Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchThe Influence of Politics and Tribalism on Climate Science
Episode 451
Shermer and Lipsky discuss: the scientists who first sounded the alarm about climate change • science consensus that global warming is real and human…
2 years, 1 month ago
Death and the Search for Meaning in the Afterlife
Episode 450
For years as an award-winning war reporter, Sebastian Junger traveled to many front lines and frequently put his life at risk. And yet the closest he…
2 years, 1 month ago
Division and Polarization in American Politics: Balancing Majority Rule and Minority Rights
Episode 449
Common ground is hard to find in today's politics. Many people, frustrated with a system demanding constant compromise, blame the Constitution for th…
2 years, 1 month ago
Michael Shermer Reflects on the Trump Assassination Attempt
Episode 448
In this episode, we explore the conspiracy theories surrounding the July 13 assassination attempt on President Donald Trump. Despite the evidence sug…
2 years, 1 month ago
Thinking Critically About COVID: Conspiracies vs. Nuance and Facts (Jay Bhattacharya)
Episode 447
Jay Bhattacharya is a Professor of Health Policy at Stanford University and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economics Research. He dir…
2 years, 1 month ago
From Hippie to Whole Foods Mogul
Episode 446
Whole Foods Market's Cofounder and CEO for 44 years, John Mackey offers an intimate and provocative account of the rise of this iconic company and th…
2 years, 1 month ago
Aella — From a Christian Upbringing to Sex Work
Episode 445
Aella is a writer, blogger, data analyst, and sex worker who has written extensively about the psychology and economics of online sex work, conductin…
2 years, 2 months ago
Hong Kong's Turmoil: Insights from an Exiled Political Leader
Episode 444
Nathan Law is a young Hong Kong activist, currently in exile and based in London. During the Umbrella Movement in 2014, Nathan was one of the five re…
2 years, 2 months ago
Living Constitutionally: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Constitution's Original Meaning
Episode 443
A.J. Jacobs learned the hard way that donning a tricorne hat and marching around Manhattan with a 1700s musket will earn you a lot of strange looks. …
2 years, 2 months ago
Lemuria: A True Story of a Fake Place
Episode 442
Is Lemuria a real place, or the fever dream of crackpots, mystics, conspiracy theorists, and Bigfoot hunters?
Below the waters where the Pacific and …
2 years, 2 months ago