The Michael Shermer Show
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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.
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Charles Murray: Why I'm Taking Religion Seriously
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Oct 25, 2025 |
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The Myth of Human Exceptionalism: Why Humans Aren't as Special as We Think
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Oct 21, 2025 |
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Shermer Says: Why Secularists Are Turning to Religion, The Substitution Hypothesis, Sleep Paralysis
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Oct 18, 2025 |
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The Serial Killer Era of the 70s/80s: Lore, Patterns, and Plausible Explanations
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Oct 15, 2025 |
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Shermer Says: Debate Skills, 2025 Nobel Peace Prize, Autism, Vaccines, ANTIFA, Bari Weiss & CBS News
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Oct 13, 2025 |
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When Rationality Becomes Irrational
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Oct 11, 2025 |
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The Science of Revenge: Why Getting Even Feels So Good
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Oct 07, 2025 |
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Why No One Thinks They're in a Cult
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Oct 05, 2025 |
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Was Benjamin Franklin America's First Scientist?
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Sep 30, 2025 |
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COVID-19: What We Learned (and Didn't) About Masks, Lockdowns, and Vaccines
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Sep 27, 2025 |
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The Power of Common Knowledge: Steven Pinker on Language, Norms, and Punishment
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Sep 23, 2025 |
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Jim Lampley on Hosting the Super Bowl, Calling Tyson's Fights, and His Friendship with O.J.
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Sep 20, 2025 |
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The Assassination of Charlie Kirk: Shermer Reflects on Political Violence
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Sep 17, 2025 |
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The Fate of Nations: Why Ignoring Human Nature Dooms Politics
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Sep 13, 2025 |
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How to Protect Children from Social Media and AI
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Sep 09, 2025 |
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The Future of Space Exploration Amid NASA Mission Shutdowns
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Sep 06, 2025 |
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Why Do Humans Speak?
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Sep 02, 2025 |
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Depopulation: The Silent Global Emergency
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Aug 30, 2025 |
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Brainwashing, Mind Control, and Hyper-Persuasion
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Aug 26, 2025 |
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How Foreign Governments Influence U.S. Universities
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Aug 19, 2025 |
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Can We Prevent Aging? Eric Topol on Genes, Lifestyle, and AI in Healthcare
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Aug 18, 2025 |
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Is Nuclear Energy Our Best Shot at Saving the Planet?
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Aug 12, 2025 |
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Why the Left Needs Its Own Reckoning
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Aug 11, 2025 |
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Is Traditional Religion Doomed?
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Aug 05, 2025 |
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Drowning in Decisions: Do We Have Too Many Choices?
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Jul 29, 2025 |
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Are We Alone? Martin Rees on Aliens, The Fermi Paradox & The Fate of Humanity
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Jul 22, 2025 |
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The True Cost of Conviction
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Jul 15, 2025 |
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Debra Soh and Michael Shermer at FreedomFest 2025
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Jul 14, 2025 |
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Douglas Murray on Hamas, Iran, and the Collapse of the Two-State Solution
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Jul 08, 2025 |
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Can Politics and Truth Coexist?
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Jul 01, 2025 |
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Michael Egnor X Christof Koch X Michael Shermer | A Debate on the Mind, Soul, and the Afterlife
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Jun 25, 2025 |
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The Science Behind Menopause
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Jun 17, 2025 |
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Andrew Doyle: Trapped Between Woke Dogma and Right-Wing Populism
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Jun 10, 2025 |
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The Myths of American Capitalism Explained
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May 31, 2025 |
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The Big Bang Wasn't the Beginning? Exploring Cosmic Origins
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May 27, 2025 |
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Believing Is Seeing: Inside the Modern Paranormal Movement
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May 24, 2025 |
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Inside the CIA's Mind Control Experiments
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May 20, 2025 |
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Neanderthals and Us: A Complex Story of Coexistence and Hybridization
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May 17, 2025 |
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AI, Trade Wars, Degrowth: What's Next for the Global Economy?
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May 12, 2025 |
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Is Modern Life Making Us Miserable? What's Fueling the Mental Health Crisis & What Can Help?
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May 10, 2025 |
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Free Speech Under Fire? From Campus Protests to Deportations
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May 06, 2025 |
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Is It Possible to Change Your Entire Personality?
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May 03, 2025 |
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The Trouble with Economic Data: Flawed Metrics, Flawed Decisions
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Apr 29, 2025 |
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Did Shutting Down Schools Help or Hurt? A COVID-19 Postmortem
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Apr 26, 2025 |
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What's Holding You Back? Scott Barry Kaufman on Resilience in the Age of Fragility
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Apr 22, 2025 |
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Why We Follow Orders: The Neuroscience of Compliance and Control
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Apr 19, 2025 |
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Amanda Knox: Life After the Crime That Wasn't Hers
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Apr 15, 2025 |
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What Einstein Meant by God: Science, Spirituality, and the Search for Meaning
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Apr 08, 2025 |
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What Happened to the Intellectual Dark Web?
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Apr 01, 2025 |
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Sex and Beauty: The Extraordinary Implications of Darwin's Strangest Idea (Matt Ridley)
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Mar 25, 2025 |
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The Hoax of the Century: Iron Mountain
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Mar 18, 2025 |
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Does the West Need a Religious Revival? (Shermer Solo)
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Mar 11, 2025 |
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Money, Lies, and God
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Mar 11, 2025 |
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Who Counts? Ethics in the Treatment of Animals and AI
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Mar 08, 2025 |
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New Research on The Evolution of Intelligent Life
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Mar 02, 2025 |
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Sex Work, Ethics, and Evolutionary Psychology: What REALLY Happens on Sugar Daddy Websites?
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Feb 18, 2025 |
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Half a Thousand Episodes: Still Chasing Truth
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Feb 11, 2025 |
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The Faith Deficit: Does America Need a Spiritual Backbone?
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Feb 04, 2025 |
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The Psychology of Serial Killers
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Jan 28, 2025 |
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What if Death Isn't the End? The Science of Forever
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Jan 21, 2025 |
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What Are We Really Fighting Over? Understanding Outrage Through Moral Psychology
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Jan 14, 2025 |
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How to Start a New Country
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Jan 07, 2025 |
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How the Greatest Investors Win in Life and Markets
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Dec 21, 2024 |
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Evidence-Based Charity and Moral Psychology
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Dec 17, 2024 |
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The Suggestible Brain
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Dec 14, 2024 |
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Rationality, Science Fiction, and Humanity's Future
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Dec 10, 2024 |
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Building a Wealthier, Fairer Society
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Dec 07, 2024 |
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Gareth Gore Investigates: Opus Dei, Dark Money, and Global Deception
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Dec 03, 2024 |
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The Current State of Atheism and Separation of Church and State
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Nov 30, 2024 |
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Paul Ehrlich on The Population Bomb, Climate Change, and the Ethics of Extinction
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Nov 26, 2024 |
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From the Big Bang to God: The Universe's Biggest Mysteries
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Nov 23, 2024 |
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Inventing God: Psychology of Belief and the Rise of Secular Spirituality
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Nov 19, 2024 |
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2024 Election Postmortem
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Nov 14, 2024 |
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Fentanyl and the Opioid Epidemic
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Nov 12, 2024 |
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Stories From the Front Lines of Abortion Care (Dr. Warren Hern)
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Nov 08, 2024 |
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The Most Important Election of My Lifetime … Again (Michael Shermer)
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Oct 31, 2024 |
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The Future of Global Order and America's Influence
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Oct 29, 2024 |
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Faith, Politics, and Power: Talia Lavin on the Christian Right's America
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Oct 26, 2024 |
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The Social Reset: Big Tech, Mental Health, and the Future of Connection
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Oct 22, 2024 |
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Neal Stephenson on Predicting the Metaverse, Crypto, and AI Decades Ahead
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Oct 19, 2024 |
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The Future of AI: Consciousness and Ethical Dilemmas
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Oct 15, 2024 |
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Words, Actions, and Liberty: Tara Smith Decodes the First Amendment
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Oct 12, 2024 |
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Psychogenic Illness and the Nocebo Effect
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Oct 08, 2024 |
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How Religions Compete for Money, Power, and People
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Oct 05, 2024 |
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Why Ronald Reagan Wanted to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (Max Boot)
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Oct 01, 2024 |
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Settler Colonialism: Ideology, Violence, and Justice
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Sep 28, 2024 |
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Gray Matters: Exploring the Frontiers of Neurosurgery
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Sep 24, 2024 |
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Biology vs. Gender Ideology: The Science Behind the Debate
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Sep 21, 2024 |
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Taming Silicon Valley: AI's Perils and Promise
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Sep 17, 2024 |
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Matt Ridley, Steven Pinker, and Michael Shermer Challenge Conventional Narratives
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Sep 13, 2024 |
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Slavery, Enlightenment, and America's Refounding
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Sep 10, 2024 |
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How to Think About Souls, UFOs, Time, Belief, and Everything
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Sep 07, 2024 |
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Pseudohistory Makes a Comeback on Tucker Carlson's Show
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Sep 06, 2024 |
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The Science of Disbelief: Understanding Atheism and the Evolution of Religion
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Sep 03, 2024 |
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The Road to Singularity: Ben Goertzel on AGI and The Fate of Humanity
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Sep 01, 2024 |
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Unmasking the Unknown: UFOs, Alien Tech, and Military Secrets?
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Aug 30, 2024 |
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Are We Confused About Social Justice? (Helen Pluckrose)
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Aug 27, 2024 |
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The Cultural History of Charles Fort and His Followers
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Aug 25, 2024 |
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The Logic of Nuclear Policy: Deterrence and MAD Explained.
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Aug 23, 2024 |
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Why Men Are Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do About It
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Aug 20, 2024 |
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Bones, Bias, and Backlash: Elizabeth Weiss on the Politicization of Anthropology
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Aug 17, 2024 |
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The Physics of Life's Emergence
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Aug 13, 2024 |
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Cryptomania: Hype, Hope, and the Fall of a Billion-Dollar Fintech Empire
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Aug 10, 2024 |
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Richard Dawkins on Genetic Insights Into the History of Life
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Aug 06, 2024 |
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UFO Sightings Around the World: A Comprehensive History
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Aug 03, 2024 |
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Parent-Child Estrangement: How Does Divorce Affect Children?
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Jul 30, 2024 |
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The Influence of Politics and Tribalism on Climate Science
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Jul 27, 2024 |
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Death and the Search for Meaning in the Afterlife
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Jul 23, 2024 |
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Division and Polarization in American Politics: Balancing Majority Rule and Minority Rights
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Jul 20, 2024 |
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Michael Shermer Reflects on the Trump Assassination Attempt
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Jul 17, 2024 |
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Thinking Critically About COVID: Conspiracies vs. Nuance and Facts (Jay Bhattacharya)
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Jul 13, 2024 |
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From Hippie to Whole Foods Mogul
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Jul 09, 2024 |
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Aella — From a Christian Upbringing to Sex Work
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Jul 02, 2024 |
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Hong Kong's Turmoil: Insights from an Exiled Political Leader
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Jun 29, 2024 |
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Living Constitutionally: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Constitution's Original Meaning
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Jun 26, 2024 |
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Lemuria: A True Story of a Fake Place
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Jun 22, 2024 |
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Born into a Cult (Michelle Dowd)
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Jun 18, 2024 |
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UFOs: What We Know (And Don't Know)
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Jun 15, 2024 |
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Religion as Make-Believe: A Theory of Belief, Imagination, and Group Identity
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Jun 11, 2024 |
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Vulnerable Minds: The Harm of Childhood Trauma and the Hope of Resilience
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Jun 08, 2024 |
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How to Achieve Peace in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
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Jun 04, 2024 |
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How Likely Is War Over Taiwan?
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Jun 01, 2024 |
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Neuroscientist Explains Selective Memory (Charan Ranganath)
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May 28, 2024 |
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Metaracism: How Systemic Racism Devastates Black Lives
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May 25, 2024 |
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How to Think About Social Justice
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May 21, 2024 |
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Sean Carroll Explains Quantum Field Theory
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May 18, 2024 |
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Co-Founder of The Free Press reports on the Culture Wars (Nellie Bowles)
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May 14, 2024 |
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The Latest Research on Consciousness (Christof Koch)
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May 11, 2024 |
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Everything is Predictable: How Bayesian Statistics Explain Our World
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May 07, 2024 |
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The New Science of Planet Hunting in the Cosmos
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May 04, 2024 |
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The Science of Happines
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Apr 30, 2024 |
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How Rhetoric Shapes Your Opinions
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Apr 27, 2024 |
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Accomplishment and Happiness (Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker)
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Apr 23, 2024 |
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Should We Prepare for Nuclear War? (Annie Jacobsen)
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Apr 20, 2024 |
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An AI... Utopia? (Nick Bostrom, Oxford)
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Apr 16, 2024 |
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Life on Mars? (Robert Zubrin)
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Apr 13, 2024 |
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Robots and the People Who Love Them
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Apr 09, 2024 |
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The Formation, Diversification, and Extinction of World Religions
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Apr 06, 2024 |
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The Wisdom and Wonder of Being Uncertain
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Apr 02, 2024 |
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The End of Race Politics (Coleman Hughes)
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Mar 30, 2024 |
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How to Repair America's Broken Democracy
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Mar 26, 2024 |
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Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up (Abigail Shrier)
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Mar 23, 2024 |
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An Unfinished History of the Holocaust
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Mar 19, 2024 |
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The Weirdness of the World
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Mar 16, 2024 |
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The Story of Female Empowerment & Getting Canceled: Elite Commando and Kickboxing World Champion Leah Goldstein
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Mar 12, 2024 |
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Who Wrote the Qur'an, Why, and What Does it Really Say?
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Mar 09, 2024 |
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Purpose in the Eyes of a Psychiatrist
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Mar 05, 2024 |
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Does Humanity Function as a Single Superorganism?
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Mar 02, 2024 |
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The Power of Noticing What Was Always There
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Feb 27, 2024 |
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China's Grip on Rare-Earth Elements and the Future of Global Energy Security
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Feb 24, 2024 |
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mRNA Vaccines, Mask Mandates, and the COVID-19 Response (Paul Offit)
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Feb 20, 2024 |
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Foster Care, Family, and Social Class
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Feb 17, 2024 |
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How U.S. Public Health Has Strayed From Its Liberal Roots
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Feb 13, 2024 |
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Against the New Politics of Identity
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Feb 10, 2024 |
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What Determines Who Succeeds in the NBA?
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Feb 06, 2024 |
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Transforming Mental Health: Little Treatments, Big Effects
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Feb 03, 2024 |
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Overcoming Self-Censorship in the Age of Outrage
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Jan 30, 2024 |
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One Couple's Vacation Caused 100,000 People to Die
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Jan 27, 2024 |
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Head of TED Talks Shares a New Vision of Generosity
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Jan 23, 2024 |
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Are Parallel Universes and Extra Dimensions Real?
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Jan 17, 2024 |
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Michael Shellenberger Explains Government Censorship of Social Media
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Jan 09, 2024 |
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Multiculturalism and Lessons From the Rwandan Genocide
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Jan 03, 2024 |
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The Meaning of Life (A Message for the Holidays)
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Dec 24, 2023 |
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A Trial by Media Ended Caylan Ford's Career in 4 Hours
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Dec 19, 2023 |
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How Not to Age
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Dec 16, 2023 |
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How to Cultivate Your Imagination as an Adult
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Dec 12, 2023 |
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Nobel Prize Winner Explains Inequality and Capitalism
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Dec 05, 2023 |
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The Purpose of the Universe
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Dec 02, 2023 |
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How Media, Politics, and Identity Drive Our Appetite for Misinformation
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Nov 28, 2023 |
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JFK 60th Anniversary of the Assassination
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Nov 22, 2023 |
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The Scientific Search for Alien Life
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Nov 18, 2023 |
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Ayaan Hirsi Ali Converted to Christianity
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Nov 15, 2023 |
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UFO: The Inside Story of the U.S. Government's Search for Alien Life
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Nov 14, 2023 |
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Identity Politics and its Discontents
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Nov 11, 2023 |
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What Makes Rational People Believe Irrational Things? (Dan Ariely)
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Nov 07, 2023 |
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The Role of Iran in the Israel-Hamas Conflict
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Nov 04, 2023 |
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The Secret History of Women at the CIA
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Oct 31, 2023 |
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America and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
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Oct 27, 2023 |
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Cancel Culture and What to Do About It (Greg Lukianoff & Rikki Schlott)
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Oct 24, 2023 |
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Robert Sapolsky on Free Will and Determinism
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Oct 17, 2023 |
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Armageddon in the Middle East? (David Wolpe)
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Oct 13, 2023 |
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Should Employers Pay For Emotional Labor?
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Oct 10, 2023 |
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Dan Dennett Looks Back on His Career
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Oct 03, 2023 |
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How the American Right Became Radicalized
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Sep 27, 2023 |
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BIG ANNOUNCEMENT
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Sep 26, 2023 |
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Ways of Thinking That Power Successful People
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Sep 19, 2023 |
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How to Fight for Truth and Protect Democracy
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Sep 12, 2023 |
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The Law vs. Separation of Church and State
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Sep 05, 2023 |
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Based on DNA Testing, Only One Twin Was Granted U.S. Citizenship. Why?
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Sep 01, 2023 |
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Evidence of Aliens? Harvard Astronomer Avi Loeb
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Aug 29, 2023 |
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Slavery in the U.S. Analyzed by a Pulitzer Prize-Winning Lawyer and Historian (Ed Larson)
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Aug 22, 2023 |
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Maybe "Good Enough" Is Actually Enough? When Perfectionism Backfires.
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Aug 15, 2023 |
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Is a Human Life Worth $10 Million or Only $187,000? (Bjorn Lomborg)
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Aug 08, 2023 |
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Why We Get Fooled
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Aug 01, 2023 |
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The Saad Truth About Happiness
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Jul 25, 2023 |
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Christopher Rufo Decodes Cultural Shifts in America
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Jul 18, 2023 |
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The Truth About Martin Luther King Jr.
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Jul 12, 2023 |
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An Outsider's Perspective on American Culture Wars
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Jul 05, 2023 |
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Children and Politics
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Jun 27, 2023 |
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The Future of Medicine: What You Need to Know
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Jun 20, 2023 |
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Michael Shellenberger on UFO Whistleblowers
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Jun 14, 2023 |
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Is the Government Hiding Aliens?
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Jun 08, 2023 |
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A Guide to Violence and Self-Defense.
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Jun 06, 2023 |
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Identity or Merit: What Matters More? (Heather Mac Donald)
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May 30, 2023 |
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Are We Risking Our Ability to Think?
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May 27, 2023 |
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Quantum Computers Will Change Everything (Michio Kaku)
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May 25, 2023 |
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What Happened to Women's Rights?
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May 23, 2023 |
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My Final Lecture: What I Learned About Living a Good Life
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May 18, 2023 |
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Could the American Economy Collapse Like Venezuela's? (Mark Skousen)
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May 16, 2023 |
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Scams and Frauds: A Skeptic's Survival Guide
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May 13, 2023 |
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What if You Were Born 50 Years Earlier?
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May 09, 2023 |
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How Can God Feel So Real?
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May 06, 2023 |
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Will We Ever Live in a Post-race World?
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May 04, 2023 |
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346. Kennon Sheldon — What the New Psychology of the Self Teaches Us About Free Will, Determinism, and Self-Determinism
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May 02, 2023 |
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345. Matt Johnson — How Hitchens Can Save the Left: Rediscovering Fearless Liberalism in an Age of Counter-Enlightenment
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Apr 29, 2023 |
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344. What is a Woman, Anyway?
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Apr 26, 2023 |
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343. Timothy Redmond — Political Tribalism in America: How Hyper-Partisanship Dumbs Down Democracy and How to Fix It
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Apr 25, 2023 |
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342. Valerie Fridland — Like, Literally, Dude: Arguing for the Good in Bad English
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Apr 22, 2023 |
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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
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Apr 18, 2023 |
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340. Ben Alderson-Day — Presence: The Strange Science and True Stories of the Unseen Other
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Apr 15, 2023 |
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339. Gerald and Patricia Posner on Evil
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Apr 11, 2023 |
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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
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Apr 08, 2023 |
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337. On the Origin of Time — Thomas Hertog on Stephen Hawking's Final Theory
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Apr 01, 2023 |
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336. The Sacred Depths of Nature — Ursula Goodenough on How to Find Sacred Scientific Spirituality
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Mar 28, 2023 |
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335. Jennifer Michael Hecht on How to Find Meaning, Purpose, and Happiness in Everyday Life
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Mar 25, 2023 |
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334. The End of the World: Bart Ehrman on What the Bible Really Says About the End
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Mar 21, 2023 |
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333. Kevin Kelly — ChatGPT, OpenAI, and Excellent Advice for Living
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Mar 18, 2023 |
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332. Wrongfully Convicted, Ultimately Acquitted — Amanda Knox on Criminal Injustice and Why It Happens
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Mar 14, 2023 |
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331. Paul Zak — Immersion: The Science of the Extraordinary and the Source of Happiness
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Mar 11, 2023 |
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330. Jim Davies — How to Be a Better Person
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Mar 07, 2023 |
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329. Marc Schulz — The Good Life: Lessons from the World's Longest Scientific Study of Happiness
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Mar 04, 2023 |
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328. Paul Bloom — Psych: The Story of the Human Mind
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Feb 28, 2023 |
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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
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Feb 25, 2023 |
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326. Naomi Oreskes — The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market
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Feb 21, 2023 |
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325. Heinrich Päs — The One: How an Ancient Idea Holds the Future of Physics
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Feb 18, 2023 |
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324. Andrew Gold on Exorcism, Abortion, Pedophilia, Sex & UFOs
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Feb 14, 2023 |
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323. Elle Hardy — Beyond Belief: How Pentecostal Christianity Is Taking Over the World
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Feb 11, 2023 |
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322. Marty Klein — Sex Matters
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Feb 07, 2023 |
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321. William Magnuson — For Profit: A History of Corporations
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Feb 04, 2023 |
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320. Massimo Pigliucci — How to Live a Good Life and Create a Just Society
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Jan 31, 2023 |
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319. Steven Hassan — Combatting Cult Mind Control, Freedom of Mind, and The Cult of Trump
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Jan 28, 2023 |
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318. Suzie Sheehy — The Matter of Everything: How Curiosity, Physics, and Improbable Experiments Changed the World
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Jan 24, 2023 |
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317. Dacher Keltner — Awe: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How It Can Transform Your Life
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Jan 21, 2023 |
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316. Daniel Akst on the Pacifists of the Greatest Generation Who Revolutionized Resistance
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Jan 17, 2023 |
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315. David Bernstein — Classified: The Untold Story of Racial Classification in America
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Jan 14, 2023 |
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314. Martin Rees — Can Science Save Us?
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Jan 03, 2023 |
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313. Matthew Cobb — As Gods: A Moral History of the Genetic Age
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Dec 27, 2022 |
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312. Louise Perry — The Case Against the Sexual Revolution: A New Guide to Sex in the 21st Century
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Dec 24, 2022 |
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311. Meghan Daum — The Problem With Everything: My Journey Through the New Culture Wars
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Dec 20, 2022 |
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310. Todd Kashdan — The Art of Insubordination: How to Dissent and Defy Effectively
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Dec 13, 2022 |
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309. India Thusi on Sex Work, Critical Race Theory, and Moral Progress
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Dec 06, 2022 |
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308. Iris Berent — The Blind Storyteller: How We Reason About Human Nature
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Nov 29, 2022 |
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307. Nicholas Dirks on Science Denial, Distrust, and Skepticism
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Nov 22, 2022 |
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306. Stephon Alexander — Fear of a Black Universe: An Outsider's Guide to the Future of Physics
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Nov 15, 2022 |
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305. Bethanne Patrick — Book World
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Nov 08, 2022 |
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304. Justin Gregg — If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal: What Animal Intelligence Reveals About Human Stupidity
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Nov 01, 2022 |
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303. Michael Shermer — Conspiracy: Why the Rational Believe the Irrational
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Oct 25, 2022 |
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302. Tim Palmer — The Primacy of Doubt
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Oct 18, 2022 |
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301. Alan Blinder — A Monetary and Fiscal History of the United States
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Oct 11, 2022 |
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300. Saleem Ali — Earthly Order: How Natural Laws Define Human Life
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Oct 04, 2022 |
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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
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Sep 29, 2022 |
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298. Neil deGrasse Tyson — Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization
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Sep 20, 2022 |
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297. Andrew Doyle — How the Religion of Social Justice Captured the Western World
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Sep 13, 2022 |
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296. Stephen Bloom on Jane Elliott's Famous Experiment on Race and Brutality and What It Reveals About Today's Racial Divide
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Sep 06, 2022 |
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295. Marian Tupy & Gale Pooley — Superabundance: The Story of Population Growth, Innovation, and Human Flourishing on an Infinitely Bountiful Planet
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Aug 30, 2022 |
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294. Sabine Hossenfelder — Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions
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Aug 23, 2022 |
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293. Konstantin Kisin — An Immigrant's Love Letter to the West
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Aug 19, 2022 |
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292. Gary Marcus — Rebooting AI: Building Artificial Intelligence We Can Trust
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Aug 16, 2022 |
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291. Rob Ashton — Silent Influence and the Science of Writing, Reading, and Communicating
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Aug 09, 2022 |
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290. Anastacia Marx de Salcedo — Eat like a Pig, Run Like a Horse
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Aug 02, 2022 |
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289. James Kirchick — Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington
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Jul 26, 2022 |
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288. Lucy Cooke — Bitch: On the Female of the Species
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Jul 19, 2022 |
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287. Bobby Azarian — Life, the Universe, and Cosmic Complexity
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Jul 12, 2022 |
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286. Kevin McCaffree — How Societies Change and Why
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Jul 09, 2022 |
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285. Helen Joyce — Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality
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Jul 05, 2022 |
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284. Yoram Hazony on Traditional Conservatism vs. Enlightenment Liberalism
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Jun 28, 2022 |
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283. Michael Strevens — The Knowledge Machine: How Irrationality Created Modern Science
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Jun 25, 2022 |
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282. Anil Seth on the Hard Problem of Consciousness, the Self, and the Essence of Volition
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Jun 21, 2022 |
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281. Moneyball For Your Life: Seth Stephens-Davidowitz on Using Data to Get What You Really Want
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Jun 18, 2022 |
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280. Sam Rosenfeld on Party Polarization in the Postwar United States
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Jun 14, 2022 |
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279. Ian Morris on Deep Time and Big History
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Jun 11, 2022 |
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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
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Jun 07, 2022 |
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277. Michel Gagné — How to Think About Conspiracy Theories
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Jun 04, 2022 |
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276. Andrew Yang — Not Left. Not Right. Forward.
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May 31, 2022 |
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275. The Disrupted Mind: Noga Arikha on What Happens to Identity When the Brain Is Assaulted by Disease and Injury
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May 28, 2022 |
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274. Frans De Waal on Sex and Gender Across the Primate Spectrum
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May 24, 2022 |
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273. Cathy Young — The Russian Riddle Wrapped in a Ukrainian Mystery Inside an American Enigma
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May 21, 2022 |
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272. Stuart Vyse — The Uses of Delusion: Why It's Not Always Rational to Be Rational
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May 17, 2022 |
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271. Peter Ward — The Price of Immortality: The Race to Live Forever
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May 14, 2022 |
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270. Surprising Power of Game Theory to Explain Irrationality (Moshe Hoffman and Erez Yoeli)
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May 10, 2022 |
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269. Richard Dawkins — Flights of Fancy: Defying Gravity by Design and Evolution
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May 07, 2022 |
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268. Douglas Murray on The War on the West: Race, Politics, and Culture
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May 03, 2022 |
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267. Louis Theroux on Neo-Nazis, Jimmy Savile, UFO Cults, and Scientology
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Apr 30, 2022 |
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266. Jesse Singal on Why Fad Psychology Can't Cure Our Social Ills
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Apr 26, 2022 |
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265. Christopher Blattman on Why We Fight: The Roots of War and the Paths to Peace
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Apr 23, 2022 |
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264. Adam Levin on Identity Theft and How to Protect Yourself from Scammers, Phishers, and Fraudsters of All Types
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Apr 18, 2022 |
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263. Dave Rubin — Left, Right, and Woke, based on his book Don't Burn This Country: Surviving and Thriving in Our Woke Dystopia
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Apr 16, 2022 |
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262. Oliver Stone on Ukraine, Putin, and the Military-Industrial Complex
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Apr 12, 2022 |
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261. Jim Al-Khalili on the Joy of Science
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Apr 09, 2022 |
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260. Batya Ungar-Sargon — Bad News: How Woke Media Is Undermining Democracy
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Apr 05, 2022 |
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259. Ogi Ogas — Journey of the Mind: How Thinking Emerged from Chaos
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Apr 02, 2022 |
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258. Jacek Kugler — Putin & Power Transition Theory: China, Russia, and Ukraine
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Mar 29, 2022 |
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257. Simon Conway Morris on Design in Evolution & the Possibility of Purpose in the Cosmos
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Mar 26, 2022 |
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256. Imagining the Future with Reality Game Designer and Futurist Jane McGonigal
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Mar 22, 2022 |
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255. David Chalmers — Reality+: Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy
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Mar 19, 2022 |
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254. Ravi Gupta on the Lost Debate: Whatever Happened to Reasoned Discussion and Respectable Disagreement?
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Mar 15, 2022 |
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253. Jennifer Sciubba on Putin, Russia, Ukraine, National & Global Security, and How Population Demographics Shape Our Future
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Mar 12, 2022 |
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252. John Mueller on Putin's War: Russia, Ukraine, and NATO
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Mar 08, 2022 |
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251. Kelly Weill on Flat Earthers, Conspiracy Culture, and Why People Will Believe Anything
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Mar 01, 2022 |
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250. Will Sanctions Work? War in Ukraine.
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Feb 25, 2022 |
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249. Barbara F. Walter on How Civil Wars Start and How to Stop Them, including in the United States
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Feb 22, 2022 |
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248. Elizabeth Weiss on Woke Archaeology and Erasing the Past
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Feb 15, 2022 |
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247. Jacob Mchangama on Free Speech: A History from Socrates to Social Media
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Feb 08, 2022 |
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246. Nick Pope on UAPs, UFOs, Conspiracies, and Cover-ups
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Feb 01, 2022 |
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245. Frank Sulloway on How Lives Turn Out: Genes, Environment, Pluck, and Luck
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Jan 29, 2022 |
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244. Johnjoe McFadden — Life is Simple: How Occam's Razor Set Science Free and Shapes the UniverseMcFadden — Life is Simple: How Occam's Razor Set Science Free and Shapes the Universe
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Jan 25, 2022 |
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243. Sally Satel on Addiction, the Opioid Crisis, Deaths of Despair, and How Psychiatry Has Gone Woke
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Jan 22, 2022 |
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242. Jonathan Gottschall — The Story Paradox: How Our Love of Storytelling Builds Societies and Tears Them Down
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Jan 18, 2022 |
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241. Jeff Maurer — I Might Be Wrong
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Jan 15, 2022 |
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240. Leonard Mlodinow — Emotional: How Feelings Shape Our Thinking
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Jan 11, 2022 |
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239. Richard Firth-Godbehere — A Human History of Emotion: How the Way We Feel Built the World We Know
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Jan 04, 2022 |
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238. Brian Klass — Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How it Changes Us
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Dec 28, 2021 |
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237. David Wengrow on The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
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Dec 21, 2021 |
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236. Fernanda Pirie on The Rule of Laws: A 4,000-Year Quest to Order the World
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Dec 18, 2021 |
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235. Thomas Sowell: The Life and Work of the Legendary Social Theorist (Jason Riley)
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Dec 14, 2021 |
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234. Matt Ridley on the Search for the Origin of COVID-19
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Dec 11, 2021 |
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233. Goodbye Pat Linse, Skeptic Co-founder and My Best Friend…
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Dec 07, 2021 |
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232. Amishi Jha on Learning How to Pay Attention to Your Attention
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Dec 04, 2021 |
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231. Jason Hill on What White Americans Owe Black People
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Nov 30, 2021 |
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230. Bart Ehrman — Did the Christmas Story Really Happen? The Birth of Jesus in History & Legend
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Nov 27, 2021 |
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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?
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Nov 23, 2021 |
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228. Steven Koonin on what climate science tells us, what it doesn't, and why it matters, based on his book Unsettled
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Nov 20, 2021 |
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227. Richard Nisbett on Thinking & Reason
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Nov 16, 2021 |
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226. Suzanne Nossel on defending free speech for all, based on her book Dare to Speak
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Nov 13, 2021 |
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225. Nancy Segal — Deliberately Divided: Inside the Controversial Study of Twins and Triplets Adopted Apart
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Nov 09, 2021 |
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224. Bobby Duffy on The Generation Myth: Why When You're Born Matters Less Than You Think
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Nov 06, 2021 |
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223. Paul Bloom on the pleasures of suffering and the meaning of life
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Nov 02, 2021 |
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222. Suzanne O'Sullivan on psychosomatic disorders and other mystery illnesses
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Oct 30, 2021 |
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221. Antonio Damasio — Feeling & Knowing: Making Minds Conscious
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Oct 26, 2021 |
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220. Charles Foster on Being a Human: Adventures in Forty Thousand Years of Consciousness
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Oct 23, 2021 |
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219. In-Person Conversation (in Shermer's Home) with Steven Pinker on Rationality: What it is, Why it Seems Scarce, Why it Matters in Shermer's Home
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Oct 19, 2021 |
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218. Craig Whitlock — The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War
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Oct 16, 2021 |
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217. Mary Grabar on the 1619 Project, Howard Zinn, Historical Revisionism, and Pseudohistory
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Oct 12, 2021 |
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216. Kathryn Paige Harden — The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality
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Oct 09, 2021 |
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215. Mary Eberstadt on God, Religion, Secularization, Sexual Revolution, and Identity Politics
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Oct 05, 2021 |
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214. Tom Nichols — Our Own Worst Enemy: The Assault From Within on Modern Democracy
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Oct 02, 2021 |
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213. Mike Rothschild — The Storm Is Upon Us: How QAnon Became a Movement, Cult, and Conspiracy Theory of Everything
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Sep 28, 2021 |
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212. Gale Sinatra & Barbara Hofer — Science Denial: Why It Happens and What to Do About It
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Sep 25, 2021 |
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211. Ashley Rindsberg — The Gray Lady Winked: How the New York Times's Misreporting, Distortions and Fabrications Radically Alter History
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Sep 21, 2021 |
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210. Leidy Klotz on doing more with less, based on his book Subtract: The Untapped Science of Less
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Sep 18, 2021 |
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209. Heather Heying & Bret Weinstein on Evolution and the Challenges of Modern Life, Based on Their New Book a Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century
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Sep 14, 2021 |
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208. The Truth About 9/11 and Terrorism
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Sep 10, 2021 |
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207. John Petrocelli — The Life-Changing Science of Detecting Bullshit
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Sep 07, 2021 |
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206. Nichola Raihani — The Social Instinct: How Cooperation Shaped the World
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Sep 04, 2021 |
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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
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Sep 01, 2021 |
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204. Carole Hooven on T: The Story of Testosterone, the Hormone that Dominates and Divides Us
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Aug 28, 2021 |
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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
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Aug 24, 2021 |
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202. Julia Galef — The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don't
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Aug 21, 2021 |
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201. Michael Shermer on Evolution, I.D. Theory, Consciousness, Morality, Gullibility, and Nothing (AMA # 7)
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Aug 18, 2021 |
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200. Philip Zimbardo on the Nature & Nurture of Good & Evil
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Aug 15, 2021 |
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199. David Potter — Disruption: Why Things Change
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Aug 10, 2021 |
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198. Bernardo Kastrup on the Nature of Reality: Materialism, Idealism, or Skepticism
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Aug 07, 2021 |
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197. Yaron Brook on Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, and Objectivism
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Aug 03, 2021 |
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196. Annie Murphy Paul — The Extended Mind: The Power of Thinking Outside the Brain
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Jul 31, 2021 |
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195. Jamy Ian Swiss — The Conjuror's Conundrum
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Jul 27, 2021 |
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194. John Mackey (Founder and CEO of Whole Foods Market) on Conscious Capitalism & Conscious Leadership
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Jul 21, 2021 |
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193. Chris Edwards on Educational Reform and Thought Experiments
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Jul 17, 2021 |
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192. Lesley Newson & Peter Richerson — A New Look at Human Evolution
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Jul 10, 2021 |
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191. Michael Gordin on the Fringe of Where Science Meets Pseudoscience
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Jul 03, 2021 |
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190. Jonathan Rauch — The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth
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Jun 26, 2021 |
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189. Daniel Kahneman — Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment
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Jun 19, 2021 |
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188. Legendary Undersea Explorer Robert Ballard — Into the Deep: A Memoir From the Man Who Found Titanic
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Jun 16, 2021 |
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187. Robert Cialdini — Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
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Jun 08, 2021 |
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186. William Nordhaus on the Economics of Global Warming, Pandemics, and Corporate Malfeasance
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Jun 02, 2021 |
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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)
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May 29, 2021 |
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184. Alexander Green on Money & Why It Matters
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May 25, 2021 |
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183. Bari Weiss & Bion Bartning — The Foundation Against Intolerance & Racism
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May 22, 2021 |
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182. A Conversation With UFOlogist Alan Steinfeld on How Believers and Skeptics Think About UFOs
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May 18, 2021 |
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181. David Buss — When Men Behave Badly: The Hidden Roots of Sexual Deception, Harassment, and Assault
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May 15, 2021 |
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180. Andy Norman — Mental Immunity: Infectious Ideas, Mind Parasites, and the Search for a Better Way to Think
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May 11, 2021 |
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179. Niall Ferguson — Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe
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May 08, 2021 |
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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
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May 04, 2021 |
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177. Angus Fletcher — 25 Most Powerful Inventions in the History of Literature
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May 01, 2021 |
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176. Minouche Shafik — What We Owe Each Other: A New Social Contract for a Better Society
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Apr 27, 2021 |
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175. Brian Keating — How it All Began: Cosmic Inflation, the Multiverse, and the Nature of Scientific Proof
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Apr 24, 2021 |
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174. Jordan Peterson — Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life
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Apr 20, 2021 |
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173. Naomi Oreskes — Why Trust Science?
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Apr 17, 2021 |
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172. Andrew Doyle — Free Speech: And Why it Matters
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Apr 13, 2021 |
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171. John Mueller — The Stupidity of War: American Foreign Policy and the Case for Complacency
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Apr 10, 2021 |
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170. Michio Kaku — The God Equation: The Quest for a Theory of Everything
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Apr 06, 2021 |
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169. Jeff Hawkins — A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence
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Apr 03, 2021 |
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168. Daniel Dennett & Gregg Caruso — Just Deserts: Debating Free Will (moderated by Michael Shermer)
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Mar 30, 2021 |
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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
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Mar 23, 2021 |
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166. Mine! How the Hidden Rules of Ownership Control Our Lives (Michael Heller & James Salzman)
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Mar 20, 2021 |
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165. John McWhorter — The Elect: Neoracists Posing as Antiracists and Their Threat to a Progressive America
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Mar 16, 2021 |
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164. Neil deGrasse Tyson — Cosmic Queries: StarTalk's Guide to Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We're Going
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Mar 13, 2021 |
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163. Helen Pluckrose — Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything About Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody
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Mar 09, 2021 |
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162. Benjamin Friedman — Religion and the Rise of Capitalism
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Mar 06, 2021 |
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161. Roy Richard Grinker — Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness
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Mar 02, 2021 |
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160. Abigail Shrier — Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters
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Feb 27, 2021 |
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159. Joshua Glasgow — The Solace: Finding Value in Death Through Gratitude for Life
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Feb 23, 2021 |
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158. Jason D. Hill — We Have Overcome: An Immigrant's Letter to The American People
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Feb 20, 2021 |
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157. Avi Loeb — Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth
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Feb 16, 2021 |
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156. Ayaan Hirsi Ali — Prey: Immigration, Islam, and the Erosion of Women's Rights
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Feb 09, 2021 |
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155. Martin Sherwin — Gambling with Armageddon: Nuclear Roulette from Hiroshima to The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1945–1962
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Feb 02, 2021 |
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154. David Sloan Wilson — Atlas Hugged: The Autobiography of John Galt III
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Jan 26, 2021 |
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153. Kevin Dutton — Black-and-White Thinking: The Burden of a Binary Brain in a Complex World
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Jan 19, 2021 |
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152. Politics & Truth — Michael Shermer Responds to Critics of His Commentary "Trump & Truth"
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Jan 17, 2021 |
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151. Trump & Truth — A Commentary by Michael Shermer
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Jan 12, 2021 |
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150. Daniel Lieberman — Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do is Healthy and Rewarding
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Jan 05, 2021 |
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149. The After Time: The Future of Civilization After COVID-19
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Dec 29, 2020 |
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148. Have Archetype — Will Travel: The Jordan Peterson Phenomenon
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Dec 22, 2020 |
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147. David Barash — On the Brink of Destruction
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Dec 15, 2020 |
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146. Donald Prothero — Weird Earth: Debunking Strange Ideas About Our Planet
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Dec 08, 2020 |
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145. Greg Lukianoff — How Free is Free Speech?
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Dec 01, 2020 |
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144. Agustín Fuentes — Why We Believe: Evolution and the Human Way of Being
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Nov 24, 2020 |
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143. Nicholas Christakis — Apollo's Arrow: The Profound and Enduring Impact of Coronavirus on the Way We Live
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Nov 17, 2020 |
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142. Philip Goff — Galileo's Error: Foundations for a New Science of Consciousness
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Nov 09, 2020 |
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141. Richard Kreitner — Break it Up: Secession, Division, and the Secret History of America's Imperfect Union
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Nov 02, 2020 |
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140. Rebecca Wragg Sykes — Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art
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Oct 27, 2020 |
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BONUS: James Randi—A Report from the Paranormal Trenches (1992)
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Oct 25, 2020 |
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139. Shelby Steele — Shame: How America's Past Sins Have Polarized Our Country & the film What Killed Michael Brown?
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Oct 20, 2020 |
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138. Douglas Murray — The Madness of 2020
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Oct 16, 2020 |
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137. Marta Zaraska — Growing Young: How Friendship, Optimism, and Kindness Can Help You Live to 100
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Oct 13, 2020 |
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136. Gad Saad — The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense
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Oct 06, 2020 |
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135. Paul Halpern — Synchronicity: The Epic Quest to Understand the Quantum Nature of Cause and Effect
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Sep 29, 2020 |
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134. Joe Henrich — The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous
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Sep 22, 2020 |
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133. Michael E. McCullough — The Kindness of Strangers: How a Selfish Ape Invented a New Moral Code
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Sep 15, 2020 |
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132. Leonard Mlodinow — Stephen Hawking: A Memoir of Friendship and Physics
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Sep 08, 2020 |
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131. Stuart Ritchie — Science Fictions: How Fraud, Bias, Negligence, and Hype Undermine the Search for Truth
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Sep 01, 2020 |
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130. Debra Soh — The End of Gender: Debunking the Myths About Sex and Identity in Our Society
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Aug 25, 2020 |
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129. Mona Sue Weissmark — The Science of Diversity
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Aug 18, 2020 |
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128. Michael Shellenberger — Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All
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Aug 11, 2020 |
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127. William Perry and Tom Collina — The Button: The New Nuclear Arms Race and Presidential Power from Truman to Trump
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Aug 04, 2020 |
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126. Sarah Scoles — They Are Already Here: UFO Culture and Why We See Saucers
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Jul 28, 2020 |
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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
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Jul 21, 2020 |
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124. David J. Halperin — Intimate Alien: The Hidden Story of the UFO
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Jul 14, 2020 |
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123. Gerald Posner — Pharma: Greed, Lies, and the Poisoning of America
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Jul 07, 2020 |
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122. Walter Scheidel — Escape from Rome: The Failure of the Empire and the Road to Prosperity
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Jun 30, 2020 |
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121. Maria Konnikova — The Biggest Bluff: How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win
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Jun 23, 2020 |
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120. Andrew Rader — Beyond the Known: How Exploration Created the Modern World and Will Take Us to the Stars
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Jun 16, 2020 |
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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
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Jun 09, 2020 |
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118. Stuart Russell — Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control
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Jun 02, 2020 |
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117. Matt Ridley — How Innovation Works: and Why It Flourishes in Freedom
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May 26, 2020 |
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116. Howard Steven Friedman — Ultimate Price: The Value We Place on Life
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May 19, 2020 |
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115. Matthew Cobb — The Idea of the Brain: The Past and Future of Neuroscience
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May 12, 2020 |
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114. Katherine Stewart — The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism
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May 05, 2020 |
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113. Dave Rubin — Don't Burn This Book: Thinking for Yourself in an Age of Unreason
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Apr 28, 2020 |
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112. Ann Druyan — Cosmos: Possible Worlds
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Apr 21, 2020 |
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111. Scott Barry Kaufman — Transcend: The New Science of Self-Actualization
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Apr 14, 2020 |
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110. Bart Ehrman — Heaven and Hell: A History of the Afterlife
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Mar 31, 2020 |
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109. Neil Shubin — Some Assembly Required: Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA
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Mar 24, 2020 |
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108. Brian Greene — Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe
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Mar 17, 2020 |
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107. Fred Kaplan — The Bomb: Presidents, Generals, and the Secret History of Nuclear War
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Mar 10, 2020 |
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106. Daniel Chirot — You Say You Want a Revolution? Radical Idealism and its Tragic Consequences
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Mar 03, 2020 |
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105. Diana Pasulka — American Cosmic: UFOs, Religion, Technology
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Feb 25, 2020 |
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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
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Feb 18, 2020 |
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103. Robert Frank — Under the Influence: Putting Peer Pressure to Work
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Feb 11, 2020 |
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102. Christopher Ryan — Civilized to Death: The Price of Progress
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Feb 04, 2020 |
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101. Hugo Mercier — Not Born Yesterday: The Science of Who We Trust and What We Believe
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Jan 28, 2020 |
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100. Episode Special: Ask Me Almost Anything
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Jan 21, 2020 |
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99. Bobby Duffy — Why We’re Wrong About Nearly Everything: A Theory of Human Misunderstanding
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Jan 14, 2020 |
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98. Robert Pennock — An Instinct for Truth: Curiosity and the Moral Character of Science
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Jan 07, 2020 |
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97. Amber Scorah — Leaving the Witness: Exiting a Religion and Finding a Life
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Dec 31, 2019 |
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96. Catherine Wilson — How to Be an Epicurean: The Ancient Art of Living Well
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Dec 24, 2019 |
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95. John Martin Fischer — Death, Immortality and Meaning in Life
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Dec 17, 2019 |
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94. David Leiser — How We Misunderstand Economics and Why it Matters
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Dec 10, 2019 |
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93. Geoffrey Miller — Virtue Signaling: Essays on Darwinian Politics & Free Speech
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Dec 02, 2019 |
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92. Tim Samuels — Future Man: How to Evolve and Thrive in the Age of Trump, Mansplaining, and #MeToo
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Nov 19, 2019 |
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91. James Traub — What Was Liberalism? The Past, Present, and Promise of a Noble Idea
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Nov 12, 2019 |
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90. Melvin Konner — Believers: Faith in Human Nature
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Nov 05, 2019 |
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89. Richard Dawkins — Outgrowing God: A Beginner's Guide
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Oct 29, 2019 |
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88. Daniel Oberhaus — Extraterrestrial Languages
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Oct 22, 2019 |
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87. Douglas Murray — The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race, and Identity
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Oct 15, 2019 |
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86. Neil deGrasse Tyson — Letters from an Astrophysicist
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Oct 08, 2019 |
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85. Deepak Chopra — Metahuman: Unleashing Your Infinite Potential
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Oct 01, 2019 |
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84. Christof Koch — The Feeling of Life Itself: Why Consciousness is Widespread but Can't Be Computed
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Sep 24, 2019 |
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83. Peter Boghossian — How to Have Impossible Conversations: A Very Practical Guide
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Sep 17, 2019 |
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82. Phil Zuckerman — What it Means to be Moral: Why Religion is Not Necessary for Living an Ethical Life
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Sep 10, 2019 |
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81. Bruce Hood — Possessed: Why We Want More Than We Need
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Sep 03, 2019 |
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80. Bryan Walsh — End Times: A Brief Guide to the End of the World
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Aug 27, 2019 |
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79. Anthony Kronman — The Assault on American Excellence
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Aug 20, 2019 |
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78. Dr. Donald Hoffman — The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth From Our Eyes
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Aug 13, 2019 |
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77. Dr. Lee McIntyre — The Scientific Attitude: Defending Science from Denial, Fraud, and Pseudoscience
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Jul 30, 2019 |
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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
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Jul 23, 2019 |
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75. Charles Fishman — One Giant Leap: The Impossible Mission that Flew us to the Moon
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Jul 16, 2019 |
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74. Shaili Jain, M.D. — The Unspeakable Mind: Stories of Trauma and Healing from the Frontlines of PTSD Science
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Jul 09, 2019 |
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73. Andrew Seidel — Busting the Founding Myth: Why Christian Nationalism is Un-American
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Jul 01, 2019 |
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72. Robert Zubrin — The Case for Space: Spaceflight Revolution
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Jun 24, 2019 |
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71. Dr. Michael Shermer — What is Truth?
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Jun 17, 2019 |
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70. Dr. Brian Keating — Losing the Nobel Prize: A Story of Cosmology, Ambition, and the Perils of Science's Highest Honor
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Jun 11, 2019 |
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69. Dr. Barbara Tversky — Mind in Motion: How Action Shapes Thought
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Jun 04, 2019 |
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68. Dr. Michael Ruse — A Darwinian Meaning to Life
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May 28, 2019 |
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67. Dr. Christian Smith — Atheist Overreach: What Atheism Can't Deliver
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May 21, 2019 |
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66. Dr. Christian List — Why Free Will is Real: A response to Sam Harris, Jerry Coyne, and Other Determinists
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May 15, 2019 |
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65. Jared Diamond — Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis
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May 07, 2019 |
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64. Michael Tomasello — Becoming Human
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Apr 30, 2019 |
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63. Dr. Hector A. Garcia — Sex, Power, and Partisanship: How Evolutionary Science Makes Sense of Our Political Divide
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Apr 24, 2019 |
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AMA-5. Dr. Michael Shermer — "Are the Miracles of Jesus Unbelievable?" Debate Postmortem
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Apr 21, 2019 |
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62. Dr. Mark Moffett — The Human Swarm: How Our Societies Arise, Thrive, and Fall
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Apr 16, 2019 |
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61. Dr. Richard Wrangham — The Goodness Paradox: The Strange Relationship Between Virtue and Violence in Human Evolution
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Apr 10, 2019 |
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60. Nicholas A. Christakis — Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society
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Apr 03, 2019 |
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59. Cass R. Sunstein — On Freedom
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Mar 26, 2019 |
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58. Ben Shapiro — The Right Side of History: How Reason and Moral Purpose Made the West Great
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Mar 19, 2019 |
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57. Dr. Frans de Waal — Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves
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Mar 12, 2019 |
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56. Dr. Tyler Cowen — How an Economist Views the World
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Mar 06, 2019 |
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AMA-4. Dr. Michael Shermer — The Problem of Evil
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Mar 03, 2019 |
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55. Dr. David Sloan Wilson — This View of Life: Completing the Darwinian Revolution
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Feb 27, 2019 |
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54. Dr. Michele Gelfand — Rule Makers, Rule Breakers: How Tight and Loose Cultures Wire Our World
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Feb 20, 2019 |
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53. Adam Higginbotham — China Syndrome II: The True Story of What Happened at Chernobyl
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Feb 12, 2019 |
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52. Bruce Schneier — Hacked! Security and Survival in a Hyper-Connected World
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Feb 05, 2019 |
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51. Gregg Hurwitz — Into the Light: Myths, Narratives, Archetypes, and Trump
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Jan 30, 2019 |
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AMA-3. Dr. Michael Shermer — Ask Me Anything!
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Jan 22, 2019 |
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50. Dr. Rachel Kleinfeld — A Savage Order: How the World's Deadliest Countries Can Forge a Path to Security
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Jan 15, 2019 |
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AMA-2. Dr. Michael Shermer: Ask Me Anything!
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Jan 08, 2019 |
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49. Dr. Gad Saad — Doing Gad's Work
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Jan 01, 2019 |
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48. Sir Martin Rees — On the Future: Prospects for Humanity
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Dec 25, 2018 |
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47. Dr. Susan Blackmore — Altered States and Conscious Beings
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Dec 04, 2018 |
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46. Zac Sechler interviews Michael Shermer about Why People Believe in God
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Nov 27, 2018 |
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45. Daniel de Visé — On Comebacks in Sports and Life
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Nov 13, 2018 |
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44. Dr. David P. Barash — Human Nature Through a Glass Brightly
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Nov 06, 2018 |
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43. Dr. Jonathan Haidt — Coming Apart
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Oct 30, 2018 |
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42. Dr. Clay Routledge — The Meaning of Life, the Universe, and Everything
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Oct 17, 2018 |
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40. Dr. Kwame Anthony Appiah — Who Am I? Who Are You? The Lies That Bind: Rethinking Identity
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Oct 03, 2018 |
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39. Heather Mac Donald — The Diversity Delusion: How Race and Gender Pandering Corrupt the University and Undermine Our Culture
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Sep 26, 2018 |
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38. Dr. Yuval Noah Harari — 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
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Sep 18, 2018 |
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37. Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson — Accessory to War: The Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics and the Military
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Sep 12, 2018 |
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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
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Sep 05, 2018 |
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35. Dr. Tali Sharot — The Influential Mind: What the Brain Reveals About our Power to Change Others
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Aug 29, 2018 |
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34. Colin McGinn — Paradoxes, Puzzles, and Philosophy
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Aug 22, 2018 |
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33. David Quammen — The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life
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Aug 15, 2018 |
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32. Nina Teicholz — The Big Fat Surprise About Diet and Nutrition
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Aug 07, 2018 |
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31. Amy Alkon — Unf*ckology: A Field Guide to Living with Guts and Confidence
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Jul 31, 2018 |
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30. Dr. Ralph Lewis — Finding Meaning in a Meaningless Universe
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Jul 25, 2018 |
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29. Colin McGinn — Mysterianism, Consciousness, Free Will, and God
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Jul 16, 2018 |
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AMA-1. Dr. Michael Shermer — Ask Me Anything!
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Jul 09, 2018 |
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28. Edward J. Larson — On Faith and Science
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Jul 02, 2018 |
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27. Charles S. Cockell — The Equations of Life: How Physics Shapes Evolution
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Jun 25, 2018 |
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26. Dr. Stephen T. Asma — Why We Need Religion
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Jun 22, 2018 |
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25. Richard Rhodes — Energy: A Human History
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May 29, 2018 |
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24. Dr. Alan Stern and Dr. David Grinspoon — Chasing New Horizons: Inside the Epic First Mission to Pluto
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May 22, 2018 |
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23. Dr. Kenneth R. Miller — The Human Instinct: How We Evolved to Have Reason, Consciousness, and Free Will
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May 19, 2018 |
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22. Dr. Gregory Berns — What It's Like to Be a Dog…and Other Adventures in Animal Neuroscience
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Apr 16, 2018 |
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21. Dr. Leonard Mlodinow — Elastic: Flexible Thinking in a Time of Change
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Apr 09, 2018 |
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20. Dr. Michael Shermer — Heavens on Earth: The Scientific Search for the Afterlife, Immortality, and Utopia
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Mar 25, 2018 |
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19. Bill Nye the Science Guy Saves the World on Netflix
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Mar 07, 2018 |
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18. Dr. Bart Ehrman — How a Forbidden Religion (Christianity) Swept the World
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Feb 19, 2018 |
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17. Dr. Kip Thorne — Gravitational Waves, Black Holes, Time Travel, and Hollywood
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Feb 18, 2018 |
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16. Dr. Robert Trivers — Evolutionary Theory & Human Nature
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Nov 16, 2017 |
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15. Donald Prothero & Timothy Callahan — UFOs, Chemtrails, and Aliens: What Science Says
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Oct 15, 2017 |
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14. Dr. Nancy Segal — Twin Mythconceptions: False Beliefs, Fables, and Facts about Twins
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Sep 17, 2017 |
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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
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Jun 11, 2017 |
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12. Derren Brown — Magic, Happiness, and Skepticism
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May 15, 2017 |
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11. Dr. Andrew Shtulman — Scienceblind: Why Our Intuitive Theories About the World Are So Often Wrong
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Apr 23, 2017 |
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10. Dr. Carol Tavris — Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me)
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Feb 19, 2017 |
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9. Gary Taubes — The Case Against Sugar
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Jan 22, 2017 |
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8. Dr. Priyamvada Natarajan — Mapping the Heavens: The Radical Scientific Ideas That Reveal The Cosmos
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Nov 13, 2016 |
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7. Dr. Benjamin Bergen — What the F: What Swearing Reveals About Our Language, Our Brains, and Ourselves
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Oct 16, 2016 |
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6. Dr. Stephon Alexander — The Jazz of Physics: The Secret Link Between Music and the Structure of the Universe
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May 22, 2016 |
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5. Dr. Janna Levin — Gravitational Waves, Black Holes and the Nature of the Cosmos
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Apr 10, 2016 |
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4. Dr. Sean B. Carroll — The Serengeti Rules: The Quest to Discover How Life Works and Why It Matters
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Mar 20, 2016 |
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3. Dr. Arthur Benjamin — The Magic of Math: Solving for x and Figuring Out Why
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Jan 24, 2016 |
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2. Michelle Feynman — The Quotable Feynman & His Van
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Dec 20, 2015 |
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1. Dr. Lisa Randall — Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs: The Astounding Interconnectedness of the Universe
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Nov 22, 2015 |