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Back to SearchThe Scientist Who Tried to Prove Reincarnation
Episode 606
Can memories survive death? It sounds like the kind of question skeptics usually dismiss before the conversation even starts. But Ian Stevenson was n…
21 hours ago
Why Do We Exist? Hakeem Oluseyi
Episode 605
Astrophysicist Hakeem Oluseyi has lived a life that sounds almost impossible: a childhood marked by poverty, violence, and constant upheaval; a teena…
4 days, 20 hours ago
Shermer Says 9: The "Dead Scientists," Explained
Episode 604
A viral story is spreading across media: a mysterious string of scientists connected to UFOs, nuclear weapons, aerospace, and defense work have disap…
1 week, 1 day ago
Not Monsters. Not Madmen. Just Men.
Episode 603
What kind of person helps build a regime like the Third Reich? A monster? A madman? Or something far more unsettling?
Michael Shermer sits down with …
1 week, 4 days ago
Flourishing in the Age of Algorithms
Episode 602
What actually makes a life feel meaningful? In this conversation, Daniel Coyle joins Michael Shermer to talk about why fulfillment rarely comes from …
2 weeks ago
What Really Prevents Cognitive Decline
Episode 601
What actually causes cognitive decline, and how much of it can we do something about?
In this episode, Michael talks with neurologist and neuroscient…
2 weeks, 4 days ago
How Christianity Made America—and How America Remade Christianity
Episode 600
Why does religion still dominate American politics when so many other wealthy democracies secularized long ago?
In this episode, Michael Shermer talk…
3 weeks ago
What Turns Sand Into Cells? How Nonliving Matter Becomes Alive
Episode 599
How does something living emerge from something that isn't?
In this episode, Lee Cronin pushes the question back even further: before cells, before …
3 weeks, 3 days ago
Shermer Says 8: Easter Without the Miracle
Episode 598
On Easter Sunday, Michael asks whether the resurrection should be understood as history, myth, or something deeper.
3 weeks, 6 days ago
Debra Soh on Why Men and Women Are Drifting Apart, Dating Apps, and Gen Z
Episode 597
Fewer people are having sex, fewer are forming lasting relationships, and many feel more isolated than ever. Why?
Michael Shermer sits down with neur…
4 weeks, 1 day ago