Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchHow Do You Solve a Problem Like Theodicy? (The Book of Job)
Episode 171
David and Tamler dive back into the Bible, this time to the perplexing and poetic Book of Job. What does this book have to say about the theodicy, th…
6 years, 11 months ago
Social Psychology Gets an Asch-Kicking
Episode 170
Is social psychology just a kid dressing up in grown-up science clothes? Are the methods in social psychology--hypothesis-driven experiments and mode…
6 years, 11 months ago
A Bug's Life (Kafka's "The Metamorphosis")
Episode 169
David and Tamler try to control their emotions (with varying success) as they go deep into Franz Kafka's masterful novella "The Metamorphosis." What …
7 years ago
The Big Lebowski vs Pulp Fiction (Pt. 2)
Episode 168
It's Part 2 of the Lebowski vs. Pulp Fiction showdown. This time we focus on the Dude, Walter, Donny, and most importantly Jesus Quintana. (Nobody fu…
7 years ago
The Big Lebowski vs Pulp Fiction (Pt. 1)
Episode 167
There are only two kinds of people in the world, Pulp Fiction people and Big Lebowski people. Now Pulp Fiction people can like Big Lebowski and vice …
7 years ago
Total Recall (Ted Chiang's "The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling")
Episode 166
Memory is highly selective and often inaccurate. But what if we had an easily searchable video record of all our experiences and interactions? How wo…
7 years, 1 month ago
Life With No Head (With Sam Harris)
Episode 165
Sam Harris returns to the podcast to talk about meditation and his new Waking Up meditation app. What are the goals of mindfulness practice - stress …
7 years, 1 month ago
Choosing to Believe
Episode 164
David and Tamler argue about William James' classic essay "The Will to Believe." What's more important - avoiding falsehood or discovering truth? Whe…
7 years, 2 months ago
Should I Stay or Should I Go? (Ursula K. Le Guin's "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas")
Episode 163
David and Tamler are pulled into Ursula K. Le Guin's "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas." Omelas is a truly happy city, except for one child who liv…
7 years, 2 months ago
Parents Just Don't Understand (with Paul Bloom)
Episode 162
As parents we like to think we have an impact on our children - their future, their happiness, the kinds of people they turn out to be. But
are we de…
7 years, 3 months ago