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Tainted Glove

Episode 184

David and Tamler start off talking about the infamous Richard Dawkins eugenics tweet. What does it mean for eugenics to "work"? And given the sensiti…

6 years, 6 months ago

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Accept the Mystery (with Paul Bloom)

Episode 183

VBW favorite Paul Bloom takes a short break from his Sam Harris duties to help us break down the Coen Brothers' ode to uncertainty, A Serious Man. Do…

6 years, 7 months ago

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The Paper That Launched a Thousand Twitter Wars (With Yoel Inbar)

Episode 182

Podcasting legend Yoel Inbar (from Two Psychologists Four Beers) joins us to break down Tal Yarkoni's "The Generalizability Crisis," the paper that l…

6 years, 7 months ago

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The Fraudulence Paradox (David Foster Wallace's "Good Old Neon")

Episode 181

Our whole lives we've been frauds. We're not exaggerating. Pretty much all we've ever done is try to create a certain impression of us in other peopl…

6 years, 7 months ago

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Chekhov's Schrödinger's Dagger (Kurosawa's "Rashomon")

Episode 180

Eleventh Century Japan. A samurai and his wife are walking through the forest and come across a bandit. The bandit attacks the samurai and has sex wi…

6 years, 8 months ago

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Talking Shit

Episode 179

David and Tamler wrap up the decade with an episode on trash-talking that morphs into a debate over the value of experimental inquiry. Participants i…

6 years, 9 months ago

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Borges' Obsession-Obsession ("The Zahir")

Episode 178

David and Tamler happen across Jorge Luis Borges' "The Zahir" and now they can't stop thinking about it. What is the 'Zahir' – this object that can t…

6 years, 9 months ago

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Pure Linguistic Chauvinism

Episode 177

Tamler learns something new about menstruation. David weighs in on the democratic debates and the impeachment hearings. Then we map the various socia…

6 years, 10 months ago

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Split-Brains and the (Dis)Unity of Consciousness

Episode 176

David and Tamler discuss famous 'split brain' experiments pioneered by Roger Sperry and Michael Gazzaniga. What happens when you cut off the main lin…

6 years, 10 months ago

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At Least We Didn't Talk About Zombies (Nagel's "What is it Like to be a Bat?")

Episode 175

We try (with varying success) to wrap our heads around Thomas Nagel's classic article "What is it Like to be a Bat?" Does science have the tools to g…

6 years, 10 months ago

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