Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchMindMatters: Wealth, Violence and Hierarchy in the Roman and Chinese Empires
The Roman elite were the original 1%. Status, wealth, power: the good life. Unless they happened to find themselves on a conscription list, in which …
6 years, 8 months ago
MindMatters: Halloween Special: Oh the Horror! Why Do People Like Getting Scared?
It's that time of year again: when All Saints's Day, the Day of the Dead, and Halloween come around and our propensity to view or read some horror be…
6 years, 8 months ago
MindMatters: The Value And Relevance of Joker
Amidst much controversy and warning from the 'woke' media, 'concerned citizens' - and even the US military - the movie Joker landed in theaters just …
6 years, 8 months ago
MindMatters: Self-Help Without The Shallowness: The Hidden Depths of Stephen R. Covey's 7 Habits
It's the book you've heard about for years, but probably never read - especially if you have an aversion to shallow self-help books promising success…
6 years, 8 months ago
MindMatters: Decoding the American Minds: The Deep History of America's Culture Wars
The United States is a big country, but its population is anything but homogenous. For its entire history the people of its various regions have clas…
6 years, 9 months ago
MindMatters: Origins of the Power Elite: Inequality and "The 1%"
According to Walter Scheidel in The Great Leveler, the only ways to equalize the distribution of wealth effectively have involved violence on a massi…
6 years, 9 months ago
MindMatters: The MacGyver of Hannibal Lecters? The Strange Case of Israel Keyes
After being taken into police custody, interviewed and studied, FBI profilers called him the most terrifying subject they had ever encountered. With …
6 years, 9 months ago
MindMatters: America Before: Comets, Catastrophes, Mounds and Mythology
Around 12,800 years ago, North America suffered a massive cataclysm of cometary bombardment, alternately burning and freezing much of the continent. …
6 years, 9 months ago
MindMatters: The Meaning of the World's Mythologies
In our previous show on Witzel's book Origins of the World's Mythologies, we learned that the vast majority of world mythologies share the same narra…
6 years, 10 months ago
MindMatters: T.C. Lethbridge And The Psi-Science Of The Pendulum
Do we have access to a 'superconscious' part of our minds - that can become, under certain conditions, and with much observation, more or less consci…
6 years, 10 months ago