Podd: The Michael Shermer Show

Michael Egnor X Christof Koch X Michael Shermer | A Debate on the Mind, Soul, and the Afterlife

25 juni | 109 min

The Science Behind Menopause

17 juni | 80 min

Andrew Doyle: Trapped Between Woke Dogma and Right-Wing Populism

10 juni | 134 min

The Myths of American Capitalism Explained

31 maj | 106 min

The Big Bang Wasn’t the Beginning? Exploring Cosmic Origins

27 maj | 94 min

Believing Is Seeing: Inside the Modern Paranormal Movement

24 maj | 83 min

Inside the CIA’s Mind Control Experiments

20 maj | 93 min

Neanderthals and Us: A Complex Story of Coexistence and Hybridization

17 maj | 93 min

AI, Trade Wars, Degrowth: What's Next for the Global Economy?

12 maj | 71 min

Is Modern Life Making Us Miserable? What’s Fueling the Mental Health Crisis & What Can Help?

10 maj | 83 min

Free Speech Under Fire? From Campus Protests to Deportations

6 maj | 78 min

Is It Possible to Change Your Entire Personality?

3 maj | 79 min

The Trouble with Economic Data: Flawed Metrics, Flawed Decisions

29 april | 54 min

Did Shutting Down Schools Help or Hurt? A COVID-19 Postmortem

26 april | 56 min

What’s Holding You Back? Scott Barry Kaufman on Resilience in the Age of Fragility

22 april | 102 min

Why We Follow Orders: The Neuroscience of Compliance and Control

19 april | 92 min

Amanda Knox: Life After the Crime That Wasn’t Hers

15 april | 74 min

What Einstein Meant by God: Science, Spirituality, and the Search for Meaning

8 april | 107 min

What Happened to the Intellectual Dark Web?

1 april | 79 min

Sex and Beauty: The Extraordinary Implications of Darwin’s Strangest Idea (Matt Ridley)

25 mars | 76 min

The Hoax of the Century: Iron Mountain

18 mars | 102 min

Does the West Need a Religious Revival? (Shermer Solo)

11 mars | 37 min

Money, Lies, and God

11 mars | 98 min

Who Counts? Ethics in the Treatment of Animals and AI

8 mars | 87 min

New Research on The Evolution of Intelligent Life

2 mars | 72 min

Sex Work, Ethics, and Evolutionary Psychology: What REALLY Happens on Sugar Daddy Websites?

18 februari | 106 min

Half a Thousand Episodes: Still Chasing Truth

11 februari | 38 min

The Faith Deficit: Does America Need a Spiritual Backbone?

4 februari | 90 min

The Psychology of Serial Killers

28 januari | 119 min

What if Death Isn’t the End? The Science of Forever

21 januari | 90 min

What Are We Really Fighting Over? Understanding Outrage Through Moral Psychology

14 januari | 110 min

How to Start a New Country

7 januari | 61 min

How the Greatest Investors Win in Life and Markets

21 december 2024 | 108 min

Evidence-Based Charity and Moral Psychology

17 december 2024 | 83 min

The Suggestible Brain

14 december 2024 | 85 min

Rationality, Science Fiction, and Humanity’s Future

10 december 2024 | 68 min

Building a Wealthier, Fairer Society

7 december 2024 | 84 min

Gareth Gore Investigates: Opus Dei, Dark Money, and Global Deception

3 december 2024 | 59 min

The Current State of Atheism and Separation of Church and State

30 november 2024 | 88 min

Paul Ehrlich on The Population Bomb, Climate Change, and the Ethics of Extinction

26 november 2024 | 64 min

From the Big Bang to God: The Universe’s Biggest Mysteries

23 november 2024 | 98 min

Inventing God: Psychology of Belief and the Rise of Secular Spirituality

19 november 2024 | 81 min

2024 Election Postmortem

14 november 2024 | 26 min

Fentanyl and the Opioid Epidemic

12 november 2024 | 71 min

Stories From the Front Lines of Abortion Care (Dr. Warren Hern)

8 november 2024 | 56 min

The Most Important Election of My Lifetime … Again (Michael Shermer)

31 oktober 2024 | 20 min

The Future of Global Order and America’s Influence

29 oktober 2024 | 80 min

Faith, Politics, and Power: Talia Lavin on the Christian Right’s America

26 oktober 2024 | 71 min

The Social Reset: Big Tech, Mental Health, and the Future of Connection

22 oktober 2024 | 76 min

Neal Stephenson on Predicting the Metaverse, Crypto, and AI Decades Ahead

19 oktober 2024 | 77 min

The Future of AI: Consciousness and Ethical Dilemmas

15 oktober 2024 | 100 min

Words, Actions, and Liberty: Tara Smith Decodes the First Amendment

12 oktober 2024 | 74 min

Psychogenic Illness and the Nocebo Effect

8 oktober 2024 | 89 min

How Religions Compete for Money, Power, and People

5 oktober 2024 | 96 min

Why Ronald Reagan Wanted to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (Max Boot)

1 oktober 2024 | 61 min

Settler Colonialism: Ideology, Violence, and Justice

28 september 2024 | 61 min

Gray Matters: Exploring the Frontiers of Neurosurgery

24 september 2024 | 96 min

Biology vs. Gender Ideology: The Science Behind the Debate

21 september 2024 | 19 min

Taming Silicon Valley: AI’s Perils and Promise

17 september 2024 | 71 min

Matt Ridley, Steven Pinker, and Michael Shermer Challenge Conventional Narratives

13 september 2024 | 57 min

Slavery, Enlightenment, and America’s Refounding

10 september 2024 | 51 min

How to Think About Souls, UFOs, Time, Belief, and Everything

7 september 2024 | 86 min

Pseudohistory Makes a Comeback on Tucker Carlson's Show

6 september 2024 | 26 min

The Science of Disbelief: Understanding Atheism and the Evolution of Religion

3 september 2024 | 102 min

The Road to Singularity: Ben Goertzel on AGI and The Fate of Humanity

1 september 2024 | 146 min

Unmasking the Unknown: UFOs, Alien Tech, and Military Secrets?

30 augusti 2024 | 32 min

Are We Confused About Social Justice? (Helen Pluckrose)

27 augusti 2024 | 78 min

The Cultural History of Charles Fort and His Followers

25 augusti 2024 | 77 min

The Logic of Nuclear Policy: Deterrence and MAD Explained.

23 augusti 2024 | 44 min

Why Men Are Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do About It

20 augusti 2024 | 92 min

Bones, Bias, and Backlash: Elizabeth Weiss on the Politicization of Anthropology

17 augusti 2024 | 84 min

The Physics of Life’s Emergence

13 augusti 2024 | 107 min

Cryptomania: Hype, Hope, and the Fall of a Billion-Dollar Fintech Empire

10 augusti 2024 | 53 min

Richard Dawkins on Genetic Insights Into the History of Life

6 augusti 2024 | 75 min

UFO Sightings Around the World: A Comprehensive History

3 augusti 2024 | 109 min

Parent-Child Estrangement: How Does Divorce Affect Children?

30 juli 2024 | 88 min

The Influence of Politics and Tribalism on Climate Science

27 juli 2024 | 91 min

Death and the Search for Meaning in the Afterlife

23 juli 2024 | 83 min

Division and Polarization in American Politics: Balancing Majority Rule and Minority Rights

20 juli 2024 | 73 min

Michael Shermer Reflects on the Trump Assassination Attempt

17 juli 2024 | 56 min

Thinking Critically About COVID: Conspiracies vs. Nuance and Facts (Jay Bhattacharya)

13 juli 2024 | 87 min

From Hippie to Whole Foods Mogul

9 juli 2024 | 80 min

Aella — From a Christian Upbringing to Sex Work

2 juli 2024 | 81 min

Hong Kong’s Turmoil: Insights from an Exiled Political Leader

29 juni 2024 | 77 min

Living Constitutionally: One Man’s Humble Quest to Follow the Constitution’s Original Meaning

26 juni 2024 | 96 min

Lemuria: A True Story of a Fake Place

22 juni 2024 | 75 min

Born into a Cult (Michelle Dowd)

18 juni 2024 | 70 min

UFOs: What We Know (And Don’t Know)

15 juni 2024 | 87 min

Religion as Make-Believe: A Theory of Belief, Imagination, and Group Identity

11 juni 2024 | 123 min

Vulnerable Minds: The Harm of Childhood Trauma and the Hope of Resilience

8 juni 2024 | 108 min

How to Achieve Peace in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

4 juni 2024 | 100 min

How Likely Is War Over Taiwan?

1 juni 2024 | 87 min

Neuroscientist Explains Selective Memory (Charan Ranganath)

28 maj 2024 | 98 min

Metaracism: How Systemic Racism Devastates Black Lives

25 maj 2024 | 92 min

How to Think About Social Justice

21 maj 2024 | 95 min

Sean Carroll Explains Quantum Field Theory

18 maj 2024 | 76 min

Co-Founder of The Free Press reports on the Culture Wars (Nellie Bowles)

14 maj 2024 | 94 min

The Latest Research on Consciousness (Christof Koch)

11 maj 2024 | 74 min

Everything is Predictable: How Bayesian Statistics Explain Our World

7 maj 2024 | 97 min

The New Science of Planet Hunting in the Cosmos

4 maj 2024 | 92 min

The Science of Happines

30 april 2024 | 108 min

How Rhetoric Shapes Your Opinions

27 april 2024 | 71 min

Accomplishment and Happiness (Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker)

23 april 2024 | 83 min

Should We Prepare for Nuclear War? (Annie Jacobsen)

20 april 2024 | 75 min

An AI... Utopia? (Nick Bostrom, Oxford)

16 april 2024 | 106 min

Life on Mars? (Robert Zubrin)

13 april 2024 | 101 min

Robots and the People Who Love Them

9 april 2024 | 73 min

The Formation, Diversification, and Extinction of World Religions

6 april 2024 | 121 min

The Wisdom and Wonder of Being Uncertain

2 april 2024 | 89 min

The End of Race Politics (Coleman Hughes)

30 mars 2024 | 95 min

How to Repair America’s Broken Democracy

26 mars 2024 | 68 min

Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up (Abigail Shrier)

23 mars 2024 | 68 min

An Unfinished History of the Holocaust

19 mars 2024 | 97 min

The Weirdness of the World

16 mars 2024 | 123 min

The Story of Female Empowerment & Getting Canceled: Elite Commando and Kickboxing World Champion Leah Goldstein

12 mars 2024 | 88 min

Who Wrote the Qur’an, Why, and What Does it Really Say?

9 mars 2024 | 96 min

Purpose in the Eyes of a Psychiatrist

5 mars 2024 | 99 min

Does Humanity Function as a Single Superorganism?

2 mars 2024 | 95 min

The Power of Noticing What Was Always There

27 februari 2024 | 95 min

China's Grip on Rare-Earth Elements and the Future of Global Energy Security

24 februari 2024 | 65 min

mRNA Vaccines, Mask Mandates, and the COVID-19 Response (Paul Offit)

20 februari 2024 | 73 min

Foster Care, Family, and Social Class

17 februari 2024 | 128 min

How U.S. Public Health Has Strayed From Its Liberal Roots

13 februari 2024 | 85 min

Against the New Politics of Identity

10 februari 2024 | 89 min

What Determines Who Succeeds in the NBA?

6 februari 2024 | 83 min

Transforming Mental Health: Little Treatments, Big Effects

3 februari 2024 | 67 min

Overcoming Self-Censorship in the Age of Outrage

30 januari 2024 | 131 min

One Couple’s Vacation Caused 100,000 People to Die

27 januari 2024 | 114 min

Head of TED Talks Shares a New Vision of Generosity

23 januari 2024 | 78 min

Are Parallel Universes and Extra Dimensions Real?

17 januari 2024 | 76 min

Michael Shellenberger Explains Government Censorship of Social Media

9 januari 2024 | 87 min

Multiculturalism and Lessons From the Rwandan Genocide

3 januari 2024 | 48 min

The Meaning of Life (A Message for the Holidays)

24 december 2023 | 2 min

A Trial by Media Ended Caylan Ford’s Career in 4 Hours

19 december 2023 | 142 min

How Not to Age

16 december 2023 | 123 min

How to Cultivate Your Imagination as an Adult

12 december 2023 | 95 min

Nobel Prize Winner Explains Inequality and Capitalism

5 december 2023 | 79 min

The Purpose of the Universe

2 december 2023 | 117 min

How Media, Politics, and Identity Drive Our Appetite for Misinformation

28 november 2023 | 101 min

JFK 60th Anniversary of the Assassination

22 november 2023 | 116 min

The Scientific Search for Alien Life

18 november 2023 | 98 min

Ayaan Hirsi Ali Converted to Christianity

15 november 2023 | 30 min

UFO: The Inside Story of the U.S. Government's Search for Alien Life

14 november 2023 | 74 min

Identity Politics and its Discontents

11 november 2023 | 103 min

What Makes Rational People Believe Irrational Things? (Dan Ariely)

7 november 2023 | 90 min

The Role of Iran in the Israel-Hamas Conflict

4 november 2023 | 93 min

The Secret History of Women at the CIA

31 oktober 2023 | 92 min

America and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

27 oktober 2023 | 110 min

Cancel Culture and What to Do About It (Greg Lukianoff & Rikki Schlott)

24 oktober 2023 | 93 min

Robert Sapolsky on Free Will and Determinism

17 oktober 2023 | 114 min

Armageddon in the Middle East? (David Wolpe)

13 oktober 2023 | 58 min

Should Employers Pay For Emotional Labor?

10 oktober 2023 | 111 min

Dan Dennett Looks Back on His Career

3 oktober 2023 | 88 min

How the American Right Became Radicalized

27 september 2023 | 88 min

BIG ANNOUNCEMENT

26 september 2023 | 3 min

Ways of Thinking That Power Successful People

19 september 2023 | 59 min

How to Fight for Truth and Protect Democracy

12 september 2023 | 94 min

The Law vs. Separation of Church and State

5 september 2023 | 120 min

Based on DNA Testing, Only One Twin Was Granted U.S. Citizenship. Why?

1 september 2023 | 102 min

Evidence of Aliens? Harvard Astronomer Avi Loeb

29 augusti 2023 | 92 min

Slavery in the U.S. Analyzed by a Pulitzer Prize-Winning Lawyer and Historian (Ed Larson)

22 augusti 2023 | 105 min

Maybe "Good Enough" Is Actually Enough? When Perfectionism Backfires.

15 augusti 2023 | 105 min

Is a Human Life Worth $10 Million or Only $187,000? (Bjorn Lomborg)

8 augusti 2023 | 94 min

Why We Get Fooled

1 augusti 2023 | 115 min

The Saad Truth About Happiness

25 juli 2023 | 117 min

Christopher Rufo Decodes Cultural Shifts in America

18 juli 2023 | 99 min

The Truth About Martin Luther King Jr.

12 juli 2023 | 83 min

An Outsider’s Perspective on American Culture Wars

5 juli 2023 | 133 min

Children and Politics

27 juni 2023 | 76 min

The Future of Medicine: What You Need to Know

20 juni 2023 | 183 min

Michael Shellenberger on UFO Whistleblowers

14 juni 2023 | 59 min

Is the Government Hiding Aliens?

8 juni 2023 | 33 min

A Guide to Violence and Self-Defense.

6 juni 2023 | 109 min

Identity or Merit: What Matters More? (Heather Mac Donald)

30 maj 2023 | 97 min

Are We Risking Our Ability to Think?

27 maj 2023 | 94 min

Quantum Computers Will Change Everything (Michio Kaku)

25 maj 2023 | 81 min

What Happened to Women’s Rights?

23 maj 2023 | 142 min

My Final Lecture: What I Learned About Living a Good Life

18 maj 2023 | 43 min

Could the American Economy Collapse Like Venezuela’s? (Mark Skousen)

16 maj 2023 | 110 min

Scams and Frauds: A Skeptic's Survival Guide

13 maj 2023 | 74 min

What if You Were Born 50 Years Earlier?

9 maj 2023 | 101 min

How Can God Feel So Real?

6 maj 2023 | 89 min

Will We Ever Live in a Post-race World?

4 maj 2023 | 42 min

346. Kennon Sheldon — What the New Psychology of the Self Teaches Us About Free Will, Determinism, and Self-Determinism

2 maj 2023 | 87 min

345. Matt Johnson — How Hitchens Can Save the Left: Rediscovering Fearless Liberalism in an Age of Counter-Enlightenment

29 april 2023 | 99 min

344. What is a Woman, Anyway?

26 april 2023 | 37 min

343. Timothy Redmond — Political Tribalism in America: How Hyper-Partisanship Dumbs Down Democracy and How to Fix It

25 april 2023 | 123 min

342. Valerie Fridland — Like, Literally, Dude: Arguing for the Good in Bad English

22 april 2023 | 122 min

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

18 april 2023 | 106 min

340. Ben Alderson-Day — Presence: The Strange Science and True Stories of the Unseen Other

15 april 2023 | 101 min

339. Gerald and Patricia Posner on Evil

11 april 2023 | 113 min

338. AI SciFi — Physicist, Science Fiction Author, and AI Expert David Brin on ChatGPT and Whether AI Poses an Existential Threat

8 april 2023 | 97 min

337. On the Origin of Time — Thomas Hertog on Stephen Hawking’s Final Theory

1 april 2023 | 86 min

336. The Sacred Depths of Nature — Ursula Goodenough on How to Find Sacred Scientific Spirituality

28 mars 2023 | 98 min

335. Jennifer Michael Hecht on How to Find Meaning, Purpose, and Happiness in Everyday Life

25 mars 2023 | 96 min

334. The End of the World: Bart Ehrman on What the Bible Really Says About the End

21 mars 2023 | 102 min

333. Kevin Kelly — ChatGPT, OpenAI, and Excellent Advice for Living

18 mars 2023 | 105 min

332. Wrongfully Convicted, Ultimately Acquitted — Amanda Knox on Criminal Injustice and Why It Happens

14 mars 2023 | 57 min

331. Paul Zak — Immersion: The Science of the Extraordinary and the Source of Happiness

11 mars 2023 | 109 min

330. Jim Davies — How to Be a Better Person

7 mars 2023 | 107 min

329. Marc Schulz — The Good Life: Lessons from the World’s Longest Scientific Study of Happiness

4 mars 2023 | 111 min

328. Paul Bloom — Psych: The Story of the Human Mind

28 februari 2023 | 121 min

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

25 februari 2023 | 89 min

326. Naomi Oreskes — The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market

21 februari 2023 | 114 min

325. Heinrich Päs — The One: How an Ancient Idea Holds the Future of Physics

18 februari 2023 | 88 min

324. Andrew Gold on Exorcism, Abortion, Pedophilia, Sex & UFOs

14 februari 2023 | 136 min

323. Elle Hardy — Beyond Belief: How Pentecostal Christianity Is Taking Over the World

11 februari 2023 | 116 min

322. Marty Klein — Sex Matters

7 februari 2023 | 153 min

321. William Magnuson — For Profit: A History of Corporations

4 februari 2023 | 96 min

320. Massimo Pigliucci — How to Live a Good Life and Create a Just Society

31 januari 2023 | 127 min

319. Steven Hassan — Combatting Cult Mind Control, Freedom of Mind, and The Cult of Trump

28 januari 2023 | 117 min

318. Suzie Sheehy — The Matter of Everything: How Curiosity, Physics, and Improbable Experiments Changed the World

24 januari 2023 | 114 min

317. Dacher Keltner — Awe: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How It Can Transform Your Life

21 januari 2023 | 101 min

316. Daniel Akst on the Pacifists of the Greatest Generation Who Revolutionized Resistance

17 januari 2023 | 124 min

315. David Bernstein — Classified: The Untold Story of Racial Classification in America

14 januari 2023 | 100 min

314. Martin Rees — Can Science Save Us?

3 januari 2023 | 100 min

313. Matthew Cobb — As Gods: A Moral History of the Genetic Age

27 december 2022 | 120 min

312. Louise Perry — The Case Against the Sexual Revolution: A New Guide to Sex in the 21st Century

24 december 2022 | 93 min

311. Meghan Daum — The Problem With Everything: My Journey Through the New Culture Wars

20 december 2022 | 99 min

310. Todd Kashdan — The Art of Insubordination: How to Dissent and Defy Effectively

13 december 2022 | 117 min

309. India Thusi on Sex Work, Critical Race Theory, and Moral Progress

6 december 2022 | 85 min

308. Iris Berent — The Blind Storyteller: How We Reason About Human Nature

29 november 2022 | 83 min

307. Nicholas Dirks on Science Denial, Distrust, and Skepticism

22 november 2022 | 97 min

306. Stephon Alexander — Fear of a Black Universe: An Outsider’s Guide to the Future of Physics

15 november 2022 | 85 min

305. Bethanne Patrick — Book World

8 november 2022 | 99 min

304. Justin Gregg — If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal: What Animal Intelligence Reveals About Human Stupidity

1 november 2022 | 98 min

303. Michael Shermer — Conspiracy: Why the Rational Believe the Irrational

25 oktober 2022 | 32 min

302. Tim Palmer — The Primacy of Doubt

18 oktober 2022 | 120 min

301. Alan Blinder — A Monetary and Fiscal History of the United States

11 oktober 2022 | 77 min

300. Saleem Ali — Earthly Order: How Natural Laws Define Human Life

4 oktober 2022 | 129 min

299. Richard Reeves — Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do About It

29 september 2022 | 138 min

298. Neil deGrasse Tyson — Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization

20 september 2022 | 77 min

297. Andrew Doyle — How the Religion of Social Justice Captured the Western World

13 september 2022 | 105 min

296. Stephen Bloom on Jane Elliott’s Famous Experiment on Race and Brutality and What It Reveals About Today’s Racial Divide

6 september 2022 | 123 min

295. Marian Tupy & Gale Pooley — Superabundance: The Story of Population Growth, Innovation, and Human Flourishing on an Infinitely Bountiful Planet

30 augusti 2022 | 114 min

294. Sabine Hossenfelder — Existential Physics: A Scientist’s Guide to Life’s Biggest Questions

23 augusti 2022 | 87 min

293. Konstantin Kisin — An Immigrant’s Love Letter to the West

19 augusti 2022 | 80 min

292. Gary Marcus — Rebooting AI: Building Artificial Intelligence We Can Trust

16 augusti 2022 | 124 min

291. Rob Ashton — Silent Influence and the Science of Writing, Reading, and Communicating

9 augusti 2022 | 106 min

290. Anastacia Marx de Salcedo — Eat like a Pig, Run Like a Horse

2 augusti 2022 | 95 min

289. James Kirchick — Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington

26 juli 2022 | 100 min

288. Lucy Cooke — Bitch: On the Female of the Species

19 juli 2022 | 67 min

287. Bobby Azarian — Life, the Universe, and Cosmic Complexity

12 juli 2022 | 127 min

286. Kevin McCaffree — How Societies Change and Why

9 juli 2022 | 106 min

285. Helen Joyce — Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality

5 juli 2022 | 116 min

284. Yoram Hazony on Traditional Conservatism vs. Enlightenment Liberalism

28 juni 2022 | 110 min

283. Michael Strevens — The Knowledge Machine: How Irrationality Created Modern Science

25 juni 2022 | 92 min

282. Anil Seth on the Hard Problem of Consciousness, the Self, and the Essence of Volition

21 juni 2022 | 129 min

281. Moneyball For Your Life: Seth Stephens-Davidowitz on Using Data to Get What You Really Want

18 juni 2022 | 102 min

280. Sam Rosenfeld on Party Polarization in the Postwar United States

14 juni 2022 | 121 min

279. Ian Morris on Deep Time and Big History

11 juni 2022 | 108 min

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

7 juni 2022 | 108 min

277. Michel Gagné — How to Think About Conspiracy Theories

4 juni 2022 | 123 min

276. Andrew Yang — Not Left. Not Right. Forward.

31 maj 2022 | 68 min

275. The Disrupted Mind: Noga Arikha on What Happens to Identity When the Brain Is Assaulted by Disease and Injury

28 maj 2022 | 73 min

274. Frans De Waal on Sex and Gender Across the Primate Spectrum

24 maj 2022 | 88 min

273. Cathy Young — The Russian Riddle Wrapped in a Ukrainian Mystery Inside an American Enigma

21 maj 2022 | 126 min

272. Stuart Vyse — The Uses of Delusion: Why It’s Not Always Rational to Be Rational

17 maj 2022 | 85 min

271. Peter Ward — The Price of Immortality: The Race to Live Forever

14 maj 2022 | 86 min

270. Surprising Power of Game Theory to Explain Irrationality (Moshe Hoffman and Erez Yoeli)

10 maj 2022 | 118 min

269. Richard Dawkins — Flights of Fancy: Defying Gravity by Design and Evolution

7 maj 2022 | 89 min

268. Douglas Murray on The War on the West: Race, Politics, and Culture

3 maj 2022 | 59 min

267. Louis Theroux on Neo-Nazis, Jimmy Savile, UFO Cults, and Scientology

30 april 2022 | 89 min

266. Jesse Singal on Why Fad Psychology Can’t Cure Our Social Ills

26 april 2022 | 89 min

265. Christopher Blattman on Why We Fight: The Roots of War and the Paths to Peace

23 april 2022 | 104 min

264. Adam Levin on Identity Theft and How to Protect Yourself from Scammers, Phishers, and Fraudsters of All Types

18 april 2022 | 101 min

263. Dave Rubin — Left, Right, and Woke, based on his book Don’t Burn This Country: Surviving and Thriving in Our Woke Dystopia

16 april 2022 | 66 min

262. Oliver Stone on Ukraine, Putin, and the Military-Industrial Complex

12 april 2022 | 43 min

261. Jim Al-Khalili on the Joy of Science

9 april 2022 | 103 min

260. Batya Ungar-Sargon — Bad News: How Woke Media Is Undermining Democracy

5 april 2022 | 139 min

259. Ogi Ogas — Journey of the Mind: How Thinking Emerged from Chaos

2 april 2022 | 102 min

258. Jacek Kugler — Putin & Power Transition Theory: China, Russia, and Ukraine

29 mars 2022 | 86 min

257. Simon Conway Morris on Design in Evolution & the Possibility of Purpose in the Cosmos

26 mars 2022 | 120 min

256. Imagining the Future with Reality Game Designer and Futurist Jane McGonigal

22 mars 2022 | 70 min

255. David Chalmers — Reality+: Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy

19 mars 2022 | 112 min

254. Ravi Gupta on the Lost Debate: Whatever Happened to Reasoned Discussion and Respectable Disagreement?

15 mars 2022 | 99 min

253. Jennifer Sciubba on Putin, Russia, Ukraine, National & Global Security, and How Population Demographics Shape Our Future

12 mars 2022 | 80 min

252. John Mueller on Putin’s War: Russia, Ukraine, and NATO

8 mars 2022 | 86 min

251. Kelly Weill on Flat Earthers, Conspiracy Culture, and Why People Will Believe Anything

1 mars 2022 | 103 min

250. Will Sanctions Work? War in Ukraine.

25 februari 2022 | 23 min

249. Barbara F. Walter on How Civil Wars Start and How to Stop Them, including in the United States

22 februari 2022 | 105 min

248. Elizabeth Weiss on Woke Archaeology and Erasing the Past

15 februari 2022 | 128 min

247. Jacob Mchangama on Free Speech: A History from Socrates to Social Media

8 februari 2022 | 109 min

246. Nick Pope on UAPs, UFOs, Conspiracies, and Cover-ups

1 februari 2022 | 106 min

245. Frank Sulloway on How Lives Turn Out: Genes, Environment, Pluck, and Luck

29 januari 2022 | 162 min

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

25 januari 2022 | 118 min

243. Sally Satel on Addiction, the Opioid Crisis, Deaths of Despair, and How Psychiatry Has Gone Woke

22 januari 2022 | 126 min

242. Jonathan Gottschall — The Story Paradox: How Our Love of Storytelling Builds Societies and Tears Them Down

18 januari 2022 | 97 min

241. Jeff Maurer — I Might Be Wrong

15 januari 2022 | 97 min

240. Leonard Mlodinow — Emotional: How Feelings Shape Our Thinking

11 januari 2022 | 113 min

239. Richard Firth-Godbehere — A Human History of Emotion: How the Way We Feel Built the World We Know

4 januari 2022 | 118 min

238. Brian Klass — Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How it Changes Us

28 december 2021 | 101 min

237. David Wengrow on The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

21 december 2021 | 93 min

236. Fernanda Pirie on The Rule of Laws: A 4,000-Year Quest to Order the World

18 december 2021 | 88 min

235. Thomas Sowell: The Life and Work of the Legendary Social Theorist (Jason Riley)

14 december 2021 | 97 min

234. Matt Ridley on the Search for the Origin of COVID-19

11 december 2021 | 77 min

233. Goodbye Pat Linse, Skeptic Co-founder and My Best Friend…

7 december 2021 | 19 min

232. Amishi Jha on Learning How to Pay Attention to Your Attention

4 december 2021 | 93 min

231. Jason Hill on What White Americans Owe Black People

30 november 2021 | 101 min

230. Bart Ehrman — Did the Christmas Story Really Happen? The Birth of Jesus in History & Legend

27 november 2021 | 68 min

229. Fritjof Capra on Patterns of Connection: Is there a Tao of physics? Is life a web? Is humanity at a turning point?

23 november 2021 | 96 min

228. Steven Koonin on what climate science tells us, what it doesn’t, and why it matters, based on his book Unsettled

20 november 2021 | 97 min

227. Richard Nisbett on Thinking & Reason

16 november 2021 | 135 min

226. Suzanne Nossel on defending free speech for all, based on her book Dare to Speak

13 november 2021 | 96 min

225. Nancy Segal — Deliberately Divided: Inside the Controversial Study of Twins and Triplets Adopted Apart

9 november 2021 | 106 min

224. Bobby Duffy on The Generation Myth: Why When You’re Born Matters Less Than You Think

6 november 2021 | 110 min

223. Paul Bloom on the pleasures of suffering and the meaning of life

2 november 2021 | 144 min

222. Suzanne O’Sullivan on psychosomatic disorders and other mystery illnesses

30 oktober 2021 | 95 min

221. Antonio Damasio — Feeling & Knowing: Making Minds Conscious

26 oktober 2021 | 102 min

220. Charles Foster on Being a Human: Adventures in Forty Thousand Years of Consciousness

23 oktober 2021 | 117 min

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

19 oktober 2021 | 109 min

218. Craig Whitlock — The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War

16 oktober 2021 | 91 min

217. Mary Grabar on the 1619 Project, Howard Zinn, Historical Revisionism, and Pseudohistory

12 oktober 2021 | 99 min

216. Kathryn Paige Harden — The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality

9 oktober 2021 | 107 min

215. Mary Eberstadt on God, Religion, Secularization, Sexual Revolution, and Identity Politics

5 oktober 2021 | 109 min

214. Tom Nichols — Our Own Worst Enemy: The Assault From Within on Modern Democracy

2 oktober 2021 | 97 min

213. Mike Rothschild — The Storm Is Upon Us: How QAnon Became a Movement, Cult, and Conspiracy Theory of Everything

28 september 2021 | 97 min

212. Gale Sinatra & Barbara Hofer — Science Denial: Why It Happens and What to Do About It

25 september 2021 | 90 min

211. Ashley Rindsberg — The Gray Lady Winked: How the New York Times’s Misreporting, Distortions and Fabrications Radically Alter History

21 september 2021 | 103 min

210. Leidy Klotz on doing more with less, based on his book Subtract: The Untapped Science of Less

18 september 2021 | 120 min

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

14 september 2021 | 92 min

208. The Truth About 9/11 and Terrorism

10 september 2021 | 28 min

207. John Petrocelli — The Life-Changing Science of Detecting Bullshit

7 september 2021 | 96 min

206. Nichola Raihani — The Social Instinct: How Cooperation Shaped the World

4 september 2021 | 127 min

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

1 september 2021 | 87 min

204. Carole Hooven on T: The Story of Testosterone, the Hormone that Dominates and Divides Us

28 augusti 2021 | 107 min

203. Lee McIntyre — How to Talk to a Science Denier: Conversations with Flat Earthers, Climate Deniers, and Others Who Defy Reason

24 augusti 2021 | 96 min

202. Julia Galef — The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don’t

21 augusti 2021 | 107 min

201. Michael Shermer on Evolution, I.D. Theory, Consciousness, Morality, Gullibility, and Nothing (AMA # 7)

18 augusti 2021 | 73 min

200. Philip Zimbardo on the Nature & Nurture of Good & Evil

15 augusti 2021 | 110 min

199. David Potter — Disruption: Why Things Change

10 augusti 2021 | 84 min

198. Bernardo Kastrup on the Nature of Reality: Materialism, Idealism, or Skepticism

7 augusti 2021 | 134 min

197. Yaron Brook on Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, and Objectivism

3 augusti 2021 | 126 min

196. Annie Murphy Paul — The Extended Mind: The Power of Thinking Outside the Brain

31 juli 2021 | 95 min

195. Jamy Ian Swiss — The Conjuror’s Conundrum

27 juli 2021 | 133 min

194. John Mackey (Founder and CEO of Whole Foods Market) on Conscious Capitalism & Conscious Leadership

21 juli 2021 | 108 min

193. Chris Edwards on Educational Reform and Thought Experiments

17 juli 2021 | 123 min

192. Lesley Newson & Peter Richerson — A New Look at Human Evolution

10 juli 2021 | 122 min

191. Michael Gordin on the Fringe of Where Science Meets Pseudoscience

3 juli 2021 | 92 min

190. Jonathan Rauch — The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth

26 juni 2021 | 101 min

189. Daniel Kahneman — Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment

19 juni 2021 | 101 min

188. Legendary Undersea Explorer Robert Ballard — Into the Deep: A Memoir From the Man Who Found Titanic

16 juni 2021 | 120 min

187. Robert Cialdini — Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion

8 juni 2021 | 116 min

186. William Nordhaus on the Economics of Global Warming, Pandemics, and Corporate Malfeasance

2 juni 2021 | 67 min

185. Stephen Meyer — Return of the God Hypothesis: Three Scientific Discoveries that Reveal the Mind Behind the Universe (and why Shermer remains skeptical)

29 maj 2021 | 118 min

184. Alexander Green on Money & Why It Matters

25 maj 2021 | 101 min

183. Bari Weiss & Bion Bartning — The Foundation Against Intolerance & Racism

22 maj 2021 | 89 min

182. A Conversation With UFOlogist Alan Steinfeld on How Believers and Skeptics Think About UFOs

18 maj 2021 | 109 min

181. David Buss — When Men Behave Badly: The Hidden Roots of Sexual Deception, Harassment, and Assault

15 maj 2021 | 108 min

180. Andy Norman — Mental Immunity: Infectious Ideas, Mind Parasites, and the Search for a Better Way to Think

11 maj 2021 | 96 min

179. Niall Ferguson — Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe

8 maj 2021 | 99 min

178. James Hunter & Paul Nedelisky on religious vs. secular morality — Science and the Good: The Tragic Quest for the Foundations of Morality

4 maj 2021 | 123 min

177. Angus Fletcher — 25 Most Powerful Inventions in the History of Literature

1 maj 2021 | 113 min

176. Minouche Shafik — What We Owe Each Other: A New Social Contract for a Better Society

27 april 2021 | 100 min

175. Brian Keating — How it All Began: Cosmic Inflation, the Multiverse, and the Nature of Scientific Proof

24 april 2021 | 108 min

174. Jordan Peterson — Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life

20 april 2021 | 169 min

173. Naomi Oreskes — Why Trust Science?

17 april 2021 | 106 min

172. Andrew Doyle — Free Speech: And Why it Matters

13 april 2021 | 135 min

171. John Mueller — The Stupidity of War: American Foreign Policy and the Case for Complacency

10 april 2021 | 109 min

170. Michio Kaku — The God Equation: The Quest for a Theory of Everything

6 april 2021 | 97 min

169. Jeff Hawkins — A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence

3 april 2021 | 107 min

168. Daniel Dennett & Gregg Caruso — Just Deserts: Debating Free Will (moderated by Michael Shermer)

30 mars 2021 | 126 min

167. Gary Taubes — The Case for Keto: Rethinking Weight Control and the Science and Practice of Low-Carb/High-Fat Eating

23 mars 2021 | 110 min

166. Mine! How the Hidden Rules of Ownership Control Our Lives (Michael Heller & James Salzman)

20 mars 2021 | 95 min

165. John McWhorter — The Elect: Neoracists Posing as Antiracists and Their Threat to a Progressive America

16 mars 2021 | 81 min

164. Neil deGrasse Tyson — Cosmic Queries: StarTalk’s Guide to Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We’re Going

13 mars 2021 | 107 min

163. Helen Pluckrose — Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything About Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody

9 mars 2021 | 132 min

162. Benjamin Friedman — Religion and the Rise of Capitalism

6 mars 2021 | 112 min

161. Roy Richard Grinker — Nobody’s Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness

2 mars 2021 | 62 min

160. Abigail Shrier — Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters

27 februari 2021 | 96 min

159. Joshua Glasgow — The Solace: Finding Value in Death Through Gratitude for Life

23 februari 2021 | 101 min

158. Jason D. Hill — We Have Overcome: An Immigrant’s Letter to The American People

20 februari 2021 | 98 min

157. Avi Loeb — Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth

16 februari 2021 | 122 min

156. Ayaan Hirsi Ali — Prey: Immigration, Islam, and the Erosion of Women’s Rights

9 februari 2021 | 97 min

155. Martin Sherwin — Gambling with Armageddon: Nuclear Roulette from Hiroshima to The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1945–1962

2 februari 2021 | 103 min

154. David Sloan Wilson — Atlas Hugged: The Autobiography of John Galt III

26 januari 2021 | 119 min

153. Kevin Dutton — Black-and-White Thinking: The Burden of a Binary Brain in a Complex World

19 januari 2021 | 107 min

152. Politics & Truth — Michael Shermer Responds to Critics of His Commentary “Trump & Truth”

17 januari 2021 | 22 min

151. Trump & Truth — A Commentary by Michael Shermer

12 januari 2021 | 47 min

150. Daniel Lieberman — Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do is Healthy and Rewarding

5 januari 2021 | 90 min

149. The After Time: The Future of Civilization After COVID-19

29 december 2020 | 44 min

148. Have Archetype — Will Travel: The Jordan Peterson Phenomenon

22 december 2020 | 41 min

147. David Barash — On the Brink of Destruction

15 december 2020 | 110 min

146. Donald Prothero — Weird Earth: Debunking Strange Ideas About Our Planet

8 december 2020 | 78 min

145. Greg Lukianoff — How Free is Free Speech?

1 december 2020 | 71 min

144. Agustín Fuentes — Why We Believe: Evolution and the Human Way of Being

24 november 2020 | 100 min

143. Nicholas Christakis — Apollo’s Arrow: The Profound and Enduring Impact of Coronavirus on the Way We Live

17 november 2020 | 83 min

142. Philip Goff — Galileo’s Error: Foundations for a New Science of Consciousness

9 november 2020 | 113 min

141. Richard Kreitner — Break it Up: Secession, Division, and the Secret History of America’s Imperfect Union

2 november 2020 | 91 min

140. Rebecca Wragg Sykes — Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art

27 oktober 2020 | 99 min

BONUS: James Randi—A Report from the Paranormal Trenches (1992)

25 oktober 2020 | 93 min

139. Shelby Steele — Shame: How America’s Past Sins Have Polarized Our Country & the film What Killed Michael Brown?

20 oktober 2020 | 98 min

138. Douglas Murray — The Madness of 2020

16 oktober 2020 | 72 min

137. Marta Zaraska — Growing Young: How Friendship, Optimism, and Kindness Can Help You Live to 100

13 oktober 2020 | 94 min

136. Gad Saad — The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense

6 oktober 2020 | 97 min

135. Paul Halpern — Synchronicity: The Epic Quest to Understand the Quantum Nature of Cause and Effect

29 september 2020 | 77 min

134. Joe Henrich — The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous

22 september 2020 | 83 min

133. Michael E. McCullough — The Kindness of Strangers: How a Selfish Ape Invented a New Moral Code

15 september 2020 | 116 min

132. Leonard Mlodinow — Stephen Hawking: A Memoir of Friendship and Physics

8 september 2020 | 88 min

131. Stuart Ritchie — Science Fictions: How Fraud, Bias, Negligence, and Hype Undermine the Search for Truth

1 september 2020 | 101 min

130. Debra Soh — The End of Gender: Debunking the Myths About Sex and Identity in Our Society

25 augusti 2020 | 107 min

129. Mona Sue Weissmark — The Science of Diversity

18 augusti 2020 | 118 min

128. Michael Shellenberger — Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All

11 augusti 2020 | 93 min

127. William Perry and Tom Collina — The Button: The New Nuclear Arms Race and Presidential Power from Truman to Trump

4 augusti 2020 | 51 min

126. Sarah Scoles — They Are Already Here: UFO Culture and Why We See Saucers

28 juli 2020 | 87 min

125. Bjorn Lomborg — False Alarm: How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet

21 juli 2020 | 83 min

124. David J. Halperin — Intimate Alien: The Hidden Story of the UFO

14 juli 2020 | 104 min

123. Gerald Posner — Pharma: Greed, Lies, and the Poisoning of America

7 juli 2020 | 97 min

122. Walter Scheidel — Escape from Rome: The Failure of the Empire and the Road to Prosperity

30 juni 2020 | 74 min

121. Maria Konnikova — The Biggest Bluff: How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win

23 juni 2020 | 79 min

120. Andrew Rader — Beyond the Known: How Exploration Created the Modern World and Will Take Us to the Stars

16 juni 2020 | 101 min

119. Howard Bloom — Einstein, Michael Jackson, and Me: A Search for the Soul in the Power Pits of Rock and Roll

9 juni 2020 | 118 min

118. Stuart Russell — Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control

2 juni 2020 | 82 min

117. Matt Ridley — How Innovation Works: and Why It Flourishes in Freedom

26 maj 2020 | 95 min

116. Howard Steven Friedman — Ultimate Price: The Value We Place on Life

19 maj 2020 | 70 min

115. Matthew Cobb — The Idea of the Brain: The Past and Future of Neuroscience

12 maj 2020 | 100 min

114. Katherine Stewart — The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism

5 maj 2020 | 60 min

113. Dave Rubin — Don’t Burn This Book: Thinking for Yourself in an Age of Unreason

28 april 2020 | 85 min

112. Ann Druyan — Cosmos: Possible Worlds

21 april 2020 | 93 min

111. Scott Barry Kaufman — Transcend: The New Science of Self-Actualization

14 april 2020 | 97 min

110. Bart Ehrman — Heaven and Hell: A History of the Afterlife

31 mars 2020 | 87 min

109. Neil Shubin — Some Assembly Required: Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA

24 mars 2020 | 90 min

108. Brian Greene — Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe

17 mars 2020 | 73 min

107. Fred Kaplan — The Bomb: Presidents, Generals, and the Secret History of Nuclear War

10 mars 2020 | 80 min

106. Daniel Chirot — You Say You Want a Revolution? Radical Idealism and its Tragic Consequences

3 mars 2020 | 98 min

105. Diana Pasulka — American Cosmic: UFOs, Religion, Technology

25 februari 2020 | 102 min

104. Judith Finlayson — You Are What Your Grandparents Ate: What You Need to Know About Nutrition, Experience, Epigenetics and the Origins of Chronic Disease

18 februari 2020 | 85 min

103. Robert Frank — Under the Influence: Putting Peer Pressure to Work

11 februari 2020 | 109 min

102. Christopher Ryan — Civilized to Death: The Price of Progress

4 februari 2020 | 105 min

101. Hugo Mercier — Not Born Yesterday: The Science of Who We Trust and What We Believe

28 januari 2020 | 119 min

100. Episode Special: Ask Me Almost Anything

21 januari 2020 | 62 min

99. Bobby Duffy — Why We’re Wrong About Nearly Everything: A Theory of Human Misunderstanding

14 januari 2020 | 94 min

98. Robert Pennock — An Instinct for Truth: Curiosity and the Moral Character of Science

7 januari 2020 | 120 min

97. Amber Scorah — Leaving the Witness: Exiting a Religion and Finding a Life

31 december 2019 | 96 min

96. Catherine Wilson — How to Be an Epicurean: The Ancient Art of Living Well

24 december 2019 | 72 min

95. John Martin Fischer — Death, Immortality and Meaning in Life

17 december 2019 | 95 min

94. David Leiser — How We Misunderstand Economics and Why it Matters

10 december 2019 | 83 min

93. Geoffrey Miller — Virtue Signaling: Essays on Darwinian Politics & Free Speech

2 december 2019 | 124 min

92. Tim Samuels — Future Man: How to Evolve and Thrive in the Age of Trump, Mansplaining, and #MeToo

19 november 2019 | 107 min

91. James Traub — What Was Liberalism? The Past, Present, and Promise of a Noble Idea

12 november 2019 | 82 min

90. Melvin Konner — Believers: Faith in Human Nature

5 november 2019 | 99 min

89. Richard Dawkins — Outgrowing God: A Beginner’s Guide

29 oktober 2019 | 40 min

88. Daniel Oberhaus — Extraterrestrial Languages

22 oktober 2019 | 81 min

87. Douglas Murray — The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race, and Identity

15 oktober 2019 | 71 min

86. Neil deGrasse Tyson — Letters from an Astrophysicist

8 oktober 2019 | 68 min

85. Deepak Chopra — Metahuman: Unleashing Your Infinite Potential

1 oktober 2019 | 55 min

84. Christof Koch — The Feeling of Life Itself: Why Consciousness is Widespread but Can’t Be Computed

24 september 2019 | 93 min

83. Peter Boghossian — How to Have Impossible Conversations: A Very Practical Guide

17 september 2019 | 75 min

82. Phil Zuckerman — What it Means to be Moral: Why Religion is Not Necessary for Living an Ethical Life

10 september 2019 | 77 min

81. Bruce Hood — Possessed: Why We Want More Than We Need

3 september 2019 | 100 min

80. Bryan Walsh — End Times: A Brief Guide to the End of the World

27 augusti 2019 | 64 min

79. Anthony Kronman — The Assault on American Excellence

20 augusti 2019 | 81 min

78. Dr. Donald Hoffman — The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth From Our Eyes

13 augusti 2019 | 104 min

77. Dr. Lee McIntyre — The Scientific Attitude: Defending Science from Denial, Fraud, and Pseudoscience

30 juli 2019 | 114 min

76. William Poundstone — The Doomsday Calculation: How an Equation that Predicts the Future is Transforming Everything We Know About Life and the Universe

23 juli 2019 | 80 min

75. Charles Fishman — One Giant Leap: The Impossible Mission that Flew us to the Moon

16 juli 2019 | 93 min

74. Shaili Jain, M.D. — The Unspeakable Mind: Stories of Trauma and Healing from the Frontlines of PTSD Science

9 juli 2019 | 72 min

73. Andrew Seidel — Busting the Founding Myth: Why Christian Nationalism is Un-American

1 juli 2019 | 80 min

72. Robert Zubrin — The Case for Space: Spaceflight Revolution

24 juni 2019 | 99 min

71. Dr. Michael Shermer — What is Truth?

17 juni 2019 | 69 min

70. Dr. Brian Keating — Losing the Nobel Prize: A Story of Cosmology, Ambition, and the Perils of Science’s Highest Honor

11 juni 2019 | 92 min

69. Dr. Barbara Tversky — Mind in Motion: How Action Shapes Thought

4 juni 2019 | 83 min

68. Dr. Michael Ruse — A Darwinian Meaning to Life

28 maj 2019 | 99 min

67. Dr. Christian Smith — Atheist Overreach: What Atheism Can’t Deliver

21 maj 2019 | 96 min

66. Dr. Christian List — Why Free Will is Real: A response to Sam Harris, Jerry Coyne, and Other Determinists

15 maj 2019 | 96 min

65. Jared Diamond — Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis

7 maj 2019 | 90 min

64. Michael Tomasello — Becoming Human

30 april 2019 | 86 min

63. Dr. Hector A. Garcia — Sex, Power, and Partisanship: How Evolutionary Science Makes Sense of Our Political Divide

24 april 2019 | 96 min

AMA-5. Dr. Michael Shermer — “Are the Miracles of Jesus Unbelievable?” Debate Postmortem

21 april 2019 | 27 min

62. Dr. Mark Moffett — The Human Swarm: How Our Societies Arise, Thrive, and Fall

16 april 2019 | 92 min

61. Dr. Richard Wrangham — The Goodness Paradox: The Strange Relationship Between Virtue and Violence in Human Evolution

10 april 2019 | 102 min

60. Nicholas A. Christakis — Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society

3 april 2019 | 95 min

59. Cass R. Sunstein — On Freedom

26 mars 2019 | 60 min

58. Ben Shapiro — The Right Side of History: How Reason and Moral Purpose Made the West Great

19 mars 2019 | 50 min

57. Dr. Frans de Waal — Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves

12 mars 2019 | 63 min

56. Dr. Tyler Cowen — How an Economist Views the World

6 mars 2019 | 81 min

AMA-4. Dr. Michael Shermer — The Problem of Evil

3 mars 2019 | 21 min

55. Dr. David Sloan Wilson — This View of Life: Completing the Darwinian Revolution

27 februari 2019 | 103 min

54. Dr. Michele Gelfand — Rule Makers, Rule Breakers: How Tight and Loose Cultures Wire Our World

20 februari 2019 | 106 min

53. Adam Higginbotham — China Syndrome II: The True Story of What Happened at Chernobyl

12 februari 2019 | 51 min

52. Bruce Schneier — Hacked! Security and Survival in a Hyper-Connected World

5 februari 2019 | 72 min

51. Gregg Hurwitz — Into the Light: Myths, Narratives, Archetypes, and Trump

30 januari 2019 | 93 min

AMA-3. Dr. Michael Shermer — Ask Me Anything!

22 januari 2019 | 36 min

50. Dr. Rachel Kleinfeld — A Savage Order: How the World’s Deadliest Countries Can Forge a Path to Security

15 januari 2019 | 83 min

AMA-2. Dr. Michael Shermer: Ask Me Anything!

8 januari 2019 | 77 min

49. Dr. Gad Saad — Doing Gad’s Work

1 januari 2019 | 85 min

48. Sir Martin Rees — On the Future: Prospects for Humanity

25 december 2018 | 101 min

47. Dr. Susan Blackmore — Altered States and Conscious Beings

4 december 2018 | 82 min

46. Zac Sechler interviews Michael Shermer about Why People Believe in God

27 november 2018 | 46 min

45. Daniel de Visé — On Comebacks in Sports and Life

13 november 2018 | 83 min

44. Dr. David P. Barash — Human Nature Through a Glass Brightly

6 november 2018 | 93 min

43. Dr. Jonathan Haidt — Coming Apart

30 oktober 2018 | 75 min

42. Dr. Clay Routledge — The Meaning of Life, the Universe, and Everything

17 oktober 2018 | 121 min

40. Dr. Kwame Anthony Appiah — Who Am I? Who Are You? The Lies That Bind: Rethinking Identity

3 oktober 2018 | 92 min

39. Heather Mac Donald — The Diversity Delusion: How Race and Gender Pandering Corrupt the University and Undermine Our Culture

26 september 2018 | 99 min

38. Dr. Yuval Noah Harari — 21 Lessons for the 21st Century

18 september 2018 | 83 min

37. Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson — Accessory to War: The Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics and the Military

12 september 2018 | 82 min

36. Dr. Jonathan Haidt — The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas are Setting Up a Generation for Failure

5 september 2018 | 79 min

35. Dr. Tali Sharot — The Influential Mind: What the Brain Reveals About our Power to Change Others

29 augusti 2018 | 59 min

34. Colin McGinn — Paradoxes, Puzzles, and Philosophy

22 augusti 2018 | 71 min

33. David Quammen — The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life

15 augusti 2018 | 84 min

32. Nina Teicholz — The Big Fat Surprise About Diet and Nutrition

7 augusti 2018 | 71 min

31. Amy Alkon — Unf*ckology: A Field Guide to Living with Guts and Confidence

31 juli 2018 | 96 min

30. Dr. Ralph Lewis — Finding Meaning in a Meaningless Universe

25 juli 2018 | 84 min

29. Colin McGinn — Mysterianism, Consciousness, Free Will, and God

16 juli 2018 | 101 min

AMA-1. Dr. Michael Shermer — Ask Me Anything!

9 juli 2018 | 62 min

28. Edward J. Larson — On Faith and Science

2 juli 2018 | 90 min

27. Charles S. Cockell — The Equations of Life: How Physics Shapes Evolution

25 juni 2018 | 87 min

26. Dr. Stephen T. Asma — Why We Need Religion

22 juni 2018 | 82 min

25. Richard Rhodes — Energy: A Human History

29 maj 2018 | 80 min

24. Dr. Alan Stern and Dr. David Grinspoon — Chasing New Horizons: Inside the Epic First Mission to Pluto

22 maj 2018 | 73 min

23. Dr. Kenneth R. Miller — The Human Instinct: How We Evolved to Have Reason, Consciousness, and Free Will

19 maj 2018 | 98 min

22. Dr. Gregory Berns — What It’s Like to Be a Dog…and Other Adventures in Animal Neuroscience

16 april 2018 | 70 min

21. Dr. Leonard Mlodinow — Elastic: Flexible Thinking in a Time of Change

9 april 2018 | 52 min

20. Dr. Michael Shermer — Heavens on Earth: The Scientific Search for the Afterlife, Immortality, and Utopia

25 mars 2018 | 56 min

19. Bill Nye the Science Guy Saves the World on Netflix

7 mars 2018 | 86 min

18. Dr. Bart Ehrman — How a Forbidden Religion (Christianity) Swept the World

19 februari 2018 | 79 min

17. Dr. Kip Thorne — Gravitational Waves, Black Holes, Time Travel, and Hollywood

18 februari 2018 | 75 min

16. Dr. Robert Trivers — Evolutionary Theory & Human Nature

16 november 2017 | 50 min

15. Donald Prothero & Timothy Callahan — UFOs, Chemtrails, and Aliens: What Science Says

15 oktober 2017 | 67 min

14. Dr. Nancy Segal — Twin Mythconceptions: False Beliefs, Fables, and Facts about Twins

17 september 2017 | 54 min

13. Dr. Walter Scheidel — The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the 21st Century

11 juni 2017 | 58 min

12. Derren Brown — Magic, Happiness, and Skepticism

15 maj 2017 | 76 min

11. Dr. Andrew Shtulman — Scienceblind: Why Our Intuitive Theories About the World Are So Often Wrong

23 april 2017 | 76 min

10. Dr. Carol Tavris — Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me)

19 februari 2017 | 64 min

9. Gary Taubes — The Case Against Sugar

22 januari 2017 | 68 min

8. Dr. Priyamvada Natarajan — Mapping the Heavens: The Radical Scientific Ideas That Reveal The Cosmos

13 november 2016 | 93 min

7. Dr. Benjamin Bergen — What the F: What Swearing Reveals About Our Language, Our Brains, and Ourselves

16 oktober 2016 | 102 min

6. Dr. Stephon Alexander — The Jazz of Physics: The Secret Link Between Music and the Structure of the Universe

22 maj 2016 | 94 min

5. Dr. Janna Levin — Gravitational Waves, Black Holes and the Nature of the Cosmos

10 april 2016 | 63 min

4. Dr. Sean B. Carroll — The Serengeti Rules: The Quest to Discover How Life Works and Why It Matters

20 mars 2016 | 95 min

3. Dr. Arthur Benjamin — The Magic of Math: Solving for x and Figuring Out Why

24 januari 2016 | 93 min

2. Michelle Feynman — The Quotable Feynman & His Van

20 december 2015 | 76 min

1. Dr. Lisa Randall — Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs: The Astounding Interconnectedness of the Universe

22 november 2015 | 72 min

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The Trouble with Economic Data: Flawed Metrics, Flawed Decisions

Did Shutting Down Schools Help or Hurt? A COVID-19 Postmortem

What’s Holding You Back? Scott Barry Kaufman on Resilience in the Age of Fragility

Why We Follow Orders: The Neuroscience of Compliance and Control

Amanda Knox: Life After the Crime That Wasn’t Hers

What Einstein Meant by God: Science, Spirituality, and the Search for Meaning

What Happened to the Intellectual Dark Web?

Sex and Beauty: The Extraordinary Implications of Darwin’s Strangest Idea (Matt Ridley)

The Hoax of the Century: Iron Mountain

Does the West Need a Religious Revival? (Shermer Solo)

Money, Lies, and God

Who Counts? Ethics in the Treatment of Animals and AI

New Research on The Evolution of Intelligent Life

Sex Work, Ethics, and Evolutionary Psychology: What REALLY Happens on Sugar Daddy Websites?

Half a Thousand Episodes: Still Chasing Truth

The Faith Deficit: Does America Need a Spiritual Backbone?

The Psychology of Serial Killers

What if Death Isn’t the End? The Science of Forever

What Are We Really Fighting Over? Understanding Outrage Through Moral Psychology

How to Start a New Country

How the Greatest Investors Win in Life and Markets

Evidence-Based Charity and Moral Psychology

The Suggestible Brain

Rationality, Science Fiction, and Humanity’s Future

Building a Wealthier, Fairer Society

Gareth Gore Investigates: Opus Dei, Dark Money, and Global Deception

The Current State of Atheism and Separation of Church and State

Paul Ehrlich on The Population Bomb, Climate Change, and the Ethics of Extinction

From the Big Bang to God: The Universe’s Biggest Mysteries

Inventing God: Psychology of Belief and the Rise of Secular Spirituality

2024 Election Postmortem

Fentanyl and the Opioid Epidemic

Stories From the Front Lines of Abortion Care (Dr. Warren Hern)

The Most Important Election of My Lifetime … Again (Michael Shermer)

The Future of Global Order and America’s Influence

Faith, Politics, and Power: Talia Lavin on the Christian Right’s America

The Social Reset: Big Tech, Mental Health, and the Future of Connection

Neal Stephenson on Predicting the Metaverse, Crypto, and AI Decades Ahead

The Future of AI: Consciousness and Ethical Dilemmas

Words, Actions, and Liberty: Tara Smith Decodes the First Amendment

Psychogenic Illness and the Nocebo Effect

How Religions Compete for Money, Power, and People

Why Ronald Reagan Wanted to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (Max Boot)

Settler Colonialism: Ideology, Violence, and Justice

Gray Matters: Exploring the Frontiers of Neurosurgery

Biology vs. Gender Ideology: The Science Behind the Debate

Taming Silicon Valley: AI’s Perils and Promise

Matt Ridley, Steven Pinker, and Michael Shermer Challenge Conventional Narratives

Slavery, Enlightenment, and America’s Refounding

How to Think About Souls, UFOs, Time, Belief, and Everything

Pseudohistory Makes a Comeback on Tucker Carlson's Show

The Science of Disbelief: Understanding Atheism and the Evolution of Religion

The Road to Singularity: Ben Goertzel on AGI and The Fate of Humanity

Unmasking the Unknown: UFOs, Alien Tech, and Military Secrets?

Are We Confused About Social Justice? (Helen Pluckrose)

The Cultural History of Charles Fort and His Followers

The Logic of Nuclear Policy: Deterrence and MAD Explained.