart
Published: Oct. 30, 2018, 5 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 14 minutes 39 seconds
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42. Dr. Clay Routledge The Meaning of Life, the Universe, and Everything
Published: Oct. 17, 2018, 6:44 a.m.Duration: 2 hours 47 seconds
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41. Dr. Debra Lieberman — That’s Disgusting! Objection: Disgust, Morality and the Law
Published: Oct. 10, 2018, 1 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 43 minutes 45 seconds
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40. Dr. Kwame Anthony Appiah Who Am I? Who Are You? The Lies That Bind: Rethinking Identity
Published: Oct. 3, 2018, 1:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 32 minutes
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39. Heather Mac Donald The Diversity Delusion: How Race and Gender Pandering Corrupt the University and Undermine Our Culture
Published: Sept. 26, 2018, 2:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 39 minutes
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38. Dr. Yuval Noah Harari 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Published: Sept. 18, 2018, 5 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 22 minutes 33 seconds
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37. Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson Accessory to War: The Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics and the Military
Published: Sept. 12, 2018, 1 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 22 minutes 28 seconds
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36. Dr. Jonathan Haidt The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas are Setting Up a Generation for Failure
Published: Sept. 5, 2018, 2 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 19 minutes 2 seconds
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35. Dr. Tali Sharot The Influential Mind: What the Brain Reveals About our Power to Change Others
Published: Aug. 29, 2018, 3 a.m.Duration: 58 minutes 32 seconds
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34. Colin McGinn Paradoxes, Puzzles, and Philosophy
Published: Aug. 22, 2018, 3 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 11 minutes 9 seconds
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33. David Quammen The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life
Published: Aug. 15, 2018, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 24 minutes 20 seconds
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32. Nina Teicholz The Big Fat Surprise About Diet and Nutrition
Published: Aug. 7, 2018, 4 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 11 minutes 3 seconds
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31. Amy Alkon Unf*ckology: A Field Guide to Living with Guts and Confidence
Published: July 31, 2018, 7 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 36 minutes 27 seconds
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30. Dr. Ralph Lewis Finding Meaning in a Meaningless Universe
Published: July 25, 2018, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 23 minutes 36 seconds
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29. Colin McGinn Mysterianism, Consciousness, Free Will, and God
Published: July 16, 2018, 5 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 41 minutes 27 seconds
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AMA-1. Dr. Michael Shermer Ask Me Anything!
Published: July 9, 2018, 10:20 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 43 seconds
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28. Edward J. Larson On Faith and Science
Published: July 2, 2018, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes 20 seconds
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27. Charles S. Cockell The Equations of Life: How Physics Shapes Evolution
Published: June 25, 2018, 12:20 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 27 minutes 9 seconds
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26. Dr. Stephen T. Asma Why We Need Religion
Published: June 22, 2018, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 22 minutes 9 seconds
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25. Richard Rhodes Energy: A Human History
Published: May 29, 2018, 7 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 19 minutes 58 seconds
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24. Dr. Alan Stern and Dr. David Grinspoon Chasing New Horizons: Inside the Epic First Mission to Pluto
Published: May 22, 2018, 10:32 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 12 minutes 41 seconds
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23. Dr. Kenneth R. Miller The Human Instinct: How We Evolved to Have Reason, Consciousness, and Free Will
Published: May 19, 2018, 9 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 38 minutes 7 seconds
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22. Dr. Gregory Berns What Its Like to Be a Dog...and Other Adventures in Animal Neuroscience
Published: April 16, 2018, 7 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 9 minutes 51 seconds
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21. Dr. Leonard Mlodinow Elastic: Flexible Thinking in a Time of Change
Published: April 9, 2018, 7 p.m.Duration: 51 minutes 30 seconds
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20. Dr. Michael Shermer Heavens on Earth: The Scientific Search for the Afterlife, Immortality, and Utopia
Published: March 25, 2018, 9 p.m.Duration: 55 minutes 47 seconds
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19. Bill Nye the Science Guy Saves the World on Netflix
Published: March 7, 2018, 5 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 25 minutes 42 seconds
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18. Dr. Bart Ehrman How a Forbidden Religion (Christianity) Swept the World
Published: Feb. 19, 2018, 8 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 18 minutes 54 seconds
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17. Dr. Kip Thorne Gravitational Waves, Black Holes, Time Travel, and Hollywood
Published: Feb. 18, 2018, 10 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 14 minutes 33 seconds
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16. Dr. Robert Trivers Evolutionary Theory & Human Nature
Published: Nov. 16, 2017, 10 p.m.Duration: 49 minutes 38 seconds
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15. Donald Prothero & Timothy Callahan UFOs, Chemtrails, and Aliens: What Science Says
Published: Oct. 15, 2017, 9 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 7 minutes 8 seconds
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14. Dr. Nancy Segal Twin Mythconceptions: False Beliefs, Fables, and Facts about Twins
Published: Sept. 17, 2017, 9 p.m.Duration: 54 minutes 13 seconds
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13. Dr. Walter Scheidel The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the 21st Century
Published: June 11, 2017, 9 p.m.Duration: 57 minutes 32 seconds
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12. Derren Brown Magic, Happiness, and Skepticism
Published: May 15, 2017, 9 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 16 minutes 22 seconds
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11. Dr. Andrew Shtulman Scienceblind: Why Our Intuitive Theories About the World Are So Often Wrong
Published: April 23, 2017, 9 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 15 minutes 44 seconds
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10. Dr. Carol Tavris Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me)
Published: Feb. 19, 2017, 10 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 3 minutes 39 seconds
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9. Gary Taubes The Case Against Sugar
Published: Jan. 22, 2017, 10 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 8 minutes 2 seconds
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8. Dr. Priyamvada Natarajan Mapping the Heavens: The Radical Scientific Ideas That Reveal The Cosmos
Published: Nov. 13, 2016, 10 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 32 minutes 34 seconds
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7. Dr. Benjamin Bergen What the F: What Swearing Reveals About Our Language, Our Brains, and Ourselves
Published: Oct. 16, 2016, 9 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 41 minutes 49 seconds
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6. Dr. Stephon Alexander The Jazz of Physics: The Secret Link Between Music and the Structure of the Universe
Published: May 22, 2016, 9 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 34 minutes 9 seconds
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5. Dr. Janna Levin Gravitational Waves, Black Holes and the Nature of the Cosmos
Published: April 10, 2016, 9 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 3 minutes 2 seconds
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4. Dr. Sean B. Carroll The Serengeti Rules: The Quest to Discover How Life Works and Why It Matters
Published: March 20, 2016, 9 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 35 minutes 29 seconds
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3. Dr. Arthur Benjamin The Magic of Math: Solving for x and Figuring Out Why
Published: Jan. 24, 2016, 10 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 33 minutes 26 seconds
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2. Michelle Feynman The Quotable Feynman & His Van
Published: Dec. 20, 2015, 10 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 16 minutes 9 seconds
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1. Dr. Lisa Randall Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs: The Astounding Interconnectedness of the Universe
Published: Nov. 22, 2015, 10 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 11 minutes 56 seconds
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