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• Inventing God: Psychology of Belief and the Rise of Secular Spirituality (Tue, Nov 19, 2024)
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• 2024 Election Postmortem (Thu, Nov 14, 2024)
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• Fentanyl and the Opioid Epidemic (Tue, Nov 12, 2024)
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• Stories From the Front Lines of Abortion Care (Dr. Warren Hern) (Fri, Nov 08, 2024)
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• The Most Important Election of My Lifetime … Again (Michael Shermer) (Thu, Oct 31, 2024)
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• The Future of Global Order and America’s Influence (Tue, Oct 29, 2024)
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• Faith, Politics, and Power: Talia Lavin on the Christian Right’s America (Sat, Oct 26, 2024)
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• The Social Reset: Big Tech, Mental Health, and the Future of Connection (Tue, Oct 22, 2024)
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• Neal Stephenson on Predicting the Metaverse, Crypto, and AI Decades Ahead (Sat, Oct 19, 2024)
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• The Future of AI: Consciousness and Ethical Dilemmas (Tue, Oct 15, 2024)
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• Words, Actions, and Liberty: Tara Smith Decodes the First Amendment (Sat, Oct 12, 2024)
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• Psychogenic Illness and the Nocebo Effect (Tue, Oct 08, 2024)
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• How Religions Compete for Money, Power, and People (Sat, Oct 05, 2024)
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• Why Ronald Reagan Wanted to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (Max Boot) (Tue, Oct 01, 2024)
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• Settler Colonialism: Ideology, Violence, and Justice (Sat, Sep 28, 2024)
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• Gray Matters: Exploring the Frontiers of Neurosurgery (Tue, Sep 24, 2024)
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• Biology vs. Gender Ideology: The Science Behind the Debate (Sat, Sep 21, 2024)
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• Taming Silicon Valley: AI’s Perils and Promise (Tue, Sep 17, 2024)(000 , )
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• Matt Ridley, Steven Pinker, and Michael Shermer Challenge Conventional Narratives (Fri, Sep 13, 2024)
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• Slavery, Enlightenment, and America’s Refounding (Tue, Sep 10, 2024)
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• How to Think About Souls, UFOs, Time, Belief, and Everything (Sat, Sep 07, 2024)
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• Pseudohistory Makes a Comeback on Tucker Carlson's Show (Fri, Sep 06, 2024)
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• The Science of Disbelief: Understanding Atheism and the Evolution of Religion (Tue, Sep 03, 2024)
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• The Road to Singularity: Ben Goertzel on AGI and The Fate of Humanity (Sun, Sep 01, 2024)
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• Unmasking the Unknown: UFOs, Alien Tech, and Military Secrets? (Fri, Aug 30, 2024)
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• Are We Confused About Social Justice? (Helen Pluckrose) (Tue, Aug 27, 2024)
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• The Cultural History of Charles Fort and His Followers (Sun, Aug 25, 2024)
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• The Logic of Nuclear Policy: Deterrence and MAD Explained. (Fri, Aug 23, 2024)
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• Why Men Are Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do About It (Tue, Aug 20, 2024)
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• Bones, Bias, and Backlash: Elizabeth Weiss on the Politicization of Anthropology (Sat, Aug 17, 2024)
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• The Physics of Life’s Emergence (Tue, Aug 13, 2024)
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• Cryptomania: Hype, Hope, and the Fall of a Billion-Dollar Fintech Empire (Sat, Aug 10, 2024)
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• Richard Dawkins on Genetic Insights Into the History of Life (Tue, Aug 06, 2024)
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• UFO Sightings Around the World: A Comprehensive History (Sat, Aug 03, 2024)
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• Parent-Child Estrangement: How Does Divorce Affect Children? (Tue, Jul 30, 2024)
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• The Influence of Politics and Tribalism on Climate Science (Sat, Jul 27, 2024)
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• Death and the Search for Meaning in the Afterlife (Tue, Jul 23, 2024)
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• Division and Polarization in American Politics: Balancing Majority Rule and Minority Rights (Sat, Jul 20, 2024)
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• Michael Shermer Reflects on the Trump Assassination Attempt (Wed, Jul 17, 2024)
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• Thinking Critically About COVID: Conspiracies vs. Nuance and Facts (Jay Bhattacharya) (Sat, Jul 13, 2024)
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• From Hippie to Whole Foods Mogul (Tue, Jul 09, 2024)
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• Aella — From a Christian Upbringing to Sex Work (Tue, Jul 02, 2024)
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• Hong Kong’s Turmoil: Insights from an Exiled Political Leader (Sat, Jun 29, 2024)
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• Living Constitutionally: One Man’s Humble Quest to Follow the Constitution’s Original Meaning (Wed, Jun 26, 2024)
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• Lemuria: A True Story of a Fake Place (Sat, Jun 22, 2024)
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• Born into a Cult (Michelle Dowd) (Tue, Jun 18, 2024)
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• UFOs: What We Know (And Don’t Know) (Sat, Jun 15, 2024)
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• Religion as Make-Believe: A Theory of Belief, Imagination, and Group Identity (Tue, Jun 11, 2024)
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• Vulnerable Minds: The Harm of Childhood Trauma and the Hope of Resilience (Sat, Jun 08, 2024)
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• How to Achieve Peace in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (Tue, Jun 04, 2024)
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• How Likely Is War Over Taiwan? (Sat, Jun 01, 2024)
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• Neuroscientist Explains Selective Memory (Charan Ranganath) (Tue, May 28, 2024)
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• Metaracism: How Systemic Racism Devastates Black Lives (Sat, May 25, 2024)
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• How to Think About Social Justice (Tue, May 21, 2024)
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• Sean Carroll Explains Quantum Field Theory (Sat, May 18, 2024)
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• Co-Founder of The Free Press reports on the Culture Wars (Nellie Bowles) (Tue, May 14, 2024)
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• The Latest Research on Consciousness (Christof Koch) (Sat, May 11, 2024)
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• Everything is Predictable: How Bayesian Statistics Explain Our World (Tue, May 07, 2024)
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• The New Science of Planet Hunting in the Cosmos (Sat, May 04, 2024)
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• The Science of Happines (Tue, Apr 30, 2024)
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• How Rhetoric Shapes Your Opinions (Sat, Apr 27, 2024)
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• Accomplishment and Happiness (Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker) (Tue, Apr 23, 2024)
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• Should We Prepare for Nuclear War? (Annie Jacobsen) (Sat, Apr 20, 2024)
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• An AI... Utopia? (Nick Bostrom, Oxford) (Tue, Apr 16, 2024)
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• Life on Mars? (Robert Zubrin) (Sat, Apr 13, 2024)
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• Robots and the People Who Love Them (Tue, Apr 09, 2024)
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• The Formation, Diversification, and Extinction of World Religions (Sat, Apr 06, 2024)
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• The Wisdom and Wonder of Being Uncertain (Tue, Apr 02, 2024)
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• The End of Race Politics (Coleman Hughes) (Sat, Mar 30, 2024)
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• How to Repair America’s Broken Democracy (Tue, Mar 26, 2024)
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• Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up (Abigail Shrier) (Sat, Mar 23, 2024)
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• An Unfinished History of the Holocaust (Tue, Mar 19, 2024)
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• The Weirdness of the World (Sat, Mar 16, 2024)
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• The Story of Female Empowerment & Getting Canceled: Elite Commando and Kickboxing World Champion Leah Goldstein (Tue, Mar 12, 2024)
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• Who Wrote the Qur’an, Why, and What Does it Really Say? (Sat, Mar 09, 2024)
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• Purpose in the Eyes of a Psychiatrist (Tue, Mar 05, 2024)
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• Does Humanity Function as a Single Superorganism? (Sat, Mar 02, 2024)
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• The Power of Noticing What Was Always There (Tue, Feb 27, 2024)
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• China's Grip on Rare-Earth Elements and the Future of Global Energy Security (Sat, Feb 24, 2024)
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• mRNA Vaccines, Mask Mandates, and the COVID-19 Response (Paul Offit) (Tue, Feb 20, 2024)
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• Foster Care, Family, and Social Class (Sat, Feb 17, 2024)
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• How U.S. Public Health Has Strayed From Its Liberal Roots (Tue, Feb 13, 2024)
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• Against the New Politics of Identity (Sat, Feb 10, 2024)
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• What Determines Who Succeeds in the NBA? (Tue, Feb 06, 2024)
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• Transforming Mental Health: Little Treatments, Big Effects (Sat, Feb 03, 2024)
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• Overcoming Self-Censorship in the Age of Outrage (Tue, Jan 30, 2024)
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• One Couple’s Vacation Caused 100,000 People to Die (Sat, Jan 27, 2024)
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• Head of TED Talks Shares a New Vision of Generosity (Tue, Jan 23, 2024)
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• Are Parallel Universes and Extra Dimensions Real? (Wed, Jan 17, 2024)
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• Michael Shellenberger Explains Government Censorship of Social Media (Tue, Jan 09, 2024)
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• Multiculturalism and Lessons From the Rwandan Genocide (Wed, Jan 03, 2024)
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• The Meaning of Life (A Message for the Holidays) (Sun, Dec 24, 2023)
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• A Trial by Media Ended Caylan Ford’s Career in 4 Hours (Tue, Dec 19, 2023)
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• How Not to Age (Sat, Dec 16, 2023)
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• How to Cultivate Your Imagination as an Adult (Tue, Dec 12, 2023)
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• Nobel Prize Winner Explains Inequality and Capitalism (Tue, Dec 05, 2023)
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• The Purpose of the Universe (Sat, Dec 02, 2023)
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• How Media, Politics, and Identity Drive Our Appetite for Misinformation (Tue, Nov 28, 2023)
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• JFK 60th Anniversary of the Assassination (Wed, Nov 22, 2023)
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• The Scientific Search for Alien Life (Sat, Nov 18, 2023)
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• Ayaan Hirsi Ali Converted to Christianity (Wed, Nov 15, 2023)
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• UFO: The Inside Story of the U.S. Government's Search for Alien Life (Tue, Nov 14, 2023)
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• Identity Politics and its Discontents (Sat, Nov 11, 2023)
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• What Makes Rational People Believe Irrational Things? (Dan Ariely) (Tue, Nov 07, 2023)
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• The Role of Iran in the Israel-Hamas Conflict (Sat, Nov 04, 2023)
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• The Secret History of Women at the CIA (Tue , )(, Oct 31, 2023)
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• America and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (Fri, Oct 27, 2023)
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• Cancel Culture and What to Do About It (Greg Lukianoff & Rikki Schlott) (Tue, Oct 24, 2023)
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• Robert Sapolsky on Free Will and Determinism (Tue, Oct 17, 2023)
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• Armageddon in the Middle East? (David Wolpe) (Fri, Oct 13, 2023)
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• Should Employers Pay For Emotional Labor? (Tue, Oct 10, 2023)
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• Dan Dennett Looks Back on His Career (Tue, Oct 03, 2023)
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• How the American Right Became Radicalized (Wed, Sep 27, 2023)
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• BIG ANNOUNCEMENT (Tue, Sep 26, 2023)
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• Ways of Thinking That Power Successful People (Tue, Sep 19, 2023)
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• How to Fight for Truth and Protect Democracy (Tue, Sep 12, 2023)
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• The Law vs. Separation of Church and State (Tue, Sep 05, 2023)
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• Based on DNA Testing, Only One Twin Was Granted U.S. Citizenship. Why? (Fri, Sep 01, 2023)
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• Evidence of Aliens? Harvard Astronomer Avi Loeb (Tue, Aug 29, 2023)
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• Slavery in the U.S. Analyzed by a Pulitzer Prize-Winning Lawyer and Historian (Ed Larson) (Tue, Aug 22, 2023)
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• Maybe "Good Enough" Is Actually Enough? When Perfectionism Backfires. (Tue, Aug 15, 2023)
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• Is a Human Life Worth $10 Million or Only $187,000? (Bjorn Lomborg) (Tue, Aug 08, 2023)
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• Why We Get Fooled (Tue, Aug 01, 2023)
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• The Saad Truth About Happiness (Tue, Jul 25, 2023)
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• Christopher Rufo Decodes Cultural Shifts in America (Tue, Jul 18, 2023)
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• The Truth About Martin Luther King Jr. (Wed, Jul 12, 2023)
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• An Outsider’s Perspective on American Culture Wars (Wed, Jul 05, 2023)
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• Children and Politics (Tue, Jun 27, 2023)
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• The Future of Medicine: What You Need to Know (Tue, Jun 20, 2023)
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• Michael Shellenberger on UFO Whistleblowers (Wed, Jun 14, 2023)
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• Is the Government Hiding Aliens? (Thu, Jun 08, 2023)
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• A Guide to Violence and Self-Defense. (Tue, Jun 06, 2023)
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• Identity or Merit: What Matters More? (Heather Mac Donald) (Tue, May 30, 2023)
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• Are We Risking Our Ability to Think? (Sat, May 27, 2023)
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• Quantum Computers Will Change Everything (Michio Kaku) (Thu, May 25, 2023)
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• What Happened to Women’s Rights? (Tue, May 23, 2023)
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• My Final Lecture: What I Learned About Living a Good Life (Thu, May 18, 2023)
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• Could the American Economy Collapse Like Venezuela’s? (Mark Skousen) (Tue, May 16, 2023)
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• Scams and Frauds: A Skeptic's Survival Guide (Sat, May 13, 2023)
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• What if You Were Born 50 Years Earlier? (Tue, May 09, 2023)
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• How Can God Feel So Real? (Sat, May 06, 2023)
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• Will We Ever Live in a Post-race World? (Thu, 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 (Tue, 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 (Sat, Apr 29, 2023)
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• 344. What is a Woman, Anyway? (Wed, 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 (Tue, Apr 25, 2023)
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• 342. Valerie Fridland — Like, Literally, Dude: Arguing for the Good in Bad English (Sat, 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 (Tue, Apr 18, 2023)
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• 340. Ben Alderson-Day — Presence: The Strange Science and True Stories of the Unseen Other (Sat, Apr 15, 2023)
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• 339. Gerald and Patricia Posner on Evil (Tue, 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 (Sat, Apr 08, 2023)
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• 337. On the Origin of Time — Thomas Hertog on Stephen Hawking’s Final Theory (Sat, Apr 01, 2023)
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• 336. The Sacred Depths of Nature — Ursula Goodenough on How to Find Sacred Scientific Spirituality (Tue, Mar 28, 2023)
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• 335. Jennifer Michael Hecht on How to Find Meaning, Purpose, and Happiness in Everyday Life (Sat, Mar 25, 2023)
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• 334. The End of the World: Bart Ehrman on What the Bible Really Says About the End (Tue, Mar 21, 2023)
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• 333. Kevin Kelly — ChatGPT, OpenAI, and Excellent Advice for Living (Sat, Mar 18, 2023)
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• 332. Wrongfully Convicted, Ultimately Acquitted — Amanda Knox on Criminal Injustice and Why It Happens (Tue, Mar 14, 2023)
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• 331. Paul Zak — Immersion: The Science of the Extraordinary and the Source of Happiness (Sat, Mar 11, 2023)
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• 330. Jim Davies — How to Be a Better Person (Tue, Mar 07, 2023)
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• 329. Marc Schulz — The Good Life: Lessons from the World’s Longest Scientific Study of Happiness (Sat, Mar 04, 2023)
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• 328. Paul Bloom — Psych: The Story of the Human Mind (Tue, 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 (Sat, 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 (Tue, Feb 21, 2023)
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• 325. Heinrich Päs — The One: How an Ancient Idea Holds the Future of Physics (Sat, Feb 18, 2023)
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• 324. Andrew Gold on Exorcism, Abortion, Pedophilia, Sex & UFOs (Tue, Feb 14, 2023)
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• 323. Elle Hardy — Beyond Belief: How Pentecostal Christianity Is Taking Over the World (Sat, Feb 11, 2023)
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• 322. Marty Klein — Sex Matters (Tue, Feb 07, 2023)
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• 321. William Magnuson — For Profit: A History of Corporations (Sat, Feb 04, 2023)
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• 320. Massimo Pigliucci — How to Live a Good Life and Create a Just Society (Tue, Jan 31, 2023)
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• 319. Steven Hassan — Combatting Cult Mind Control, Freedom of Mind, and The Cult of Trump (Sat, Jan 28, 2023)
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• 318. Suzie Sheehy — The Matter of Everything: How Curiosity, Physics, and Improbable Experiments Changed the World (Tue, Jan 24, 2023)
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• 317. Dacher Keltner — Awe: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How It Can Transform Your Life (Sat, Jan 21, 2023)
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• 316. Daniel Akst on the Pacifists of the Greatest Generation Who Revolutionized Resistance (Tue, Jan 17, 2023)
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• 315. David Bernstein — Classified: The Untold Story of Racial Classification in America (Sat, Jan 14, 2023)
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• 314. Martin Rees — Can Science Save Us? (Tue, Jan 03, 2023)
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• 313. Matthew Cobb — As Gods: A Moral History of the Genetic Age (Tue, 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 (Sat, Dec 24, 2022)
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• 311. Meghan Daum — The Problem With Everything: My Journey Through the New Culture Wars (Tue, Dec 20, 2022)
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• 310. Todd Kashdan — The Art of Insubordination: How to Dissent and Defy Effectively (Tue, Dec 13, 2022)
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• 309. India Thusi on Sex Work, Critical Race Theory, and Moral Progress (Tue, Dec 06, 2022)
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• 308. Iris Berent — The Blind Storyteller: How We Reason About Human Nature (Tue, Nov 29, 2022)
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• 307. Nicholas Dirks on Science Denial, Distrust, and Skepticism (Tue, Nov 22, 2022)
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• 306. Stephon Alexander — Fear of a Black Universe: An Outsider’s Guide to the Future of Physics (Tue, Nov 15, 2022)
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• 305. Bethanne Patrick — Book World (Tue, Nov 08, 2022)
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• 304. Justin Gregg — If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal: What Animal Intelligence Reveals About Human Stupidity (Tue, Nov 01, 2022)
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• 303. Michael Shermer — Conspiracy: Why the Rational Believe the Irrational (Tue, Oct 25, 2022)
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• 302. Tim Palmer — The Primacy of Doubt (Tue, Oct 18, 2022)
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• 301. Alan Blinder — A Monetary and Fiscal History of the United States (Tue, Oct 11, 2022)
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• 300. Saleem Ali — Earthly Order: How Natural Laws Define Human Life (Tue, 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 (Thu, Sep 29, 2022)
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• 298. Neil deGrasse Tyson — Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization (Tue, Sep 20, 2022)
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• 297. Andrew Doyle — How the Religion of Social Justice Captured the Western World (Tue, 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 (Tue, 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 (Tue, Aug 30, 2022)
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• 294. Sabine Hossenfelder — Existential Physics: A Scientist’s Guide to Life’s Biggest Questions (Tue, Aug 23, 2022)
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• 293. Konstantin Kisin — An Immigrant’s Love Letter to the West (Fri, Aug 19, 2022)
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• 292. Gary Marcus — Rebooting AI: Building Artificial Intelligence We Can Trust (Tue, Aug 16, 2022)
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• 291. Rob Ashton — Silent Influence and the Science of Writing, Reading, and Communicating (Tue, Aug 09, 2022)
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• 290. Anastacia Marx de Salcedo — Eat like a Pig, Run Like a Horse (Tue, Aug 02, 2022)
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• 289. James Kirchick — Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington (Tue, Jul 26, 2022)
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• 288. Lucy Cooke — Bitch: On the Female of the Species (Tue, Jul 19, 2022)
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• 287. Bobby Azarian — Life, the Universe, and Cosmic Complexity (Tue, Jul 12, 2022)
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• 286. Kevin McCaffree — How Societies Change and Why (Sat, Jul 09, 2022)
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• 285. Helen Joyce — Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality (Tue, Jul 05, 2022)
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• 284. Yoram Hazony on Traditional Conservatism vs. Enlightenment Liberalism (Tue, Jun 28, 2022)
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• 283. Michael Strevens — The Knowledge Machine: How Irrationality Created Modern Science (Sat, Jun 25, 2022)
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• 282. Anil Seth on the Hard Problem of Consciousness, the Self, and the Essence of Volition (Tue, Jun 21, 2022)
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• 281. Moneyball For Your Life: Seth Stephens-Davidowitz on Using Data to Get What You Really Want (Sat, Jun 18, 2022)
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• 280. Sam Rosenfeld on Party Polarization in the Postwar United States (Tue, Jun 14, 2022)
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• 279. Ian Morris on Deep Time and Big History (Sat , )(, 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 (Tue, Jun 07, 2022)
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• 277. Michel Gagné — How to Think About Conspiracy Theories (Sat, Jun 04, 2022)
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• 276. Andrew Yang — Not Left. Not Right. Forward. (Tue, 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 (Sat, May 28, 2022)
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• 274. Frans De Waal on Sex and Gender Across the Primate Spectrum (Tue, May 24, 2022)
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• 273. Cathy Young — The Russian Riddle Wrapped in a Ukrainian Mystery Inside an American Enigma (Sat, May 21, 2022)
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• 272. Stuart Vyse — The Uses of Delusion: Why It’s Not Always Rational to Be Rational (Tue, May 17, 2022)
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• 271. Peter Ward — The Price of Immortality: The Race to Live Forever (Sat, May 14, 2022)
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• 270. Surprising Power of Game Theory to Explain Irrationality (Moshe Hoffman and Erez Yoeli) (Tue, May 10, 2022)
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• 269. Richard Dawkins — Flights of Fancy: Defying Gravity by Design and Evolution (Sat, May 07, 2022)
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• 268. Douglas Murray on The War on the West: Race, Politics, and Culture (Tue, May 03, 2022)
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• 267. Louis Theroux on Neo-Nazis, Jimmy Savile, UFO Cults, and Scientology (Sat, Apr 30, 2022)
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• 266. Jesse Singal on Why Fad Psychology Can’t Cure Our Social Ills (Tue, Apr 26, 2022)
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• 265. Christopher Blattman on Why We Fight: The Roots of War and the Paths to Peace (Sat, 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 (Mon, 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 (Sat, Apr 16, 2022)
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• 262. Oliver Stone on Ukraine, Putin, and the Military-Industrial Complex (Tue, Apr 12, 2022)
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• 261. Jim Al-Khalili on the Joy of Science (Sat, Apr 09, 2022)
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• 260. Batya Ungar-Sargon — Bad News: How Woke Media Is Undermining Democracy (Tue, Apr 05, 2022)
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• 259. Ogi Ogas — Journey of the Mind: How Thinking Emerged from Chaos (Sat, Apr 02, 2022)
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• 258. Jacek Kugler — Putin & Power Transition Theory: China, Russia, and Ukraine (Tue, Mar 29, 2022)
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• 257. Simon Conway Morris on Design in Evolution & the Possibility of Purpose in the Cosmos (Sat, Mar 26, 2022)
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• 256. Imagining the Future with Reality Game Designer and Futurist Jane McGonigal (Tue, Mar 22, 2022)
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• 255. David Chalmers — Reality+: Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy (Sat, Mar 19, 2022)
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• 254. Ravi Gupta on the Lost Debate: Whatever Happened to Reasoned Discussion and Respectable Disagreement? (Tue, Mar 15, 2022)
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• 253. Jennifer Sciubba on Putin, Russia, Ukraine, National & Global Security, and How Population Demographics Shape Our Future (Sat, Mar 12, 2022)
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• 252. John Mueller on Putin’s War: Russia, Ukraine, and NATO (Tue, Mar 08, 2022)
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• 251. Kelly Weill on Flat Earthers, Conspiracy Culture, and Why People Will Believe Anything (Tue, Mar 01, 2022)
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• 250. Will Sanctions Work? War in Ukraine. (Fri, 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 (Tue, Feb 22, 2022)
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• 248. Elizabeth Weiss on Woke Archaeology and Erasing the Past (Tue, Feb 15, 2022)
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• 247. Jacob Mchangama on Free Speech: A History from Socrates to Social Media (Tue, Feb 08, 2022)
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• 246. Nick Pope on UAPs, UFOs, Conspiracies, and Cover-ups (Tue, Feb 01, 2022)
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• 245. Frank Sulloway on How Lives Turn Out: Genes, Environment, Pluck, and Luck (Sat, 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 (Tue, Jan 25, 2022)
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• 243. Sally Satel on Addiction, the Opioid Crisis, Deaths of Despair, and How Psychiatry Has Gone Woke (Sat, Jan 22, 2022)
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• 242. Jonathan Gottschall — The Story Paradox: How Our Love of Storytelling Builds Societies and Tears Them Down (Tue, Jan 18, 2022)
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• 241. Jeff Maurer — I Might Be Wrong (Sat, Jan 15, 2022)
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• 240. Leonard Mlodinow — Emotional: How Feelings Shape Our Thinking (Tue, 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 (Tue, Jan 04, 2022)
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• 238. Brian Klass — Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How it Changes Us (Tue, Dec 28, 2021)
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• 237. David Wengrow on The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (Tue, Dec 21, 2021)
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• 236. Fernanda Pirie on The Rule of Laws: A 4,000-Year Quest to Order the World (Sat, Dec 18, 2021)
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• 235. Thomas Sowell: The Life and Work of the Legendary Social Theorist (Jason Riley) (Tue, Dec 14, 2021)
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• 234. Matt Ridley on the Search for the Origin of COVID-19 (Sat, Dec 11, 2021)
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• 233. Goodbye Pat Linse, Skeptic Co-founder and My Best Friend… (Tue, Dec 07, 2021)
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• 232. Amishi Jha on Learning How to Pay Attention to Your Attention (Sat, Dec 04, 2021)
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• 231. Jason Hill on What White Americans Owe Black People (Tue, Nov 30, 2021)
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• 230. Bart Ehrman — Did the Christmas Story Really Happen? The Birth of Jesus in History & Legend (Sat, 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? (Tue, 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 (Sat, Nov 20, 2021)
";
• 227. Richard Nisbett on Thinking & Reason (Tue, Nov 16, 2021)
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• 226. Suzanne Nossel on defending free speech for all, based on her book Dare to Speak (Sat, Nov 13, 2021)
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• 225. Nancy Segal — Deliberately Divided: Inside the Controversial Study of Twins and Triplets Adopted Apart (Tue, Nov 09, 2021)
";
• 224. Bobby Duffy on The Generation Myth: Why When You’re Born Matters Less Than You Think (Sat, Nov 06, 2021)
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• 223. Paul Bloom on the pleasures of suffering and the meaning of life (Tue, Nov 02, 2021)
";
• 222. Suzanne O’Sullivan on psychosomatic disorders and other mystery illnesses (Sat, Oct 30, 2021)
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• 221. Antonio Damasio — Feeling & Knowing: Making Minds Conscious (Tue, Oct 26, 2021)
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• 220. Charles Foster on Being a Human: Adventures in Forty Thousand Years of Consciousness (Sat, 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 (Tue, Oct 19, 2021)
";
• 218. Craig Whitlock — The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War (Sat, Oct 16, 2021)
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• 217. Mary Grabar on the 1619 Project, Howard Zinn, Historical Revisionism, and Pseudohistory (Tue, Oct 12, 2021)
";
• 216. Kathryn Paige Harden — The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality (Sat, Oct 09, 2021)
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• 215. Mary Eberstadt on God, Religion, Secularization, Sexual Revolution, and Identity Politics (Tue, Oct 05, 2021)
";
• 214. Tom Nichols — Our Own Worst Enemy: The Assault From Within on Modern Democracy (Sat, Oct 02, 2021)
";
• 213. Mike Rothschild — The Storm Is Upon Us: How QAnon Became a Movement, Cult, and Conspiracy Theory of Everything (Tue, Sep 28, 2021)
";
• 212. Gale Sinatra & Barbara Hofer — Science Denial: Why It Happens and What to Do About It (Sat, 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 (Tue, 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 (Sat, Sep 18, 2021)
";
• 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 (Tue, Sep 14, 2021)
";
• 208. The Truth About 9/11 and Terrorism (Fri, Sep 10, 2021)
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• 207. John Petrocelli — The Life-Changing Science of Detecting Bullshit (Tue, Sep 07, 2021)
";
• 206. Nichola Raihani — The Social Instinct: How Cooperation Shaped the World (Sat, 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 (Wed, Sep 01, 2021)
";
• 204. Carole Hooven on T: The Story of Testosterone, the Hormone that Dominates and Divides Us (Sat, 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 (Tue, Aug 24, 2021)
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• 202. Julia Galef — The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don’t (Sat, Aug 21, 2021)
";
• 201. Michael Shermer on Evolution, I.D. Theory, Consciousness, Morality, Gullibility, and Nothing (AMA # 7) (Wed, Aug 18, 2021)
";
• 200. Philip Zimbardo on the Nature & Nurture of Good & Evil (Sun, Aug 15, 2021)
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• 199. David Potter — Disruption: Why Things Change (Tue, Aug 10, 2021)
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• 198. Bernardo Kastrup on the Nature of Reality: Materialism, Idealism, or Skepticism (Sat, Aug 07, 2021)
";
• 197. Yaron Brook on Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, and Objectivism (Tue, Aug 03, 2021)
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• 196. Annie Murphy Paul — The Extended Mind: The Power of Thinking Outside the Brain (Sat, Jul 31, 2021)
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• 195. Jamy Ian Swiss — The Conjuror’s Conundrum (Tue, Jul 27, 2021)
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• 194. John Mackey (Founder and CEO of Whole Foods Market) on Conscious Capitalism & Conscious Leadership (Wed, Jul 21, 2021)
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• 193. Chris Edwards on Educational Reform and Thought Experiments (Sat, Jul 17, 2021)
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• 192. Lesley Newson & Peter Richerson — A New Look at Human Evolution (Sat, Jul 10, 2021)
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• 191. Michael Gordin on the Fringe of Where Science Meets Pseudoscience (Sat, Jul 03, 2021)
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• 190. Jonathan Rauch — The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth (Sat, Jun 26, 2021)
";
• 189. Daniel Kahneman — Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment (Sat, Jun 19, 2021)
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• 188. Legendary Undersea Explorer Robert Ballard — Into the Deep: A Memoir From the Man Who Found Titanic (Wed, Jun 16, 2021)
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• 187. Robert Cialdini — Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion (Tue, Jun 08, 2021)
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• 186. William Nordhaus on the Economics of Global Warming, Pandemics, and Corporate Malfeasance (Wed, Jun 02, 2021)
";
• 185. Stephen Meyer — Return of the God Hypothesis: Three Scientific Discoveries that Reveal the Mind Behind the Universe (and why Shermer remains skeptical) (Sat, May 29, 2021)
";
• 184. Alexander Green on Money & Why It Matters (Tue, May 25, 2021)
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• 183. Bari Weiss & Bion Bartning — The Foundation Against Intolerance & Racism (Sat, May 22, 2021)
";
• 182. A Conversation With UFOlogist Alan Steinfeld on How Believers and Skeptics Think About UFOs (Tue, May 18, 2021)
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• 181. David Buss — When Men Behave Badly: The Hidden Roots of Sexual Deception, Harassment, and Assault (Sat, 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 (Tue, May 11, 2021)
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• 179. Niall Ferguson — Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe (Sat, May 08, 2021)(0:00 +0000, )
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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 (Tue, May 04, 2021)
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• 177. Angus Fletcher — 25 Most Powerful Inventions in the History of Literature (Sat, May 01, 2021)
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• 176. Minouche Shafik — What We Owe Each Other: A New Social Contract for a Better Society (Tue, Apr 27, 2021)
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• 175. Brian Keating — How it All Began: Cosmic Inflation, the Multiverse, and the Nature of Scientific Proof (Sat, Apr 24, 2021)
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• 174. Jordan Peterson — Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life (Tue, Apr 20, 2021)
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• 173. Naomi Oreskes — Why Trust Science? (Sat, Apr 17, 2021)
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• 172. Andrew Doyle — Free Speech: And Why it Matters (Tue, Apr 13, 2021)
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• 171. John Mueller — The Stupidity of War: American Foreign Policy and the Case for Complacency (Sat, Apr 10, 2021)
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• 170. Michio Kaku — The God Equation: The Quest for a Theory of Everything (Tue, Apr 06, 2021)
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• 169. Jeff Hawkins — A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence (Sat, Apr 03, 2021)
";
• 168. Daniel Dennett & Gregg Caruso — Just Deserts: Debating Free Will (moderated by Michael Shermer) (Tue, Mar 30, 2021)
";
• 167. Gary Taubes — The Case for Keto: Rethinking Weight Control and the Science and Practice of Low-Carb/High-Fat Eating (Tue, Mar 23, 2021)
";
• 166. Mine! How the Hidden Rules of Ownership Control Our Lives (Michael Heller & James Salzman) (Sat, Mar 20, 2021)
";
• 165. John McWhorter — The Elect: Neoracists Posing as Antiracists and Their Threat to a Progressive America (Tue, Mar 16, 2021)
";
• 164. Neil deGrasse Tyson — Cosmic Queries: StarTalk’s Guide to Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We’re Going (Sat, 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 (Tue, Mar 09, 2021)
";
• 162. Benjamin Friedman — Religion and the Rise of Capitalism (Sat, Mar 06, 2021)
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• 161. Roy Richard Grinker — Nobody’s Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness (Tue, Mar 02, 2021)
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• 160. Abigail Shrier — Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters (Sat, Feb 27, 2021)
";
• 159. Joshua Glasgow — The Solace: Finding Value in Death Through Gratitude for Life (Tue, Feb 23, 2021)
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• 158. Jason D. Hill — We Have Overcome: An Immigrant’s Letter to The American People (Sat, Feb 20, 2021)
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• 157. Avi Loeb — Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth (Tue, Feb 16, 2021)
";
• 156. Ayaan Hirsi Ali — Prey: Immigration, Islam, and the Erosion of Women’s Rights (Tue, Feb 09, 2021)
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• 155. Martin Sherwin — Gambling with Armageddon: Nuclear Roulette from Hiroshima to The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1945–1962 (Tue, Feb 02, 2021)
";
• 154. David Sloan Wilson — Atlas Hugged: The Autobiography of John Galt III (Tue, Jan 26, 2021)
";
• 153. Kevin Dutton — Black-and-White Thinking: The Burden of a Binary Brain in a Complex World (Tue, Jan 19, 2021)
";
• 152. Politics & Truth — Michael Shermer Responds to Critics of His Commentary “Trump & Truth” (Sun, Jan 17, 2021)
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• 151. Trump & Truth — A Commentary by Michael Shermer (Tue, Jan 12, 2021)
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• 150. Daniel Lieberman — Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do is Healthy and Rewarding (Tue, Jan 05, 2021)
";
• 149. The After Time: The Future of Civilization After COVID-19 (Tue, Dec 29, 2020)
";
• 148. Have Archetype — Will Travel: The Jordan Peterson Phenomenon (Tue, Dec 22, 2020)
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• 147. David Barash — On the Brink of Destruction (Tue, Dec 15, 2020)
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• 146. Donald Prothero — Weird Earth: Debunking Strange Ideas About Our Planet (Tue, Dec 08, 2020)
";
• 145. Greg Lukianoff — How Free is Free Speech? (Tue, Dec 01, 2020)
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• 144. Agustín Fuentes — Why We Believe: Evolution and the Human Way of Being (Tue, Nov 24, 2020)
";
• 143. Nicholas Christakis — Apollo’s Arrow: The Profound and Enduring Impact of Coronavirus on the Way We Live (Tue, Nov 17, 2020)
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• 142. Philip Goff — Galileo’s Error: Foundations for a New Science of Consciousness (Mon, Nov 09, 2020)
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• 141. Richard Kreitner — Break it Up: Secession, Division, and the Secret History of America’s Imperfect Union (Mon, Nov 02, 2020)
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• 140. Rebecca Wragg Sykes — Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art (Tue, Oct 27, 2020)
";
• BONUS: James Randi—A Report from the Paranormal Trenches (1992) (Sun, 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? (Tue, Oct 20, 2020)
";
• 138. Douglas Murray — The Madness of 2020 (Fri, Oct 16, 2020)
";
• 137. Marta Zaraska — Growing Young: How Friendship, Optimism, and Kindness Can Help You Live to 100 (Tue, Oct 13, 2020)
";
• 136. Gad Saad — The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense (Tue, Oct 06, 2020)
";
• 135. Paul Halpern — Synchronicity: The Epic Quest to Understand the Quantum Nature of Cause and Effect (Tue, Sep 29, 2020)
";
• 134. Joe Henrich — The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous (Tue, Sep 22, 2020)
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• 133. Michael E. McCullough — The Kindness of Strangers: How a Selfish Ape Invented a New Moral Code (Tue, Sep 15, 2020)
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• 132. Leonard Mlodinow — Stephen Hawking: A Memoir of Friendship and Physics (Tue, Sep 08, 2020)
";
• 131. Stuart Ritchie — Science Fictions: How Fraud, Bias, Negligence, and Hype Undermine the Search for Truth (Tue, Sep 01, 2020)
";
• 130. Debra Soh — The End of Gender: Debunking the Myths About Sex and Identity in Our Society (Tue, Aug 25, 2020)
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• 129. Mona Sue Weissmark — The Science of Diversity (Tue, Aug 18, 2020)
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• 128. Michael Shellenberger — Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All (Tue, 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 (Tue, Aug 04, 2020)
";
• 126. Sarah Scoles — They Are Already Here: UFO Culture and Why We See Saucers (Tue, 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 (Tue, Jul 21, 2020)
";
• 124. David J. Halperin — Intimate Alien: The Hidden Story of the UFO (Tue, Jul 14, 2020)
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• 123. Gerald Posner — Pharma: Greed, Lies, and the Poisoning of America (Tue, Jul 07, 2020)
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• 122. Walter Scheidel — Escape from Rome: The Failure of the Empire and the Road to Prosperity (Tue, Jun 30, 2020)
";
• 121. Maria Konnikova — The Biggest Bluff: How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win (Tue, 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 (Tue, 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 (Tue, Jun 09, 2020)
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• 118. Stuart Russell — Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control (Tue, Jun 02, 2020)
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• 117. Matt Ridley — How Innovation Works: and Why It Flourishes in Freedom (Tue, May 26, 2020)
";
• 116. Howard Steven Friedman — Ultimate Price: The Value We Place on Life (Tue, May 19, 2020)
";
• 115. Matthew Cobb — The Idea of the Brain: The Past and Future of Neuroscience (Tue, May 12, 2020)
";
• 114. Katherine Stewart — The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism (Tue, May 05, 2020)
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• 113. Dave Rubin — Don’t Burn This Book: Thinking for Yourself in an Age of Unreason (Tue, Apr 28, 2020)
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• 112. Ann Druyan — Cosmos: Possible Worlds (Tue, Apr 21, 2020)
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• 111. Scott Barry Kaufman — Transcend: The New Science of Self-Actualization (Tue, Apr 14, 2020)
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• 110. Bart Ehrman — Heaven and Hell: A History of the Afterlife (Tue, Mar 31, 2020)
";
• 109. Neil Shubin — Some Assembly Required: Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA (Tue, 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 (Tue, Mar 17, 2020)
";
• 107. Fred Kaplan — The Bomb: Presidents, Generals, and the Secret History of Nuclear War (Tue, Mar 10, 2020)
";
• 106. Daniel Chirot — You Say You Want a Revolution? Radical Idealism and its Tragic Consequences (Tue, Mar 03, 2020)
";
• 105. Diana Pasulka — American Cosmic: UFOs, Religion, Technology (Tue, 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 (Tue, Feb 18, 2020)
";
• 103. Robert Frank — Under the Influence: Putting Peer Pressure to Work (Tue, Feb 11, 2020)
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• 102. Christopher Ryan — Civilized to Death: The Price of Progress (Tue, Feb 04, 2020)
";
• 101. Hugo Mercier — Not Born Yesterday: The Science of Who We Trust and What We Believe (Tue, Jan 28, 2020)
";
• 100. Episode Special: Ask Me Almost Anything (Tue, Jan 21, 2020)
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• 99. Bobby Duffy — Why We’re Wrong About Nearly Everything: A Theory of Human Misunderstanding (Tue, Jan 14, 2020)
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• 98. Robert Pennock — An Instinct for Truth: Curiosity and the Moral Character of Science (Tue, Jan 07, 2020)
";
• 97. Amber Scorah — Leaving the Witness: Exiting a Religion and Finding a Life (Tue, Dec 31, 2019)
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• 96. Catherine Wilson — How to Be an Epicurean: The Ancient Art of Living Well (Tue, Dec 24, 2019)
";
• 95. John Martin Fischer — Death, Immortality and Meaning in Life (Tue, Dec 17, 2019)
";
• 94. David Leiser — How We Misunderstand Economics and Why it Matters (Tue, Dec 10, 2019)
";
• 93. Geoffrey Miller — Virtue Signaling: Essays on Darwinian Politics & Free Speech (Mon, Dec 02, 2019)
";
• 92. Tim Samuels — Future Man: How to Evolve and Thrive in the Age of Trump, Mansplaining, and #MeToo (Tue, Nov 19, 2019)
";
• 91. James Traub — What Was Liberalism? The Past, Present, and Promise of a Noble Idea (Tue, Nov 12, 2019)
";
• 90. Melvin Konner — Believers: Faith in Human Nature (Tue, Nov 05, 2019)
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• 89. Richard Dawkins — Outgrowing God: A Beginner’s Guide (Tue, Oct 29, 2019)
";
• 88. Daniel Oberhaus — Extraterrestrial Languages (Tue, Oct 22, 2019)
";
• 87. Douglas Murray — The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race, and Identity (Tue, Oct 15, 2019)
";
• 86. Neil deGrasse Tyson — Letters from an Astrophysicist (Tue, Oct 08, 2019)
";
• 85. Deepak Chopra — Metahuman: Unleashing Your Infinite Potential (Tue, Oct 01, 2019)
";
• 84. Christof Koch — The Feeling of Life Itself: Why Consciousness is Widespread but Can’t Be Computed (Tue, Sep 24, 2019)
";
• 83. Peter Boghossian — How to Have Impossible Conversations: A Very Practical Guide (Tue, Sep 17, 2019)
";
• 82. Phil Zuckerman — What it Means to be Moral: Why Religion is Not Necessary for Living an Ethical Life (Tue, Sep 10, 2019)
";
• 81. Bruce Hood — Possessed: Why We Want More Than We Need (Tue, Sep 03, 2019)
";
• 80. Bryan Walsh — End Times: A Brief Guide to the End of the World (Tue, Aug 27, 2019)
";
• 79. Anthony Kronman — The Assault on American Excellence (Tue, Aug 20, 2019)
";
• 78. Dr. Donald Hoffman — The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth From Our Eyes (Tue, Aug 13, 2019)
";
• 77. Dr. Lee McIntyre — The Scientific Attitude: Defending Science from Denial, Fraud, and Pseudoscience (Tue, Jul 30, 2019)
";
• 76. William Poundstone — The Doomsday Calculation: How an Equation that Predicts the Future is Transforming Everything We Know About Life and the Universe (Tue, Jul 23, 2019)
";
• 75. Charles Fishman — One Giant Leap: The Impossible Mission that Flew us to the Moon (Tue, Jul 16, 2019)
";
• 74. Shaili Jain, M.D. — The Unspeakable Mind: Stories of Trauma and Healing from the Frontlines of PTSD Science (Tue, Jul 09, 2019)
";
• 73. Andrew Seidel — Busting the Founding Myth: Why Christian Nationalism is Un-American (Mon, Jul 01, 2019)
";
• 72. Robert Zubrin — The Case for Space: Spaceflight Revolution (Mon, Jun 24, 2019)
";
• 71. Dr. Michael Shermer — What is Truth? (Mon, 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 (Tue, Jun 11, 2019)
";
• 69. Dr. Barbara Tversky — Mind in Motion: How Action Shapes Thought (Tue, Jun 04, 2019)
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• 68. Dr. Michael Ruse — A Darwinian Meaning to Life (Tue, May 28, 2019)
";
• 67. Dr. Christian Smith — Atheist Overreach: What Atheism Can’t Deliver (Tue, 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 (Wed, May 15, 2019)
";
• 65. Jared Diamond — Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis (Tue, May 07, 2019)
";
• 64. Michael Tomasello — Becoming Human (Tue, Apr 30, 2019)
";
• 63. Dr. Hector A. Garcia — Sex, Power, and Partisanship: How Evolutionary Science Makes Sense of Our Political Divide (Wed, Apr 24, 2019)
";
• AMA-5. Dr. Michael Shermer — “Are the Miracles of Jesus Unbelievable?” Debate Postmortem (Sun, Apr 21, 2019)
";
• 62. Dr. Mark Moffett — The Human Swarm: How Our Societies Arise, Thrive, and Fall (Tue, Apr 16, 2019)
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• 61. Dr. Richard Wrangham — The Goodness Paradox: The Strange Relationship Between Virtue and Violence in Human Evolution (Wed, Apr 10, 2019)
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• 60. Nicholas A. Christakis — Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society (Wed, Apr 03, 2019)
";
• 59. Cass R. Sunstein — On Freedom (Tue, Mar 26, 2019)
";
• 58. Ben Shapiro — The Right Side of History: How Reason and Moral Purpose Made the West Great (Tue, Mar 19, 2019)
";
• 57. Dr. Frans de Waal — Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves (Tue, Mar 12, 2019)
";
• 56. Dr. Tyler Cowen — How an Economist Views the World (Wed, Mar 06, 2019)
";
• AMA-4. Dr. Michael Shermer — The Problem of Evil (Sun, Mar 03, 2019)
";
• 55. Dr. David Sloan Wilson — This View of Life: Completing the Darwinian Revolution (Wed, Feb 27, 2019)
";
• 54. Dr. Michele Gelfand — Rule Makers, Rule Breakers: How Tight and Loose Cultures Wire Our World (Wed, Feb 20, 2019)
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• 53. Adam Higginbotham — China Syndrome II: The True Story of What Happened at Chernobyl (Tue, Feb 12, 2019)
";
• 52. Bruce Schneier — Hacked! Security and Survival in a Hyper-Connected World (Tue, Feb 05, 2019)
";
• 51. Gregg Hurwitz — Into the Light: Myths, Narratives, Archetypes, and Trump (Wed, Jan 30, 2019)
";
• AMA-3. Dr. Michael Shermer — Ask Me Anything! (Tue, Jan 22, 2019)
";
• 50. Dr. Rachel Kleinfeld — A Savage Order: How the World’s Deadliest Countries Can Forge a Path to Security (Tue, Jan 15, 2019)
";
• AMA-2. Dr. Michael Shermer: Ask Me Anything! (Tue, Jan 08, 2019)
";
• 49. Dr. Gad Saad — Doing Gad’s Work (Tue, Jan 01, 2019)
";
• 48. Sir Martin Rees — On the Future: Prospects for Humanity (Tue, Dec 25, 2018)
";
• 47. Dr. Susan Blackmore — Altered States and Conscious Beings (Tue, Dec 04, 2018)
";
• 46. Zac Sechler interviews Michael Shermer about Why People Believe in God (Tue, Nov 27, 2018)
";
• 45. Daniel de Visé — On Comebacks in Sports and Life (Tue, Nov 13, 2018)
";
• 44. Dr. David P. Barash — Human Nature Through a Glass Brightly (Tue, Nov 06, 2018)
";
• 43. Dr. Jonathan Haidt — Coming Apart (Tue, Oct 30, 2018)
";
• 42. Dr. Clay Routledge — The Meaning of Life, the Universe, and Everything (Wed, Oct 17, 2018)
";
• 40. Dr. Kwame Anthony Appiah — Who Am I? Who Are You? The Lies That Bind: Rethinking Identity (Wed, Oct 03, 2018)
";
• 39. Heather Mac Donald — The Diversity Delusion: How Race and Gender Pandering Corrupt the University and Undermine Our Culture (Wed, Sep 26, 2018)
";
• 38. Dr. Yuval Noah Harari — 21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Tue, Sep 18, 2018)
";
• 37. Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson — Accessory to War: The Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics and the Military (Wed, Sep 12, 2018)
";
• 36. Dr. Jonathan Haidt — The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas are Setting Up a Generation for Failure (Wed, Sep 05, 2018)
";
• 35. Dr. Tali Sharot — The Influential Mind: What the Brain Reveals About our Power to Change Others (Wed, Aug 29, 2018)
";
• 34. Colin McGinn — Paradoxes, Puzzles, and Philosophy (Wed, Aug 22, 2018)
";
• 33. David Quammen — The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life (Wed, Aug 15, 2018)
";
• 32. Nina Teicholz — The Big Fat Surprise About Diet and Nutrition (Tue, Aug 07, 2018)
";
• 31. Amy Alkon — Unf*ckology: A Field Guide to Living with Guts and Confidence (Tue, Jul 31, 2018)
";
• 30. Dr. Ralph Lewis — Finding Meaning in a Meaningless Universe (Wed, Jul 25, 2018)
";
• 29. Colin McGinn — Mysterianism, Consciousness, Free Will, and God (Mon, Jul 16, 2018)
";
• AMA-1. Dr. Michael Shermer — Ask Me Anything! (Mon, Jul 09, 2018)
";
• 28. Edward J. Larson — On Faith and Science (Mon, Jul 02, 2018)
";
• 27. Charles S. Cockell — The Equations of Life: How Physics Shapes Evolution (Mon, Jun 25, 2018)
";
• 26. Dr. Stephen T. Asma — Why We Need Religion (Fri, Jun 22, 2018)
";
• 25. Richard Rhodes — Energy: A Human History (Tue, May 29, 2018)
";
• 24. Dr. Alan Stern and Dr. David Grinspoon — Chasing New Horizons: Inside the Epic First Mission to Pluto (Tue, May 22, 2018)
";
• 23. Dr. Kenneth R. Miller — The Human Instinct: How We Evolved to Have Reason, Consciousness, and Free Will (Sat, May 19, 2018)
";
• 22. Dr. Gregory Berns — What It’s Like to Be a Dog…and Other Adventures in Animal Neuroscience (Mon, Apr 16, 2018)
";
• 21. Dr. Leonard Mlodinow — Elastic: Flexible Thinking in a Time of Change (Mon, Apr 09, 2018)
";
• 20. Dr. Michael Shermer — Heavens on Earth: The Scientific Search for the Afterlife, Immortality, and Utopia (Sun, Mar 25, 2018)
";
• 19. Bill Nye the Science Guy Saves the World on Netflix (Wed, Mar 07, 2018)
";
• 18. Dr. Bart Ehrman — How a Forbidden Religion (Christianity) Swept the World (Mon, Feb 19, 2018)
";
• 17. Dr. Kip Thorne — Gravitational Waves, Black Holes, Time Travel, and Hollywood (Sun, Feb 18, 2018)
";
• 16. Dr. Robert Trivers — Evolutionary Theory & Human Nature (Thu, Nov 16, 2017)
";
• 15. Donald Prothero & Timothy Callahan — UFOs, Chemtrails, and Aliens: What Science Says (Sun, Oct 15, 2017)
";
• 14. Dr. Nancy Segal — Twin Mythconceptions: False Beliefs, Fables, and Facts about Twins (Sun, Sep 17, 2017)
";
• 13. Dr. Walter Scheidel — The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the 21st Century (Sun, Jun 11, 2017)
";
• 12. Derren Brown — Magic, Happiness, and Skepticism (Mon, May 15, 2017)
";
• 11. Dr. Andrew Shtulman — Scienceblind: Why Our Intuitive Theories About the World Are So Often Wrong (Sun, Apr 23, 2017)
";
• 10. Dr. Carol Tavris — Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me) (Sun, Feb 19, 2017)
";
• 9. Gary Taubes — The Case Against Sugar (Sun, Jan 22, 2017)
";
• 8. Dr. Priyamvada Natarajan — Mapping the Heavens: The Radical Scientific Ideas That Reveal The Cosmos (Sun, Nov 13, 2016)
";
• 7. Dr. Benjamin Bergen — What the F: What Swearing Reveals About Our Language, Our Brains, and Ourselves (Sun, Oct 16, 2016)
";
• 6. Dr. Stephon Alexander — The Jazz of Physics: The Secret Link Between Music and the Structure of the Universe (Sun, May 22, 2016)
";
• 5. Dr. Janna Levin — Gravitational Waves, Black Holes and the Nature of the Cosmos (Sun, Apr 10, 2016)
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• 3. Dr. Arthur Benjamin — The Magic of Math: Solving for x and Figuring Out Why (Sun, Jan 24, 2016)
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• 2. Michelle Feynman — The Quotable Feynman & His Van (Sun, Dec 20, 2015)
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