Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchBorn into a Cult (Michelle Dowd)
Episode 441
Michelle Dowd was born into an ultra-religious cult, "The Field," started in the 1930s by her grandfather, who convinced generations of young male fo…
2 years, 2 months ago
UFOs: What We Know (And Don't Know)
Episode 440
Robert Powell, a founding Board member of the Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies, has studied the UFO subject for 17 years. His work is encapsulate…
2 years, 2 months ago
Religion as Make-Believe: A Theory of Belief, Imagination, and Group Identity
Episode 439
We often assume that religious beliefs are no different in kind from ordinary factual beliefs—that believing in the existence of God or of supernatur…
2 years, 2 months ago
Vulnerable Minds: The Harm of Childhood Trauma and the Hope of Resilience
Episode 438
Each year at least a billion children around the world are victims of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) that range from physical abuse and racial …
2 years, 2 months ago
How to Achieve Peace in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Episode 437
Dr. Einat Wilf is a leading intellectual and original thinker on matters of foreign policy, economics, education, Israel, and the Jewish people. She …
2 years, 3 months ago
How Likely Is War Over Taiwan?
Episode 436
So much of what we hear about China and Russia today likens the relationship between these two autocracies and the West to a "rivalry" or a "great-po…
2 years, 3 months ago
Neuroscientist Explains Selective Memory (Charan Ranganath)
Episode 435
A new understanding of memory is emerging from the latest scientific research. In Why We Remember, pioneering neuroscientist and psychologist Charan …
2 years, 3 months ago
Metaracism: How Systemic Racism Devastates Black Lives
Episode 434
In recent years, condemnations of racism in America have echoed from the streets to corporate boardrooms. At the same time, politicians and commentat…
2 years, 3 months ago
How to Think About Social Justice
Episode 433
Those who are pursuing social justice too often fail to incorporate the insights of sociology, and when they do make use of sociology, they often dra…
2 years, 3 months ago
Sean Carroll Explains Quantum Field Theory
Episode 432
Sean Carroll is creating a profoundly new approach to sharing physics with a broad audience, one that goes beyond analogies to show how physicists re…
2 years, 3 months ago